Sara Flounders, Co-Director, International Action Center
Sara Flounders has been active in progressive and anti-war organizing since
the 1960s. She is co-director of the International Action Center and
co-authored and/or edited 10 books the IAC published on U.S. wars and sanctions
against Iraq and Yugoslavia, on U.S. use of depleted uranium weapons, on Haiti
and Colombia, and on opposing military recruiters. She writes regularly for the
Marxist Workers World newspaper, and speaks on U.S. imperialist aggression on
alternative and corporate media outlets. She helped coordinate major
International War Crimes Tribunals to document the U.S. planned destruction of
Iraq and Yugoslavia and a Tribunal on earlier U.S. crimes in Korea.
Many dedicated activists know Flounders from her organizing of mass
meetings, major antiwar rallies, and international campaigns and via internet
and videos. She says, “My goal is to build confidence in the potential of
powerful grassroots movements as I help build a revolutionary struggle for
change within the U.S.”
Flounders organized delegations to Iraq during the years when rigorous
sanctions starved Iraq’s people following the massive destruction of the
1991 U.S. war. She participated in mass outpourings against U.S. occupation in
the Philippines and South Korea. She traveled to Sudan after a U.S. missile
barrage destroyed a pharmaceutical complex, to Yugoslavia during 78 days of
NATO bombing to expose the hospitals, schools and market places destroyed. She
has visited Syria and Iran and organized delegations to Lebanon, to expose
Israel’s destruction of entire villages with U.S. supplied weapons. She
traveled several times to Gaza where the population stands steadfast through
decades of displacement and occupation.
In the U.S. she has built solidarity with many political prisoners and
focused attention on the growing racism, mass incarceration, political
repression and austerity that is linked to the ever expanding encroachment of
militarism into all aspects of U.S. society.
Sara can be contacted at sara@pentagonachillesheel.com
