DC Protests
Why we must stop U.S. military action in Syria (DC Teach-In)
Over the past 10 years alone, U.S military interventions in the region have led to billions being spent away from domestic priorities, to high civilian death tolls, burgeoning refugee populations and destabilized, less democratic nations.
Any attack on Syria is illegal under international law without approval of the U.N. Security Council. The White House is insisting on carrying out an attack without endorsement from the British Govt. or the Arab League and has said it will seek Congressional Approval but is willing to go ahead without it. The possibilities of alienating allies and igniting a regional war are alarming.
RANIA MASRI is a human rights advocate, environmental scientist and professor at the University of Balamand. She has served as coordinator of the Iraq Action Coalition, on the board of Peace Action, as the Arab Women's Solidarity Association's representative to the U.N. and as the director of the Southern Peace Research and Education Center at the Institute for Southern Studies in North Carolina.
BASSAM HADDAD is Director of the Middle East Studies Program and author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011). He is the Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal, co-producer/director of the documentary film, About Baghdad, Director of Arabs and Terrorism, Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine, Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute and Founding Editor of Tadween Publishing.
"There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve no good outcomes other than safeguarding the "credibility" of those doing the bombing.”
- Glenn Greenwald, Sep 1, The Guardian
Sponsored by the Washington Peace Center.
Why we must stop U.S. military action in Syria (DC Teach-In)
Over the past 10 years alone, U.S military interventions in the region have led to billions being spent away from domestic priorities, to high civilian death tolls, burgeoning refugee populations and destabilized, less democratic nations.
Any attack on Syria is illegal under international law without approval of the U.N. Security Council. The White House is insisting on carrying out an attack without endorsement from the British Govt. or the Arab League and has said it will seek Congressional Approval but is willing to go ahead without it. The possibilities of alienating allies and igniting a regional war are alarming.
RANIA MASRI is a human rights advocate, environmental scientist and professor at the University of Balamand. She has served as coordinator of the Iraq Action Coalition, on the board of Peace Action, as the Arab Women's Solidarity Association's representative to the U.N. and as the director of the Southern Peace Research and Education Center at the Institute for Southern Studies in North Carolina.
BASSAM HADDAD is Director of the Middle East Studies Program and author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011). He is the Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal, co-producer/director of the documentary film, About Baghdad, Director of Arabs and Terrorism, Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine, Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute and Founding Editor of Tadween Publishing.
"There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve no good outcomes other than safeguarding the "credibility" of those doing the bombing.”
- Glenn Greenwald, Sep 1, The Guardian
Sponsored by the Washington Peace Center.