About ADDICTED To WAR Author & Publisher
A short video of ADDICTED To WAR Author Joel Andreas and Publisher Frank Dorrel.
Frank Dorrel
Frank Dorrel is the publisher and distributer of the well-known anti-war comic book titled ADDICTED To WAR: Why The U.S. Can't Kick Militarism by Joel Andreas, and distributes his 2-hour 28-minute film compilation What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy: The War Against The Third World. Additionally, Frank is the Associate Producer of the film PAYING THE PRICE FOR PEACE: The Story of S. Brian Willson.
Frank is a listener and a longtime supporter of KPFK 90.7 FM Radio, where he first learned about the true nature of US foreign policy or as he calls it, "THE BIG LIE.”
He is also a longtime listener and supporter of Democracy Now!, hosted by Amy Goodman, and a member of local and national chapters of Veterans for Peace.
He was on the board of The Office of The Americas (OOA), founded by Blase and Theresa Bonpane. The OOA has closed since Blase’s passing in 2019.
He has worked closely with Cole Miller, founder of NO MORE VICTIMS, and with many other peace and justice organizations in Los Angeles and around the country.
In the last 20 years, he has hosted many anti-war events at his home and at The Peace Center, both in Culver City. Some of the speakers he’s hosted include Joel Andreas, S. Brian Willson, Theresa and Blase Bonpane, William Blum, Father Roy Bourgeois, Kathy Kelly, Medea Benjamin, Norman Solomon, David Swanson, Dennis Kucinich, Marcy Winograd, Ron Kovic, Don White, Barbara Trent, David Kasper, Cindy Sheehan, Jane Bright, Fernando Suarez del Solar, Lila Garrett, Ed Ellis, David Hartsough, Cole Miller, Rev. James Lawson, Gerard Ungerman, Peter Dudar, Sally Marr, Mark Manning, Don Bustany, Preston Wood, Regis Tremblay, Michael Ruppert, Patricia Todd, Yumi Kikuchi and many others.
He’s also screened anti-war films, including What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy, The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm, Arlington West , The Oil Factor, Paying The Price For Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson, The Friendship Village, War Made Easy, Caught In The Crossfire: The Road To Falluja, Citizen Clark: A Life of Principle, 30 Seconds To Midnight, Paying The Price: Killing The Children of Iraq, Plan Colombia, Crisis In The Congo, The Reflecting Pool, and Women At War: The Forgotten Veterans of Desert Storm.
Frank and his wife have hosted house concerts and music by Charlie King and Karen Brandow, The Prince Myshkins, David Rovics, Dave Lippman, Ross Altman, Andy Manoff, Dennis Davis, Tupper Lienke, Julia Lienke, KB Solomon, Stephen Fiske, Yumi Kikuchi, Gen Morita, Peter Dudar and Joe Engleman.
In 2004, he helped start The Arlington West Memorial in Santa Monica, a project of the Los Angeles Chapter of Veterans For Peace. Arlington West was originally founded by the Santa Barbara chapter of Veterans for Peace, and continued at the Santa Monica Pier every Sunday between 2004-2020.
For eight years in a row, he went to the annual protest to close The School of The Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia. This amazing event took place every year the weekend before Thanksgiving. As many as 22,000 people came from all over the country to protest The School of The Americas. This amazing happening was led by Father Roy Bourgeois.
Frank Dorrel speaking at the ADDICTED To WAR Art Wall at the Santa Monica Unitarian Universalist Church on Sunday, March 19th, 2017.
Introduction by Maureen Cruise - Video by Paul Hunt
Thanks to Beverly Alison, Who Made My ADDICTED To WAR ART WALL Happen.
THE BIGGEST LIE ~ WE LIVE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES
WHAT MOST AMERICAN PEOPLE DON’T KNOW
and DON’T WANT TO KNOW
By Frank Dorrel - Publisher of ADDICTED To WAR
Joel Andreas
Joel Andreas is the author and illustrator of ADDICTED To WAR: Why the U.S. Can’t Kick Militarism. He began following his parents to demonstrations against the Vietnam War while in elementary school in Detroit. He has been a political activist ever since, working to promote racial equality and worker's rights inside the United States and to stop U.S. military intervention abroad.
After working as an automobile assembler, a printer, and a civil engineering drafter, he completed his doctoral degree in sociology at the University of California in Los Angeles, studying the aftermath of the 1949 Chinese Revolution. He now teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
ADDICTED TO WAR: Why the U.S. Can’t Kick Militarism is Joel's third illustrated exposé. He wrote and drew The Incredible Rocky, an unauthorized biography of the Rockefeller family (which sold nearly 100,000 copies) while a student at Berkeley High School in California. He also wrote another comic book, Made with Pure Rocky Mountain Scab Labor, to support a strike by Coors brewery workers.
Book Launch of The 2015 Updated Edition of ADDICTED To WAR
January 24th, 2015 - At The Peace Center in Culver City.
IMAGINE was played by Dennis Davis.
Introduction by ATW Publisher and Distributor Frank Dorrel.
Talk by Joel Andreas, Author and Illustrator of ADDICTED To WAR.
This Event Was Filmed and Put On-Line by Paul Hunt.