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VOICES FROM IRAQ
AN EXPOSE OF A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
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A SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCE
by
ERIK GUSTAFSON
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE AZAR & BARBARA LUBIN
INTERVIEWS OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE BY PACIFICA
7 PM, Thursday, November 5
Auditorium of Hitchcock Hall
2070 Neil Ave
School of Engineering
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
ADMISSION IS FREE
Refreshments will be served
Erik Gustafson served in the Gulf War, but for him, that war is not over. Haunted by what he saw in Iraq last summer, his conscience is now at war with the government he once served. In the summer of 1997, he and Carol Picou became the first Gulf War veterans to travel to Iraq since Desert Storm. In early 1998, under the threatening clouds of a major U.S. air strike, Gustafson traveled around the country supporting the anti-war movement and speaking out against the UN/US policy that had sanctioned over one million Iraqi civilians to death. His travel took him from Chicago's "Friday Prayer" demonstration to the "Columbus Town Hall Meeting", and finally to Washington DC where he founded the Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC) which works to abolish the use of humanitarian blockades as an instrument of international policy.
On his third nationwide speaking tour, Gustafson returns to Columbus to share the extraordinary stories of the Iraqi families he has met and the Americans joining them in solidarity to bring an immediate end to Iraq's humanitarian crisis. With slides, music and the power of the spoken word, the Auditorium of Hitchcock Hall will be transformed into a hospital without electricity in Southern Iraq, the Ameriyah bomb shelter, a Bedouin tent in Northern Iraq, and St. John's Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Journey into the heart of Iraq's humanitarian crisis and America's "heart of darkness" in a search for humanity, courage and redemption.
Sponsored by: Voices in the Wilderness, EPIC, Muslim Student Association, Islamic Society of Greater Columbus.
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