Dahr Jamail & Jeremy Scahill
11/16/2007 7 PM
United Teachers of Los Angeles, 3303 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA US
Sponsored by Haymarket Books
Dahr Jamail, journalist and author of "Beyond the Green Zone,Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq" and Jeremy Scahill, journalist and author of "Blackwater: The Rise of the Wold's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," will speak at the United Teachers of Los Angeles building Friday evening at 7 pm. The event is sponsored by Haymarket Books, which has endorsed the Iraq Moratorium and will announce this event as being in solidarity with the Moratorium. The public is invited to attend this very informative program. Both authors will have copies of their books available, and will do book signings at the end of the program.
PermaLink: http://iraqmoratorium.org/events/listings/3/326.html
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Over 200 people heard Dahr Jamail and Jeremy Scahill denounce the war on Iraq and US occupation at the United Teachers of Los Angeles building during a book signing tour on Moratorium Day #3. Jamail, an independent journalist who spent 8 months in Iraq, is author of Beyond the Green Zone, which describes how the US military has destroyed Iraq and killed hundreds of thousands of people. Scahill, author of the book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, talked about how this second army is not held to account in Iraq, and can be used anywhere in the world, including in the US.