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DESCRIPTION:DeAnza College Students and Faculty to Hold War Crimes Tribunal November 10 
 for Colin Powell, During His Scheduled Appearances on Campus.    Students 
 for Justice, a DeAnza College student organization and their faculty 
 advisers will hold a War Crimes Tribunal for former Secretary of State, 
 Colin Powell, on Thursday, November 10, 2005, in the Campus Center, 
 Conference Rooms A& B on the campus of DeAnza College, in Cupertino, 
 California, from 1:30-5pm.  The War Crimes Tribunal will be one of several 
 forms of protest by campus and community groups during the period of 
 November 9-11, the three evenings on which Mr. Powell is scheduled to speak 
 at the Flint Center, in the Celebrity Forum Series.  Colin Powell’s 
 critical role in the Bush Administration’s War in Iraq will be examined 
 by a panel of presenters.  The scholars, activists, and veterans taking 
 part in the Tribunal will conduct an inquiry into Powell’s 
 responsibilities and complicity in the destruction of Iraqi society since 
 2003, the ongoing occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, the overthrow of 
 President Jean Bertrand Aristide in Haiti, in 2004, the Gulf War in 1991, 
 the ongoing U.S. support for the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian 
 lands, the Iran-Contra Scandal, legal and illegal support for the Contras 
 in Nicaragua, the Vietnam War, and the deaths, disability, and exposure of 
 U.S. veterans and peoples of Iraq, Afghanistan, and the former Yugoslavia 
 to toxic chemicals and depleted uranium munitions.  All of the above 
 policies have featured widespread accusations of war crimes, violations of 
 international law, and crimes against humanity by human rights 
 organizations and other critics in the U.S. and throughout the world.  In 
 the spirit of the Bertrand Russell/ International War Crimes Tribunal of 
 the U.S. war in Vietnam in 1966, the World Tribunal on Iraq, in New York in 
 2004, and In Istanbul, Turkey in June, 2005, and the Truth and 
 Reconciliation Commissions in South Africa 1995-‘98, in El Salvador, in 
 1992-’93 and in East Timor, 2000-2005, the War Crimes Tribunal of Colin 
 Powell at DeAnza College will attempt to make U.S. government officials 
 accountable for their repeated and blatant violations of international law 
 in the conduct of war, the overthrow of foreign governments, military 
 occupations of foreign lands, covert and illegal operations to assist 
 others involved in related activities, disinformation and cover-ups of 
 these actions, and the violations of the civil rights of U.S. veterans 
 involved in these actions.  Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is often 
 viewed as an opponent of war, or in his own words, a “reluctant 
 soldier.”  He was widely viewed as an independent and reasonable voice 
 within the Bush Administration, in which the excesses of the 
 neo-conservatives associated with the Project for a New American Century 
 (Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowicz, Lewis Libby, Richard Perle) 
 led the U.S. into the foreign policy debacle of the Iraq War and the 
 atrocities of widespread deaths of civilians and routine torture of 
 prisoners and combatants in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  
 The War Crimes Tribunal will critically examine Powell’s role in these 
 and other controversial U.S. military operations over several decades, 
 including his speech at the U.N. in February, 2003, which made the case for 
 war against Iraq, and his direct role in the overthrow of the elected 
 President of Haiti in 2004.  Presenters will include Dr. Wendy White, of 
 the Humanities faculty of DeAnza College,  Dr. Greg Druehl, of the 
 Political Science faculty, who will defend Powell’s record,  Dr. Ayad 
 al-Qazzaz, of the Sociology faculty of California State University, 
 Sacramento,  who will discuss the war in Iraq, Pierre LaBossiere, founder 
 of the Haiti Action  Network, Chuong Chung, of the faculty of City College 
 of San Francisco and DeAnza  College, who will discuss Powell’s actions 
 in the Vietnam War, Joyce Riley,    former captain in the United States Air 
 Force Reserve and  spokesperson for the  American Gulf War Veterans 
 Association, and Ann Wright, a decorated 26-year veteran  of the U.S. Army 
 and former U.S. diplomat in Mongolia, who resigned in protest of  the U.S. 
 War in Iraq.  Representatives of Iraq Veterans for Peace, Veterans for   
 Peace, Military Families Speak Out, and Gold Star Families for Peace will 
 also address  the Tribunal.  Students and faculty will also sponsor a range 
 of other political protests of Powell’s role in the U.S. War in Iraq.  
 Students for Justice will hold a speak-out at the Campus Center Plaza at 
 12:30pm, on Wednesday, Nov. 9 and a march and protest of Powell’s first 
 speech will begin at 6pm on Wednesday evening, November 9.  Protests of 
 Powell’s second appearance will occur at 7pm on Thursday, November 10.  
 Religious and political protests will be organized on Friday afternoon and 
 evening before Powell’s third appearance, on November 11, by students and 
 community groups.  A peace camp and various civil disobedience actions will 
 take place throughout the three days sponsored by a wide range of students 
 and Bay Area anti-war organizations.  Contact: Rich Wood, Sociology 
 Faculty, DeAnza College; adviser: Students for Justice                 
 650-879-0778                 rend58@peoplepc.com           \n 
 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/11/06/80173.php
SUMMARY:War Crimes Tribunal on Colin Powell
LOCATION:Conference Room A & B  Campus Center  De Anza College  21250 Stevens Creek 
 Blvd.   Cupertino, CA 95014  (45 min. south of San Francisco)
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