"Challenging Empire: The U.S. in the Middle East"

Speaker: Phyllis Bennis

Phyllis Bennis is a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington,DC and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She is a
writer, analyst and activist on Middle East and UN issues and is the author of 'Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer' (2007) and 'Challenging Empire: People, Governments and the UN Defy U.S. Power' (2005)

Thursday, December 6, 2007
Remsen Hall Room 101
Johns Hopkins University
7:30 p.m.

Sponsors:
Baltimore Tikkun Community,
Ric Pfeffer Lecture Committee,
Hopkins Anti-War Coalition,
Alternative Press Center and
Baltimore United for Peace and Justice

Admission is free and open to the public
INFO: 410.466.7344.

The Ric Pfeffer Lecture is a program of Research Associates Foundation. RAF is organizer of the Progressive Action Center, home to the Alternative
Press Center, Baltimore Darkroom Cooperative, Maryland Green Party, Baltimore Indymedia, and Red Wagon Child Care. Previous Ric Pfeffer Lectures were delivered by David Harvey (2002), Richard Rubinstein (2003), Howard Zinn (2004), Linda Rae Murray (2005), and Vicente Navarro (2006).
Info: 410.466.7344.

The Baltimore Tikkun Community is a multi-faith organization devoted to a just a durable peace in the Middle East and other social justice issues.
Middle East Peace Film Series: 2nd Thursday of each month, December-March, 7 pm at Mission Helpers, 1001 W. Joppa Rd. (at Chestnut Ave.), Towson. Admission is free to all films. Schedule: 12/13: Encounter Point; 1/10: Occupied Minds; 2/14: Blood and Tears; 3/13 Searching for Peace in the Middle East. Contact: balt_tikkun-AT-yahoo.com

The Hopkins Anti-War Coalition is an organization of Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff who oppose US military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan. HAWC has organized educational events and supported protest activity.

The Alternative Press Center is a non-profit organization working to increase public awareness of the independent, critical press. The APC
maintains a library of periodicals and books with a focus on socialism, feminism, ecology, anti-racism, and related social justice and radical movements. It publishes the Alternative Press Index, a research database found in libraries throughout the United States and Canada. Website:
http:\\www.altpress.org .

The Baltimore chapter of United for Peace and Justice is part of the national UFPJ network working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
UFPJ educates and organizes for peace from a social justice perspective.

DIRECTIONS TO REMSEN HALL: Locate the Eisenhower Library (Charles & 34th Streets). If you face from the steps of the Library looking across the
quad toward Gilman Hall, Remsen Hall is the first building to your right! Park on the street or enter garage from Wyman Park Drive.