Free livestream screening of War Made Easy

Event Date: 20th March 2023
Location: Internet 10:45 GMT for film

News media should function so that people can make informed decisions. Instead, all too often, U.S. corporate media are powerful forces that keep people misinformed. That was the case during the lead-up to the Iraq invasion 20 years ago.

Countless lies were told to propel that invasion, and two decades later many such lies are still being told. To end current wars and prevent new ones, we need to set the record straight.

That’s why RootsAction Education Fund is inviting you to a special livestream event - a free screening of the acclaimed documentary War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, followed by a panel that will illuminate how wars get started and how they can be prevented or stopped.

To see more information and to reserve your spot for this online event on Monday, March 20, click here.

You can join us for the free livestream screening of War Made Easy at 6:45 pm ET and/or plan to join us for the live panel presentation at 8 pm ET on March 20.

For a preview, you can now watch a five-minute video of excerpts from War Made Easy, courtesy of the Media Education Foundation, which produced the film.

Some comments about the War Made Easy film:

· Howard Zinn: “Superb”

· San Francisco Chronicle: “Searing”

· The Nation: “Chilling”

· Variety: “Damning”

· Philadelphia Inquirer: “Sobering and more than a little scary”

· San Francisco Bay Guardian: “Horror and humor commingle”

· An Inconvenient Truth editor Jay Cassidy: “A tour de force”

Please join in watching War Made Easy and the panel, which will include:

· Kathy Kelly, President of the Board of World BEYOND War and co-coordinator of Ban Killer Drones.

· Dennis Kucinich, former U.S. Congressman.

· David Swanson, campaign coordinator of RootsAction and Executive Director of World BEYOND War.

· Norman Solomon, national director of RootsAction and author of War Made Easy, the book that the documentary was based on.

· India Walton, senior strategic organizer with RootsAction Education Fund and director of Roots Action Civic Engagement in Buffalo.

· Marcy Winograd, coordinator of CodePink Congress and co-chair of the Peace in Ukraine Coalition.