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End the War with IVAW: Videos

By Traprock Peace

Kelly Dougherty (20:42 minutes)

Iraq Veterans Against the War members Kelly Dougherty, Garett Reppenhagen, Camilo Mejía, Chanan Suárez Diaz and Martin Smith spoke on IVAW's strategy to end the war against Iraq at the Socialism 2007 conference in Chicago on June 16. These talks started off a 2-part, 3 hour Roundtable - Iraq: the Soldiers' Rebellion - by IVAW veterans.

All recounted their personal stories of their military experience and how they became part of the veterans' antiwar movement.

Kelly Dougherty, Executive Director of IVAW and a co-founder, gave a slide presentation on IVAW's strategy to end the war, based on IVAW's "Consent Theory of Power." This video clearly shows IVAW's theory and practice for ending this tragic war by weakening support by the military, as well as other pillars of support, such as the public, Congress and the media.

We've started with 5 videos of the main speakers, and will follow with videos of the commentators, including Carlos Arredondo (who lost his son in Iraq), Juan Torres (who lost his son in Afghanistan), war resister Agustin Aguayo (just released from 8 months military confinement), Patty McCann (IVAW), Ashley Smith (International Socialist Organization), and, from the Warrior Writers Project, Drew Cameron and Aaron Hughes, plus wrap up comments from the 5 main speakers.

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