Community Currency - 05/13/10

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Understanding Deep Politics with Dr. Dahlia Wasfi who will be one of the featured speakers at the Understanding Deep Politics Conference this weekend, May 14-16, in Santa Cruz, California. Dr. Dahlia Wasfi is an internationally known speaker and activist. Born in the United States to an American Jewish mother and an Iraqi Muslim father, she lived in Iraq as a child, returning to the U.S. at age 5. After graduating from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in Biology in 1993, she earned her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. Dr. Wasfi has made two trips to Iraq to visit her extended family since the 2003 "Shock and Awe" invasion, including a three month stay in Basrah in the spring of 2006. She has brought her eyewitness account of life under occupation to over 200 audiences in twenty-two United States, Capitol Hill in D.C., Ontario and British Columbia, Madrid, Spain in 2007, and the 3rd International Iraq Conference in Berlin, Germany, in March 2008. Based on her experiences, Dr. Wasfi is speaking out in support of immediate, unconditional withdrawal of American forces from Iraq and the need to end the occupation “from the Nile to the Euphrates.” Her website is http://www.liberatethis.com.

The full title of the conference is "Understanding Deep Politics- Revealing the Driving Forces Behind World Events and Creating Alternative Solutions" and the goal is to discover the deeper roots of our current crisis, challenging the mainstream perceptions of political reality, to reveal the hidden forces behind many widely accepted historical and current events. The speakers will draw upon many decades of research that are pointing us towards an Orwellian police state indeed, to a much darker future than most citizens can even imagine. The presenters, including David Ray Griffin, Cynthia McKinney, Peter Dale Scott, Barrie Zwicker, Jim Marrs and Ellen Brown, will delve into the roots of our current crises and the dynamics driving despotic governance, financial plunder, imperialism, loss of civil liberties, and assaults on public health. They will explore how such vital insights are continually being suppressed as they expose the media matrix that obscures these facts and stupefies our culture, all in the interest of protecting a malignant status quo. And they are inviting everyone to Understanding Deep Politics conference to contribute to the urgent search for solutions, by providing a unique educational and organizing opportunity. The organizers hope to harness the talents and expertise of all the participants to create new strategies that have a credible chance of success. The weekend will culminate with two solutions-focused multi-speaker panels that will explore how we can awaken, unite and empower the larger community to overcome the deep forces controlling our society and to reshape our destiny. Additionally, Community Currency host, Carol Brouillet, is organizing a two day retreat following the conference to harvest the fruits that the conference hopes to generate. The conference website is http://www.understandingdeeppolitics.org.