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The Fight Back - Operation Recovery

published by Aaron Hughes on 10/06/10 1:59pm
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LISTEN TO JASON HURD and AARON HUGHES HERE:

“Right now, 20 percent of our fighting force are being deployed on at least one psychotropic medication. These are common medications that are used for things like PTSD and TBI [Traumatic Brain Injury]. I myself am a 100 percent disabled veteran with PTSD. The same medications that I’m currently on, things like Trazedone and things like Prozac, our soldiers are getting sent to Iraq and Afghanistan on these very same drugs, and I’m disabled. So, what does that say…?”  

Jason Hurd served as a medic in Iraq and now is with Iraq Veterans Against the War. Thursday, IVAW launches its new campaign, Operation Recovery: Stop the Deployment of Traumatized Troops.   Aaron Hughes was a truck driver in Iraq for the U.S. military. Speaking at the One Nation rally on Saturday, October 2nd, Hughes said, “Our mission as an organization is to stop the deployment of all troops, but we find this practice… particularly egregious.”   October 7th marks the 9-year anniversary of the Afghanistan war and the launch of Operation Recovery. To commemorate the occasion, beginning at 9:15 AM at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (across from 7123 Georgia Ave, NW), “veterans will hold a ceremony for all those wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to be followed by a six-mile march to Capitol Hill. (1:30pm at the Russell Senate Office Building, Constitution Ave, NE, and Delaware Ave, NE) Veterans will testify about their experiences with redeployment and announce the launch of Operation Recovery.”   For more information contact Maggine Martin, IVAW Media Coordinator: 912-596-8484,maggiemartin1@gmail.com

Restrepo Director Dies in Libya

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There's No Quick Fix for Veterans

Huffington Post, There's No Quick Fixes for Veterans  April 13, 2011. By Maggie Martin "It has been nearly five years since I left the Army and still my time in the service is fresh in my mind. I think about my...

"Kill Team" in Afghanistan

March 27, 2011 / By Mark Boal Rolling Stone reports, "How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses – and how their officers failed to stop them." http://www.rollingstone....
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Iraqis Take to the Streets, Call for Real Democracy

Repost from Truthout Friday 25 March 2011 by: David Bacon, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis The war in Iraq is supposedly over. The US administration says the occupation, which began on March 20 eight years ago, is ending...

Malalai Joya National Tour

(Reposted from Afghan Women's Mission) Malalai Joya, the acclaimed Afghan activist and author of A Woman Among Warlords with Derrick O’Keefe, will tour the United States this Spring to call attention to the on-going...

Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements

In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on...

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