DC Book Premiere for About Face: Military Resisters Turn Against War
LEARN ABOUT MILITARY RESISTERS AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST ENDLESS WAR!
Emma Cape, campaign organizer at the organization Courage to Resist, and IVAW members featured in the book, discusses the anthology About Face: Military Resisters Turn Against War, which explores the controversial U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and presents the voices of military personnel now speaking out against them.
Saturday September 24th 6:30-8PM
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
1525 Newton Street NW
(near Columbia Heights Metro, S2, S4, S8 buses)
How does a young person who volunteers to serve in the U.S. military become a war-resister who risks ostracism, humiliation, and prison rather than fight? Although it is not well publicized, the long tradition of refusing to fight in unjust wars continues today within the American military.
In this book, resisters speak about the brutality and appalling violence of war; the constant dehumanizing of the enemy—and of our own soldiers—that begins in Basic Training; the demands that they ignore their own consciences and simply follow orders. They describe how their ideas about the justification for the current wars changed and how they came to oppose the policies and practices of the U.S. empire, and even war itself. The stories in this book provide an intimate, honest look at the personal transformation of these young people, constituting a powerful argument against militarization and endless war.
Co-sponsored by The Washington Peace Center, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Positive Force DC
For more info, contact Mark Andersen, wearefamilydc@aol.com, 202-487-8698