Phyllis Bennis Lecture on Middle East Crisis - Tuesday October 10 at UB

| Submitted by admin on October 6, 2006 - 10:41pm.
On Tuesday October 10 at 7:30 pm, the WNY Peace Center, the UB Progressive Alliance and the Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education will present Phyllis Bennis, the leading progressive foreign policy analyst in the country and a founder of United for Peace and Justice, and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.  All are invited to hear Ms. Bennis's insights on ongoing Israel/Lebanon/Palestine crisis and the prospects for a just peace.  The location is the UB Center for the Arts Screening Room.  (See http://www.ubcfa.org/Webmodules/event/calendar.aspx for information about directions and the presentation.)

Ms. Bennis has been a writer, analyst and activist on Middle East and UN issues for many years. While working as a journalist at the United Nations during the run-up to the 1990-91 Gulf War, she began working on U.S. domination of the UN, and stayed involved in work on Iraq sanctions and disarmament, and later U.S. war and occupation in Iraq.  In 1999 Phyllis accompanied a group of congressional aides to Iraq to examine the impact of U.S.-led economic sanctions on humanitarian conditions there, and later joined former UN Assistant Secretary General Denis Halliday, who resigned his position as Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq to protest the impact of sanctions, in a speaking tour. In 2001 she helped found and currently co-chairs the U.S. Campaign to End Israeli Occupation. She works closely with the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition, and since 2002 has played an active role in the growing global peace movement.