Organizing Against the Wars in Vietnam and Iraq: What Have We Learned in Thirty Years?

Monday, February 18th, 7 PM, Student Center Auditorium

Paul Mishler, Labor Studies-IUSB

ìPaul Mishler is a historian, labor educator and activist. He was an organizer against the war in Vietnam beginning in 1968 and was a participant in the beginnings of the movement against the war in Iraq in the irst days after September 11, 2001 in New York City.

As a historian his focus has been on radical movements and struggles for social justice in the US. His book, Raising Reds (1999) looks at efforts by US radicals in the early 20th century to transmit their oppositional values and ideas to their children, and he has also written about abolitionism, the 1960s, and the labor movement.

As a labor educator, based in universities he has worked with unions, and their members to strengthen organizational militancy and to help workers overcome the ways they are educationally disenfranchised by a class-based educational system. For him, all three roles are mutually informing.î

Sponsored by: History Department, Students for Peace and Democracy, Global Media Research Center, Department of Cinema and Photography, and the College of Liberal Arts.