Friend,

While the RootsAction team loves being in communication with you via email and Progressive Hub, we also value the chance to talk with you via livestream video. Here’s an invitation for a couple of upcoming events:

  • Wednesday, June 21

Join RootsAction co-founder Norman Solomon and Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, as they discuss the ongoing U.S. government actions against “national security” whistleblowers. If you buy a ticket to this online event, hosted by Busboys and Poets Books, you’ll be mailed a copy of Norman’s new book War Made Invisible. Click here for more information.

  • Tuesday, July 11

In a free livestream that you can sign up for now, RootsAction co-founders Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon will talk about the key information and analysis in War Made Invisible, subtitled “How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.” An independent bookstore, Point Reyes Books, is hosting this online forum (8 pm ET / 5 pm PT). To register for this event, click here.

Also, we hope you’ll read and share the excerpts from the book that have been released in recent days. Truthdig published a section about the true costs of ongoing U.S. warfare. And The Nation published an excerpt titled “The Convenient Myth of ‘Humane’ War.”

War Made Invisible, released this week by the nonprofit publisher The New Press, is Norman’s first book in 15 years. The main goal is to encourage discussion -- and strong nonviolent activism -- to end what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism.”  You can read more about the book here.

Thank you,

The RootsAction.org Team

 
 
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War Made Invisible will provide the fresh and profound clarity that our country desperately needs.”
— Daniel Ellsberg

“Cutting through this manufactured ‘fog of war,’ Norman Solomon eloquently casts sunlight, the best disinfectant, on the propaganda that fuels perpetual war. War Made Invisible is essential reading in these increasingly perilous times.”
— Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

“Solomon exposes how media lies, distortions, and misdirections represent the abandonment of journalism’s promise to connect human beings to one another.”
— Janine Jackson, program director, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting

With an immense and rare humanity, Solomon insists that we awaken from the slumber of denial and distraction and confront the carnage of the U.S.’s never-ending military onslaughts. A staggeringly important intervention.”
— Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine

“In these difficult times when truth and justice seem to have lost their way, a very special and daring book appears out of the darkness of this seemingly endless night, giving us all as a nation and people a reason to hope.”
— Ron Kovic, Vietnam veteran and author of Born on the Fourth of July

“A powerful, necessary indictment of efforts to disguise the human toll of American foreign policy.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

 

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