[ECDC Announce] [Fwd: Fri 11/16 & Sat 11/17: Blackwater Author Scahill & Beyond the Green Zone Author Jamail]

[Raymond Lutz]

Please forward.....

Two Evenings with Two of the Most Dynamic Voices of the
New Generation of Independent Unembedded Journalists:

Dahr Jamail and Jeremy Scahill: Appearing Together
in LA Area For Two Nights - Book Signing to Follow
Friday, November 16th and Saturday, November 17th

DAHR JAMAIL, author, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an 
Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq (haymarketbooks.com)

WITH

JEREMY SCAHILL, author of The New York Times Bestseller
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
(www.nationbooks.org)

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WHEN: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16th, at 7 PM

WHERE: United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) Union Hall,
3303 W. Wilshire Blvd., LA, CA, 90010
(at Berendo, west of Vermont Ave.)

PARKING: $5 on UTLA lot or street parking is also available.
Vermont & Wilshire Red Line Stop.

DONATION: $5-$10 (donation at the door to cover event costs.)

SPONSORS: Haymarket Books and Media Sponsor: KPFK 90.7FM
FOR MORE INFO: Call 213-309-2713

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WHEN: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17th, at 7:00 PM

WHERE: Unitarian Church of Studio City:
12355 Moorpark, Studio City, CA 91604
(between Laurel Canyon and Whitsett on Moorpark)

DONATION: $5.00 (no one will be turned away for lack of funds)

SPONSORED By: Neighbors for Peace and Justice

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BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE: "Every conflict spawns a handful of journalists 
who are willing to not only brave the war zone but to seek out the 
stories ignored by the press pack. The Iraq War has brought us Dahr 
Jamail…. I suspect Jamail’s account will prove an enduring document of 
what really
happened during the chaotic years of occupation, and how it transformed 
ordinary Iraqis…. If years from now, Americans are willing to read any 
books about the war, this one should be among them it tells everything."
-Mother Jones Magazine

BLACKWATER "Blackwater is the utterly gripping and explosive story of 
how the Bush Administration has spent hundreds of millions of public 
dollars building a parallel corporate army, an army so loyal to far 
right causes it constitutes nothing less than a Republican Guard. The 
most important and chilling book about the death throes of U.S. 
democracy you will read in years and a triumph of investigative reporting."
–Naomi Klein, author No Logo and The Shock Doctrine

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

DAHR JAMAIL is an independent journalist who has covered the Middle East 
for more than four years and has reported extensively from inside Iraq 
for 8 months, and is now writing for the Inter Press Service, The Asia 
Times, and many other outlets. His reports have been published in The 
Nation, The Sunday Herald, The Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, and 
The Independent, among other publications. Jamail’s dispatches and hard 
news stories have been translated into French, Polish, German, Dutch, 
Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, and Turkish. On radio as 
well as television, Jamail reports for Democracy Now!, and numerous 
other stations around the globe. He hasalso reported from Syria, Turkey, 
Lebanon, and Jordan.

JEREMY SCAHILL is a Polk Award-winning investigative journalist, a 
frequent contributor to The Nation magazine and a correspondent for the 
national TV/radio show Democracy Now! Scahill has reported extensively 
from Iraq, the former Yugoslavia, and Nigeria. He is currently a Puffin 
Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. Traveling around the 
hurricane zone in the wake of Katrina, Scahill exposed the presence of 
Blackwater mercenaries in New Orleans and his reporting sparked a 
Congressional inquiry, an internal Department of Homeland Security 
investigation, and a local movement to stop Blackwater West, a planned 
800-acre private military training-base in a rural town just miles from 
the California/Mexico border.

Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, has 
been featured on NPR Fresh Air with Terry Gross, C-Span Book TV, 
Democracy Now!, and CNN. Scahill has recently been a guest on PBS Bill 
Moyer’s Journal, MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann and HBO Real 
Time with Bill Maher (TO WATCH VIDEO GO TO: 
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/67106/).

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