ANSWER Coalition Midwest Speaking Tour
"The War, the Economy & the Elections"

Richard Becker 

Western Regional Coordinator, ANSWER Coalition
For more info or to help promote tour:
773-463-0311,  answer@chicagoanswer.net
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Tour Schedule

Chicago, IL
Saturday, April 12, 6 pm
ANSWER Chicago Office
3334 W. Lawrence #202
(Brown Line - Kimball Stop)
Monday, April 14, 2:30 pm
Harper College, Room J143
Tuesday, April 15, 12 noon
Harold Washington College

Hanover, IN
Tuesday, April 8, 7 pm
Hanover College, Science Center Room 137
 517 Ball Drive

Sioux Falls, SD
Thursday, April 10, 6 pm
Ronning Branch Library
3100 E. 49th St

Iowa City, IA
Friday, April 11, 7 pm
Iowa Memorial Union
Northwestern Room 345

Milwaukee, WI
Tuesday, April 15, 7 pm
UW-Milwaukee Union, Room 280
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.

A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) has organized numerous mass protests from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of people against the war in Iraq, since 2002. Becker has been a central organizer and keynote speaker at, many West Coast mass mobilizations in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

In October 2006, Becker was a presenter at the fourth In Defense of Humanity Conference in Rome, speaking on the subject of The Lebanon War and the “New Middle East.” In December 2005, Becker traveled to Damascus, Syria to address a conference on Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return. Becker co-authored the book, NATO in the Balkans (1998) and traveled to the former Yugoslavia on a fact-finding mission following the 1999 NATO war. In September 1998 he, along with Ramsey Clark, comprised the first U.S. delegation to investigate the U.S. bombing of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, and produced the video, Eyewitness Sudan. Becker was a long-time member of the Bay Area Anti-Apartheid Network Steering Committee in the 1980s and 1990s.

Becker has represented the U.S. anti-war movement at many national and international events. Among these were the Gensuikin annual conference commemorating the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in Japan in 1991, the Fete L'Humanite in Paris, France in 1993, the European Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal in Berlin in 2000, the Japan Peace Forum in 2002, and the Asia Wide Coalition Anti-War Conference in Tokyo in November 2003. In Aug. 1995, Becker attended and was a founding member of the International Commission of Inquiry on Economic Sanctions in London. Becker writes regularly on U.S. policy in the Middle East and other subjects for the journal Socialism and Liberation.