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Title: State Terrorism & 9/11 Blowback: A Critical Understanding of the Attacks
START DATE: 9/10/2011
START TIME: 2:00 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: east los angeles, west sgv
Location Details:
International Institute of Los Angeles
435 S Boyle Ave (cross st is 4th)
Los Angeles, CA
Event Topic: State Terrorism
Event Type: presentation
Contact Name: Joel
Contact Email: jmj2486@yahoo.com
Contact Phone: 323-236-7189
DESCRIPTION:
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state_monopoly_of_violence.jpg, image/jpeg, 284x320 Community Education for Social Action (CESA) will be hosting a political discussion entitled State Terrorism & 9/11 Blowback: A Critical Understanding of the Attacks

When you hear the word terrorist what is the first thing that comes to mind? Osama Bin Laden? Islam? suicide bomber? civilian deaths? etc

We are indoctrinated to believe that terrorism is defined a certain way and only applies to ?other? specific individuals/organizations, but what is deliberately ignored in order to satisfy political/economic interests is ?state-terrorism.? Terrorism that applies to state institutions and/or governments, for example the Executive branch of the White House, because of their decisions made that create terror among populations through the use of the armed forces or sponsorship of foreign leaders who conduct terrorist activities.

With the 10th year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in NYC approaching we need to critically analyze the conventional perspective presented by public officials and discuss its contradictions. After 9/11 the rallying cry by the Bush Administration was ?They hate our freedom.? At a recent speech Noam Chomsky critiqued this by saying ?They don?t hate our freedom they hate our policies?the reality [of US policy] is that we (the decision-makers) hate their freedom, and try to stop it. If you go back in history, there are many examples of this.?

-We will look into history, specifically during the Cold War, and uncover that the United States? foreign policy does not uphold ?freedom? or ?democracy? as it loudly declares, but instead is saturated with many examples of invasions, bombings, overthrowing of governments, supporting right-wing dictators, suppressing leftist movements, funding death squads and mercenaries, etc throughout the globe.

-We will look into one of America?s most disgusting institutions, the School of Americas (or now renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation), that has provided the training for death squads and military officers in Latin America and even numerous right-wing dictators in an effort to eliminate leftist movements and ensure US corporations gain access to the land, resources, and labor for exploitation.

Many of these actions are conducted in secret and the full details are usually not discovered till years later. But these actions produce terrible consequences to the civilian population, for example terrorist attacks. Chalmers Johnson, using a CIA term, describes this process as ?blowback.? The ?violent, unintended consequences of a covert operation that are suffered by the civil population of the aggressor government. To the civilians suffering blowback of covert operations, the effect typically manifests itself as ?random? acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause; because the public?in whose name the intelligence agency acted?are ignorant of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge (counter-attack) against them.? What occurred on 9/11 was blowback.

-We will look into how the US in 1979 recruited and armed thousands of Muslims from around the world to form the mujahadin, an extreme Islamic resistance movement used to fight a holy war against the Communist government of Afghanistan and its Soviet supporters. One of those recruits was Osama bin Laden and it was during this period that he received the training and made the contacts that eventually led to the forming of the Al-Qaeda network in the early 1990s.

-Finally we will look at the dramatic increase in domestic government surveillance since 9/11 through the US Patriot Act & Dept. of Homeland Security that has produced racism and profiling especially to the Arab community. These institutions cannot be exempt from the term ?terrorist? when in reality they are deliberately causing terror, fear, panic, etc among the population.

We hope to expose the contradictions of the conventional understanding of terrorism and put forth that state-terrorism cannot be ignored. State leaders should be criminalized for their actions and not be granted immunity when death, torture, or any other human rights abuse occurs.

Hope to see you there!

Refreshments will be provided but feel free to bring a snack or drink if possible.

*CESA is a community group that aims to educate working-class communities in the Greater East Los Angeles area about current social-economic issues to gain a political consciousness for social action*
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