[haw-info] Major Iraq War Teach-In at UC Berkeley September 19

[Jim O'Brien]

*TEACH IN ON THE IRAQ WAR*

*FRIDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2008*



University of California, Berkeley

MCC-Heller Lounge- MLK Student Union (Lower Sproul Plaza, Bancroft and
Telegraph)



*Organized by: *

Historians against the War

War Times

Critical Response and Intervention for a Sustainable Ethnic Studies
(CRISES), UC Berkeley

Institute for the Study of Social Change (ISSC), UC Berkeley

Cross-Cultural Student Development, UCB

Other UCB organizations tba.



Part of the "1968: The Great Rehearsal" Series of Events
www.greatrehearsal.org


DRAFT PROGRAM



9–9:30 AM:  Welcome and Introductions by sponsors



9:30–10:  Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers: Secrets and Lies in the Vietnam
War and the Iraq War



10–11 AM: Panel on Torture, Aggressive War & Presidential Power: The
Constitutional Crisis

Anne Weills, lawyer

Dennis Cunningham, lawyer

Tom Reifer, University of San Diego

Moderator: Daphne Taylor-García, Ethnic Studies, UCB; UCSB



11AM–noon:  U.S. interventionism

Sami Kitmitto, Arab Resource and Organizing Center

Paco Ignacio Taibo III, activist, writer:  Mexico 1968 and After

Andrej Grubacic, Global Commons: "Humanitarian Intervention" in the Balkans

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Historians against the War

Moderator and Commentator: Ramon Grosfoguel, Professor, Ethnic Studies, UCB



Noon–1:30 PM: Brown Bag session:  Film clips and discussion with Paul
Cronin, whose work-in-progress "A Time to Stir" documents the Columbia
student revolts of '68.

Moderator: UCB tba



1:30–2:00 PM:  Tom Hayden, Port Huron statement, SDS, anti-Vietnam War.



2:00–3:00 PM:  Panel on Vietnam War to Iraq War

Tom Hayden

Carlos Muñoz, Vietnam era veteran, Veterans for Peace, Professor of Ethnic
Studies, UCB

Antonia Juhasz, author:  *The Bu$h Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy
at a Time* and *The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry, and
What We Must Do To Stop It*

Iraq Vet: tba

Brian Willson, Vietnam vet, Veterans for Peace

Moderator: Roberto Hernández, Ethnic Studies, UCB



3:00–4:30PM:  Panel on stopping US wars of aggression

INCITE speaker/Andrea Smith (invited)

Roberto Hernandez, UCB Student Activist:

Medea Benjamin, Code Pink

Immanuel Wallerstein

Moderator:  Carole Travis



4:30–5PM:  Questions, discussions

Moderator:  UCB tba



5–6:30 PM: Film clips and discussion with Sam Green, whose film "The Weather
Underground" was nominated for an academy award in 2004, and Paul Cronin.

Moderator: UCB tba

* *

7PM:  a joint event sponsored by the teach-in and the Townsend Center
anchored by Dalida Maria Benfield, Ethnic Studies, UCB



WORKING GROUP:

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Historians against the War,
*rdunbaro at pacbell.net*<rdunbaro at pacbell.net>

Max Elbaum, WarTimes, *maxie at igc.org* <maxie at igc.org>

Roberto Hernández, Ethnic Studies, UCB,
*tochtli at berkeley.edu*<tochtli at berkeley.edu>

Daphne Taylor-García, Ethnic Studies, UCB; UCSB,
*dtgarcia at berkeley.edu*<dtgarcia at berkeley.edu>

Dalida María Benfield, Ethnic Studies, UCB, *
dalidamariabenfield at berkeley.edu* <dalidamariabenfield at berkeley.edu>

Tom Reifer, University of San Diego Associate Fellow of the Transnational
Institute, *Consolecb at aol.com* <Consolecb at aol.com>

Carole Travis, community organizer,
*travisce at aol.com*<maiklto:%5Ctravisce at aol.com>

Steve Tappis, Sixties activist in Chicago, tappis at yahoo.com

Rick Ayers, educator, UCB graduate student,
*rick-ayers at earthlink.net<http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/compose?To=rick-ayers%40earthlink.net>
*

* *

*Contact:*



Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Historians against the  War,
*rdunbaro at pacbell.net*<rdunbaro at pacbell.net>

415-370-4996

or

Roberto Hernández, Ethnic Studies, UCB,
*tochtli at berkeley.edu*<tochtli at berkeley.edu>

Or

Max Elbaum, War Times, *maxie at igc.org* <maxie at igc.org>
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