Rochester IVAW will be setting up a table at the show Thursday night (7/30) in Buffalo, NY. IVAW members Robynn Murray and myself will be attending. If you will be at this show, please come talk to us.

NPR - July 10, 2009 · One out of every five U.S. soldiers reports coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan with mild traumatic brain injury, also known as TBI. Roadside bombs and Humvee wrecks are often to blame.
TBI symptoms can be hard to identify, but Army doctors are finding more cases because of baseline testing that began two years ago. Early detection is helping more soldiers heal instead of suffering in silence.

Six months ago, after a Humvee rollover in Iraq, Staff Sgt. Clifford Lee forgot that he was married and that he had kids. Now he has been cleared to return to duty.

From Barbara Starr
CNN Pentagon Correspondent
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama is expected to approve sending an additional 4,000 troops to Afghanistan, military officials said Thursday.

The troops, a brigade of military trainers, was requested by commanders in Afghanistan, according to the officials. An announcement is expected Friday.

The brigade would be in addition to 17,000 new troops already announced for Afghanistan.

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Join us for a panel of speakers and discussion on building solidarity with workers at RIT, and their struggle to form a union.

Thursday, March 26, 2009, 7:30pm - 9:00pm, RIT Wallace Library, Idea Factory, RIT

http://socialistworker.org/2009/03/04/tragedy-strikes-at-home

Phil Aliff was deployed to Iraq with the Army's 10th Mountain Division and is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). In March 2007, he helped start IVAW's first active-duty chapter and became a dedicated antiwar activist.

Here, he reports on the growing epidemic of suicides among veterans of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.