BENEFIT for the other Hurricane Sandy (CUBA)

With Barbara Dane and Pablo Menendez, Mimi Fox and John Santos, and Grupo Duamuxa

January 5, 2013 7:30 pm
La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA, 94705
For more information e-mail info@lapena.org
or call 510-849-2568

Before Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast of the US, it did the same to the countries of the Caribbean. In Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo province, the damage was the worst the country has ever known.

We are joining together with La Peña Cultural Center to hold a benefit concert. Join jazz-blues singer Barbara Dane and her son Pablo Menendez (Grupo Mezcla leader who will be coming from Cuba), Mimi Fox and John Santos on the line-up, Grupo Duamuxa, and others. Proceeds will go for Cuba Hurricane Sandy Relief and La Peña.

Community Advisory Board Meeting Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 11am

KPFA Studios, 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way

THIS MEETING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Earth at Risk Conference

unday, November 13 2011, 10:00 AM - 07:00PM

Benjamin Ide Wheeler Auditorium 

101 Zellerbach Hall #4800

Berkeley, CA

In solidarity with the Occupy movement, and especially Occupy

Oakland, we've dropped the ticket price.

General admission: $10

Student/Low-income: $5

Supporter: $20

If you already paid full price and would like a refund, please email us at deepgreenfertileground@gma il.com.

Speakers include:
Award winning author ARUNDHATI ROY
Journalist and author CHRIS HEDGES
Author and philosopher DERRICK JENSEN
Deep Green Resistance activist and author LIERRE KEITH
Political artist and revolutionary STEPHANIE MCMILLAN
Historian and Anti-colonial activist WAZIYATAWIN
Anti-corporate activist THOMAS LINZEY
Deep Green Resistance activist and author ARIC MCBAY

 For Immediate Release                                                7 MARCH 2013

    KPFA Radio presents

FLYNT LEVERETT & HILLARY MANN LEVERETT

“Going to Tehran: Why the U.S. Must Come to Terms with the

Islamic Republic of Iran”

A debate with Mansour Farhang, Professor of international relations and Middle Eastern politics at Bennington College.

Moderated by Brian Edwards-Tiekert.

The Leverett’s new book will serve as centerpiece for a debate on U.S. / Iran relations.  While the authors pose this extremely complex issue as essentially demanding a simple either/or solution, many believe that is a falsification insulting to many – if not most – Iranians. This complexity will be explored, revealing other crucial aspects  of life in Iran today under Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs.

 “Armchair warriors howling to have a go at Iran will denounce this book: you can count on it. Those who have had a bellyful of needless wars will have a different view. Going to Tehran is  balanced, sober, impressively documented, and rich in insight. As an antidote to the warmongering that passes for analysis of Iran and US-Iranian relations, its appearance could hardly be more welcome or more timely.” —Andrew Bacevich, author of Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War

The United States and its allies are ever closer to military confrontation with Iran over nuclear munitions, oil trade, and relations with Israel.  We have sustained 30 years of failed foreign policy based on economic sanctions, isolation and covert assaults within Iran.  In Going To Tehran, renowned Middle East analysts Flynt and Hillary Leverett assert that “Iran has become the most critical country in the world’s most critical region. Without reconciliation with Iran, they insist, “the United States is on the verge of losing its strategic position in the Middle East, with disastrous consequences.”  —Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker

FLYNT LEVERETT served at the National Security Council, State Department, and CIA. He is currently a professor of international affairs and law at Penn State.  HILLARY MANN LEVERETT served at the National Security Council and State Department and negotiated for the U.S. government with Iranian officials. She is now a senior professional lecturer at American University. Their writing has appeared in The New York Times, Politico, Foreign Policy and Washington Monthly.

PROFESSOR MANSOUR FARHANG teaches international relations and Middle Eastern politics at Bennington College in Vermont, where he has been a faculty member since 1983. He is the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. Farhang served as revolutionary Iran's first ambassador to the United Nations, resigning in protest when the Khomeini regime refused to accept the U.N. Commission of Inquiry's recommendation to release American hostages in Teheran. Early in the Iran-Iraq war, he served as envoy in negotiations with international peace missions. Currently, he is on the advisory board of Middle East Watch, a branch of Human Rights Watch. He is the author of U.S. Imperialism: From the Spanish-American War to the Iranian Revolution; and, with William Dorman, The U.S. Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of Deference. He is also a frequent contributor to scholarly journals and the national news media. He has taught at the Claremont Graduate School, the California State University at Sacramento, and Princeton University, where he was also a research fellow at the Center for International Studies. BA, University of Arizona; PhD, Claremont Graduate School.

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