Fredericton Peace Coalition presents 2 films this Monday

Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends

The subjects are young Americans who experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. The terrible conflict in Iraq, depicted with
ferocious honesty in the film, is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home with “personal demons, an uncomprehending public, and an indifferent government.” As these battles take shape, each soldier becomes a new kind of hero, bearing witness and giving support to other veterans, and learning to fearlessly wield the most powerful weapon of all - the truth.

Let Them Stay

“Let Them Stay” features exclusive one-on-one interviews with U.S. war resisters in Canada, documenting their life-changing experiences in Iraq and the hidden realities of U.S. military recruitment and warfare. It also documents the War Resisters Support Campaign, a pan-Canadian coalition of labour, faith and peace groups, Vietnam war resisters, and individuals who are working with these war resisters to put pressure on the current federal government to let them stay.

7:00 PM, Monday, June 16
Conserver House, 180 St. John St.

Films to be followed by discussion and letter writing to Prime Minister Harper and Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Diane Finley. The Canadian Parliament passed an historic motion on June 3, 2008, that calls on the Canadian government to make a program to allow US war resisters to apply for permanent resident status in Canada and to cease all deportation and removal proceedings against US war
resisters. The next step is to write to the Prime Minister and Minister of Citizenship and Immigration to ensure that they that the will of Parliament is implemented.

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info@frederictonpeace.org