Friday, July 9, 7 pm, 5604 Manor Road

Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) is holding its 2010 national convention July 9-11 in Austin, and supporters of IVAW will have a chance for informal discussion and socializing with the group’s members. Tickets for the event, which will include a buffet catered by Mamas of Color Rising, will be $15 at the door. In addition to an awards presentation, the evening will feature a talk by Antonia Juhasz, director of the Chevron Program at Global Exchange and author The Tyranny of Oil: the World’s Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do To Stop It. Juhasz is a member of the advisory board of IVAW.

The panels and workshops for the IVAW convention will be on Saturday, July 10, at Huston-Tillotson University, 900 Chicon St. IraqVeterans Against the War (IVAW) is a national membership organization of veterans and active duty troops who have served in the “Global War on Terror” since September 11, 2001. Founded in 2004 by nine Iraq veterans, IVAW is now made up of 65 chapters comprised of close to 2,000 members, including chapters on military bases. IVAW is building a national GI and veterans’ resistance movement to 1) end the occupations in Iraqand Afghanistan, 2) attain quality health care and other benefits for returning troops, and 3) win reparations to rebuild a sovereign Iraq and Afghanistan – ivaw.org