thedrifter
08-25-05, 08:05 PM
NEW: Jane Fonda to appear at Galloway speech Sept. 18
By Lee Sensenbrenner
August 25, 2005
In an introductory speech in Madison for antiwar British politician and author George Galloway, actress Jane Fonda is making her first public statement against the occupation of Iraq.
Fonda is scheduled to give her 20-minute introduction to Galloway, a Member of Parliament, at the Wisconsin Union Theatre Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. She is also scheduled to speak the following night in Chicago as Galloway continues his national speaking tour.
Chris Dols, the local organizer for Galloway's tour, said that these two speeches are the only that Fonda will give with Galloway, who was expelled from the Labor Party after making remarks opposing the Iraq invasion in 2003.
Dols said that Fonda, a prominent activist against the Vietnam War, decided to join Galloway to "help give him a stage and raise his profile."
"I think it cuts both ways," Dols said. "On one hand, people are interested in talking about Jane Fonda. And the whole point of the national tour is to talk about what George Galloway represents."
He added, though, that Fonda "helps give a stage to him, which is really what the point is."
Galloway is scheduled to speak for an hour after Fonda's introduction. "People want to hear Jane Fonda and what she has to say about the war. That's worth hearing, and George Galloway has a lot to say about it, too."
Her views about the occupation of Iraq for 20 minutes, then Galloway will speak for an hour.
Galloway recently got attention in the United States with his appearance at a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on May 17, when he turned the proceedings into a condemnation of the war in Iraq.
He ripped into GOP Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota at the hearing. "I have met with Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times that Donald Rumseld met him," Galloway told Coleman. "The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met to sell him guns."
CNN's Wolf Blitzer described Galloway's speech in the Senate as "a blistering attack on US senators rarely heard" in Washington.
Galloway's new book is "Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington," which will be published next month by The New Press.
Galloway's 12-day tour is scheduled to begin in Boston on Sept. 13 before moving to New York, Madison, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Tickets for the event, which is sponsored locally by The Havens Center, The Progressive and The Capital Times, are available for $20 and $10 for students through the Memorial Union Theater Box Office. Tickets go on sale Sept. 6 at 11:30 a.m. for the theatre's 1,300 seats.
Ellie
By Lee Sensenbrenner
August 25, 2005
In an introductory speech in Madison for antiwar British politician and author George Galloway, actress Jane Fonda is making her first public statement against the occupation of Iraq.
Fonda is scheduled to give her 20-minute introduction to Galloway, a Member of Parliament, at the Wisconsin Union Theatre Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. She is also scheduled to speak the following night in Chicago as Galloway continues his national speaking tour.
Chris Dols, the local organizer for Galloway's tour, said that these two speeches are the only that Fonda will give with Galloway, who was expelled from the Labor Party after making remarks opposing the Iraq invasion in 2003.
Dols said that Fonda, a prominent activist against the Vietnam War, decided to join Galloway to "help give him a stage and raise his profile."
"I think it cuts both ways," Dols said. "On one hand, people are interested in talking about Jane Fonda. And the whole point of the national tour is to talk about what George Galloway represents."
He added, though, that Fonda "helps give a stage to him, which is really what the point is."
Galloway is scheduled to speak for an hour after Fonda's introduction. "People want to hear Jane Fonda and what she has to say about the war. That's worth hearing, and George Galloway has a lot to say about it, too."
Her views about the occupation of Iraq for 20 minutes, then Galloway will speak for an hour.
Galloway recently got attention in the United States with his appearance at a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on May 17, when he turned the proceedings into a condemnation of the war in Iraq.
He ripped into GOP Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota at the hearing. "I have met with Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times that Donald Rumseld met him," Galloway told Coleman. "The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met to sell him guns."
CNN's Wolf Blitzer described Galloway's speech in the Senate as "a blistering attack on US senators rarely heard" in Washington.
Galloway's new book is "Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington," which will be published next month by The New Press.
Galloway's 12-day tour is scheduled to begin in Boston on Sept. 13 before moving to New York, Madison, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Tickets for the event, which is sponsored locally by The Havens Center, The Progressive and The Capital Times, are available for $20 and $10 for students through the Memorial Union Theater Box Office. Tickets go on sale Sept. 6 at 11:30 a.m. for the theatre's 1,300 seats.
Ellie