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  • Saturday, May 12th 6-730PM
  • Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative at 426 West Gilman St. Madison, WI 

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.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 11:26pm

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Part 1 of 3 clips To mark the 11th anniversary of our invasion of Afghanistan this weekend, Democracy Now! featured this interview about the mental crisis facing veterans and active duty service members.  Included in the...

SUPPORT GI RESISTERS: Two war resisters facing hardship in canada and deportation

Rodney Watson and Kimberley Rivera, both who where featured in the War is Trauma portfolio, need your support. 1. Write the Canadian Immigration Minister and ask him to let Kimberley Rivera stay 2. Write solidarity letters...

Remembering Joshua Casteel this weekend

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Send letters to Ft Hood Iraq War Resister Rodney Watson in Canada!

"Mail just like in jail is highly appreciated" Please send letters to Rodney Watson a Ft Hood Iraq war vet/ resister who is seeking sanctuary in Canada. We can't forget about those that resisted the Iraq war and are still...

VSO responds to War is Trauma Portfolio

Writen by Adam Maley (VSO Member) in response to the War is Trauma Portfolio show in Omaha, Nebraska. Hippies. Hipsters. Draft dodgers. Cowards. Scallywags. These words I use to generally describe the anti-war crowd. Such...

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The Unfinished Story of Iraq's Oil Law: An Interview with Greg Muttitt

Check out this new piece on Iraq with an in-depth interview on Iraqi oil, and the little known victory of Iraqi organizing against a dangerous privatizing 'oil law' by Ali Issa posted on Jadaliyya. The Unfinished Story of...

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