Community Currency - 05/20/10

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Understanding Deep Politics with Charlotte Dennett and Professor Anthony J. Hall.  In the wake of  the conference entitled "Understanding Deep Politics- Revealing the Driving Forces Behind World Events and Creating Alternative Solutions"whose goal was 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 presenters, included David Ray Griffin, Cynthia McKinney, Peter Dale Scott, Barrie Zwicker, Dahlia Wasfi and Ellen Brown and have been posted at http://www.understandingdeeppolitics.org. 

Charlotte Dennett, authored The People v. Bush: One Lawyer's Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the Nationwide Grassroots Movement She's Encountered Along the Way, and co-authored with her husband Gerald Colby - Thy Will be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil. She has been practicing law since 1997, with an emphasis on personal injury litigation and suing the government under the Freedom of Information Act. She's also been a reporter in the Middle East. She was inspired by a conference convened at the Massachusetts School of Law in September 2008 which drew together lawyers and activists to shift their focus "From Impeachment to Prosecution" which evolved into The Robert Jackson Steering Committee, and works to bring about the criminal prosecution of top government officials in the United States whom there is probable cause to believe have committed war crimes. The committee was named in honor of the sentiments of universal accountability to the rule of law articulated by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson at Nuremberg. She also ran for Attorney General of Vermont in 2008 with the support of Vincent Bugliosi, the legendary criminal prosecutor and bestselling author of The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. Her website is http://chardennett.org/ .

Professor Anthony J. Hall, author of The American Empire and the Fourth World- The Bowl With One Spoon, professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge. Professor Hall also wrote an article entitled- Citizen's Arrest of George W. Bush for War Crimes- The Trial of "Splitting the Sky" and which introduce the "Calgary Principles," to amend the Nuremberg Principles to include the new levels of crimes being perpetrated now with impunity at the supranational and national levels. He has also just finished a new book, entitled Earth Into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism, to be released this fall.