“Speaking the Unspeakable: Is the Bush Administration
Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity?” is a National Campus
Speaking Tour inspired by the International Commission of Inquiry
on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration.
The tour will paint a clear picture of the full scope and nature of the
Bush administration’s actions, cut through the fog of official
obfuscation and disinformation, and clearly establish the culpability
of the administration at the highest levels.
Upcoming Bush Crimes Commission Tour Schedule
Reports on Campus Tour
Berkeley, Harvard, M.I.T., Stanford, Sonoma State, U. of Chicago, U.C.L.A & U of Washington
A nationwide campus tour ( ‘Speaking the Unspeakable: Is
the Bush Administration Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes Against
Humanity?’ — will bring a panel of prominent whistleblowers,
eye-witnesses, victims and experts to give testimony that make visible
the reality that this administration has committed war crimes and
crimes against humanity – acts that, by their scale or nature, shock
the conscience of humankind.
Listening to the preliminary verdicts of the commission being
announced at the National Press Club in Washington DC in
early-February, Ray McGovern exclaimed: ‘This is what our German
forbearers in the 1930s did NOT do. They sat around, blamed their
rulers, said ‘maybe everything’s going to be alright.’… That is
something we cannot do. Because I don’t want my grandchildren asking me
years from now, ‘why didn’t you do something to stop all this?'”
Tour Schedule
March 23, 2006 – University of California at Berkeley International House
Taigen Dan Leighton, a faculty member from the
Graduate Theological Union who has organized a weekly vigil at UC
Berkeley against torture, introduced the program. The program was MC’d
by a UC Berkeley student and activist with World Can’t Wait.
Speakers:
Larry Everest, a journalist and author of Oil, Power, and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda. He has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 20 years for Revolution newspaper and other publications.
Ray McGovern, Retired CIA analyst. In 2003, McGovern founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
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.
March 27, 2006 – University of Hawai’i at the Manoa Campus
Program sponsored by World Can’t Wait-Hawai’i and Not In Our Name-Hawai’i
Speakers:
Carolyn Hadfield, Not In Our Name Hawai’i
Ann Wright, was in the U.S. Army for 29 years and retired as a colonel. Then she spent 16 years in the U.S. diplomatic corps; served in Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan and reopened the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan in December 2001. She was one of the three diplomats who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war in Iraq. She now counts herself in the rank of the peacemakers, not the war makers.
Joshua Dawson, Coordinator of Iraq Veterans Against the War-Hawai’i
Two active duty GI’s
The Coordinator of Military Families Speak Out-Hawai’i (her first public event)
Program included a DVD presentation of the commission as well as great visuals for each speaker.
April 11, 2006 – Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
Program sponsored by WCW-Sarah Lawrence and FLUX (Feminism Liberation Unity X [current project]) @ Sarah Lawrence
Speakers:
Larry Everest, a journalist and author of Oil, Power, and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda. He has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 20 years for Revolution newspaper and other publications.
Ray McGovern, Retired CIA analyst. In 2003, McGovern founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
Vanessa Brocata, International Policy Associate of Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States. Vanessa was also the founder of Women Space at Bradley University.
Ted Glick,
Coordinator of Climate Crisis, National Coordinator of the Independent
Progressive Politics Network and author of Future Hope: A Winning
Strategy for a Just Society
April 13, 2006 – The John Marshall Law School in Chicago
12:15-1:30pm
Speaker:
Ray McGovern, Retired CIA analyst. In 2003, McGovern founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
April 13, 2006 – Lake Forest College
7:00pm
Program sponsored by WCW Chicago and The American Muslim Council
Moderated by attorney and faculty member, Jed Stone.
Speaker:
Ray McGovern, Retired CIA analyst. In 2003, McGovern founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
April 13, 2006 – Columbia College, Chicago
Speaker:
Ray McGovern, Retired CIA analyst. In 2003, McGovern founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
April 26, 2006 – Harvard University Law School
Program endorsed by: Harvard Law Students for Peace & HLS NLG Student Chapter
Speakers:
Craig Murray, Britain’s outspoken Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan
from August 2002 to October 2004, Craig Murray helped expose vicious
human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of Islam Karimov.
Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski,
the former U.S. Brigadier General whose 800th Military Police Brigade
was in charge of 17 prison facilities in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib
A critique of Judge Bybee by Harvard Law Student Stephan Sonnenberg
<<location and time>> Harvard Law Langdell South 7:00 P.M
April 27, 2006 – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program Sponsored by: –Commission
of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity, Boston Mobilization, The World
Can’t Wait–Drive Out the Bush Regime!, Brookline Peaceworks, The MIT
Thistle
Speakers:
Craig Murray, Britain’s outspoken Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan
from August 2002 to October 2004, Craig Murray helped expose vicious
human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of Islam Karimov.
Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, the
former U.S. Brigadier General whose 800th Military Police Brigade was
in charge of 17 prison facilities in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib
Larry Everest, a journalist and author of Oil, Power, and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda. He has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 20 years for Revolution newspaper and other publications.
<<location and time>> M.I.T Building 10-Room 250 7:00 P.M
May 3, 2006 – UC Berkeley
Speakers:
Daniel Ellsberg, a former American military
analyst who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he released the
Pentagon Papers, the US military’s account of activities during the
Vietnam War. His release of the Pentagon Papers succeeded in
substantially eroding public support for the war.
Craig Murray,
Britain’s outspoken Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of
Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004, Craig Murray helped expose
vicious human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of Islam Karimov.
Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski,
the former U.S. Brigadier General whose 800th Military Police Brigade
was in charge of 17 prison facilities in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib
Larry Everest, a journalist and author of Oil, Power, and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda. He has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 20 years for Revolution newspaper and other publications.
<<location and time>> 2050 Life Science Building 7:00 P.M
May 4, 2006 – Stanford University
Program
Endorsed by: Stanford Faculty Against the War- Stanford chapters of:
Physicians for Human Rights, Physicians for Social Responsibility,
National Lawyers Guild ·Also : Peninsula Peace & Justice Center,
World Can’t Wait(Drive Out the Bush Regime!
Speakers:
Craig Murray, Britain’s outspoken Ambassador to the
from August 2002 to October 2004, Craig Murray helped expose vicious
human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of Islam Karimov.
Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski,
the former U.S. Brigadier General whose 800th Military Police Brigade
was in charge of 17 prison facilities in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib
Larry Everest, a journalist and author of Oil, Power, and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda. He has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 20 years for Revolution newspaper and other publications.
<<location and time>> 7:30 p.m @Hewlett Teaching Center, Rm 200
Speakers:
Craig Murray, Britain’s outspoken former Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan
from August 2002 to October 2004, Craig Murray helped expose vicious
human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of Islam Karimov.
Larry Everest , author of Oil, Ppower and Empire: Iraq
and the U.S. Global Agenda and Behind the Poison Cloud, is also a
write for Revolution and a Bush Crimes Commission prosecutor on Wars of
Aggression
Professor Peter Phillips, Director of Project Censored, a media research program that annually identifies the ‘Most Censored’ news stories in the U.S.<<location and time>> , “The Commons”,
May 5, 2006 – UC Santa Cruz
Panelists:
Craig Murray, Former UK Ambassador
Professor Craig Haney,
UCSC Psychology
Place: Fireside Lounge
Stevenson College at UC Santa Cruz Campus
Time: Friday, May 5, 2006, 12 noon.
May 9, 2006 – University of Chicago/Northwestern University
Program Sponsored by: Stand up for Progress, Students for Human Rights, World Can’t Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime
Speakers:
Craig Murray, Britain’s outspoken Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan
from August 2002 to October 2004, Craig Murray helped expose vicious
human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of Islam Karimov.
Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski,
the former U.S. Brigadier General whose 800th Military Police Brigade
was in charge of 17 prison facilities in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib
<<location and time>> SS122 (Social Sciences), Univ of Chicago @ 7:00 P.M
May 18, 2006 – UCLA (Los Angeles)
Sponsored by The World Can’t Wait! Los Angeles Youth & Student Committee
(213) 804-9670 | wcwlays@riseup.net
Speakers:
Ann Wright is a retired Army colonel and diplomat who
resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq. She has
changed her life, broken out of her routine, and is putting everything
on the line to oppose and stop the crimes of the Bush Administration.
Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, the former U.S. Brigadier General
whose 800th Military Police Brigade was in charge of 17 prison
facilities in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib
Daphne Wysham is an expert on global climate change who testified at the hearings in January.
Larry Everest covers the Middle East and Central Asia for Revolution newspaper and other publications.
<<location and time>> Moore 100, from 6 to 9 pm
May 19th, 2006 – University of Washington, Seattle,
Speakers:
Ann Wright, was in the U.S. Army for 29 years and retired as
a colonel. Then she spent 16 years in the U.S. diplomatic corps; served
in Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan and reopened the
U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan in December 2001. She was one of the
three diplomats who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war in
Iraq. She now counts herself in the rank of the peacemakers, not the
war makers.
Vanessa Brocata, International Policy
Associate of Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United
States. Vanessa was also the founder of Women Space at Bradley
University.
Larry Everest, author of Oil, Power and Empire:
Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda and Behind the Poison Cloud, is
also a write for Revolution and a Bush Crimes Commission prosecutor on
Wars of Aggression
<<Location and Time>>Kane Hall Doors open at 6:00pm, event starts at 6:30pm, General admission $7.00; students $5.00
For more info e-mail Seattle WCW at seattle@worldcantwait.org