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"How Is U.S. Foreign Policy Affecting Your Life?"

A free forum open to the public sponsored by Oakton Community College and O.E.S.R. (Oakton Educators for Social Responsibility) with funding from MacNeil/Lehrer Productions "By the People"

1:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 26
TenHoeve Center
Oakton Community College
1600 E. Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016

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Information and the Media

Key information sources
for understanding current US foreign policy

The Project for a New American Century – PNAC leading neo-conservative organization holds that “American leadership is good both for America and for the world” http://www.newamericancentury.org/

The Project for a New American Century Info – group dedicated to investigating and analyzing “the Project for the New American Century, and its plan for a "unipolar" world” http://www.pnac.info/

National Security Strategy of the United States of America – text of "The Bush Doctrine" on foreign policy http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html

1992 Defense Planning Guide – “draft 1992 policy statement on America's mission in the post-Cold War era” by Paul Wolfowitz http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/etc/wolf.html

Committee on the Present Danger – bipartisan group “dedicated to winning the global war on terrorism” http://www.fightingterror.org

Center for Defense Information – think-tank with former military personnel “seeks to contribute alternative views on security to promote wide-ranging discourse and debate” http://www.cdi.org

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: US Leadership Project – group committed “to promote basic freedoms, democracy and peace” http://www.ceip.org/files/projects/usl/usl_descrip.ASP

New American Foundation: American Strategy Project – bipartisan group holds that “perennial goals must be pursued by new strategies and new methods” http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=section&secID=12

Key media sources for discussions about US foreign policy

Alternet -- www.alternet.org

The Weekly Standard -- www.weeklystandard.com

Foreign Policy magazine -- Foreignpolicy.com

World Press Review -- www.worldpress.org

The Nation -- www.thenation.org

Townhall.com -- http://www.townhall.com/

Znet -- www.zmag.org



How Is U.S. Foreign Policy Affecting Your Life?"

Information and the Media
Panelist: Richard Stacewicz, Honors Program Coordinator and Associate Professor, History, Oakton Community College.

Civil Liberties and Immigration
Panelist: Mehrdad Azemun, Senior Organizer, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Education and Children
Panelist: Danielle Chiero, president of the Oakton Board of Student Affairs

Our Economy
Panelist: Karen Chavers, Director of Community Outreach, 13th District Cook County Commission

"By the People" Foreign Policy Resources