Berkeley: Normon Solomon & Michael Parenti Oct 8. Free

Lecture: "Speaking Truth to Empire" decries U.S. involvement in Iraq
October 8, 7 p.m., 145 Dwinelle Hall

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The Campus Anti-War Network and Muslim Students' Association have organized a nationwide speaking tour of activists and writers to protest what they see as the continued occupation of Iraq.

The two speakers for the Berkeley lecture stop are Michael Parenti and Norman Solomon. Parenti is a leading radical writer on U.S. imperialism and interventionism, fascism, democracy and the media. Among his books are "The Terrorism Trap," "Democracy for the Few," and "History as Mystery." Norman Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics; he has written op-ed articles for nearly all the top U.S. newspapers. He is the executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a consortium of public-policy experts that analyzes media releases from think tanks, and the coauthor of "Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News" and "Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media."


At the same time, there is a lecture by Normon Finkelstein at the law school.