Northeast Neighbors for Peace and Justice Video/Potlucks almost every Friday, Gather about 8:00, movie starts about 8:30, bring food or drink to share if you can.
Flor y Canto Community Space & Bookstore, 3706 N. Figueroa, in Highland Park between Marmion Way and Ave. 37, 3 blocks from Gold Line Heritage Square Station
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Reading and Book signing by Dr. Gino Strada A doctor on the front lines tells the raw truth about war
In March, Dr. Gino Strada of the renowned international medical relief organization Emergency, will be visiting southern California on a speaking and book tour. "Green Parrots", Dr. Strada's powerful chronicle of a war surgeon, has just been translated into english. In this somber story of his experiences as a doctor in some of the world's bloodiest war zones, he gives us both a provocative assessment of the state of international aid, and an indictment of the manufacturers and merchants of landmines. He knows war too well, and in a straight forward account he moves through Iraqi Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Ruanda, Peru, Bosnia, Ethiopia, Somalia, Cambodia, and Gibuti, revealing the horrors and folly of war, as well as the sanity and compassion of the Emergency doctors, volunteers and local people, even in the most wretched circumstances.
The book is a singularly lucid condemnation of war and its weapons from a man of astonishing conviction, courage, and single mindedness. Dr. Strada is a powerful role model and inspiration to young people, those working in the medical profession, and the general public.
EMERGENCY
Emergency is an italian based medical relief NGO established in 1994 by Dr. Gino Strada. Emergency sets up surgical and rehabilitation centers in conflict zones where other relief organizations dare not go. In Afghanistan, where Emergency operates two hospitals and is building a third, small green land mines are so common that children refer to them as "Green Parrots". This became the title of Dr. Strada's chronicle of his work as a war surgeon, newly translated into english.
Emergency also has two hospitals in Iraq with a third under construction, one in Cambodia and one in Sierra Leone. They have brought medical aid to Kurdistan, Ruanda, Peru, Bosnia, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Gibuti. They train and employ local staff to meet highly professional standards. They offer humanitarian aid to prisoners in conflict zones and set up development projects in the countries where they operate.
They are currently working in Sri Lanka where thousands of land mines were brought to the surface by the tsunami.
Since the beginning of its work in 1994, Emergency has assisted over one million victims of war.
For more information on Emergency's work see http://www.emergencyusa.org/ or http://www.emergency.it/
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