Dear Comrades --- I apologize if many have already seen this invitation --- It looks like a fascinating program --- and of course one can stay connected during the event (note PDT!) without watching all of it ...
I have a slot talking about "Cold War Revisionism" but I don't know where as I just got added this week but there are many many very interesting people giving both analysis and testimony --- For example, I'm including a message from one of the scheduled participants -- (Mike Meeropol) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: ed rampell <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 12:50 AM Subject: "COLD WAR TRUTH COMMISSION" Free Event Sunday March 21 To: Dear Blacklist Community & Film Friends, Greetings. Hope you and yours have managed to stay safe and well during these challenging times. So much has happened since some of us gathered for that great Blacklist Festival and panel Margot Pepper presented at the San Francisco Art Institute almost exactly 2 years ago! I thought that this "COLD WAR TRUTH COMMISSION" free event taking place via Zoom this Sunday March 21 would interest you. A number of our top progressive activists, thinkers, organizers, leaders, etc., will be making presentations. For details please see the info below, which includes a list of speakers and topics, how to register to view "The Cold War On Trial", etc. (Apologies if you receive this email more than once.) As you may recall, this Sunday is the precise 70th anniversary of the start of the second wave of the Hollywood Blacklist, when actor Larry Parks was tormented by HUAC's not-so-grand inquisitors on March 21, 1951. During the "COLD WAR TRUTH COMMISSION" I will be speaking about: "*HUAC, the Hollywood Blacklist and McCarthyism: Cold War Cancel Culture*" Hope you can join us! In cinematic solidarity and stay safe, Ed Rampell *Witness For Peace Southwest, CODEPINK & Addicted To War * *Invite You To Join:* *THE COLD WAR TRUTH COMMISSION * A Day of Education, Testimonials & Action *Come Spend The Day With Us While We Put: **“THE COLD WAR ON TRIAL” * *Sunday, March 21st* *-* *1:00 PM **to** 8:00 PM **(PST)* *- 4:00 PM * *(EST)* *FREE EVENT **ON** ZOOM* *Register Here: **www.codepink.org/03212021* <http://www.codepink.org/03212021> *For More Information Contact Rachel: **[email protected]* <[email protected]>* – 310-971-8280 or Frank at: * *[email protected]* <[email protected]>* – 310-838-8131* *The Program Schedule Is Listed Below This Banner* *COLD WAR TRUTH COMMISSION* *Sunday, March 21st, 2021* *1:00 PM **to** 8:00 PM - PST* *Presented By: * *Witness For Peace Southwest, Addicted To War & CODEPINK* *Part 1 Roots of U.S. Anti-Communism and Cold War* *Opening Remarks **by** Rachel Bruhnke, Witness For Peace Southwest **and** Frank Dorrel, Addicted To War* *NAME - Time 1:00 PM PST* *TESTIMONY THEME* *TESTIMONY TYPE* *Blase Bonpane**,** The Cold War Written* *Ramsey Clark, “Plutocracy: Wealth Runs This Country” * *Film clip* *Jim Lafferty**,** “Why We Need This Truth Commission to Expose ‘Cold War’ Lies” Live* *Peter Kuznick, “Henry Wallace and the Cold War’s beginning” * *Live* *w/ Oliver Stone FILM CLIP: The Untold History of the United States* *Daniel Ellsberg**,** “The Role of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex in Live* * Starting and Maintaining the Cold War”* *FDR Reading**,** “Excerpt From ‘The Second Bill of Rights’ State of the Union Speech 1944” Written* *Approx. 2:00 PM PST* *Rossana Cambron, “Anti-Communism As a Weapon Against Progress” Live* *Gerald Horne, “The U.S. Cold War As a Self-Inflicted Wound” Written* *Carolfrances Likens**,** “The Red-baiting of Abolitionists in 1850!” Taped * *Rick Fellows**,** “The Pro-Fascist Nature of U.S. Anti-Communism” Live* *Mike Feinstein, “Is the Fear of “Communists” a Big Deal in Europe? A Green’s Perspective” Live* *Jeremy Kuzmarov, “A Sequence of Lies, The U.S Cold War, and Today” * *Live* *Approx. 3:00 PM PST* *Michael Novick, “The White Supremacist Nature of The U.S. Cold War” * *Live* *Alice Slater, “Historical and Current U.S. Cold War Against Russia” * *Live* *Norman Solomon, “Why So Many Progressives Bought Into the ‘Russiagate’ Frenzy”* *Live* *MUSIC VIDEO: Gil Scott Heron: Work For Peace (Military & The Monetary)* *Part II The Domestic U.S. Cold War* *Mumia Abul-Jamal & “Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI” Written* *Stephen Vittoria* *Julia Scoville, “McCarthyism, Employment Fears, and the Vilification of Solidarity” Taped* *Susan Gossman, “What HUAC Did to My Father” * *Taped* *Gregory Godels**,** “McCarthyism’s Effect on American workers. Case Study: Pittsburgh, PA” Live* *Richard Moser, “How The American People Lost The Cold War: U.S. Empire and the * * Decline of American Democracy” * *Taped * *Mickey Huff, "Censoring of The Truth During The U.S. Cold War to Today" Live * *Approx. 