war vets transforming trauma, plus something to do this saturday in pdx

here’s an encouraging news story about one iraq war vet helping other vets to transform their trauma into artwork. they take their old uniforms, turn them into paper, and then make art projects out of them to communicate about their experiences during the war, help themselves heal emotionally, and also speak out for peace. check it out.

also, the author of this news piece, dahr jamail, is a renowned journalist who has written many reports from the war in iraq, and is also visiting portland this weekend on the resisting empire speaking tour. he’ll be speaking at the first unitarian church on SW 12th & main at noon on saturday, along with staff sergeant camilo mejía, the board chair of iraq veterans against the war (IVAW). click the resisting empire link for more details and go check it out if you can, as it sounds like they’ll have some very interesting things to say. i’ll likely be there, to see what i can learn…

-h

Filed under: Links, News by stephen h @ 12:37 am on October 13, 2008
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