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IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR JOIN IRAQI-AMERICAN PROTEST SINGER STEPHAN SMITH, AUGUST 29TH
by Open-Publishing - Thursday 26 August 20041 comment
IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR JOIN IRAQI-AMERICAN PROTEST SINGER STEPHAN SMITH AT JOE’S PUB SUNDAY, AUGUST 29TH
WHERE: Joe’s Pub, in The Public Theater 425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003 www.joespub.com
WHEN: Sunday, August 29th, 9:30pm
ADMISSION: Free, open to the public!
Iraqi-American singer Stephan Smith, whose antiwar song "The Bell" became an anthem for the peace movement, will be joined by Members of the newly formed Iraq Veterans against the War. Members of IVAW will present their mission and discuss untold realities of the ground war in Iraq. The event is open to the public for FREE as part of the Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues, and Ideas, and will be a gathering for activists and patriots following the United for Peace and Justice march earlier in the day.
Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) is a group of veterans from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, committed to saving lives and ending the violence in Iraq by an immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces. IVAW believes that the governments that sponsored these wars are indebted to the men and women that were forced to fight them and must give their Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Airmen the benefits that are owed to them upon their return home.
Stephan Smith has been called the closest thing to this generation’s Woody Guthrie" by Billboard Magazine, and is emerging as a poetic/musical voice for the global justice generation. His new album "Slash And Burn" on Artemis Records mixes rap, rock, and folk in a global statement of protest and jubilation. The son of Iraqi physicist Mohammed Salih Said and Austrian Monika Smith, Stephan Smith is a champion fiddler and sings in a dozen languages, including Arabic and Hebrew.
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27 August 2004, 10:27
Oh , well another day , another dollar .
Everyony Iknow , as a vet doen’t regard their service in the most glowing terms .
The constant harping on the problems of pacifying a nation of 15th century miscreants , comes unfortunatly w/a heavy price . The loss of life for both side .
Can anyone say , that if someone had put down Mussolini or Hitler , wouldn’t we have saved 50 million
lives ?
The creation of an Iraqi nation w/out a theocratic theme , but a modern constitution , will help the middleast, not to become the scene of a nuclear exchange between regional powers e. g . Israel and
whatever Muslim theocracy acheives nuclear weapons . Iran comes to mind . Coupled w/the Iranian
avowed declaration of taking a shot , possibility @ other nations for SURE .
Will history rank this endeavor as the foundation of an emerging modern model state for the 21th century , for if it fails , the consequences of a virulent form of miltant Muslim religion in the world will make the casualties of WW II seem mild . Its a cancer , that must be cut out .
Again , the other nations of the world are to timid and afraid to due anything and would rather make a dollar out of supplying techology to these rogue states .
North Korea is not in this equation , for its big brother China is not going to allow and interruption of
it becoming the dominant superpower on that side of the world . Besides they’d loose Wal-Mart as a customer . Every group of disaffected soldiers is entitled to their dissent , an maybe one of ,them may become president , ala Kaari . Good luck to the whining , will it change anything , probably not , w/the threats in the world today .