{news} Iraq speakers New Britain and West Hartford Friday Nov. 12

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For RELEASE:    contacts: Kathy Hucks or Rich Sivel

                                           West Hartford Citizens for Peace & Justice

                         860 231 7428 or 860 558 9436

                                                 kath4cats at hotmail.com or rich.sivel at comcast.net

 

(AFSC) National Speaking Tour stops in CT on  Friday, November 12, 2004   

 "Challenging the War:  The Human Cost"

Speaker:  Rick McDowell,

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Representative in Iraq

 

"BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T SECURED THE PEACE, THE U.S. AND ITS ALLIES LOST THE WAR," MCDOWELL HAS SAID.

"THE U.S. PRESENCE IS THE REASON FOR THE INCREASING VIOLENCE. PEOPLE NEVER KNOW WHEN THEY LEAVE THEIR HOME IF THEY WILL EVER RETURN."

 

10:30 a.m.  * Mary Trotochaud, AFSC representative in Iraq, will join her husband Rick at Beillin Hall, Student Center CCSU, New Britain, 

 

CONTACT:  PROF. SADANAND NANJUDIAH, Sadanand at ccsu.edu 

(PHYSICS DEPT.)

 

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6:30 p.m. * WEBSTER HALL, West Hartford Public Library, 

20 South Main Street, WH 

  

Rick McDowell, longtime Middle East Activist returning from Iraq as humanitarian aid worker for AFSC.  Rick will share his experiences with an Iraqi society destroyed by three wars, economic sanctions, and years of a brutal regime.

 

"IRAQ IS A DEBILITATED COUNTRY WITH A SHATTERED INFRASTRUCTURE, CRUMBLING SCHOOLS AND ALMOST NONEXISTENT HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICE SYSTEM," RICK SAYS.  "THE VAST MAJORITY OF IRAQIS WANT THE SAME THINGS WE WANT: PEACE, SECURITY, JOBS, HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILDREN, THE ABILITY TO HOPE AND DREAM.  INCREASINGLY, THEY ARE LOSING HOPE."

 

This event is sponsored by American Friends Service Committee, CT Coalition for Peace & Justice, Central Connecticut State University Progressive Student Alliance, and West Hartford Citizens for Peace & Justice.
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