http://www.traprockpeace.org/galloway_chi_091905.html
George Galloway electrified and tickled the funny bone of 600 in Chicago, who gave standing ovations at the beginning and end of a remarkable program held at the Northwestern University Law School on September 19th.
Loretta Capeheart, Ph.D., introduced the speakers and served as moderator. Preceding Mr. Galloway were Bill Davis, Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Ahmed Shawki, Editor of International Socialist Review and a board member of the National Council of Arab Americans; and Sabah Khan, a student and member of the Campus Antiwar Network (CAN) chapter at University of Illinois at Chicago. CAN collected donations for hurricane relief that a group of students is taking to the Gulf States.
Galloway’s message was sobering, but he managed to come back to humor, keeping the crowd in stitches:
Galloway on Bush: “I don’t believe that Mr. Bush is a Christian. Christians believe in the prophets, peace be upon them. Bush believes in profits and how to get a piece of them.”
As Todd Chretien, tour organizer, put it: “But as funny as it was, the comedy was only a means to an end for Mr. Galloway. Both the Madison and Chicago speeches aimed at the serious business of convincing his American audience that our government’s policies have caused unimaginable pain in the real lives of tens of millions of Muslims and Arabs all around the world.”
Galloway on the double-standard:
“We have to face the fact that for the powerful people who rule the world, the blood of some people is more valuable than the blood of others….And though this self-evident truth may not be burned on the minds of the majority of our countrymen, believe me there is not a Muslim in the whole world that does not know the double standard that we have on this subject.”
You may download and replay:
George Galloway’s Talk
MP3 – 57:13 minutes – 19.7 mb – 48 kbps mono
George Galloway’s Questions and Answers
MP3 – 19:00 minutes – 6.6 mb – 48 kbps mono
Introductory presentations –
Bill Davis, Ahmed Shawki, Sabah Khan, Loretta Capeheart (moderator)
MP3 – 31:21 minutes – 10.8 mb – 48 kbps mono
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