Eyes Wide Open: The Human Cost of War Exhibit Comes to No.Cal

Eyes Wide Open: The Human Cost of War

Is a traveling memorial which exhibits over 1,500 pairs of empty combat
boots – tagged with the names of U.S. soldiers who died in the Iraq war –
together with a field of shoes and wall of names to memorialize the Iraqis
killed.

The exhibit is coming to San Francisco

March 25 (Friday), 11:00 am with all night vigil
Civic Center between Polk and Larkin

March 26 (Saturday), 10:00 am to 5 pm
Civic Center Voices and Requiem - 2 pm

March 27 (Easter Sunday), 10:00 am to dusk
Union Square between Powell and Geary

Tons of volunteers are needed to make the event successful. Help is needed
getting out cards, posters and flyers for the event and making media related
phone calls. Approximately 35 people are needed each day of the exhibit to
help set up and breakdown the memorial, greeting visitors and making sure
that none of the boots walk away.

To volunteer please call 415-565-0201 x15 or email sleeds [at] afsc.org

Please also consider donating phone cards for military families and shoes to
memorialize the Iraqi casualties.

The exhibit will also be in Fresno March 22-23 and in Sacramento March 29-31

The Eyes Wide Open Exhibit is a project of the American Friends Service
Committee and you can find out more about it and the tour schedule at
http://www.afsc.org/eyes

The following is a partial list of the San Francisco cosponsors of the
exhibit -
Agape Fdn; American Muslim Voice; Archdiocese of SF: Comm. Of Public Policy
and Social Concern; Bay Area Pax Christi; Bay Area United for Peace and
Justice; Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists; Berkeley Friends
Church; Buena Visa United Methodist Church; Buddhist Peace Fellowship; Grace
Cathedral; Los Altos Voices for Peace; Military Families Speak Out; Pacifica
Peace People; Pacifica Women in Black; SFUSD School Board; Strawberry Creek
Friends Meeting; Veterans for Peace; 9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows;
CODEPINK: Women for Peace