Iraq: Daughter was shot in back of head, mother says

SCOTT FONTAINE; The News Tribune |
• Published November 25, 2009

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The parents of a Fort Lewis soldier killed in Iraq earlier this month say someone shot their daughter on an American military base near Kirkush.

Staff Sgt. Amy Tirador of Colonie, N.Y., died Nov. 4 in what the military called a noncombat incident. Her mother told The News Tribune on Tuesday that her 29-year-old daughter was shot execution-style, in the back of the head.

The military is investigating, a process that could take two or three months. Until then, officials are releasing few details.  read more »

SUPPORT GI RESISTERS TRAVIS BISHOP AND LEO CHURCH
Restore Constitutional Rights at the Fort Lewis Brig

RALLY OUTSIDE OF FORT LEWIS GATES
SUNDAY, December 6, 2009
1:30 – 3:30 pm

“Freedom Bridge” at Berkeley Ave. exit 122 off I-5
Gather at nearby Coffee Strong, 15109 Union Ave. SW  read more »

Coffee Strong is located at:
15109 Union Ave. SW, Suite B
Lakewood, WA 98498

Call Us At:
253-581-1565

Washington State Religious Campaign Against Torture, UW Tacoma's Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Concentration and United for Peace of Pierce County present:

Ray McGovern on Does Torture Work? Presentation is at UW-Tacoma, Carwein Auditorium, 1900 Commerce St., Tacoma. The event is FREE, public welcome. Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years. He is active in Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) and has been an outspoken critic of the flawed intelligence used to justify the Iraq War and the use of torture.

Co-sponsors include: ACLU-Washington, American Friends Committee -Pacific NW, Amnesty International Puget Sound; Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War (SNOW); Washington Associatioon of Churches; and Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation.  read more »

Do you have a digital camera that seems to follow your every move? GIVoice is looking for photos of everything GI related. This may include activities in your community that supports Active Duty Troops or Veterans, or it may be snapshots of Coffee Strong and the people who make this coffee house something truly amazing. If you have digital photos that you would like to submit for GIVoice to use on our website, we would gratefully accept them.

To submit picture files, attach them to an E-mail, and send it to: GIVoice.Photo@Gmail.com  read more »

--Lakewood, WA. Oct 18, 2009.

Coffee Strong, with Veterans For Peace Chapters 92, 134 and 109; Olympia Movement for Peace and Justice (OMPJ), Ft Lewis Chapter of IVAW, joined with attorneys James Branum, and LeGrand Jones, both of the National Lawyers Guild, for a rally on the Freedom Bridge, at I-5 Exit 122. Over 100 people attended, all sharing the purpose of supporting war resisters Sgt Bishop Travis, and Leo Church. Deep concerns were expressed about yet more soldiers being sent or redeployed to Afghanistan.  read more »

September 1, 2009 – Tillicum, WA – The first Tuesday in September, Coffee Strong, the GI coffee house across from Fort Lewis, will kick off XX Day, a weekly event where servicewomen, female veterans, and military wives and families are offered space to access resources, talk and build community in a supportive environment. Every Tuesday the espresso bar will be staffed solely by women, there will be drop-in times for Military Sexual Trauma (MST) counseling, and monthly events such as manicure nights and family-friendly film screenings.  read more »

Dahr Jamail was in Seattle on 27Sept2009, to discuss his book: "The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse To Fight In Iraq And Afghanistan". Whether or not you were able to be there, check out the new photos we've posted in our Image Gallery.

Just visit Http://www.givoice.org/image/tid/

We highly reccommend Mr. Jamail's book about the GI Resistance movement in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We thank you for your continuing support to GIVoice!

October 15 at 7 pm, join Josh to hear his stories about connecting with people and veterans across the US.

"As Iraq Veterans, we have experienced in our own lives what living a life of compromise, fear, judgment, and violence brings: hate, terror, death and pain. As we walk and bike across the country, we know our actions alone may not change the world or stop the war, but we do know our love can be contagious. We hope, that in the way we have seen fear and terror spread and infect the american nation for so long, that love can become just as contagious. We hope you will join us."

Josh and the staff at Coffee Strong invite you to hear this compelling story. You can see photos and blog entries at www.contagiousloveexperiment.wordpress.com

Bring a snack to share if you like.

DAHR JAMAIL IN OLYMPIA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1

Award-winning independent journalist
reporting from the Middle East
http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com

“Empire and Resistance:
The Cost of Empire, and
Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight”

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1
7:00-9:00 pm, Lecture Hall 1,
Evergreen Olympia campus
(FREE and open to the public)

Also speaking :
Seth Manzel, Director of G.I. Voice --
and its Coffee Strong coffeehouse outside
the gates of Fort Lewis (at I-5 Exit 122)
http://www.GIvoice.org

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ABOUT DAHR JAMAIL

In late 2003, weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to the Middle East to report on the war himself.  read more »