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CALENDAR: Digging Deeper XIII reads Fisk's Great War For Civilisation, Jan. 16-Feb. 20, 2006 |
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Sunday, 08 January 2006 |
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The UFPPC book discussion series “Digging Deeper” embarks on 2006 with a six-week-long discussion of Robert Fisk's The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005). -- You are invited to read and discuss the just-published magnum opus of a foreign correspondent who, at the age of 59, is a legend in his own time. -- Here's a link to an audio file of a recent talk by Robert Fisk... |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 24 January 2006 )
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CALENDAR: UFPPC salon series starts Sun., Jan. 8 @ 1pm |
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Friday, 02 December 2005 |
The first of a series of UFPPC "Second Sunday" salons will take place on Sunday, Jan. 8, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. -- The salons are a fundraiser for UFPPC. -- Only 25 tickets ($15 each) will be sold. -- The featured speaker on Jan. 8 will be Dr. David Gilmore, instructor of philosophy at Tacoma Community College, who will speak of art as it relates to politics and social change. -- Discussion will follow, with hors d'oeuvres and wine. -- Additional attractions: Mark Jensen will speak briefly about the history and social significance of the salon, and concert guitarist Rick Ruskin will perform. -- Tickets are available by calling 253-573-1504. -- More information below.... |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 02 December 2005 )
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UFPPC STUDY CIRCLE: The Middle East, Islam, the West |
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Thursday, 24 November 2005 |
On Mon., Nov. 28, at 7:00 p.m., at the Mandolin Cafe in Tacoma, UFPPC will begin "Digging Deeper XII: The Middle East, Islam, the West," a study circle around four books about relations between the West and the Middle East. -- No charge for participation; some copies of books are available for borrowing or purchase. -- More information below, or click here for a flyer on the study circle.... |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 24 November 2005 )
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LOCAL NEWS: UFPPC meets with staff from Reps. Adam Smith & Norm Dicks on torture issue |
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Wednesday, 02 November 2005 |
At 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 1, a delegation of seven UFPPC members met with staff of Representatives Adam Smith (D-WA 9th) and Norm Dicks (D-WA 6th), who between them represent most of Pierce County, Washington, at the offices of Rep. Smith on Port of Tacoma Road. -- Their purpose: 1) to press Congress to enact the McCain amendment; 2) to urge that a commission be established by Congress to investigate the abuse and torture scandals that have yet to be addressed adequately; 3) to insist that U.S. standards of treatement of detainees must be brought in line with the standards of the international community. -- More than a year ago, UFPPC met twice with Adam Smith on this issue, which continues to fester: the McCain amendment, passed 90-9 by the U.S. Senate on Oct. 6, is at risk of being eliminated or diluted in conference committee. -- Congressman Smith is well placed to exert influence on the torture issue, being a member of both the House Armed Services Committee (where he works on subcommittees for Tactical Air & Land Forces, Terrorism, and Unconventional Threats & Capabilities) and the House International Relations Committee (where he belongs to the subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific), and Congressman Dicks, whose influence on national security issues is well known, is a member of the House-Senate conference committee that will determine the fate of the McCain amendment. -- Staffers Sean Egan and Tom Luce assured UFPPC that Reps. Smith and Dicks share UFPPC's concerns, but the delegation, which consisted of UFPPC members Kristi Nebel, Steve Nebel, Ted Nation, Burk Ketcham, Rob Crawford, Mark Jensen, and Catherine Scott, pressed for stronger action and more audible expression of these concerns. -- They go to the heart of the nation's soul and security, as is said in the following letter addressed to Reps. Smith and Dicks and conveyed to them by the delegation. -- The text of the letter is posted below.... |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 November 2005 )
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LETTER: US needs a commission on torture policy |
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Written by Madeleine Lee
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Monday, 31 October 2005 |
Bettina B. Plevan, president of the New York City Bar Association, points out the fundamental flaw of the Bush administration's approach to torture policy: "The same people who started this program are the ones who oversee the investigation of its results." -- United for Peace of Pierce County agrees with her recommendation: "Congress should establish a commission similar in concept to the 9/11 commission to expose not only those who torture but also those who set in motion, and continue to pursue, a torture policy that has so undercut our world standing." -- A delegation from UFPPC will be meeting with Rep. Adam Smith's office this Tuesday to press this point.... |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 31 October 2005 )
