Oct 18 2008 - 12:00pm to Oct 18 2008 - 5:00pm

Hear eyewitness accounts of the realities of war from soldiers, their families, Iraqi refugees, and health care workers. Panelists will discuss the true costs of war, and what we can do here at home to support our veterans, work in solidarity with the Iraqi people and end the war.

Speakers include: Camilo Mejia, first soldier to resist the Iraq war; Dahr Jamail, unembedded journalist in Iraq; Chanan Suarezdiaz, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Seattle Chapter President; Sara Rich, mother of Eugene war resister Suzanne Swift; plus area veterans, Iraqi refugees and health care workers.

Topics include: Veterans' Voices from Iraq and Afghanistan, Human Costs of War and Building Resistance to War.

Sponsored by: PDX Peace Coalition, Veterans for Peace Chapter 72, Military Families Speak Out Oregon and many more.

Cost: $5-10 sliding scale, no one turned away.

For more information visit http://www.pdxpeace.org

Chapter: Seattle | Chapter 8

Phone: 5032309427

Website: http://www.IVAW.org/wintersoldier%40pdxpeace.org

Location:
Portland, OR
1011 SW 12th Street (at Main
Portland,, OR 97205