[Peace] final notice! Winter Soldier: C-U TOMORROW

[martin smith]

Greetings All: 
We
especially need help setting up the Eyes Wide Open Boot Display
Tomorrow at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana Main Quad.
Show up at 10am-11am for set-up
Show up at 4pm-5pm for break down

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please forward widely...
show your support of veterans day by attending...



Nov. 13, Winter Soldier: Champaign-Urbana  
  
  ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13:
At 12noon: We will have an Antiwar Rally at the University of Illinois's Main Quad
11-4pm: We will have the Eyes Wide Open Boot Display, sponsored by American Friends Service Committee, outside the English Bldg.




Then our program will be as follows...
Winter Soldier: Champaign-Urbana
 Thursday, Nov. 13 at Mumford Hall, Rm. 103, UIUC

6:00-6:45pm The Legacy of GI Resistance
featuring:
Joe Allen, author of Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost
 Joe Miller, UIUC lecturer, Vietnam Veterans Against the War



Richard Stacewicz, historian, author of Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War




 
7:00-8:30pm Testimony by Iraqis and Veterans of the Global War on Terror
featuring:
Camilo
Mejia, US Army, served in Iraq from April through October 2003; first
soldier to be jailed for publicly refusing to return to Iraq
 Patty McCann, Illinois Army National Guard, served in Iraq from May 2003-2004
Jacob Crawford, US Navy, Central Illinois Iraq Veterans Against the War Chapter President



Mike Mlekowski, US Marines, participated in the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003



 Duane Linton, US Army, served in Iraq for ten months from 2007 to 2008
Tanya R. Austin, US Army, former Arabic Linguist, Military Intelligence
 Jason Wallace, Illinois Air National Guard, deployed to Kuwait in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005



Raad Ismail and Raed Jarrar will share the perspective of
 Iraqis
 and more...

Sponsored by:
Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW)
Co-Sponsors:
Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Champaign-Urbana
Arab Students Association
American Friends Service Committee
 Campus Greens
Council on American-Islamic Relations
Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort (AWARE)



Campus Antiwar Network (CAN)
International Socialist Organization (ISO)
 Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)

All media requests and inquiries should contact Jacob Crawford at: 706-284-6148 




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Central Illinois Iraq Veterans Against the War:
 ivaw.champaign at gmail.com



facebook: Central Illinois
 ivaw.org
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