Pacifica Radio Broadcast Special:
'American War in Iraq - The Fraud, the Folly, and the Failure'

On the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, Pacifica Radio presents a two-hour special broadcast featuring the voices of veterans, anti-war activists, and scholars.

Monday, March 19, 2007
9:00 PM - 11 PM EDT (8-10pm CDT, 6-8pm PDT)
Originating from 99.5FM WBAI in NYC

Hosted by:
Bernard White - Program Director, WBAI-NYC
David Occhiuto - Producer, WBAI

SYNOPSIS:
This special will feature voices from member organization 'Iraq Veterans Against the War'(IVAW). IVAW is a national group of veterans and active duty servicemen and women of the "Global War On Terror". IVAW members are getting to the heart of what it means to be a soldier in an armed forces subjected to the fraud, folly and failure that is the "War on Terror".

The program will address:
a) 'Soldiers in Revolt: Building Today's GI Movement'.
b) PTSD as a collective, societal trauma in addition to the individual. What wholistic and social supports are required to truly help the suffering individual?
c) A report on current activism (e.g, 'The Occupation Project' - a campaign of sustained nonviolent civil disobedience aimed at ending the U.S. war in and occupation of Iraq).

PARTICIPANTS:

1. Howard Zinn
   author of 'A Power Governments Cannot Suppress', 'A People's
   History of the United States'.
   
2. Michael Parenti
   author of 'Against Empire', 'The Culture Struggle', 'Superpatriotism'.
   
3. Daniel Ellsberg
   author of 'Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers'.
   
4. Elizabeth de la Vega -
   author of UNITED STATES v. GEORGE W. BUSH et. al
   
5. IVAW members:
   Michael Harmon
   Jason Lemieux
   Fernando Braga
   and others...
   
6. Michael T. McPhearson
   Executive Director, Veterans For Peace
   
7. Cinthia Mercante -
   eight year Army veteran and the Coordinator of the Different Drummer GI project, Ft. Drum, N.Y.