BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//213.190.6.48//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME: X-WR-CALDESC: X-FROM-URL:http://occupysf.net X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RDATE:20261101T020000 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RDATE:20260308T020000 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-26979@occupysf.net DTSTAMP:20250616T032512Z CATEGORIES: CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Join our Tuesday CODEPINK CONGRESS to talk with special guests about the US military complex and anti-war activism.\nChat with peacemaker s and experts Tuesday\, June 20th at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP no w!\n\n\n\n\nMaking War Invisible: In a searing indictment of the US war ma chine\, author Norman Solomon lays much of the blame for decades of carnag e–from Iraq to Afghanistan to Yemen to Somalia–at the door of the media: A BC\, NBC\, CBS\, the cable news networks\, the New York Times and Washingt on Post-all stenographers for the Pentagon\, which has yet to pass an audi t. Norman will share excerpts from his just released book\, “War Made Invi sible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine\,” and tra ce the roots of the Congressional Military Media Complex to better underst and how best to challenge the war machine.\nMaking War Visible: Our second guest\, Matthew Hoh\, Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network\ , will share the genesis and projects undertaken by this organization of f ormer military\, intelligence and State Department officials to make war v isible. The Eisenhower Media Network recently ran a full-page letter in th e New York Times\, “Let the US Be a Force for Peace in the World” to call for urgent diplomacy to resolve the  Russia-Ukraine war. A disabled Iraq W ar Veteran\, Hoh will share his personal journey from a member of the mili tary to anti-war activism.\nFeaturing:\nNorman Solomon is the national dir ector of RootsAction.org and the executive director of the Institute for P ublic Accuracy. He is the author of many books including his latest indict ment of the military industrial media complex\, “War Made Invisible: How A merica Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine” (The New Press\, June 2023).  For 17 years Norman wrote the syndicated weekly newspaper column “Media Beat\,” assessing the quality of mainstream journalism in the Unite d States.\nMatthew Hoh is the Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media N etwork\, an organization of expert former military\, intelligence\, and ci vilian national security officials who seek to reach broad\, cross-partisa n audiences in diverse media outlets and among the American people – who i ncreasingly sense that U.S. foreign policy today is not making them\, or t he world\, safer. Matthew is a former Afghanistan State Department officer \, 100% disabled Iraq War veteran and Senior Fellow Emeritus with the Cent er for International Policy. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230620T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230620T183000 LOCATION:RSVP SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Tuesday CODEPINK CONGRESS URL:http://occupysf.net/index.php/event/tuesday-codepink-congress/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n

Join our Tuesday CODEPINK CONGRESS to talk with special guests about t he US military complex and anti-war activism.

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Chat with peacemaker s and experts Tuesday\, June 20th at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET:

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Making War Invisible: In a searing indictment of the US war machine\, author Norman Solomon lays much of the blame for decades of carnage–from Iraq to Afghanistan to Yemen to Somalia–at the door of th e media: ABC\, NBC\, CBS\, the cable news networks\, the New York Times an d Washington Post-all stenographers for the Pentagon\, which has yet to pa ss an audit. Norman will share excerpts from his just released book\, “War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine\ ,” and trace the roots of the Congressional Military Media Complex to bett er understand how best to challenge the war machine.

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Makin g War Visible: Our second guest\, Matthew Hoh\, Associate Directo r of the Eisenhower Media Network\, will share the genesis and projects un dertaken by this organization of former military\, intelligence and State Department officials to make war visible. The Eisenhower Media Network rec ently ran a full-page letter in the New York Times\, “Let the US Be a Forc e for Peace in the World” to call for urgent diplomacy to resolve the  Rus sia-Ukraine war. A disabled Iraq War Veteran\, Hoh will share his personal journey from a member of the military to anti-war activism.

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Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and the executive director of the Institute fo r Public Accuracy. He is the author of many books including his latest ind ictment of the military industrial media complex\, “War Made Invisible: Ho w America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine” (The New Press\, J une 2023).  For 17 years Norman wrote the syndicated weekly newspaper colu mn “Media Beat\,” assessing the quality of mainstream journalism in the Un ited States.

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Matthew Hoh is the Associate Directo r of the Eisenhower Media Network\, an organization of expert former milit ary\, intelligence\, and civilian national security officials who seek to  reach broad\, cross-partisan audiences in diverse media outlets and among the American people – who increasingly sense that U.S. foreign policy toda y is not making them\, or the world\, safer. Matthew is a former Afghanist an State Department officer\, 100% disabled Iraq War veteran and Senior Fe llow Emeritus with the Center for International Policy.

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