Dec. 7: Anti-war Wednesdays: The Economic Colonization of Iraq

Dec. 7, 7:30 pm

Anti-war Wednesdays: The Economic Colonization of Iraq
An Intensive Workshop with Antonia Juhasz

The Brecht Forum
451 West Street
(that's the West Side Highway) between Bank & Bethune Sts


The Iraqi economy has been violently restructured by the occupation forces as part of a neo-liberal program planned by the U.S. and its allies for the region. Significant changes in the law have already been imposed by the occupation forces: constitutional laws prohibiting the privatization of key state assets such as oil, regulations for foreign property ownership and investment, the tax code, and the banking laws have all been significantly changed. Meanwhile, government services, including the guaranteed food program, have been nearly eliminated. This raises important questions for the US anti-war movement: How do we begin to address the economic colonization of Iraq? How do we continue to resist it even after the troops are out?

This intensive workshop is designed as a space for information and strategizing. We are fortunate to have Antonia Juhasz with us from San Francisco to lead the workshop; she will provide up to date and detailed information on the nature of the economic assault currently underway in Iraq.

Antonia Juhasz is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies specializing in international trade and investment policy. She is author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time (Regan Books, Harper Collins Publishers, February 2006) and contributing author to Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible, 2nd Edition (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004). Antonia received a 2004 Project Censored award for her article, "Ambitions of Empire: the Radical Reconstruction of Iraq's Economy," in Left Turn magazine. She was proud to provide testimony to the New York Session of the World Tribunal on Iraq on the economic colonization of Iraq by the U.S.