Veterans for Peace | PRESS RELEASE

What: PRESS CONFERENCE and Action for Rape in the Military Awareness Week

When: 10:30am, Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Where: In front of the Armed Forces Recruiting Station, Times Square, Broadway and 42nd, New York City, NY

For further information call:

• Ann Wright, event coordinator, 808-741-1141;
• Michael McPherson, Executive Director of Veterans for Peace, 314-303-8874
• Mike Ferner, National President, Veterans for Peace, 419-360-3621
• Leah Bolger, National Vice-President of Veterans for Peace, 541-207-7761
• Sandy Kelson, National Rape Awareness week coordinator, 814-382-4887

Participants:

How do we end the war in Afghanistan?

What: David Wildman of Global Board of Ministries of the United Methodist Church, recently returned from his 4th trip to Afghanistan

When: Wed. Sept. 16th, 7:15 pm

Location: St. Paul & St. Andrew United Methodist Church
263 West 86th St. (between Broadway & West End Ave - half a block from #1 subway)

Yesterday's New York Times headline: "U.S. Buildup: a Necessity?" Yet another article questioning continued troop buildup in Afghanistan! 57% of the people in this country do not support continuing this war. How can we expand that majority as we did with the Iraq war in order to convince Congress and President Obama to take action to end the war in Afghanistan?

David Swanson discussing and signing his new book "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union."

ACTIVISTS AND VETERANS,

You might want to see the play based on Helen Benedict's book "The Lonely Soldier", all in the words of women soldiers, which deals with the traumas of military sexual assault and of the war
in Iraq. See below.

THE LONELY SOLDIER MONOLOGUES: WOMAN AT WAR IN IRAQ
... HAS RETURNED!

Helen Benedict’s acclaimed play about women soldiers serving in Iraq,
written all the words of the actual soldiers, is coming back to New
York for two Sundays in September!

Dates: September 20th and 27th
Time: 5: 30 p.m.
Place: La Mama E.T.C. . 74A East 4th Street, between 2nd Avenue & The Bowery.
Box Office: (212) 475-7710
Business Hours: Monday - Sunday Noon - 5:00pm
Tickets: $12 adults, $10 students.
TICKETS ON SALE SEPTEMBER 1.
Time: at 5:30 P.m.
Details: http://www.lamama.org

ACTIVISTS AND VETERANS,

You might want to see the play based on Helen Benedict's book "The Lonely Soldier", all in the words of women soldiers, which deals with the traumas of military sexual assault and of the war
in Iraq. See below.

THE LONELY SOLDIER MONOLOGUES: WOMAN AT WAR IN IRAQ
... HAS RETURNED!

Helen Benedict’s acclaimed play about women soldiers serving in Iraq,
written all the words of the actual soldiers, is coming back to New
York for two Sundays in September!

Dates: September 20th and 27th
Time: 5: 30 p.m.
Place: La Mama E.T.C. . 74A East 4th Street, between 2nd Avenue & The Bowery.
Box Office: (212) 475-7710
Business Hours: Monday - Sunday Noon - 5:00pm
Tickets: $12 adults, $10 students.
TICKETS ON SALE SEPTEMBER 1.
Time: at 5:30 P.m.
Details: http://www.lamama.org

Mark Crispin Miller writes:

Tomorrow evening (Tuesday 6/2), I'll be hosting Bob Coen and Eric Nadler at
McNally Jackson, for this month's First Tuesday event. Bob and Eric are the
authors of Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail (which is both
a book and a film).

I'm pleased to say that they'll be kicking off their book tour with this event.

MCM

First Tuesday Series: Bob Coen and Eric Nadler

Bob Coen and Eric Nadler, authors of Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail (Counterpoint)

Hamilton Fish and Katrina vanden Heuvel

invite you to a reception in honor of

Ian Olds, Nancy Roth and Christian Parenti

and the New York premiere of

Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi

This reception will follow a screening of Fixer and panel discussion featuring George Packer, Naqib Sherzad, Ian Olds, and Christian Parenti at the Tribeca Film Festival.

To RSVP, please contact Meredith Blake at meredith@nationinstitute.org or (212) 822-0255.

To purchase tickets and for more information on the screening and panel discussion click here.