4:00 PM PST* *Chris Venn, “The Housing Crisis, Land Accumulation and Cold War Ideology” Live* *Carley Towne, “The Cost of U.S. Militarism in The U.S. Cold War to Today” Live* *Bruce Gagnon, "Weaponizing Space in The U.S. Cold War to Today" Live* *David Vine, “There Was Nothing ‘COLD’ About The Cold War”* * Live* *Kathy Kelly, “War Resistance In the 1980’s As Foundation for 1991 Iraq War Resistance” Live* *David Swanson, "Combatting The Lies of The U.S. Cold War Today" Live* *Jeff Cohen, “U.S. News Media: The Enduring Cold War Legacy” Live* *Ed Rampell, “HUAC, the Hollywood Blacklist and McCarthyism: Cold War Cancel Culture” Taped* *Peter McLaren, “The U.S. Cold War Against Liberation Theology and **T**he Live* * Ascendance Of **T**he Religious Right” * *Approx. 5:00 PM PST* *Rev. Steve Wilson, “The Red-Baiting of Progressive Religious Values In the U.S. Cold War” Live* *John Hankey, “The U.S. Cold War and The Murder of ‘Communal’ Values” Taped * *Gerry Condon, “Resist War! A Message to Today’s Youth” * *Live* *YOUTH VOICES* *Emily Dorrel Tic Toc Video: A Warning on American Hypocrisy * *Mary Miller “My Generation”* *Alma Bruhnke, “The Pledge of Allegiance, “God” and **T**he U.S. Cold War” * **Open Mic for Youth** 2-minute Testimonies * *Marcy Winograd, “The Cold War in the U.S. Classroom” Taped * *Approx. 6:00 PM PST* *Eric Mann, “Combatting Anti-Communism in **T**he 1960’s” Live* *Carl Boggs,* *"The Environmental Catastrophe of Militarism and The U.S. Cold War" Live* *MUSIC VIDEO: Sara Thomsen: Is it for Freedom?* *Part III The U.S. Global Cold War, Then and Now* *Roy Bourgeois, “School of Assassins: Resistance to Cold War Training at Fort. Benning, GA” Film Clip* *Barbara Trent, “Cover-Up: Behind The Iran-Contra Affair” and “The Panama Deception” Film Links* *Medea Benjamin**,** “The U.S. Cold War vs. African Liberation Struggles” Live* *Danny Sjursen**,** “Cold War In The Heartland: Patriotic Dissent In The Cold War” Live* *Ret. Maj. Army* *Approx. 7:00 PM PST* *Nuri Ronaghy, “Origins of U.S.-Iranian Tension: The 1953 CIA-Orchestrated Coup Against Iran” Live* *Peter Phillips, "The NSA and CIA Protects Concentrated Global Capitalism" Live * *Gail Walker, “Lucius Walker: The Legacy of a Visionary Pastor for Peace” Live* *Matthew Hoh, "Afghanistan as a Pawn in the U.S. Cold War" Live* *Ann Wright, “Inside and Outside the Military Industrial Complex” Live* *Jodie Evans, “Historical and Current U.S. Cold War Against China” Live* *Approx. 8:00 PM PST* *John Parker, “The Cold War and Continued Conflict With Syria” * *Live* *Miguel Angel, “The Ongoing U.S. Cold War Against Honduras: Perspective From An Exile” Live * *Alicia Rivera, “The U.S. Cold War Against El Salvador and Its Aftermath” Live* *Alicia Jrapko, “The Dirty War in Argentina, Operation Condor and the U.S. Cold War” Written* *S. Brian Willson, “U.S. Involvement in Creating and Sustaining the Cold War Against Korea” Written* *Joel Andreas, “The Rise of Aerial Bombardment Throughout the Cold War“ Taped* *Nadya Williams, “CIA Intrigue, the 1965 Coup Against Indonesia and Its Aftermath” Taped * *Closing Remarks **by** Rachel Bruhnke, Witness For Peace Southwest **and** Frank Dorrel, Addicted To War* * INVITATION TO WATCH: “What I’ve Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy: The War* * Against the Third World” - Produced **by** Frank Dorrel* * LINK: **www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gMGhrkoncA* <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gMGhrkoncA> * Public Open Mic and Chat Testimonies* *Scholars & Citizen Testimonials Will Help Us Learn The History of The Cold War & Its Relevance To U.S. Political Corruption & To Today’s Global Chaos.* *IN-PERSON or PRE-RECORDED TESTIMONY on: CIA-backed Global Interventions of The Cold War; McCarthyism and the crushing of labor and the left in the U.S.; the Cold War Nuclear Legacy; Hollywood and the Blacklist; the “Red Scare” of the 1930’s; and the red-baiting of social activists as far back as 1850!* *“I think it’s a great idea! Ideologically, it's right on”.** – Oliver Stone on The Cold War Truth Commission* *Hosted **by** Rachel Bruhnke **of** Witness For Peace Southwest **and** Frank Dorrel **of** ADDICTED To WAR* *Endorsed by**: CODEPINK, WORLD BEYOND WAR, ROOTSACTION, KPFK 90.7 FM Radio, Veterans For Peace, CovertAction Magazine, Media Freedom Foundation, Project Censored, PeaceWorkers, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power In Space, School of The Americas Watch, Harriet Tubman Center For Social Justice, Anti-Racist Action, COVID-19 Global Solidarity Coalition * *and ADDICTED To WAR * *When: * *Sunday, March 21st, 1:00 PM **to** 7:00 PM **(PST)* *FREE EVENT ON ZOOM* *Register Here:* *www.codepink.org/03212021* <https://www.codepink.org/03212021> *ZOOM Tech Support from Mary Miller and Emily Dorrel - Both of CODEPINK* *If You Are on Facebook, Please Visit and Consider Joining Our Group**: * *www.facebook.com/groups/235245374885960* <http://www.facebook.com/groups/235245374885960> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. 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