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

[Jen Tayabji]

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.