IVAW Twitter Updates

Posted Wed, 01/28/2009 - 12:24 by Bryan Casler
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IVAW is growing fast, and now it's easier than ever to keep up to date with us. You can do so by signing up for RochesterIVAW Updates on your mobile phone. These updates will send you a message whenever they are posted.

Rochester IVAW Invited To Table At Rancid / Rise Against Show

Posted Wed, 07/29/2009 - 22:58 by KenBraley

Rochester IVAW will be setting up a table at the show Thursday night (7/30) in Buffalo, NY. IVAW members Robynn Murray and myself will be attending. If you will be at this show, please come talk to us.

Iraq Veterans Against The War To Hold Press Conference In Washington DC

Posted Wed, 07/29/2009 - 22:40 by KenBraley

IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday July 28, 2009

CONTACT: Aaron Hughes 217-898-9083 aarhughes@ivaw.org
T.J. Buonomo 719-510-2255 tj@ivaw.org

Iraq Veterans Against the War to Call for State Department to
Safeguard Iraqi Sovereignty, Champion Labor Rights

Iraqi control of national resource development, labor practices
adhering to International Labour Organization standards are key to
long term stability

Washington, DC – On Thursday, August 6 from 8:00-8:30AM, IVAW will

Back From Iraq... With A Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted Fri, 07/10/2009 - 19:27 by KenBraley

NPR - July 10, 2009 · One out of every five U.S. soldiers reports coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan with mild traumatic brain injury, also known as TBI. Roadside bombs and Humvee wrecks are often to blame.
TBI symptoms can be hard to identify, but Army doctors are finding more cases because of baseline testing that began two years ago. Early detection is helping more soldiers heal instead of suffering in silence.

Six months ago, after a Humvee rollover in Iraq, Staff Sgt. Clifford Lee forgot that he was married and that he had kids. Now he has been cleared to return to duty.

US Army Veteran Billed $3,000 For War Wounds

Posted Thu, 03/26/2009 - 19:46 by KenBraley

(CNN) -- Erik Roberts, an Army sergeant who was wounded in Iraq, underwent his 13th surgery recently to save his right leg from amputation. Imagine his shock when he got a bill for $3,000 for his treatment.

"I just thought it was bull---- that I'm getting billed for being wounded in Iraq doing my job. I always put the mission first, and now that I was wounded in Iraq, they're sending me bills," he said.

"I put my life on the line and I was wounded in combat, and I came back and they're not going to take care of my medical bills?"

Obama Expected To Approve 4,000 More Troops For Afghanistan

Posted Thu, 03/26/2009 - 19:42 by KenBraley

From Barbara Starr
CNN Pentagon Correspondent
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama is expected to approve sending an additional 4,000 troops to Afghanistan, military officials said Thursday.

The troops, a brigade of military trainers, was requested by commanders in Afghanistan, according to the officials. An announcement is expected Friday.

The brigade would be in addition to 17,000 new troops already announced for Afghanistan.

To view the original article from CNN, click the url below:

SolidaRITy: Support the RIT workers trying to unionize!

Posted Fri, 03/20/2009 - 14:25 by Angela.Stoutenburgh
Watch out, big fish.

Join us for a panel of speakers and discussion on building solidarity with workers at RIT, and their struggle to form a union.

Thursday, March 26, 2009, 7:30pm - 9:00pm, RIT Wallace Library, Idea Factory, RIT

Moved on from the struggle

Posted Mon, 03/16/2009 - 15:05 by Angela.Stoutenburgh

MoveOn.org is accepting the false view, unfortunately held by many in the antiwar movement, that the occupation of Iraq is basically over. -Anthony Arnove

ON MARCH 2, the liberal organization MoveOn.org--known for mobilizing opposition to the Bush administration through the Internet--sent an e-mail to its membership that declared the U.S. war on Iraq effectively over:

Tragedy strikes back at home

Posted Fri, 03/06/2009 - 14:04 by Angela.Stoutenburgh
Col. Elspeth Ritchie at a Pentagon press conference

http://socialistworker.org/2009/03/04/tragedy-strikes-at-home

Phil Aliff was deployed to Iraq with the Army's 10th Mountain Division and is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). In March 2007, he helped start IVAW's first active-duty chapter and became a dedicated antiwar activist.

Here, he reports on the growing epidemic of suicides among veterans of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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