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Peter Bergen will speak at Bradley SEPTEMBER 8 |
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Peter Bergen will speak at Bradley, Thursday, Sept. 8, 7 pm at Robert Michel Student Center 
"The Awakening: How Revolutionaries, Barack Obama and Ordinary Muslims are Remaking the Middle East."
Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist and author; the director of the national security studies program at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C.; a research fellow at New York University's Center on Law and Security and CNN's national security analyst. In 2008 he was an Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and he has worked as an Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
His most recent book, a New York Times bestseller, is The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda. New York Times book reviewer Michiko Kakutani writes, "For readers interested in a highly informed, wide-angled, single-volume briefing on the war on terror so far, “The Longest War” is clearly that essential book." Tom Ricks also writing in the Times described the book as "stunning." |
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"The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a "Saudia Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown."
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FEEL FREE TO FLY A KITE FOR PEACE
The third annual PEACE AIR SHOW, sponsored by the Peoria Area Peace Network and Food Not Bombs, will take place Saturday, July 23, 2011, 3:00 pm, at Constitution Park, (foot of Morton St., on the riverfront).
We hold this family friendly event in response to the Peoria Prairie Air Show which is used as a recruiting tool for the military. That air show glamorizes and sanitizes the military and the fighter jets. It also ignores the human, economical and environmental toll that is taken in war and to make and use the fighter jets. The Peoria Area Peace Network wants to give people alternatives to the mostly military air show by flying kites along the riverfront.
Join us, bring a kite or use one of ours. Cold drinks will be provided by Food Not Bombs. download flyer
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