Speaking the Unspeakable: Is the Bush Administration Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity?
Cindy Sheehan, Ray McGovern, Larry Everest
This past October and January in New York City, an uprecedented people’s Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity took place. Nationally-known whistleblowers, expert witnesses, and victims of the Bush policies presented rigorous and dramatic evidence on war, torture, global environment, global health programs, and the abandonment of New Orleans. It found the Bush Administration guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Thursday March 23rd 7:00 pm
International House
2299 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley
Click below for the speaker’s bios and contact information.
Cindy Sheehan:
An internationally known activist whose son, Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed in Iraq. She is a founder of Gold Star Families for Peace. Sheehan: “I have had time to reflect on the experience, the state of our union and its descent into a fascist state…George Bush has committed crimes against humanity and high crimes and misdemeanors in his tenure as (P)resident of the White House. Has he been held accountable for any of this? No…”.
Ray McGovern:
Retired CIA analyst. In 2003, McGovern founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). McGovern: “This Commission is doing what our German forebears in the 1930s did NOT do. They sat around, blamed their rulers, said ‘maybe everything’s going to be alright.’ ” On March 3rd, 2006, Ray marched into Congress with 15 others wearing Guantanamo Bay orange jumpsuits and declared: “As a matter of conscience, I am returning the Intelligence Commendation Award medallion given me during my 27-year career in the CIA. The issue is torture, which inhabits the same category as rape and slavery – intrinsically evil. I do not wish to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.”
Larry Everest:
Journalist and author of Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq annd the U.S. Global Agenda. “There is no ‘war on terror.’ The invasion and occupation of Iraw are not part of a ‘war on terror’….What does exist is a horrific and criminal U.S. war OF terror against the people of the wrold for greater empire.” Everest has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 20 years for Revolution newspaper and other publications. He reported from Palestine during the first Intifada, Iran shortly after the revolution that toppled the Shah in 1979, and in Iraq in 1991.
Admission: $5-10 (sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds)
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