Paul Sullivan and Juan Cole coming to Sarasota FL

You're Invited: Paul Sullivan and Juan Cole Address Florida VCS on October 4 in Sarasota

Veterans for Common Sense

Sep 19, 2008

Dr. Juan Cole, a foremost authority on the Middle East, and Paul Sullivan, the Executive Director of Veterans for Common Sense, will speak to the public in Sarasota, Florida on October 4. The event is sponsored by Florida Veterans for Common Sense (FLVCS), Florida Consumer Action Network (FCAN), and Veterans for Common Sense (VCS). The public is invited.

Click here for Tickets, or go to this web site: http://www.fcan.org/juan_cole.html
minimum suggested donation is $10, please.

Dr. Cole has often appeared in print and national television as a commentator on the Middle East and has published peer reviewed books on the Middle East. He has testified before the United States Senate and is the former editor of The International Journal of Middle East Studies. He is President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. In 2006, he received the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism administered by Hunter College. His blog, Informed Comment, averages 25,000 hits per day. His latest book is Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East.

Paul Sullivan regularly testifies before Congress and appears in the press as a leading advocate for veterans' healthcare, disability benefits, and voting rights. Veterans for Common Sense worked with ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff to break the news in February 2007 that the Department of Veterans Affairs was treating hundreds of thousands of veteran patients from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. VCS worked with CBS Evening News investigative reporters to uncover the growing suicide epidemic among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. For more information about the impact of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars on America, please read The Three Trillion Dollar War by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes.

Professor Cole will sign books after the Question and Answer session. And Paul Sullivan will release new statistics about the impact of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars on the Department of Defense and VA.

Tickets: Minimum suggested donation is $10. Call Julian Koss (941) 923-9280 or go to the FCAN web site: http://www.fcan.org/juan_cole.html

When: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 7:00 PM

Where: 2896 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota (Potter Building) (Three buildings west of Robarts Arena off Fruitville Road, Sarasota)

Speakers: Juan Cole and Paul Sullivan
Sponsors: FCAN, FLVCS, and VCS

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/ArticleID/11207