Saturday, February 28, 2009

Celebrating Women: Max Dashu and Kayhan Irani

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Max Dashu is an independent historian, freelance teacher of global women's studies, and founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives - a collection of over 1400 slides to research and document women's history from an international perspective.

Kayhan Irani is an artivist dedicated to unleashing beauty and truth from unconventional and irregular platforms. Kayhan uses theater to activate audiences and transform society and she is an enthusiastic practitioner and trainer of Theater of the Oppressed, a participatory form of theater for social change.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

David Schonbrunn on public transportation in California

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Transit activist David Schonbrunn, executive director of the non-profit organization Transportation Solutions Defense and Education Fund - TransDef - presents his vision for the future of public transportation in California. TransDef takes on California's public transportation organizations and, quite frequently, wins major legal battles. Nevertheless, Schonbrunn finds that changing the status quo's habitual ways of thinking and acting requires a lot more than changing laws.

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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Deborah Nelson, author of The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth About U.S. War Crimes

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Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Deborah Nelson researched recently declassified collections that represent the largest compilation of US war crime reports from the Vietnam conflict ever to surface, including more than 300 allegations by hundreds of Vietnam War veterans...most of these actions are not known to the public, even though the military investigated them.

We discuss her book, The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth About U.S. War Crimes.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Capt. Paul Chappell, an Active Duty Army Officer, Proposes World Peace

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In this just published book, Will War Ever End? A Soldier's Vision of Peace in the 21st Century, U.S. Army Captain Paul Chappel writes, "I am 28 years old, and I have been obsessed with the problem of war for most of my life. Raised by a father who served in two wars as a soldier and a mother who lived through two wars as a child, I became determined to solve this problem and end its continuing tragedies."

Captain Chappell graduated from West Point in 2002 and was deployed to Baghdad during 2006 and 2007. He now serves as the commander of a Patriot Battery at Fort Bliss, Texas and continues writing his second book, Peaceful Revolutions.

Lt. Col. (ret.) Dave Grossman, author of On Killing, and Director of the Warrior Science Group, writes in the Foreword, "Paul K. Chappell has transformed my way of thinking about war and peace."

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