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Revolutionary Non-Violence: Remembering Dave Dellinger, 1915-2004
Preventive Warriors: Noam Chomsky & Others Examine the
Bush's Administration's Doctrine of Preventive Strikes
Revolutionary Non-Violence: Remembering Dave Dellinger,
1915-2004
Howard Zinn, Father Dan Berrigan, Tom Hayden, Jeremy Scahill,
Leonard Weinglass, Ralph Digia and Dave McReynolds memorialize
the non-violent warrior Dellinger who died on Tuesday.
America has lost one of the great non-violent activists of
the past century.
Dave Dellinger died Tuesday at a nursing home in Montpelier,
Vt. According to friends, he had suffered from Alzheimer's
disease.
Dellinger lost track of the number of times he was arrested
or jailed over the years for protests, including demonstrations
against the Vietnam War.
Through the decades, Dellinger was a stalwart in nonviolent
protest beside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Daniel Berrigan,
Daniel Ellsberg and other leaders on the left. But he probably
is best known for being one of those on trial in Chicago after
the 1968 Democratic Convention.
Dellinger was in his mid-50s at the time -- the "old
man" of the group of radicals who faced prison after
the anti-war protests during the convention.
While the Chicago Seven trial gained Dellinger the most notoriety,
it was just one event in a long life of fighting for what
he thought was right.
- Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now! producer & correspondent
- Tom Hayden, Dellinger's Co-defendant in Chicago 8
- Leonard Weinglass, Dellinger's lawyer in Chicago
- Ralph Digia, imprisoned with Dellinger in WWII
- Dave McReynolds, War Resisters League
- Fr. Dan Berrigan, poet and peace activist
Preventive Warriors: Noam Chomsky & Others Examine
the Bush's Administration's Doctrine of Preventive Strikes
We play an excerpt from the new documentary "Preventive
Warriors" examining how Bush has rewritten the rules
of war. We hear from Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Tariq Ali
and others.
In September of 2002, as the Bush administration marked the
one-year anniversary of the September 11th attacks with a
push toward an invasion of Iraq, the White House made public
a bold new foreign policy paper entitled: “The National
Security Strategy of the United States.”
The document outlined a radical new doctrine in American
foreign policy: one of so-called “pre-emptive warfare.”
The doctrine was used as the Bush administration's justification
for the invasion of Iraq.
Proponents say the doctrine is necessary in a world where
terrorists might one day get their hands on weapons of mass
destruction; critics say the new doctrine of unilateralism
reflects a desire by the US to establish an empire.
Today we bring you an excerpt of a new documentary, “Preventive
Warriors,” produced by Michael Burns and Greg Ansin.
The film features many of the leading thinkers and intellectuals
of our time including Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Tariq
Ali and more. This is “Preventive Warriors.”
For a copy of today’s program, call 1 (800) 881 2359.
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Jenny Filipazzo and Isis Phillips.
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