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Foreign Affairs
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Noor Ghazi: An Iraqi American Peace Activist's Story
Noor Ghazi, an Iraqi-American peace activist based in the United
States, appeared on a livestream presentation for Portland audiences on
June 25, 2024.
Noor's story is deeply personal, but it also reflects the experiences
of tens of thousands, perhaps millions of Iraqis who lived under
sanctions and war.
It's a story of surviving war and trauma, a story of adjusting to being
a refugee resettled in America, and a story of hope against all odds.
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Mark Braverman: Searching for Peace and Justice in Palestine
Mark Braverman is a Jewish American author and activist trained as a
clinical psychologist who began life as a fervent Zionis but has become a
strong voice against Zionism. He is the Executive Director of
Kairos USA, founded in response to the 2009 Kairos call of Palestinian
Christians.
Braverman spoke at the First Unitarian Church in Portland on February 12,
2024. This program covers that talk which included the context for October
7, 2023 - Jewish history, Zionism and Palestinian resistance; the current
furor over anti-semitism; the church and colonialism; and the settler
colonialism of the US.
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Retired Col. Ann Wright: US and NATO's Pivot to Asia
In June, 2022, retired Col. Ann Wright, who quit the US State Department
in protest of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, spoke on the change in focus of
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, now centering on the Western
Pacific and SE Asia. Chock
full of facts and a healthy edge of cynical humor, Col. Wright's talk is
engaging and informative. In part two, she shares a video poem presented
by indigenous activists opposing the huge military exercise known as
RIMPAC, Rim of the Pacific.
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Zaher Wahab: The US/Afghanistan Fateful Partnership
On June 29, 2020, Dr. Zaher Wahab gave a highly informative talk about the
social, political, economic and military situation in Afghanistan, and in
particular the US involvement there. The Afghan American professor
talked about the history of both
the US and Soviet invasions and occupations of Afghanistan, the
international interest in its natural resources, ethnic tensions, and
recipes for moving forward.
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Kathy Kelly 2018:Human Stories of US Wars
The Nobel Peace Prize nominee talked Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Gaza
at Portland Community College.
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Omar Barghouti:
Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions
 The
Palestinian intellectual and co-founder of the BDS Movement, spoke at Portland State University in
February 2015.
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25 Years
Working for Peace in Iraq
 In January, 2016, protestors in Portland mark a quarter century after the "Gulf
War" was launched.
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Eyewitness 10 Years
Later: What Iraqs are Saying
Cathy Breen of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, visted Iraq in late 2012 and reports back on the
conditions of the
country after being invaded, occupied and wracked withviolence in photos and stories.
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Health Care Alternatives
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Equal Healthcare for All
At a national conference on health care in Portland, OR in late
2019 people from around the country speak about
the importance of single payer-- "everyone in, no one out." Organizers,
health care professionals and even an elected official spoke out in favor
of a Medicare for all system and explained how it would work, how it would
benefit us all, and how it would be funded.
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Elyn Saks:
Making Peace with Mental Illness
In the keynote talk from the June 2017 Mental Health and Law Enforcement
Conference in Portland Saks reads
excerpts from her memoir, describes her struggles with schizophrenia and her managing
to craft a good life for herself in the face of a dire prognosis. An inspiring story!
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Margaret
Flowers: Health Care for All
 At a Portland
conference in 2011, national advocate Dr. Margaret Flowers shares information on the problems
created by
for-profit corporations managing health care, explaining the benefits of and offering
examples of single payer options.
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Rep. John
Conyers: Single Payer Health Care
One of America's most outspoken Congresspeople, the Michigan representative covers
topics such as how President Obama approached the Health Care issue, changes since the Civil
Rights Movement, and differences of opinions between Democrats and Republicans.
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Eating for
the Planet
 Paul Shapiro of the Humane Society spoke in Portland in 2015, explaning how
a vegetarian/vegan diet can help
your health at the same time it helps reduce climate change.
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