( Here is Mary Pallant talking about the speaker series.)
Former candidate and current political activist Mary Pallant continues to bring in speakers to Ventura County.
Her latest is writer Robert Scheer on July 18th.
I appreciate candidates that do things locally to organize besides run for office.
- July 18 7PM
- Robert Scheer Returns to Ventura County for Mary Pallant's Ventura County Speaker Series
- Oak Park Community Center - 1000 Kanan Road in Oak Park
- Free & Open to the Public - $3 Donation appreciated to cover cost of Venue
- Robert Scheer brings a lifetime of wisdom and 40 years of journalism experience to one of the most overlooked and dangerous issues of our time-the destructive influence of America's military-industrial complex.
- In THE PORNOGRAPHY OF POWER, Scheer examines the quiet expansion of our military presence throughout the world, our insane nuclear strategy, the immorality of corporations profiting in Iraq, and the arrogance of our foreign policy. His view echoes that of former Republican president General Dwight Eisenhower, who, in his farewell speech to the American people, spoke prophetically about need to guard against the growing influence of the military-industrial complex. In George W. Bush's America, politicians like Ike and Richard Nixon seem like prudent centrists.
- The views of libertarians, liberals, and pacifists are too often overlooked or ignored by America's mainstream media. For the past year we have heard our presidential candidates split hairs over how to allocate a fraction of our national budget to education and health care programs while billions of dollars in discretionary defense spending remains shrouded in mystery.
- It is our hope that this blistering indictment of the military industrial complex will finally change the terms of the debate. At a time when many are exploiting fears of terrorist attacks and only a few national leaders are willing to advocate cuts in defense spending, nuclear disarmament, and restrained use of American force, Robert Scheer has written a manifesto for enlightened reform.
Go Mary! Invite Michael Tenenbaum!
Thanks for putting together great events.
Why won't Elton Gallegly mention the war on his website?
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Ross Perot would be proud....
Why is it that the nominee for the 24th is being overshadowed in the news by Mary Pallant? Why did she run for the nomination if she doesn't plan on campaigning?
Get going! You know local papers will publish your editorials and local blogs will post your events if you ask them!