News Release

February 1, 2007

Author, Activist Christian Parenti to Speak at Boise State

The Idaho Peace Coalition and Boise State University’s Department of Sociology will present Christian Parenti, correspondent for The Nation, at 7 p.m. March 1 in the Student Union Jordan A/B Ballroom. His talk is titled “Defeated — Understanding U.S. Failure in Afghanistan and Iraq.”

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Parenti, who has traveled to Afghanistan three times since 2004, will present an on-the-ground report from his recent Afghan travels as well as insight into the ongoing U.S. occupation of Iraq. The event is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow his presentation.

Parenti received a Ph.D. in sociology from the London School of Economics in 2000. He is the author of “The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq” (the New Press, 2004), “The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror” (Basic Books, 2003), and “Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis” (Verso, 2000). He has been a Soros Senior Justice fellow and a Ford Foundation City fellow at the City University of New York graduate school’s Center for Place, Culture and Politics.

The presentation is sponsored by the Idaho Peace Coalition as well as several Boise State groups, including the departments of Sociology, Anthropology, Criminal Justice Administration, History, Political Science, Public Policy and Administration, the School of Social Work, the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs, the Cultural Center, and the Cultural and Ethnic Diversity Board.

For more information, call 426-4056.
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Contact: Liz Paul, Idaho Peace Coalition, (208) 853-4435, idahopeacecoalition.msn.com;  Marty Orr, Department of Sociology, (208) 426-4056, morr@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208) 426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu

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