May 3, 2006 - UC Berkeley
2050 Life Science Building 7:00 P.M

Speakers:
Daniel Ellsberg, a former American military analyst who precipitated the national uproar in 1971 by releasing the Pentagon Papers; the US military’s planning of the Vietnam War. These documents succeeded in substantially eroding public support for the war.

Craig Murray, Britain's outspoken Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004, who helped expose the vicious human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of Islam Karimov.

Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, the former U.S. Brigadier General whose 800th Military Police Brigade was in charge of 17 prison facilities in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib

Larry Everest, Journalist and author of "Oil, Power, and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda". He has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 20 years for "Revolution" newspaper and other publications.