Hear how you can help end the war.
Tom Hayden has information and advice for anyone who is frustrated about the Iraq War and wants to get personally involved in helping end it.
And you can hear what he says in "Ending the Iraq War," produced and directed by Dal LaMagna, and edited by Joseph Smallwood with research and photo compilation by Frances Anderson.
In it, Hayden compares this war to Vietnam and the seven pillars of the war policy that people could put pressure on to help end the war. The seven pillars are:
- The support of the Iraqi State;
- American public opinion;
- Political support in the U.S.;
- Military capacity;
- Financial resources;
- Our moral reputation; and
- Global alliances.
Hayden explains what these are and how one puts pressure on these pillars to topple them. The 37-minute presentation is available on line by clicking here http://www.veoh.com/videos/v273051XbqnAHKC">Tom Hayden: End The War or by inserting this address: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v273051XbqnAHKC into your browser.
The presentation is designed so you can view it yourself or show it to neighbors, you class, your church group. You can watch it online or download it from the website to your computer.
If you want to do something to stop this war, there is something you can do. Start by listening to this presentation.
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Former California State senator Tom Hayden was a leader of the Vietnam anti-war movement. He has studied conflict analysis and has worked on negotiating peace settlements between inner city gangs. He writes regularly for The Nation and The Huffington Post. He has written over 100 articles about the Iraq War and is currently finishing a book on Iraq that is due to come out this summer. He has three books that have recently come out. Radical Nomad: C. Wright Mills and His Times, Conspiracy in the Streets, and The Port Huron Statement. Visit www.tomhayden.com for to review all of his work for peace in the streets and in the world.
Dal LaMagna is the founder of the Progressive Government Institute and has been working to stop this war before it began. He has made two facts finding trips to Amman, Jordan and produced short video presentations for each. He served as the executive producer of three Iraq War movies: The War Tapes, The Ground Truth, and Iraq for Sale.
A fourth video,The Iraq Reconciliation Plan, is a compilation of conversation that took place in Amman between a U.S. peace delegation and members of Iraq's Parliament, sheiks, and torture victims, that was organized by Global Exchange and CODEPINK . It is available at the Progressive Government Web site.