gi-coffeehouse-tour.png, image/png, 580x451
Anti-war U.S. Military Speaking Tour, "The G.I. Coffeehouse Tour" 7pm, Saturday, February 15, 2014 at the Culver City Peace Center, 3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230 (btw Venice & Washington Blvds.) For more information, please call the Answer Coalition (323) 394-3611 or email: answerla@answerla.org
Hear first-hand about anti-war organizing currently being conducted from INSIDE the U.S. military ITSELF! Known since the Vietnam war as "G.I. Coffeehouses", this speaking tour includes service members, veterans, and military families opposed to U.S. wars and occupations. Their services are enabling active duty U.S. military legally avoid being deployed to fight in wars of occupation in the Arab world, Africa, Asia and elsewhere.
Hear from the organizers themselves and their work involving three key U.S. military bases which house a hundred thousand U.S. military members. Speakers include: Malachi Muncy - U.S. Army and Iraq war veteran, coordinator at Under The Hood Cafe outside Fort Hood, TX Meike Capps-Schubert - manager at The Clearing Barrel outside U.S. Army Garrison, Germany Alex Bacon - Coast Guard veteran, coordinator at Coffee Strong outside Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA Gerry Condon - Vietnam war resister, Vice President of Veterans For Peace
Event sponsors: Veterans For Peace - LA; March Forward!; Iraq Veterans Against the War; National Lawyers Guild Military Law Task Force; ANSWER LA; War Resisters League; Civilian-Soldier Alliance; Our Lives, Our Rights; Center for Conscience in Action, Center on Conscience and War
|