Two Evenings with Two of the Most Dynamic Voices of the

New Generation of Independent Unembedded Journalists:

Dahr Jamail and Jeremy Scahill: Appearing Together

in LA Area For Two Nights - Book Signing to Follow

Friday, November 16th and Saturday, November 17th

DAHR JAMAIL, author, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq (haymarketbooks.com)

WITH

JEREMY SCAHILL, author of The New York Times Bestseller

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

(www.nationbooks.org)

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WHEN: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16th at 7 PM

WHERE: United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) Union Hall,

3303 W. Wilshire Blvd., LA, CA, 90010

(at Berendo, west of Vermont Ave.)

PARKING: $5 on UTLA lot or street parking is also available.

Vermont & Wilshire Red Line Stop.

DONATION: $5-$10 (donation at the door to cover event costs.)

SPONSORS: Haymarket Books - Media Sponsor: KPFK 90.7FM

FOR MORE INFO: Call 213-309-2713

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WHEN: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17th, at 7:00 PM

WHERE: Unitarian Church of Studio City:

12355 Moorpark, Studio City, CA 91604

(between Laurel Canyon and Whitsett on Moorpark)

DONATION: $5.00 (no one will be turned away for lack of funds)

SPONSORED By: Neighbors for Peace and Justice

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BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE: "Every conflict spawns a handful of journalists who are willing to not only brave the war zone but to seek out the stories ignored by the press pack. The Iraq War has brought us Dahr Jamail…. I suspect Jamail’s account will prove an enduring document of what really happened during the chaotic years of occupation, and how it transformed ordinary Iraqis…. If years from now, Americans are willing to read any books about the war, this one should be among them it tells everything."

-Mother Jones Magazine

BLACKWATER "Blackwater is the utterly gripping and explosive story of how the Bush Administration has spent hundreds of millions of public dollars building a parallel corporate army, an army so loyal to far right causes it constitutes nothing less than a Republican Guard. The most important and chilling book about the death throes of U.S. democracy you will read in years and a triumph of investigative reporting."

–Naomi Klein, author No Logo and The Shock Doctrine

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

DAHR JAMAIL is an independent journalist who has covered the Middle East for more than four years and has reported extensively from inside Iraq for 8 months, and is now writing for the Inter Press Service, The Asia Times, and many other outlets. His reports have been published in The Nation, The Sunday Herald, The Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, and The Independent, among other publications. Jamail’s dispatches and hard news stories have been translated into French, Polish, German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, and Turkish. On radio as well as television, Jamail reports for Democracy Now!, and numerous other stations around the globe. He hasalso reported from Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan.

JEREMY SCAHILL is a Polk Award-winning investigative journalist, a frequent contributor to The Nation magazine and a correspondent for the national TV/radio show Democracy Now! Scahill has reported extensively from Iraq, the former Yugoslavia, and Nigeria. He is currently a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. Traveling around the hurricane zone in the wake of Katrina, Scahill exposed the presence of Blackwater mercenaries in New Orleans and his reporting sparked a Congressional inquiry, an internal Department of Homeland Security investigation, and a local movement to stop Blackwater West, a planned 800-acre private military training-base in a rural town just miles from the California/Mexico border.

Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, has been featured on NPR Fresh Air with Terry Gross, C-Span Book TV, Democracy Now!, and CNN. Scahill has recently been a guest on PBS Bill Moyer’s Journal, MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann and HBO Real Time with Bill Maher

(TO WATCH VIDEO GO TO: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/67106/).

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