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White Flag Warriors Tour: Operation Recovery

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This tour is traveling to key areas and colleges to present to the public testimonials from local  veterans and to introduce them to Operation Recovery; The Right to Heal  Campaign. It also encourages and stimulates relationships in the local community visited in order to build a base that can be mobilized for actions surrounding the campaign.  The intent of White Flag Warriors is to raise awareness of the rising tide of military trauma that has and will be coming home and the lack of infrastructure to support it or any continued growth of cases in an already overburdened system. 

The list of participants include:

Ethan McCord, Wichita, KS 

Ethan McCord, Wichita, KS  His experience in Iraq was known the world over after footage from  WikiLeaks was released of his unit attacking civilians on the ground  in Baghdad.  Ethan can be seen rescuing a wounded child after the  Apache opened fire on the vehicle taking them to school.  Additionally, Ethan was chaptered out of the military for medical  reasons under circumstances that would prevent him or soldiers like him from  seeking additional claims based on statements they were coerced into  signing. 

Will Stewart-Starks, Lawrence, KS  Plains regional coordinator for IVAW who served in Iraq in 2004 as an  Army medic.  Operation Recovery is the first campaign to be taken on  by IVAW and is lead by individuals like Will who heads up the  campaigns outreach team.  The campaign will be announced nationwide by  central and arterial actions across the country on October 7th, the  anniversary of the Afghanistan invasion. 

Chris Hopkins, Manhattan, KS  Chris served in the Army infantry during the initial invasion of Iraq  in 2003 and is now a student at Kansas State University.  He is  helping to develop an operating Kansas chapter of IVAW based just  outside Fort Riley.  Chris is also a member of the outreach team for  Operation Recovery. 

Registration

Registration Deadline: 
 Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 2:34pm

Schedule

7:00PM - Showing of Collateral Murder Ethan's Story

7:20PM - Letter to the Iraq Reading

7:30PM - Operation Recovery

8PM- Q&A

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 12:00pm
White Flag Warriors: Operation Recovery

7:00PM - Showing of Collateral Murder Ethan's Story

7:20PM - Letter to the Iraq Reading

7:30PM - Operation Recovery

8PM- Q&A

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Operation Recovery in support of Bradley Manning

June 4th 2011, Operation Recovery team members will travel from Fort Hood, Texas to Leavenworth, Kansas and join a rally in support of Bradley Manning.  A public pressure campaign forced authorities to transfer Bradley to...
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New chapter and group pages!

Welcome to the new chapter and group page's. Because these pages are so new many do not even have their members added yet. If you know an IVAW member who should be listed on this page please email webmaster@ivaw.org or let...

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Big 12 Room, K-State Student Union, Kansas State University
709 Mid-Campus Dr.
66506 Manhattan , KS
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Date/Time

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 7:00pm

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william.stewart.starks@gmail.com

562.587.2773

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Charles Clarke

I enlisted following 9/11 and was lied to. I don't want to see other working-class people give up their youth to kill poor people in a foreign war...
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Doyle Ashcraft

I grew up in rural Louisiana during the 1960s and 70s. I joined the service in 1984 and deployed to panama in 1989. Went to Germany 1990-1993, then...
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Daniel Sjursen

From Staten Island, NYC, NY USMA Grad 2005 Cav Officer 05-15 Army Strategist 15-present Deployed as Scout PL to Iraq (06-07); Cav Troop CDR (11-12)...
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John Travise

I am a three time veteran of the war in Iraq. I was an interrogator and team leader for a HUMINT collection team. My experiences in theater helped...
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David Wulf

I served in the National Guard from '04-'12, along with a deployment from '07-'08 in Iraq. During my service, and even into now, I see that we were...
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