CURRENT EVENT :

Debating Engagement
A Critical Dialogue among Progressives
on Iran & the Peace Movement

 

Friday October 16 <> 7 PM
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Columbus Auditorium | 280 S. Columbus Dr.
(between Monroe & Jackson)

 

Robert Naiman
National Coordinator of Just Foreign Policy  
&  
Kaveh Ehsani
Editorial Committee Member, Middle East Report
& Professor of International Studies, DePaul




The pivotal nature of the present moment is twofold: in the aftermath of its June presidential election, Iran has seen the largest political upheaval in the three decades since the revolution; and just this month the U.S. and Iran engaged in breakthrough discussions on Iran's nuclear program. Are these two historic developments related? How should the peace movement make sense of them? Are antiwar activists in the U.S. tuned in to what the democratic movement in Iran is thinking and saying about the current situation? This dialogue will explore these questions and many more, shedding much-needed light on the critical issues at stake.

 

Free and Open to the Public

 

Sponsors
8th Day Center for Justice | American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) - Great Lakes Region | Buddhist Peace Fellowship - Chicago Chapter | Chicagoans Against War & Injustice (CAWI) | F Newsmagazine | Fellowship of Reconciliation – Chicago Chapter | In These Times | Logan Square Neighbors for Justice and Peace | Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture | Middle East Reasearch and Information Project (MERIP) | National Iranian American Council (NIAC) | No War on Iran Coalition | SAIC Liberal Arts Department | SAIC Student Activists | North Shore Coalition for Peace, Justice and the Environment | North Suburban Peace Initiative (NSPI) | Voices for Creative Nonviolence

 

Chicago City Council Resolution in Opposition to War on Iran

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The No War On Iran Coalition urges all citizens of Chicago to support a resolution opposing a U.S. attack on Iran introduced in City Council by Alderman Joe Moore. Noting that 16 U.S. intelligence agencies have agreed that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program and that it poses no imminent threat to the U.S., the resolution expresses the will of the people of Chicago opposing any U.S. attack on Iran and urging the Bush Administration to engage Iran diplomatically. The resolution is here. A page of current supporters can be viewed online as well.

Hearings on the resolution will be held Tuesday, May 13 at 11:30 AM in the Council Chambers, on the second floor of City Hall.  Among those confirmed as testifying at the hearing are Douglass Cassel, Farrah Hassen, Stephen Kinzer, John Mearsheimer, Norma Claire Moruzzi, and Scott Ritter. A vote on the resolution will take place the next day, Wednesday, May 14 at 10:00 AM in the City Council chambers. We hope to see everyone there.

You can sign a petition in support of the resolution.

Please contact your Alderman and ask him/her to support the resolution.
(Click here to find your Alderman and his/her contact info.)

For additional information or if you have any questions, please contact
Mike Lynn at mlynn226 AT gmail [dot] com or 773-860-6969

PAST EVENTS:

Wednesday, March 19th: Anti-War March on the 5th Anniversary of the Iraq War. Join thousands in a massive march down Michigan Ave. in downtown Chicago to end the Iraq War and to stop a war with Iran. Bring signs and banners. A permitted rally at Federal Plaza will begin at 6 PM followed by a march on Michigan Ave. to Bughouse Square We were at this event, check out the photos.

On Thursday March 6th hundreds of thousands of trade unionists and human rights activists worldwide will unite in a global day of action in solidarity with Iranian workers and to demand the release of Iranian labor leaders Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi, who are currently languishing behind bars.

In the face of escalating repression against Iranian workers, please join the Chicago Committee in Solidarity with the People of Iran and the Chicago Labor Education Program for a gathering to learn more about Osanloo, Salehi, and the struggle for worker justice in Iran today:

WHEN Thursday March 6th at 6:00 PM

WHERE Chicago Labor Education Program Classroom - Rice Building, 815 W. Van Buren (corner of Van Buren & Halsted), Room 110

WHO Speaking will be James Thindwa, Executive Director of Chicago Jobs With Justice (a native of Zimbabwe), & Peter Hudis, National Co-Organizer of the News & Letters Committees

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