A Way to Support the Troops

Support the launching of a GI Rights Hotline in NM! If Senators won't stop the wars, maybe soldiers will!

The Mission of the New Mexico GI Rights Hotline is to provide information, referrals and support to members of the military and their families regarding discharges, grievances, and other civil rights issues. The Hotline will provide information about military life and war to individuals and families affected by military service, conscription, and recruitment.

The target date to open the hotline is February 15, 2008.

There will be two NM GI Rights Hotline fundraising events:

Saturday, January 26
Santa Fe
St. Bedes Episcopal Church-Common room
1601 S Saint Francis Dr.
(505) 982-1133
6:30-9:30 pm

and

Sunday, January 27
Albuquerque
Guild Cinema
3405 Central NE
(505) 255-1848
1:00-4:00 pm


See selected clips from the moving film Arlington West and learn through first-hand accounts why every community needs a GI Hotline. Speakers will include:Jorge Arroyo Conscientious Objector to the Iraq War; Tony Garcia, Native New Mexican Iraq Veteran; and Dahlia Wasfi, MD, Iraqi-American.

Jorge Arroyo is an Iraq War Veteran and Conscientious Objector to War. Jorge had the support of the GI Rights Hotline Network as he successfully went through the process of receiving a Conscientious Objector discharge from the military in 2007.

Tony Garcia, a 24-year Navy Veteran, was part of the First Marine Expeditionary Unit--"the tip of the spear"--in the US invasion of Iraq. Since retiring from the military in resistance to the Iraq War, Tony has suffered from PTSD, but has turned his trauma into healing, speaking about his experiences with young people around New Mexico and supporting the creation of NM GI Rights Hotline.

Dr. Dahlia Wasfi spent her childhood in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. In 2004, after years of separation, Dahlia visited Iraq to see family in Basrah and Baghdad. She went again for a 3-month visit in 2006. Dahlia speaks out against the negative impact of the US invasion on the Iraqi people and the need to end the occupation. Dahlia has been a guest on Alternative Radio and Democracy Now!

Refreshments! Door Prizes!
Suggested donation: $15
Help get the NM GI Rights Hotline up and running.

For information, call (505) 410-7657.