Online Daybreak Book Salon: David Swanson, Glenn Greenwald

1. FireDogLake Book Salon: Swanson with Greenwald
2. Who Decides About War? Conference
3. Oppose Wars in D.C. on Oct. 5, Everywhere Oct. 17
4. New Mexico with Elliott Adams, Ray McGovern, Cindy Sheehan, David Swanson, Ann Wright
5. Daybreak in Florida with C-Span

1. FireDogLake Book Salon: Swanson with Greenwald

On Sunday, September 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. ET, Glenn Greenwald will introduce and moderate an online discussion with David Swanson about his new book "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union."

Please go to FireDogLake ahead of time and make sure you have a username and password so that you can ask questions.  Here's the book salon page: http://firedoglake.com/booksalon

Here's the page where FireDogLake maintains a public whip list for Congress on healthcare: http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/publicoption

2. Who Decides About War? Conference

On October 2nd and 3rd, Friday and Saturday (and you can come for just Saturday too), there will be a conference at Georgetown Law School in downtown Washington, D.C., that you won't want to miss called "Who Decides About War?" Here are some of the speakers:

* Jean Athey, Peace Action, Montgomery County, MD
* Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies
* Leah Bolger, National Vice-President, Veterans for Peace
* John Bonifaz, Attorney at Law
* Elaine Brower, Military Families Speak Out
* Prof. Marjorie Cohn, President, National Lawyers Guild
* Rep. Michael Fisher, State Representative, Lincoln, Vermont
* Bonnie Gorman, Military Families Speak Out, Boston
* Mort Halperin, Senior Adviser, Open Society Institute, Keynote Speaker
* Sen. Richard Madaleno, State Senator, Montgomery County, Maryland
* Ben Manski, Esq., Executive Director, Liberty Tree
* Geoff Millard, Chair of the Board of Directors, Iraq Veterans Against the War
* John Nichols, Esq., The Nation magazine
* Caleb Rossiter, Professor, International Service, American University
* Jeremy Scahill, author, Blackwater, Keynote Speaker
* Benson Scotch, Senior Legal Counsel, Bring the Guard Home! It's the Law.
* David Swanson, Founder, After Downing Street
* Don Wallace, Professor, Georgetown Law School

Learn more: http://WhoDecidesAboutWar.org
 
 

3. Oppose Wars in D.C. on Oct. 5, Everywhere Oct. 17

 
Join us at the White House on October 5 to take organized nonviolent action against the Afghanistan War.  You can come and safely demonstrate or you can choose to risk arrest.

FIND OUT MORE:
http://nogoodwar.org

Join in and create local and regional anti-war actions on October 17 and surrounding dates:

FIND OUT MORE:
http://natassembly.org

ADDITIONAL EVENTS:
http://unitedforpeace.org

If you can't come, please phone your congress member on October 5th and tell them that you will oppose them in every way if they vote another dollar for wars: (202) 224-3121.

4. New Mexico with Elliott Adams, Ray McGovern, Cindy Sheehan, David Swanson, Ann Wright

THE PENTAGON OF PEACE: “FIVE FOR TRUTH”
New Mexico Tour Presented by VETERANS FOR PEACE

Taos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque
OCTOBER 9, 10, 11

Detailed schedule here:
http://davidswanson.org/daybreak-10-9

5. Daybreak in Florida with C-Span

David Swanson will discuss his book "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union.

Oct. 12, 13 Tampa / St. Petersburg, FL
Oct. 14 Miami, FL (with C-Span filming)
Oct. 15 Orlando, FL

Details here: http://davidswanson.org/book