NORMAN SOLOMON, DAVID SWANSON, MEDEA, ELIZABETH DE LA VEGA, CINDY SHEEHAN, DEBRA SWEET AT 4.24 CODEPINK TOWN HALL

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From:	Cynthia Papermaster
Sent on:	Tuesday, April 8 at 4:08 PM

I really need volunteers for small jobs for upcoming CodePink Town Hall "Are Peace & Impeachment Possible?, April 24, Grand Lake Theater. PLEASE CALL ME if you have an hour or two!!! Jobs include making phone calls, flyering, posting to print and online calendars, AND, WE'RE DOING A SHORT CODEPINK SKIT, so if you want to be in it, please call me: 510-333-6097
Full event description just posted in democrats.com at end of this email.
Perhaps you've seen Norman's film "War Made Easy." Look at his biography. AWESOME!

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Biography

Solomon came under FBI scrutiny after he picketed for the desegregation of a Maryland apartment complex at age 14. As a high school senior, he drew further FBI surveillance for his efforts on behalf of the Montgomery County Student Alliance activist group. He became aware of their surveillance later, through a Freedom of Information request. He attended Reed College, but left before graduating. In Portland, Oregon, he was an activist against nuclear power and nuclear weapons and was a researcher for the Committee for U.S. Veterans of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

In September 1984, Solomon served 10 days in jail for obstructing railroad tracks in Vancouver, Washington, to block a train carrying U.S. Department of Energy cargo bound for the U.S. Naval submarine base in Bangor, Washington. USNAVSUBASE Bangor was a home port for submarines armed with Trident D-5 missiles. Soon afterward, Solomon became "disarmament director" for the interfaith Fellowship of Reconciliation, working at its headquarters in Nyack, New York until 1986.

As a freelance reporter, Solomon worked for Pacific News Service and Pacifica Radio. He made eight trips to Moscow during the 1980s. In February 1986, he and U.S. military veteran Anthony Guarisco engaged in a sit-in at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, demanding that the U.S. join the Soviet Union in a nuclear test ban. In 1988, Solomon worked briefly as a spokesperson for the Alliance of Atomic Veterans in Washington, D.C. In August 1988, Solomon was hired to run the new Washington, D.C. office of FAIR.

Solomon's book, Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation, co-authored with Harvey Wasserman, appeared in 1982. In 1990, he and Martin A. Lee wrote Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media. Since then, Solomon has written ten more books--most recently, Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State (2007). War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2005) was the basis for a Media Education Foundation film by the same name.

Barbara Ehrenreich has called Solomon "one of the sharpest media-watchers in the business."

Books

Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State (October 2007)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (July 2005)
Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn?t Tell You (co-authored with Reese Erlich) (2003) Download at Coldtype as a free PDF download (691kb)
The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media (1999)
Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News (co-authored with Jeff Cohen) (1997)
The Trouble With Dilbert: How Corporate Culture Gets the Last Laugh (1997) This Book is Online
Through the Media Looking Glass: Decoding Bias and Blather in the News (with Jeff Cohen) (1995)
False Hope: The Politics of Illusion in the Clinton Era (1994)
Adventures in Medialand: Behind the News, Beyond the Pundits (with Jeff Cohen) (1993)
The Power of Babble: The Politician's Dictionary of Buzzwords and Doubletalk for Every Occasion (1992)
Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media (co-authored with Martin A. Lee) (1990)
Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience With Atomic Radiation (co-authored with Harvey Wasserman (1982) This Book is Online

Film

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007; Based on book by same title.)

I'm coordinating West Coast Town Halls for David Swanson, afterdowningstreet.org. Stops are Huntington Beach 4/22, San Luis Obispo 4/23 and Bay Area (Oakland) 4/24. These are Town Halls On Impeachment and Peace. Oakland event description below.
Call for more info: Cynthia Papermaster 510-333-6097

Town Hall Forum Are Peace and Impeachment Possible?
Thursday April 24, 7-9pm, Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave, Oakland CodePink & Democrats.com present peace & impeachment leaders discussing promising strategies for ending the war, preventing a new one, & saving our constitution and economy. We're asking Bay Area Congress members to refuse Bush's demand for another $102 billion for war & to file their own resolutions for immediate impeachment hearings. Special Guest: Prominent Impeachment Activist David Swanson, AfterDowningStreet.org. Invited: Congress members supporting impeachment Barbara Lee, Pete Stark, Lynne Woolsey.
Speakers: Elizabeth De La Vega, former Assistant U.S. Attorney, author "United States v. George W. Bush"; Norman Solomon, filmmaker,"War Made Easy"; Medea Benjamin, CodePink; Debra Sweet, World Can't Wait; Cindy Sheehan, Peace heroine; Phil Burk, Impeachment Expert. Heroes of peace & impeachment honored, film, music, CodePink skit, door prizes! To reserve tickets call Grand Lake 510-452-3556. $10 at door; $8 advance, sliding scale
Endorsers: PDA, Gold Star Families for Peace, Hip Hop Caucus, The Nation, TrueMajority, Voters for Peace, CodePink, Veterans for Peace, Global Exchange, World Can't Wait, Silicon Valley Impeachment Coalition, East Bay Impeach Bush-Cheney, Northern California Impeachment Coalition, Brad Newsham Beach Impeach, Northern California 9/11 Truth Coalition

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