Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace

RAY MCGOVERN, FORMER CIA OFFICIAL, TO SPEAK AT EVERGREEN AND OLYMPIA

“THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE AND THE DRIVE TO WAR”

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 8, 2013

→12:30-2PM, SEMINAR 2, B1105, TESC

→7-9PM AT OLYMPIA COMMUNITY CENTER, 222 Columbia St. NW, Room 103

 Ray McGovern came to Washington in the early Sixties as an Army infantry/intelligence officer and then served as a CIA analyst from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Ray’s duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President’s Daily Brief, which he briefed one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s most senior national security advisers from 1981 to 1985.

In January 2003, Ray helped create Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to expose the way intelligence was being falsified to “justify” war on Iraq.

As an act of conscience, on March 2, 2006 Ray returned the Intelligence Commendation Medallion given him at retirement for “especially meritorious service,” explaining, “I do not want to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.”

Ray’s opinion pieces have appeared in many leading newspapers in the US and abroad.  His Web site writings are usually posted first on consortiumnews.com as well as here on raymcgovern.com, and they are usually then cross-posted widely on other Web sites.  Ray has appeared on The Newshour, C-Span’s Washington Journal, CNN, Aljazeera, RT, PressTV and numerous other TV & radio programs and documentaries. (His favorite gig was debating former CIA Director James Wollsey on Charlie Rose on Aug. 20, 2004.)  Ray has also addressed a wide variety of audiences in the U.S. and abroad.

Sponsored by OMJP, the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace, and Alternatives to Capitalist Globalization program.  For more information, 360-951-4894.

http://raymcgovern.com/home.html

http://raymcgovern.com/past-articles-videos.html

http://www.commondreams.org/ray-mcgovern

Sonja and Peter will discuss the current state of the politics and economics in both places, the uprisings and other forms of resistance in both countries and ongoing possibilities. They met with several activists and organization in both countries. The presentation will be followed by a longer discussion.

Sonja Wentz is a mental health therapist and faculty member of the International Trauma Treatment Program (ITTP). This was her sixth trip to Turkey.

Peter Bohmer is a member of the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace (OMJP) and a faculty member in political economy at the Evergreen State College. He was invited by the anti-authoritarians to speak at their large festival in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2010 and met with many of them in July, 2013.

Sponsored by Olympia Movement for Justice & Peace

 What are the political climate and risks in the age of growing activism and a government obsessed with “security” and intruding into our privacy in the age of Manning and Snowden?   We have invited some resource people to participate in the discussion.

Please bring potluck food, plates & silverware to enjoy along with the companionship of other people and the stimulating conversation.

7:00 pm at Traditions Café and World Folk Art, 300 5th Avenue SW, Olympia

Sponsored by Olympia Movement for Justice & Peace

A film by Robert Greenwald.   http://www.waronwhistleblowers.com/

AT:  Traditions Cafe – 300 5th Avenue SW, Olympia, WA

sponsored by:
Media Island:  http://www.mediaisland.org/
and
Olympia Movement for Justice & Peace: http://omjp.net/