Thursday, February 4, 2010

Poems from Guantanamo - tonight!


MCC's Student Action Peace Network (SPAN) will sponsor the re-scheduled presentation by Prof. Marc Falkoff tonight, Thursday, February 4, at 7:00PM.

NIU Prof. Falkoff has edited poems written to Gitmo detainees into a book, and the book will be available for purchase. Falkoff will inscribe it, if you wish.

This is the program that was canceled late last year, although to me the reasons are murky. Initial reasons were that the program conflicted with a funeral service for a member of the military who had died in Afghanistan or Iraq. (I wanted to be accurate here and went the Northwest Herald website for reference. Ha! If you want a story more than seven days old, now you pay $2.95 for a single article!)

Now the reason is "security" for Prof. Falkoff, who received threats from fine, upstanding residents of McHenry County - anonymously, of course.

See you tonight at 7:00PM.

1 comment:

Gus said...

I wonder if Crystal Lake resident Joe Alger will show up. Will he bring good manners with him?