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Title: War Media and the Plight of VETERANS
START DATE: 12/6/2009
START TIME: 2:00 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: downtown, central, hollywood, northeast
Location Details:
Woman\'s Club of South Pasadena
1424 Fremont Ave
South Pasadena, CA 91030

Metro: Gold Line: Mission. 4 blocks
Event Topic: media
Event Type: Speakers Scott Ritter and Robert Scheer Speaking
Contact Name: Jeff Norman
Contact Email:
Contact Phone:
DESCRIPTION:
The Veteran's Project brings you

WAR, MEDIA & THE PLIGHT OF VETERANS

with

SCOTT RITTER (Former UN weapons inspector)

ROBERT SCHEER (Journalist-Author)

PETER RICHARDSON (Author )

in Cooperation with your South Pasadena Neighbors for Peace and Justice

Sunday, December 6,

2 to 4 PM

Women's Club of South Pasadena

1424 Fremont Avenue

South Pasadena 91030

Metro: Gold Line: Mission St: 4 blocks.

With a Great Program of star speakers in a fund raiser for veterans projects

The event will include a panel discussion, audience Q&A and book signing.

Suggested donation:

Refreshments Available

Win a copy of the Book and other goodies! Buy DVD'sand Books for Xmas presents!

Seating is first-come, first-served.

This event will benefit The Veterans Project, a nonprofit campaign supporting organizations that help military veterans reintegrate into society when they come home. Its mission is to remove the stigma associated with post-traumatic stress, and raise operating funds for organizations that provide veterans with psychological care and job training in the aftermath of war.

For more info visit http://www.theveteransproject.org

SCOTT RITTER, author of Target Iran, Waging Peace and Iraq Confidential, was one of UNSCOM?s most senior weapons inspectors in Iraq between 1991 and 1998, after having served for eight years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. As a Marine, he conducted arms inspections in the former Soviet Union, and provided analysis of Iraq?s missile capacity to General Schwarzkopf in the 1991 Gulf War. ?The most important thing to know about Scott Ritter is that he was right.? - Seymour Hersh

ROBERT SCHEER is a nationally syndicated columnist, co-host of NPR?s Left, Right & Center and Editor in Chief for the online magazine Truthdig. He also teaches communications at the University of Southern California and is the author of many books including The Pornography of Power.

PETER RICHARDSON teaches California Culture at San Francisco State University and chairs the California Studies Association. His new book is A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America. ?This book satisfies on every level...? - The New York Times

FLASH!!!!! "Give an Hour" veterans advocacy group () is flying in its Director of Military outreach, Georg-Andreas Pogany, for these events and for a documentary VP is making.

Andrew is a recent veteran with a long history of military service who works with and on behalf of veteranson issues of health care, military justice, and in particular those suffering from post-traumatic stress.

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