[Peace-discuss] Cent. Illinois IVAW: "Winter Soldier" film

[Joe Miller]

Please pass this on to friends and bring them with you...one week from this coming Monday!

CENTRAL ILLINOIS IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR (IVAW) presents a showing of:

"Winter Soldier"

WHERE: Wisegarver Lounge, Illinois Disciples Foundation, corner of Wright and Springfield Streets, Champaign.

WHEN: Monday, March 10, 2008. Film to begin at 7:00pm. Please plan to arrive early.

This is a fundraising event to help support IVAW's upcoming "Winter Soldier Investigation II" in Washington, DC, March 13-16, 2008.

Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan:
http://www.ivaw.org/wintersoldier

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Winter Soldier documents the "Winter Soldier Investigation" conducted by Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in Detroit, Michigan in the winter of 1971. A call went out from VVAW to veterans all over the country saying, in effect, 'everyone is talking about the war that you know from the inside. If you want to have anything to say about it, come to Detroit and tell it like you saw it.' At the investigation, over 125 veterans representing every major combat unit to see action in Vietnam, gave eye-witness testimony to war crimes and atrocities they either participated in or witnessed. The purpose of the investigation was to bring to light the nature of American military policy in Vietnam.

http://wintersoldierfilm.com/index.htm

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/WS_entry.html

There will be a very short introduction to the film by Joseph Miller, one of the current National Coordinators of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, member of VVAW since 1969, and a member of the local VVAW Chapter in Champaign-Urbana.

Co-sponsors of this event include (in alphabetical order):

Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort (AWARE); Campus Anti-war Network (CAN); Illinois Disciples Foundation; Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Champaign-Urbana Chapter