Saturday, March 16
Film Screening and Benefit: "Authority & Expectations"
 http://www.5thavenuecinema.org/now-playing-at-5th-ave/
PSU Fifth Avenue Cinema, 510 S.W. Hall, Portland
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Film: 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., followed by q&a with veteran Wray Harris.
Admission: $3.00 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Additional donations gratefully accepted!
Benefit for Veterans Transition Corps (a local, Boots to Roots permaculture garden project for returning veterans) and Veterans for Peace, Chapter 72.
Co-sponsored by Veterans Transition Corps and Veterans for Peace, Chapter 72.
Endorsed by American Friends Service Committee - Peace Program; Military & Draft Counseling Project - War Resisters League; and Recruiter Watch PDX.
A very powerful film featuring a series of conversations with 24-year-old combat veteran Wray Harris, who speaks to the tragedy of Iraq and the wars that rage in the ones who make it back.
Trailer at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnFxrk3YASQ
Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/AuthorityExpectations
Tuesday, March 19
http://www.pjw.info/Iraq.html
Visibility Action: U.S. Out of Iraq!
S.W. Broadway and Morrison, downtown Portland
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Coordinated by Peace and Justice Works - Iraq Affinity Group.
Visibility Action cosponsored by Veterans for Peace, Chapter 72.
and
Eyewitness 10 Years Later: What Iraqis are Saying
Speaker: Cathy Breen, Voices for Creative Nonviolence
First Unitarian Church (Eliot Chapel), 1011 S.W. 12th Avenue, Portland
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Free!
Cathy Breen spent November, 2012 in Iraq, talking to Iraqis about their lives and their situation ten years after the U.S. invasion and occupation.
Coordinated by Peace and Justice Works - Iraq Affinity Grop.
Co-sponsored by Peace Action Group of First Unitarian Church and American Friends Service Committee - Peace Program.
Funded in part by the Ruth Holt Memorial Peace Journey Fund.
For more information on the above two events, please contact Peace and Justice Works at (503) 236-3065; e-mail at  iraq@pjw.info
Thanks very much for any and all support.
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