Released in 2005, Why We Fight, is an award-winning film that provides an
inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine.
He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar
complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and
the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency,
Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning
"military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the
state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of
political, corporate, and Defense Department interests.
This is the fifth event in the Port Huron Project, a series of reenactments of Vietnam-era protest speeches organized by artist Mark Tribe . This event is presented by Creative Time with the Oakland Museum of California. Generous support provided by Creative Capital and the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles.