Tour for a Just Foreign Policy in IraN and IraQ
What can we do to end one war and prevent another?
Speaker Biographies
Raed Jarrar, Iraq Project Director at Global Exchange, architect, and blogger
Raed was in Iraq during and after the 2003 invasion, and took part in a number of humanitarian and political projects there including two first-hand experiences in establishing and leading volunteer motivated grassroots organizations and NGOs based in Iraq. Raed was the Country Director of CIVIC Worldwide, the only door-to-door casualty survey in Iraq after the US invasion in 2003. He also established an NGO called "Emaar" that carried out work in Baghdad and the nine cities of the south, coordinating with local authorities, community leaders and other NGOs. Raed maintains a popular web-log that includes analysis and news summary regarding Iraq and the Middle East. In addition, Raed promotes The Iraq Reconciliation Plan, proposed by the Iraqi Parliament in June 2006. Raed most recently was part of a Global Exchange delegation that brought together antiwar activists from the US and current Iraqi Parliamentarians in Jordan to share information and strategies for ending the war.
You can find more info on Raed at: http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com.
Antonia Juhasz, activist, author, and policy-analyst
Antonia Juhasz is a visiting scholar at the Washington, DC-based Institute for Policy Studies and author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time (REGAN, HarperCollins, 2006). The Bush Agenda has been described as "a resounding call to action," by John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. The Organizer, one of India’s largest newspapers, called it “A meticulous expose of corporate America's intentions in the Gulf." Juhasz reveals the invasion of Iraq as a war waged for corporate access, oil wealth, and global hegemony. She exposes the “oil time-line” now driving the end of the war and the corporate globalization agenda of the Bush administration in Iraq and throughout the Middle East while offering specific actions we can take today to end the war and dramatically change course. Juhasz served previously as the project director of the International Forum on Globalization and as a legislative assistant to two United States Members of Congress. A frequent media commentator and award-winning writing, her work has appeared in dozens of newspapers and publications including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and New York Times. She is a contributing author to Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible (Berrett-Koehler, 2004) and the forthcoming book, A Game as Old as Empire (Berrett-Koehler, 2007). She lives in San Francisco.
Rostam Pourzal, President of the U.S. branch of the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
Rostam Pourzal is an independent researcher and organizer for human rights and is the president of the US branch of the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran. He advocates direct and sustained dialog without pre-conditions between Iran and the United States. Mr. Pourzal visits Iran regularly and has served on the boards of several Iranian-American organizations. He has been interviewed on dozens of well-known broadcasts, including Pacifica Radio, CNN International, Aljazeera, and MSNBC. In 2004, he worked with the Fellowship of Reconciliation to send two goodwill delegations (three dozen American citizens) to Iran. The ground-breaking initiative was widely reported on BBC, CNN, and other world media.
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