Thursday, October 3, 2002
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Seven-Time Emmy Award Winner and Former Screen Actor’s Guild President Ed Asner Talks About His Life of Political Activism and His Opposition to War
On Sunday thousands will gather in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle and over a dozen cities to oppose an invasion of Iraq and take the "Not In Our Name" Pledge.
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Musician and Playwright Oscar Brown Jr., Palestinian-American Poet Suheir Hammad and Miles Solay of Refuse and Resist Join Ed Asner for a Round Table Discussion On the Not in Our Name Movement
The Not In Our Name movement was born after September 11 to strengthen and expand resistance to US militarism and war. The key issues that inform the movement are preventing war on the people of the world; stopping the disappearances and vicious attacks on Arab, Muslim and South Asian people in the US and stopping the destruction of civil, legal and political rights, including the very right to dissent, here in the US.
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