Ray McGovern - Torture and Accountability Friday, July 10, 2009, 7:00 pm
Posted: Wednesday July 1st, 2009
Upcoming Event: Saturday July 11th, 2009.
Ray McGovern - Torture and Accountability
Friday, July 10, 2009, 7:00 pm
Co-Sponsored by Peace Action Denton and Peace Studies Program at UNT
Held at: Trinity Presbyterian Church, 2200 N. Bell (at Sherman), Denton, TX 76209
Free and open to the public
Ray McGovern is a former CIA analyst and early critic of the US war on Iraq and the role of the CIA in bringing about that war. He is a co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
He holds degrees including an M.A. in Russian Studies from Fordham University, a certificate in Theological Studies from Georgetown University, and is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.
For Ray's bio, click: Ray's bio
For articles by Ray reproduced at Truthout, Click: Articles by Ray
For You Tube video, "Count Down with Keith Olbermann" story about Ray confronting Donald Rumsfeld," visit: Count Down story
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Human Trafficking - The new slavery
Posted: Saturday February 14th, 2009
Upcoming Event: Tuesday February 24th, 2009.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING – THE "NEW" SLAVERY
Tuesday, FEBRUARY 24, 7:00 pm
With Theresa L. Flores and Given Kachepa
222 WOOTEN HALL, University of North Texas
(corner of Welch & Highland)
SPONSORED BY:
North Texas Anti-Trafficking Task Force, Peace Action Denton, UNT Peace Studies Program
PEACE, DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS LECTURE SERIES
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Film - Gaza Strip
Posted: Monday January 19th, 2009
Upcoming Event: Friday January 30th, 2009.
Friday, Jan. 30, 7:00 pm
Held at: Trinity Presbyterian Church
2200 N. Bell (at Sherman), Denton
Free, but we are asking for a donation of whatever you can afford to go toward Gaza Relief. This money will go through the Dallas Peace Center which has set up a relief fund.
American documentary filmmaker James Longley (Iraq In Fragments) traveled to the Gaza Strip in January of 2001, planning to stay for two weeks and collect preliminary material for a film about the Palestinian intifada. He threw away his return ticket and stayed for another 3 months, shooting over 75 hours of material throughout the Gaza Strip.
Gaza Strip follows a range of people and events following the election of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, including the first major armed incursion into "Area A" by IDF forces during this intifada. The film is filmed almost entirely in a verite style, presented without narration and with little explanation, focusing on ordinary Palestinians rather than politicians and pundits. More observation than political argument, Gaza Strip offers a rare look inside the stark realities of Palestinian life and death under Israeli military occupation.
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NATIONWIDE DOMA PROTEST
Uniting with Join the Impact
Posted: Saturday January 3rd, 2009
Upcoming Event: Saturday January 10th, 2009.
Gather at 12:20 pm on Saturday, Jan. 10
Denton Courthouse on the Square
We will be gathering signatures to send on an open letter to President-elect Obama, reminding him of his pledge to the LGBT community to repeal the so called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
Co-sponsored by Stonewall Democrats of Denton County and Peace Action Denton.
Sign the Letter to President-Elect Obama: We Need a Change in Israel/Palestine Policy
Posted: Saturday January 3rd, 2009
Join the US Campaign to End the Occupation and other national organizations such as Americans for a Just Peace in the Middle East, Council for the National Interest, Interfaith Peace-Builders, Middle East Research and Information Project, Peace Action, and many more in signing this letter by visiting http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=1771. Both individual and organizational endorsements are welcome.