First in a Series of Forums on New World (Dis)Order:

THE WARS IN BOSNIA AND KOSOVA RE-EXAMINED

A TALK BY DAVID WATSON, WITH COMMENTS BY PETER HUDIS. FOLLOWED BY FREE AND OPEN DISCUSSION.

DECEMBER 8, SUNDAY, 2 PM
LIPA GALLERY, 160 E. ILLINOIS ST., LOWER LEVEL, CHICAGO
(1/2 block east of Michigan Avenue and 1 block south of Grand)

DAVID WATSON has been an antiwar/antimilitarism activist since his youth, and a member of the editorial collective of the North American journal Fifth Estate for 25 years. He is the author of three books on radical ecological politics. Alikornio Ediciones of Barcelona has just published a translation in Spanish of a selection of his essays from "Against the Megamachine: Essays on Empire and Its Enemies" (Autonomedia, 1998). He is currently working on a book on the collapse of Yugoslavia, the subsequent wars, and the failure of dissidents in the west to understand these events. He recently published an essay on leftist and anarchist apologists for ethno-fascism in the former Yugoslavia in the fall 2002 edition of the Fifth Estate.

PETER HUDIS is a member of the national editorial board of News & Letters and has written extensively on the crises in Bosnia and Kosova over the past decade. He is a contributor to the book "Bosnia-Herzegovina: Achilles Heel of Western 'Civilization'" and most recently co-edited (with Kevin Anderson) "The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx" by Raya Dunayevskaya.

Co-sponsored by News and Letters Committees, Open University of the Left and Networking for Democracy.
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Come early or stay late and view the exhibit

NEW WORKS/NEW EUROPE

Group show by faculty staff from the
Academies of Fine Art in
Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) and
Zagreb (Croatia)
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Lipa's programming is created with the purpose to raise awareness about the human impact of war and its aftermath. We try to facilitate a dialogue, to explore the root causes of ethnic and racial conflicts and to unveil how myths and misunderstandings can start conflicts on a larger scale.

LIPA (Links for International Promotion of the Arts) was originally created in 1997 in Washington DC with the "Artists for Peace" program, which sought to bring greater attention to the tragic war in former Yugoslavia and since then has presented scores of exhibitions, lectures and performances with the purpose to promote international understanding through the arts.

For more information, call 312-329-0812 or e-mail: info (at) lipaart.org

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