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Chicago IVAW will table at the Panel on Empire, Colonialism, and Torture with Oliver Stone

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Please join us for this event!
Date and Time:

Friday, February 1, 2013
7:00 p.m.
Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Book signing from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Location:

Roberto Clemente High School
1147 N. Western Ave. (at Division Street)
Chicago

Speakers:

• Oliver Stone: Academy Award Winning Director and Author
• Peter Kuznick: Professor of History, American University
• José E. López: Executive Director, Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Juan Antonio Corretjer
• Margaret Power, M.C.: Illinois Coalition Against Torture

The event will include a local premier showing of an one hour episode from the Showtime series Oliver Stone’s Secret History of America – Vietnam, LBJ, Nixon & Third World: Reversal of Fortune.

$5 or more sliding scale admission – no one turned away.

Copies of the book The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick will be available for sale. Authors will sign copies from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Sponsored by the Illinois Coalition Against Torture and the Puerto Rican Cultural Center.

Endorsers (list in formation):  American Friends Service Committee-Chicago, Benedictine Sisters of Chicago, Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights, Citizens Alert, Code Pink-Chicago, Democratic Socialists of America, 8th Day Center for Justice, Historians Against the War, Illinois SOA Watch, In These Times, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Latino Alliance-Columbia College, Nation Discussion Group Chicago, Peace Productions, Inc., Portoluz, Que Ondee Sola, Union of Puerto Rican Students at UIC and NEIU, Veterans Unplugged, Viatorians, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, White Rose Catholic Worker

For more information call 773-278-6706.

Here’s the link to the Facebook event.  Join and invite your friends!

http://www.facebook.com/events/481965118515855/

Click here to download a PDF of the event flier.

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