AVAW Speaker Tour

Two Afghanistan Veterans, Brock McIntosh and Jacob George are traveling around the country sharing their incredible stories of transformation from soldiers to peaceful activists seeking reconciliation with Afghan people.

Brock is a student who is still in the National Guard pending his conscientious objection application. Brock had dreams to become a special forces medic until he started learning about the people and realities i...n Afghanistan, at which point he realized that the US military would never be capable of bringing peace - through force - to Afghanistan.

Jacob George served in Army Special Forces and did three tours in Afghanistan. After leaving the Army, he briefly returned to school before selling all of his possessions and embarking on a year long bike tour through the deep south with other veterans and supporters, speaking in schools, churches, and other community spaces about his transformation toward peace and reconciliation.

Jacob and Brock recently joined a delegation from the organization Voices for Creative Nonviolence and returned to Afghanistan for the first time since they had deployed their with the Army. Join us August 28, 2011 at 7 pm at the Big Idea Bookstore, 4812 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa 15224 to hear their story and learn about their trip back to Afghanistan.  For questions contact pittsburgh@ivaw.org

More Information about Voices for Creative Nonviolence: http://vcnv.org/