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CALENDAR: 'Digging Deeper XI' studies Abu Ghraib -- Oct. 24 & Nov. 7, 14 |
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Tuesday, 11 October 2005 |
On Oct. 24, UFPPC's Monday evening book discussion group will begin a new study circle on "The Road to Abu Ghraib," featuring three works on the background to this historic and ongoing scandal. -- The volumes: Mark Danner, Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror (New York Review Books, 2004); Karen J. Greenberg & Joshua L. Dratel, eds., The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Seymour M. Hersh, Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (HarperCollins, 2004; Harper Perennial 2005). -- See below for more information and a link to a flyer.... |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 11 October 2005 )
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CALENDAR: Digging Deeper reads two books by Chris Hedges on Oct. 10 & 17 |
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Tuesday, 27 September 2005 |
Chris Hedges, author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (PublicAffairs, 2002; paperback, Anchor, 2003) and Losing Moses on the Freeway: America's Broken Covenant with the Ten Commandments (Free Press, 2005), will speak at the University of Puget Sound (Schneebeck Concert Hall) at 7:30 p.m. on Thurs., Oct. 13. -- To help prepare for and then digest what Hedges has to say, UFPPC's book discussion group, Digging Deeper, will read and discuss these two books on the two Mondays (Oct. 10 & 17) before and after Hedges speaks. -- Copies of the books are widely available; UFPPC also has a few copies to lend (or for purchase).... |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 27 September 2005 )
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CALENDAR: Digging Deeper IX: 'Connecting the Dots,' UFPPC study circle Sept. 12-Oct. 3 |
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Monday, 22 August 2005 |
On Sept. 12, UFPPC's Monday evening book discussion group will begin a new study circle on "Connecting the Dots," featuring five diverse works on the hidden connections among forces whose intereaction is not always apparent but which may be crucial in determining outcomes. -- The volumes: Matthew Simmons, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (Wiley, 2005); Andrew Gumbel, Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America (Nation Books, 2005); George Lakoff, Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate -- The Essential Guide for Progressives (Chelsea Green, 2004; orig. ed. 2002); V.S. Ramachandran, A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers (Pi Press, 2004 [paper 2005]); and William Engdahl, A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, revised ed. (Pluto Press, 2004). -- See below for more information and a link to a flyer.... |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 27 August 2005 )
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COMMENTARY: Immanuel Wallerstein pronounces the Iraq war 'lost' |
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Written by Henry Adams
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Monday, 22 August 2005 |
Immanuel Wallerstein, who heads the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilization and is a noted historian and theorist of the global capitalist economy, posted last Monday an argument that "the war is lost." -- The U.S. can no longer attain any of its aims, he writes: "For the U.S. to win the Iraq war requires three things: defeating the Iraqi resistance; establishing a stable government in Iraq that is friendly to the U.S.; maintaining the support of the American people while the first two are being done. None of these three seem any longer possible. First, the U.S. military itself no longer believes it can defeat the resistance. Secondly, the likelihood that the Iraqi politicians can agree on a constitution is almost nil, and therefore the likelihood of a minimally stable central government is almost nil. Thirdly, the U.S. public is turning against the war." -- Consequently, "the Bush regime is in an impossible position." ... |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 22 August 2005 )
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CALENDAR: Digging Deeper VIII: Study circle on mechanisms of social control |
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Written by UFPPC
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Thursday, 28 July 2005 |
Beginning Aug. 15 and running for four Monday evenings, UFPPC's book discussion group, "Digging Deeper," will discuss a group of five books that address, in various ways, the question: What mechanisms of social control maintain the current order? -- Books are available for borrowing or purchase; there is no charge for participation. -- Please help publicize the series by printing the flyer from the link .pdf file.... |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 28 July 2005 )
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CALENDAR: Digging Deeper VII examines 5 books on shape of 21st century |
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Sunday, 10 July 2005 |
UFPPC’S Monday night book discussion group marks the beginning of its second year with a new series, “Digging Deeper VII”: a four-week study circle examining five diverse works touching on a common theme: What key economic, environmental, political, and religious institutions are shaping the 21st century? -- Please print and help distribute this .pdf-format flyer.... |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 10 July 2005 )
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