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DESCRIPTION:The U.S. government imposes broad sanctions on dozens of nations, punishing 
 populations in violation of the Geneva Conventions, supposedly in order to 
 influence or overthrow their governments although that is never the result. 
 \n\nThe result is horrible suffering and death.\n\nJoin World Beyond War 
 (https://worldbeyondwar.org/) for this virtual discussion on October 10, 
 2023, at 11 a.m. in San Francisco Bay Area; 8 a.m. in Honolulu; noon in 
 Mexico City; 7 p.m. in Yaoundé, Cameroon; 9:30 p.m. in Tehran, 
 Iran\n\n\nPANEL:\n\nLuis Delgado Arria (Venezuela)\n\nLuis Delgado Arria is 
 a university professor, researcher, poet and essayist. He has a degree in 
 Literature from the Central University of Venezuela and a Magister 
 Scientiarum in Arts from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of 
 various books and articles on decolonial philosophy, communication, 
 political advocacy, cognitive warfare and analysis of media and political 
 discourse. Founder and host of several opinion programs on ANTV. He 
 currently serves as vice director of research and intellectual creation at 
 the International Communications University. He directs a collective 
 investigation for the construction of political counterhegemony in 
 Venezuela.\n\n\nFoad Izadi (Iran)\n\nFoad Izadi is a Member of the Board of 
 Directors of World BEYOND War. He is based in Iran. Izadi’s research and 
 teaching interests are interdisciplinary and focus on United States-Iran 
 relations and U.S. public diplomacy. His book, United States Public 
 Diplomacy Towards Iran, discusses the United States communication efforts 
 in Iran during the George W. Bush and Obama administrations. Izadi has 
 published numerous studies in national and international academic journals 
 and major handbooks, including: Journal of Communication Inquiry, Journal 
 of Arts Management, Law, and Society, Routledge Handbook of Public 
 Diplomacy and Edward Elgar Handbook of Cultural Security. Dr. Foad Izadi is 
 an associate professor at the Department of American Studies, Faculty of 
 World Studies, University of Tehran, where he teaches M.A. and Ph.D. 
 courses in American studies.\n\n\nCathi Choi (from the U.S., speaking on 
 North Korea)\n\nCathi Choi (she/her) is the Director of Policy and 
 Organizing for Women Cross DMZ, a global movement of activists mobilizing 
 to end the Korean War, reunite families, and ensure feminist leadership in 
 peacebuilding. She co-coordinates the Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network, 
 launched in 2019 to organize communities in calling for demilitarization 
 and lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula. Her writing has been published 
 in the Journal of Policy History and the Asian Pacific American Law 
 Journal. She is based in Los Angeles and is the Program Committee Co-Chair 
 for GYOPO, a collective of diasporic Korean cultural producers and arts 
 professionals generating progressive, critical, intersectional, and 
 intergenerational discourses, community alliances, and free educational 
 programs.\n\n\nFouad Baker (Palestine)\n\nFouad Baker is a member of the 
 International Criminal Court Bar Association and the head of the legal 
 department at the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He is a 
 Palestinian refugee based in Lebanon. He has studied electromechanical 
 engineering and  international law.\n\n\nRamón Labañino (Cuba)\n\nRamón 
 Labañino is Vice President of the National Association of Economists and 
 Accountants of Cuba (ANEC). His one of the Cuban Five, who spent 16 years 
 in prison in the United States.\n\n\nMODERATOR: Liz Remmerswaal (New 
 Zealand)\n\nLiz Remmerswaal is Vice President of the Board of Directors of 
 World BEYOND War, and national coordinator for WBW Aotearoa/New Zealand. 
 She is a former Vice President of the NZ Womens’ International League for 
 Peace and Freedom and win 2017 won the Sonja Davies Peace Award, enabling 
 her to study peace literacy with the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in 
 California. She is a member of the NZ Peace Foundation’s International 
 Affairs and Disarmament committee and co-convenor of the Pacific Peace 
 Network. Liz runs a radio show called Peace Witness.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/10/08/18859424.php
SUMMARY:A Sanctioned World: A Crime Normalized - Voices from Sanctioned Nations
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/10/08/18859424.php
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