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Pete Seeger Joins "Whistleblowers for Justice and Peace" at Howland Center This Sunday
Pete Seeger and his grandson, Tao Rodriguez, will perform a few songs to open the "Whistleblowers for Justice and Peace - Heroes of our Time" event at the Howland Cultural Center, Main Street and Tioronda Avenue, in Beacon, on Sunday, February 24 at 2pm. The program is co-sponsored by the Mid-Hudson Progressive Alliance, Orange County Peace and Justice, The Democratic Alliance, Westchester Progressive Forum, WESPAC Foundation, the Hudson Valley Impeachment Consortium and Philipstown for Democracy.
Speakers will include Coleen Rowley, former FBI Agent for 24 years who testified in front of the Senate and the 9/11 Commission in May, 2002 on shortcomings in the FBI's internal organization BEFORE 9/ ll , its mishandling of information related to the September 11, 2001 attacks and warned publicly before the Bush administration launched the Iraq war that it was unjustified and would not reduce terrorism.
Also speaking will be Retired U.S. Army Colonel and State Department Official Ann Wright, who served in Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Nicaragua, and was one of three high ranking officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Her new book, Dissent-Voices of Conscience-Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq, has been widely praised by Howard Zinn, Daniel Ellsberg, and Ray McGovern.
Rounding out the program will be Michael Andregg, PhD, Geneticist, Peace Researcher and Founder of Ground Zero Minnesota, and author of a national prize-winning book, On the Causes of War, which was published in 1997 and won the National Peacewriting Award in 1999. Currently, Michael is launching a Center for the Study of Intelligence and Wisdom, to convince Military and Intelligence services that open sources and public information are for the better good.
The program is free of charge and open to all. For further information, call 845-228-8894 or send an email to midhudsonprogressivealliance@gmail.com.
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