Operation Recovery Deployment Party & Fundraiser - Building for a fight at Ft. Hood
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- What: Operation Recovery Deployment Party & Fundraiser
- - Learn about Operation Recovery and the work happening at Ft. Hood
- - Hear great Warrior Writers Poetry
- - Let the central region members know that their is a community that has their backs
- - Send Scott, Sergio, and Aaron off on a good note
- Who: You, all your friends, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Warrior Writers
- When: Tuesday May 3rd
- - Doors open 7PM
- - Program 7:30 - 9:30PM (Don't be late)
- - Stay till they close the bar
- Where: Simone's Bar 960 W. 18th
Iraq Veterans Against the War's Operation Recovery, a campaign to stop the deployment of traumatized troops, is deploying to the gritty sun baked Ft. Hood to lay the groundwork for a fight to win service members right to heal in the largest military instillation in the United States.
Why is Operation Recovery deploying to the belly of the beast? Because, we know that by winning the right to heal at Ft. Hood we can win our rights across the country and in doing so cripple the militaries ability to continue the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Come out to this deployment party to learn more about Operation Recovery, hear Warrior Writers poetry, and let members Scott Kimball, Sergio Kochergin, and Aaron Hughes from the Central Region who are going down to Ft. Hood know that they are not going it alone.
Bit more back ground ... Laying the groundwork for Operation Recovery deployment is Ft. Hood chapter leader Kyle Wesolowski. He has been outreaching to service members learning how commonplace the struggles of un-treated trauma are and the high level of interest soldiers have in doing something about it. (Read more about these effort here.)
By May 16th Operation Recovery will have compiled an organizing team on the ground to join Kyle in outreaching to soldiers, gather information, build our case against the military's egregious practices, conduct town hall meetings with troops and their family members, and targeting those responsible for violating soldiers' right to heal.
