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Right to Heal Tour at Ft. Carson

July 26 Tuesday - Outreach at Ft. Carson

The Back Story

Earlier this year IVAW deployed a team to gritty sun-baked Ft. Hood to begin a year long outreach drive and lay the groundwork for a fight to win service members and veterans right to heal. Sense the teams arrival in May they have talked to hundreds of active duty soldiers, conducted house visit after house visit, and begun to collect the testimony of Service Members that deal with these issues daily. 

Why did IVAW deploy a team to the belly of the beast? Because, we know that by winning the right to heal at Ft. Hood we can win our rights across the country and in doing so cripple the militaries ability to continue the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. The military depends on the deployment of service members with traumas to continue the wars. 

Read through the blogs about Operation Recovery here: http://www.ivaw.org/operation-recovery

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In Defense of Spc. Jeff Hanks

IVAW and the Civilian-Soldier Alliance deliver Article 138 to Jeff Hanks' command at 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division headquarters. Captain Jason Ambrosino, C 1-32 CAV commander is threatening to deploy Jeff on Jan. 9...

AWOL soldier ordered to finish tour in Afghanistan

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Kentucky soldier who went AWOL after he said the military wasn't treating his mental health issues has been ordered to deploy to finish his tour in Afghanistan. Spc. Jeff Hanks, who turned...
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Operation Exposure: War is Trauma

A collaboration between the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and IVAW focuses on bringing the message of Operation Recovery to the streets in order to get the public talking about GI resistance, GI rights, and ending the...
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AWOL Soldier fighting for his Right to Heal returns on Veteran Day

Spc. Jeff Hanks has turned himself in after refusing to return to Afghanistan when the Army denied him medical care. Jeff has served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne Division and was due to receive medical...
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Chantelle Bateman talks with CNN

The Issue Thousands of troops are being sent to war despite suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and Military Sexual Trauma (MST).  Many of us within IVAW have faced or...
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Service Members have the Right to Heal

Because the military is desperate for warm bodies in the field, and the VA doesn't have the resources to serve all those in need, too often service members are conveniently denied care or access to quality mental health...

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