IVAW News - Upcoming Events

Sunday, February 24, 3:30 PM: Paul Abernathy (Iraq Veterans Against the War ) McCaskey East High School Auditorium (1051 Lehigh Ave., Lancaster Directions
Iraq Veterans Against the War was founded in 2004. Its primary strategy is to organize and amplify dissent within the military, focusing increasingly on organizing active duty soldiers. (For more information see www.ivaw.org.)
Paul Abernathy is one of IVAW’s most dynamic speakers. A graduate of Wheeling Jesuit University with a B.A. in International Studies, Paul studied Middle East politics at the University of Aleppo, Syria in the summer of 2000. He served a one-year tour of duty with the U.S. Army in Iraq (2003-2004) as a combat engineer during the invasion and in Baghdad, Al Anbar Province and Balad. Since then he graduated from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. During the course of his graduate studies, he returned to Damascus to conduct research on the effects of the Iraq War on internal Syrian identity politics. Currently Paul is a seminarian at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and a member of IVAW.
A free-will offering for IVAW will be received.
Sponsored by the Lancaster Interchurch Peace Witness and McCaskey Amnesty International