Activism in Sarasota Florida

[graywarrior]

I attended the Monday presentation. The hall was packed. Aidan is 23 years old, lived overseas for 8 years (his dad was a diplomat) and he is a practicing buddhist and recently was approved as a C.O. (Conciencious Objection). I met him at the New College Edwards/Cheney televised debate and convinced him to speak out against the conditions in Iraq.

The slides he presented were gruesome.

Monday, December 6th, 7pm - New College student and
combat veteran Aidan Delgado will present a slide show
dealing with his experiences in the Iraq War at 7:00
PM, December 6th in Sudakoff Auditorium on the New
College of Florida campus at 5700 N. Tamiami Trail.
The presentation is open to the public and will be
followed by a panel discussion led by members of the
faculty. The public should be forewarned that the
slide presentation will contain images of GRAPHIC
VIOLENCE and other images of a disturbing nature.
Delgado's presentation will cover his one-year combat
tour of Iraq from his deployment and the initial
invasion of Iraq to his six month assignment at the
infamous Abu Ghraib prison. The focus of the
presentation will be educating the public on the
actual wartime conditions in Iraq and dispelling some
of the myths and misconceptions concerning the media
presentation of the war. His stated goal is “to help
people understand the actual conduct of the Iraq War
and what is being done in the name of the American
people”.

Tuesday, December 7th, 7pm - REBELS WITH A CAUSE. The
documentary "Rebels With A Cause" is told through the
eyes of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Begun in 1960 with a handful of members and high ideals, SDS became
a nationally powerful antiwar organization with over
100,000 members. But in 1970 the group began to
disintegrate amidst internal conflict and government
counterintelligence crackdowns.
In the aftermath, some went militant as the ill-fated
Weather Underground; others channeled their activism
through prominent careers as journalists, politicians,
and professors. Come and hear their story. "It isn't
the rebels who cause the
troubles of the world, it's the troubles that cause
the rebels." - Carl Oglesby, SDS

Tuesday, December 14th, 7pm - Documentary “Guns and
Greed”, Rarely seen footage in this documentary shows
how the combat-ready SOA graduates use their guns to
protect the greed of large corporations and world
financial institutions. Acting on their own or under
orders from their governments, the soldiers target
labor organizers, human rights advocates, educators,
religious leaders and others who speak out against
sweatshops and enterprises of greed that exploit the
country's people and resources. SOA: Guns & Greed
presents powerful statements from students, labor
leaders, veterans and church people involved in
nonviolent protests to close the School of the
Americas. Documentary will be followed by a
discussion from four local activists, including Faith
Fippenger and Don Thompson, that attended the Nov.
protest against the School of the America’s.

[pleiku52cab]

1. Hello brother Gray

this is brother bald here in Venice - glad to know that there is at least 2 DUers here in 'Katherine Harris County'.

[graywarrior]

2. Sis'ta Gray, bro Venice

There's a few more of us. We're having a DU meetup on 12/11 at Marina Jack. Come along.