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CITIZENS' HEARING REPORT
with tribunal testimony & statement
(64 pages; 32 MB pdf)
TESTIFIERS AND TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20th
10:00-11:00 am Opening
Joye Hardiman Executive Director, The Evergreen State College Tacoma Campus.
Zoltan Grossman Evergreen Olympia faculty member, for the tribunal organizing committee.
Lietta Ruger Introduction of panelists.
David Krieger Panel chair, Overview of Citizens’ Hearing.
11:00 am-12:00 noon Iraq War veterans
Geoffrey Millard 8 years in NY Army National Guard; stationed in Ground Zero, Kuwait, Iraq.
Harvey Tharp Former U.S. Navy Lieutenant and JAG stationed in Iraq; first officer to resign over war.
12:00 noon-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00-1:30 pm
Daniel Ellsberg Military analyst who released the Pentagon Papers in the Vietnam War.
1:35-2:30 pm
Richard Falk Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University.
Benjamin G. Davis Assoc. Prof. of Law, University of Toledo; expert on law of war.
2:35-3:10 pm
Ann Wright Retired Army Colonel and State Department official
3:15 pm-4:00 pm
Denis Halliday Former UN Assistant Secretary General, coordinated Iraq humanitarian aid
SUNDAY, JANUARY 21st
10:00-10:55 am Video testimony
Francis Boyle Professor of International Law at University of Illinois.
Eman Khammas Iraqi human rights advocate in exile in Spain.
11:00 am- 12:00 noon Iraq War veterans
Darrell Anderson 1st Armored Division in Baghdad, Najaf; awarded Purple Heart;
IVAW.
Chanan Suarez - Diaz Former Navy hospital corpsman; awarded Purple Heart & Navy Commendation with Valor; now in IVAW.
12:00 noon-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00-1:30 pm
Stacy Bannerman Military Families Speak Out; author of "When the War Came Home"
1:30-2:00 pm
Antonia Juhasz Policy-analyst and author on U.S. economic policies in Iraq.
2:00-2:30 pm
Dennis Kyne Dennis Kyne 15 years as Army medic & drill sergeant; trained in NBC warfare;, Gulf War I; Uranium Munitions issues.
2:30-3:00 pm
John Burroughs Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy Executive Director;
Nuclear policy and the Iraq War.
3:00-3:15 Closing remarks
David Krieger Citizens’ Hearing panel chair.
CITIZENS’ HEARING PANEL
CHAIR: DAVID KRIEGER
President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
Former Army 2nd Lieutenant stationed in Hawaii during the Vietnam War, Juror of Conscience for the 2005 World Tribunal on Iraq
GOLD STAR FAMILIES: ELIZABETH FALZONE
from Seattle; cousin David was killed in action in Tikrit, Iraq
MILITARY FAMILIES: RICH MONIAK
from Juneau AK; son served in Iraq & Afghanistan
VETERANS OF FORMER WARS: RUSSELL W. MCNUTT
from Centralia WA; Marine Corps veteran; enlisted 1945, commissioned 1950 served in Korea; served 3 years in Allied Air Forces Naples, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing Vietnam, HQ MACV Saigon 1968-69
VETERANS OF FORMER WARS: BURK KETCHAM
World War II veteran; former Naval Reserve officer, Tacoma
NEW VETERANS: MARICELA GUZMAN
from Los Angeles; Navy veteran in Diego Garcia & Italy
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: ESTELLA VILLARREAL
Ida B. Wells School at University of Washington in Seattle
GOVERNMENT LEADERS: LYLE QUASIM
Former Secretary of Washington Department of Social and Health Services; Vietnam veteran; from Tacoma
RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS: REV. ELAINE STANOVSKY
United Methodist Church; Superintendent of the Seattle-Tacoma District;
former President-Director, Church Council of Greater Seattle.
LABOR UNION MEMBERS: ZEEK GREEN
International Longshore Workers Union (ILWU) member, Tacoma
HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY: EMILY LUTZ
Army Reserve medic from Los Angeles; in Individual Ready Reserve
ACADEMIA: STAUGHTON LYND
historian, attorney and activist from Youngstown OH; Ph.D from Columbia; taught at Yale.
ADVISORY BOARD :
Nadia McCaffrey
Thomas Gumbleton
Blase Bonpane