Our War, Our Responsibility—Iraq at Five
Wednesday, March 5
McCarthy Recital Hall
A Saint Michael's College anti-war steering committee of faculty and students are orchestrating a day-long educational program on the war in Iraq. "Our War, Our Responsibility—Iraq at Five," to be held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., will be a day of "commemoration, education and protest of the war." Community participation is welcomed
"It’s five years later and the War in Iraq is still going on,” said Laurie Gagne, committee member and director of the Edmundite Center for Peace and Justice. "There have been more than one million Iraqi deaths and almost 4,000 American casualties," she said. "Iraq war vets have a staggering suicide and homelessness rate. Join us March 5 to say NO to this slaughter, this suffering," Gagne said.
All events except the lunch-time round-tables will be in the McCarthy Arts Center. The schedule is as follows:
8:45 a.m. — Moment of Silence, followed by Professor/Poet Adrie Kusserow reading a poem
9:00 a.m. — History Professor Frank Nicosia will present A History of the War in Iraq
10:45 a.m. — Journalism Instructor Matt Powers will present The Media and the War
12:00 p.m. — Faculty will lead round table discussions of the war in the Alliot Dining Hall. Volunteers thus far include Professors Bret Findley, Crystal L’Hote, George Dameron, Kevin Kelley, and Laurie Gagne.
1:00 p.m. — Student-Faculty Panel, anchored by Economics Professor Patrick Walsh, on Cost of the Iraq War to the U.S. Iraq War Veteran Matt Howard will be on this panel.
2:45 p.m. — Student-Faculty Panel, anchored by Political Science Professor Bill Wilson, on Cost of the War for the Iraqis, structural, economic and environmental.
4:15 p.m. — Reception and Action Workshops to write letters to Senator Leahy and others about reparations for the Iraqi people and the re-building of Iraq, and letters in support of the Winter Soldier project, a speak-out by Iraq veterans in Washington March 13-16
Iraq war photographs by Daniel Heyman will be on display all day in the Durick Library.
The anti-war steering committee includes Professors Mike Bosia, Trish Siplon, Laurie Gagne, Kathie Balutansky and Crystal L’Hote, alumna Siham Elhamoumi, and students Christine Kehn, Elizabeth Trojner-Riley, Kyle Campbell, and Derek Souza, and Iraq Veteran Matt Howard.