Eve Ensler - Bush and the War on Terror

Complete program at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=400

Author and "Vagina Monologues" playwright Eve Ensler criticizes the Bush Administration's conduct of the War on Terror.

-----

Eve Ensler talks about "Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World," a provocative look at America's obsession with security in a post-9/11 world.

"Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? Nothing is secure. And this is the good news. But only if you are not seeking security as the point of your life." - Eve Ensler

When her stage play "The Vagina Monologues" became a runaway hit and an international sensation, Eve Ensler emerged as a powerful voice and champion for women everywhere. Now the brilliant playwright gives us her first major work written exclusively for the printed page. "Insecure at Last" is a timely and urgent look at our security-obsessed world, the drastic measures taken to keep us safe, and how we can truly experience freedom by letting go of the deceptive notion of vigilant "protection." Ensler draws on personal experiences and candid interviews with burka-clad women in Afghanistan; female prisoners in upstate New York; survivors at the Superdome after Katrina; and anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan-sharing unforgettable snapshots that chronicle a post-9/11 existence in which hyped obsession for safety and security has undermined our humanity. The us-versus-them mentality, Ensler explains, has closed our minds and hardened our compassionate hearts.

Provocative, illuminating, inspiring, and boldly envisioned, "Insecure at Last" challenges us to reconsider what it means to be free, to discover that our strength is not born out of that which protects us. Ensler offers us the opportunity to reevaluate our everyday lives, expose our vulnerability, and, in doing so, experience true freedom and fulfillment. - Books Inc.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• vagina
• monologues
• terrorism
• civil
• rights
• feminism
• feminist
• bush
• iraq
• abortion
• 911
• september
• 11
• aids
• hiv
• fora
• tv
• fora.tv
• foratv

[MrTmj1991]

send money to build schools....the Taliban is shaking in their boots!!!!!!!!!!

[ycdtotv]

How can she reference an interview that someone had with *suicide* bombers? Suicide bombers, by definition, are dead. Simply put, this is a hysterical woman ranting.

[ycdtotv]

@shazam20007 She isn't owed anything by men. In fact, I don't think women in general are owed anything by men. They're already getting affirmative action, VAWA, child support, alimony, no fault divorce... what more do they want, exactly? And men are holding the short end of the stick in ALL of these matters, including having zero reproductive rights. My advice is for men to go their own way, seek their own happiness, build relationships with SANE women, and reject marriage.

[SocratesTheGadfly]

just got to wonder how much she gives toward feeding people in the world. if she thinks that this will work then why dont she convince all of her liberal clowns to give up their wealth and feed the world. i am positive that algore with his billions invested in his carbon credit will pony up the 100 billion she would need to solve world poverty and starvation. by the way those starving around the world are in SOCIALIST liberal countries

[artizer]

Wow...they should give her a monument !

[steelstrings87]

I love you, Eve Ensler. Me and my little coochie snorcher.

[AWickedMind]

Gee, I bet those people on the plane bombs in 9/11 wish they would have thought to give those terrorists a sandwich. Then this entire situation could have apparently been avoided.

[RomeAndMarty4Ever]

@cait72590 I couldnt agree more. Her solution to the war on terror is: "If you feed people, and love people, and care for people they wont kill you" If any liberal is reading this and wondering why people on the right and center think the left is a bunch of soft, unrealistic people living in some sort of fairy land this lady sums it up pretty well.

[ninegrid]

I think you mean that President Bush agreed with the liberals regarding the invasion of Iraq, the sales pitch was given by Clinton and Gore throughout the 1990's. Have a look at the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act... or search youtube for "Al Gore Iraq". Particularly entertaining, Al Gore blasting Bush Sr. in the primaries for ignoring Saddam's ties to terrorism and WMDs.

[shazam20007]

this smirking fatuous new age gal thinks she is owed by men even after being force fed privilege and advantge by the feminit system and typically implemented by their Familycourt - a latter day star chamber

are you a lunatic ! - Nah just an arrogant fatuous new age entitlement queen