Sunday, August 29th 5pm, Texas State Employees Union, 1700 South 1st Street

Dr. Dahlia Wasfi was born in the United States to an American Jewish mother and an Iraqi Muslim father. She lived in Iraq as a child, returning to the U.S. at age 5. She earned her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. Dr. Wasfi has made two trips to Iraq to visit her extended family since the 2003 “Shock and Awe” invasion, including a three month stay in Basrah in the spring of 2006. She has brought her eyewitness account of life under occupation to 22 U.S. states; Capitol Hill in D.C.; Toronto and Vancouver, Canada; Madrid, Spain in 2007; and the 3rd International Iraq Conference in Berlin, Germany, in March 2008. Her talk in Austin will cover the devastating effects of the 1991 Gulf War, the economic sanctions, and the 2003 invasion and occupation. For more on Dr. Wasfi, including her writings, click here .

Dr. Wasfi will also be speaking at a press conference on Monday, August 30th, 10am at Under the Hood Café in Killeen. Other speakers will include State Representative Lon Burnam, Fort Hood soldiers and family members, and representatives of local peace and justice groups. This event has been organized as part of a national coalition effort to counter the administration’s claims of success in Iraq as the troop reduction begins this month. For complete statement and endorsers click here.

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Events sponsored by:
CodePink Austin
Texas Labor Against the War
Under the Hood Café
Veterans for Peace, Chapter 66
Iraq Veterans Against the War, Chapter 38
Texans for Peace