[Peace] Event from PRC

[carol inskeep]

 Join us for the CU premiere of "Operation: Veteran Freedom"!

Join the PRC in the Champaign-Urbana screening and premiere of...

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"Operation: Veteran Freedom"
Wednesday, August 31st
7:30-9:30pm
At the Illinois Disciples Foundation*

The film will be followed by a discussion
Free Admission!
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In March 2005 thousands of people assembled outside Ft. Bragg, North
Carolina, the largest Army installation in the world, to protest two 
years of U.S. occupation in Iraq. War supporters denounced them as 
"dirty, hippy, commie, pinkos" but the truth paints a far different 
picture. The group was primarily veterans and family members of soldiers 
who had fought and died in the war-torn regions of the Middle East. They 
belonged to organizations like Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans 
Against the War, Gold Star Families for Peace, and Military Families 
Speak Out.

A young group of veterans, reservists, and active-duty military 
personnel who had served in some of the deadliest combat zones of Iraq 
and Afghanistan led this demonstration in a morning march through the 
city streets. Soldiers stationed at Ft. Bragg left base against the 
orders of their commanding officers and joined their fellow GIs in 
expressing their resentment toward the war. The following day a newly 
formed organization named "Iraq Veterans Against the War" held its first 
national meeting. This event marked the beginning of an organized GI 
resistance against the Gulf War.

"Operation: Veteran Freedom" chronicles the events that led to this 
first national meeting and provides a rare view of the inner battles 
that faced these veterans upon their return home from the combat zone. 
For more information about this film, go to www.operationveteranfreedom.com.

The Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative is a multi-issue, 
multi-tactical activist organization. Over the past few years, the PRC 
has been focused on anti-"Chief" work around the U of I's mascot and 
symbol, "Chief Illiniwek," and struggling against the U.S.-led wars in 
Afghanistan and Iraq. The PRC is a program of the Illinois Disciples 
Foundation and is a Registered Student Organization of the U of I. For 
more information about the PRC or this event in particular, please 
contact us at (217) 352-8721, prc at prairienet.org or visit our website at 
www.prairienet.org/prc.

*The film will be shown on the 2nd Floor of the Illinois Disciples
Foundation. It is wheelchair accessible. The Illinois Disciples 
Foundation is located at the NW Corner of Springfield and Wright in 
Champaign.

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