Award-winning Independent Journalist Dahr Jamail Sunday, March 23rd from 4-6pm UU Church of Belfast(please note - new venue) 37 Miller Street (near High Street), downtown Belfast

Dahr Jamail has courageously provided an independent view from inside occupied Iraq for Pacifica Radio, Democracy Now!, the BBC, Air America and Radio Hong Kong and in print has appeared in The Nation, Asia Times and The Guardian as well as many other outlets. In June 2005, Dahr testified at the World Tribunal on Iraq about his experiences and interviews of countless Iraqis, including civilians detained and tortured at Abu Ghraib.

Dahr’s first book, “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq”, was released this past October and has received wide acclaim. Gary Lawless of Gulf of Maine Books will provide copies for sale and signing. Rob Shetterly, who included Dahr in his “Americans Who Tell the Truth” series, will introduce Dahr and share his portrait: http://tinyurl.com/2rv2kt

From Howard Zinn, author of “A People’s History of the United States, “Dahr Jamail does us a great service, by taking us past the lies of political leaders, past the cowardice of the press, into the streets, the homes, the lives of Iraqis living under US occupation. He is a superb journalist, in the most honorable tradition of that craft.”

Mother Jones Magazine says, “Every conflict spawns a handful of journalists who are willing to not only brave the war zone but to seek out the stories ignored by the press pack. The Iraq war has brought us Dahr Jamail.”

For more information about this event, contact Kate Harris 338-9509, kate [at] earthlovers [dot] org For more information about Dahr’s work, please visit: www.Dahr.org

Co-sponsors: Maine Chapters of Veterans for Peace, Social Justice Committee of the UU Church of Belfast, Peace & Justice Group of Waldo County, Maine Earth Institute, Peninsula Peace & Justice, Island Peace & Justice, Peace Action Maine, Midcoast Peace & Justice, PeaceWorks and Gulf of Maine Books