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Shutting down the machine - Army Strong (Cindy Sheehan video)

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This video is a mix of the Army Strong video produced by the army to entice young women and men to join the military. The other video is produced by Displaced Films which is a series of films produced for the Iraq Veterans Against the War http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier
The series of films can also be seen here http://www.vimeo.com/5448532
You can make a donation to Jeriko Films here http://jerikofilms.wordpress.com/about/
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Here is further information from, David Zeiger who requested we include the following information.

Hello Cindy and All
I am so happy that you used episodes from our series, This is Where We Take Our Stand, for your Army Strong video. It's incredibly powerful, and getting out to a lot of people. You did a great thing with it, and this is what the series is for.
I have a very important request, though. Please make it much more clear on your site and in the piece that the material is from the web series This is Where We Take Our Stand, and that the entire series can and should be seen at http://thisiswherewetakeourstand.com/ There are still two episodes that will be posted this monday and in two weeks, and then the entire series will be available as a single piece as well.
First of all, it's important that people see the whole series. But along with that, it's been a tremendous struggle to get the story made and told, and we are still in the midst of trying to get the funds to complete a television film as well. So it is crucial that both the name of the series and the people who made it be very prominent whenever it is used. It's also important to include that it is from the people who made Sir! No Sir! I'm sure you understand all of this.
We are linking Army Strong to http://thisiswherewetakeourstand.com/, and will do what we can to help get it out there.
Thanks, Cindy,
David Zeiger

Preorder FTA from Displaced Films

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FINALLY, AFTER 35-YEARS IN EXILE FTA IS BACK!
AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 24 EXCLUSIVELY ON DVD FROM DISPLACED FILMS AND NEW VIDEO/ DOCURAMA FTA

Starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Michael Alaimo, Len Chandler, Holly Near And a Cast of Thousands of antiwar soldiers. 1971–two years after Richard Nixon had promised to end the Vietnam War, American troops were still fighting and American warplanes were still bombing North Vietnam relentlessly.
A massive GI Movement to end the war was sweeping through the troops, wreaking havoc on the U.S. military. Into that mix came The FTA (F*** the Army) Show, a caustic, electrifying, sharply antiwar comedy review led by Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland. As they toured outside military bases from Guam to the Philippines, over 60,000 soldiers cheered and joined the show’s call to end the war. It was an explosive, historical moment never seen before or since.
FTA, Francine Parker’s powerful documentary of the tour, opened in U.S. theaters in 1972, as the Nixon administration was still escalating the war and fighting for its political life at home. After only one week, the film mysteriously disappeared–never to be seen again. Until now.
Perfect timing.

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blogging From the Winter Soldier Hearings

Winter Soldier LiveBlog Two: Veterans Issues

by Justin Cliburn IVAW.orgi, March 14, 2008 - 10:26am

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Zollie Goodman was told when he was enlisting that the one thing the military would never take away from him was health care for he and his family. His pregnant wife, while he was at sea, started bleeding and called the doctor. She was told that, if she had $1500 for an ambulance, they would send one, but that they couldn't pay for it. She had to wait for a friend to drive her to a different hospital and eventually had a miscarriage. Shortly after, Goodman was discharged from the military. He found out that he was eligible for veterans healthcare and sought out help for PTSD. The medications he was given made him nervous, anxious, and having suicidal thoughts; he later learned that those were merely side effects of the medication the VA was giving him. He tried therapy and found Vietnam veterans who had been taking the same medication and going to the same therapy for years and hadn't changed. He saw homeless veterans on the street and realized what a terrible job the VA was doing.