Sacramento Coalition to End the War

Please join other local peace activists this Thursday, November 5, in meeting and hearing from two Iraq war veterans who are bicycling across the country to speak out against the war. A description of the event is in the writeup below.

The talk will be at 7pm, with a potluck at 6pm, in the big conference room at Peace Action. These guys are bicycling in from Woodland on Thursday afternoon and will be tired and hungry. Let's show them Sacramento hospitality and provide some good food in a friendly setting before they speak. If you can make it to the potluck, please bring food or beverage to share and be there by 6pm. Check out their web site. They are truly on a remarkable journey and have a compelling story. http://contagiousloveexperiment.wordpress.com/

Brought to you by Veterans for Peace, Sacramento Chapter. Please call me if you have questions. 916-698-8131
Peace,
Debra Reiger
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CONTAGIOUS LOVE EXPERIMENT

Talk by two Iraq vets biking across the country for peace.

Thursday, Nov 5, (6pm Potluck) 7pm - 909 12th Street, Sac.

When two Iraq Vets found out that love conquers fear and hate, they began to spread it by journeying across the country.

Iraq War Vets Josh Stieber and Conor Curran are biking across the country on a personal mission to spread love and compassion. Come and hear them this Thursday at Peace Action. And check their web site to find out more about their remarkable journey!

http://contagiousloveexperiment.wordpress.com/

Josh - "I had grown up hearing ideas like "love your enemies", "return evil with good", and "judge not lest you be judged". But I treated these sayings that the central figure of my religion taught as if they were just nice sounding lines, but not practical. But slowly, my excuses started to fade away. I learned that the military trains people to hate and dehumanize entire people groups, not showing sadness for the difficult task of "removing evil".

Conor - "I saw and heard many things in the war which disgust me now, but I dismissed them as a simple and necessary part of the military machine which treated a good, motivated Marine like me well, so I shrugged them off. I had involved myself in a life of callousness, war and anger. After this realization I decided to stop looking at people thinking of the negative things theyre possible of, and to simply see them as fellow beings. When I did that, I began to feel the anger in my life slip away."