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168:01 Poetic, Political, & Useful

Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal’s new project 168:01 is one of the most poetic, political, and useful artworks of the last decade. Through the project he highlights and acknowledges the destruction of the cultural history of Iraq while enacting a process to rebuild it and move forward despite.

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Drop the MIC

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In the past few years, due to the constantly expanding nature of U.S. military actions, IVAW has transitioned from focusing on the individual wars to a more strategic approach to the work. We focus on the root cause that underlines both the occupations by U.S. military abroad and the violence perpetrated in our communities by police right here at home: militarism. IVAW’s mission is to build a service member and veteran led movement that ends militarism by transforming ourselves, military culture, and American society.

To that end, IVAW invites you to join with us in a campaign to:

Drop The MIC (Military Industrial Complex)

Drop the MIC is focused on interrupting the relationships between profit, institutional violence and politicians. 

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From Our Founding to Our Future

When I returned from Iraq ten years ago, some of my most vivid memories were of pointing my rifle at men and boys while my fellow soldiers burned semi trucks of food and fuel, and of watching the raw grief of a family finding that their young son...

Why?

While (I was) deployed as a sniper in the US Army 1st Infantry Division in the Diyala River Valley in Iraq I authored a mil-blog with a group of soldiers that started to turn against the mission. The blog was called “Fight to Survive” or “FTS”.  ...

Afghanistan: The Other War of Aggression That Needs to End

First published on Common Dreams As violence in Iraq continues, and Israel escalates its brutal assault on Gaza, the human tragedy of boundless war and militarism could not be more clear. Yet, despiteoverwhelming U.S. public opinion that the so-...

Remembering Ethan Kreutzer

On Thursday, October 30th we lost a member of our community to his own hands. Ethan Kreutzer was a member of IVAW Bay Area who served in the Army from 2002 to 2004. He was a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. He left a lasting impression on...
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Veteran's Day Poem

On Veteran's Day, schools and government agencies would sound a one minute alarm on the eleven hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month. I have not heard this call for remembrance for over eleven years. Growing up I was a child of two active...

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