Nov. 10 Lecture to Apply Lessons from Vietnam to Iraq War
Contact: Doug Allen, 581-3860
ORONO — Long time peace activist, attorney and author Jerry Elmer will discuss lessons learned from the Vietnam War that might help understand today’s war in Iraq during a Maine Peace Action Committee lecture Nov. 10 from 5:30-7 p.m. in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union at UMaine..
Elmer’s talk is titled “Vietnam and Iraq: Some Lessons for Americans.”
An activist since the 1960s, Elmer refused to register for the draft, a felony crime, during the Vietnam War, and subsequently served as co-director of the Rhode Island Office of the American Friends Service Committee from 1972 to 1987. He has engaged in decades of nonviolent antiwar resistance.
After receiving his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1990, he has served as a partner in a law firm in Providence, R.I. specializing in commercial litigation.
His publications include: “Power Plants and Weapons: The Nuclear Connection”; “Limited Nuclear War”; “Physician-Assisted Suicide: Controversy at the Intersection of Law and Medicine”; “Human Genomics”; and his recent book “Felon for Peace.”
The lecture is free and open to the public.