Right to Heal Tour 2012 - Fighting for service members and veterans right to heal.
The Right to Heal Tour has already jumped of to a great start in Bellingham, WA, Portland, OR, and Atlanta, GA. Please come out to partisipate in our tour as we pass through your area. You can follow the tour at www.righttoheal.org
The right to heal tour will take Iraq Veterans Against the War’s Operation Recovery Campaign message that service members and veterans have a right to heal around the country. At each stop veterans will share their experiences in the military and lead a teach-in on the military's mental health crises and related suicide epidemic.
Large portions of our military members and veterans are suffering from Military Sexual Trauma (MST), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and/or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) yet their right to heal is violated on a mass scale. While traumatized service members have been forced to deploy against the best interest of their health and well being throughout the Global War on Terror now with the return of troops from Iraq the military is trying to skirt it’s responsibilities to care for service members. Military leaders and service providers are giving inadequate care, pushing improper diagnoses, and forcing thousands of service members to leave the military with no care or benefits by pursuing punitive discharges for troops who really need medical and mental health care.
Fort Hood. Texas, the Army’s largest base has been hit especially hard with trauma. Regular and repeated deployments over the past 10 years have left soldiers there particularly vulnerable to traumatic injuries leading Fort Hood to have the highest suicide rate.
Veteran Organizers who have worked with active duty troops at Fort Hood as well as former Fort Hood soldiers will embark on the Right to Heal Tour, sharing the stories of the work happening at Fort Hood and our upcoming Summer Outreach Drive. Operation Recovery organizers will be out at Fort Hood all summer long meeting active duty troops, collecting testimonies, and building power to take on Fort Hood’s General Campbell and stop the violation of service members right to heal.
Public support is essential; through supporters bombarding General Campbell with thousands of emails and postcards we were able to win a “virtual town hall meeting” in January. Now we need to take this further to insure General Campbell not only hears what his soldiers need but also does something about it. Stand with us for soldiers’ right to heal.
All are encouraged to attend and ask questions.
Tour Dates
Bellingham, WA 4/21
Portland, OR 4/23/24
Atlanta, GA 4/25
- Time - Thursday April 26th 7PM
- Location - RM 207 SF War Memorial Veterans' Building, 401 Van Ness Ave. SF, CA
- Time - Friday April 27th 730PM
- Location - Contact Siri Margerin <sirism@mac.com>
- Time - Saturday April 28 4-7PM
- Location - 3917 Linden Ave., Long Beach, CA 90807
- Time - Sunday, April 29th 11-3PM
- Location - Santa Monica Pier (Arlington West), CA
- Time - Tuesday, May 1 6PM
- Location - Wheelock Student Center Rotunda University of Pug Sound N 15th St, Tacoma, WA 98406
- Time - Wednesday, May 2 6PM
- Location - The Evergreen State College, Lecture Hall 3, 2700 Evergreen Parkway Northwest, Olympia, WA 98505
- Time - Thursday, May 3 6PM
- Location - Keystone Congregational Church, 5019 Keystone Place North, Seattle, WA 98103
- Time - Friday May 4th 7PM
- Location - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Union Rm. 240, 2200 E Kenwood BLVD, Milwaukee, WI
- Time - Thursday, May 10 5PM
- Location - Firestorm Cafe, 48 Commerce St., Asheville, NC
Chesterton, IN 5/11
- Time - TBA
- Location - TBA
- Time - Saturday, May 12th 6-730PM
- Location - Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative at 426 West Gilman St. Madison, WI
- Time - Monday, May 14th 7PM
- Location - Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Avenue, Columbus, Ohio
- Time - Monday May 14th 7-830PM
- Location - Jane Addams Hull-House Museum 800 S. Halsted, Chicago IL
Chicago, IL 5/19 (NATO Counter-Summit for Peace and Economic Justice?)
- Time - TBA
- Location - TBA
Lawrence, KS TBA
- Time - TBA
- Location - TBA
- Time - Friday, May 25th 5:25PM
- Location - inCOMMON Community Development gallery, 1258 South 13th Street, Omaha, NE