In short the video was an effort to put a spotlight on the crimes and injustices currently being perpetrated by the continuation of illegal occupations in the name of democracy.

Uri Davis is a scholar and Jewish citizen of Israel, but prefers to describe himself as a Palestinian Jew. He was born in Jerusalem in 1943, when Palestine was still undivided. Dr. Davis’ research interests focus on questions of citizenship, democracy and human rights in Israel and Palestine.

EDITORS' NOTE: Amidst widespread revulsion over George Bush and everything he stands for, millions are increasingly desperate, frustrated, and angry as they realize the election of 2004 offers them no possibility to vote against the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act and other horrors of the Bush agenda. And this realization that on crucial questions confronting the people of the U.S. and the entire world John Kerry does not offer any serious challenge to Bush highlights the reality that THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE WILL NOT BE EXERCISED IN THIS ELECTION.

On October 20, Mike Ruppert spoke in Santa Cruz for the first time. His presentation at the Vets Hall was on The Truth & Lies of 9/11 and The Consequences of Peak Oil - the fact that the world is running out of hydrocarbon energy and what this might mean for human civilization.
(Duration = 1 hour, 36 minutes)

Audio: [ Listen to the Stream or Download the mp3 ]

This event was part two of the three part RELEVANT TO NOW lecture series.

see also: Oct. 6 Helen Caldicott and Oct. 27 Kevin Danaher

"The world would be much better off and a safer place for billions of people and their children without the US developing its nuclear programs, launching its horrific wars and bombing millions from Hiroshima to Nagasaki to Cambodia to Vietnam to Granada to Yugoslavia to Iraq."