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Benefit dinner for Agustin Aguayo, Iraq vet and imprisoned war resister

Date:
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Time:
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Event Type:
Fundraiser
Organizer/Author:
Jeff Paterson
Email:
Address:
484 Lake Park Ave #41, Oakland CA 94610
Location Details:
San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building, 2nd Floor. 401 Van Ness Ave across from SF City Hall.

SUPPORT ARMY SPC. AGUSTIN AGUAYO
Iraq War Veteran – Conscientious Objector
Imprisoned awaiting court martial for refusing to return to Iraq

COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER DINNER WITH HELGA AGUAYO

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2007
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
War Memorial Veterans Building, 2nd Floor
401 Van Ness Avenue (across from City Hall), San Francisco

Please join us for a community dinner with Agustin’s wife Helga Aguayo to raise funds for the Aguayo family’s legal and travel expenses. Agustin faces a military court martial in Germany, and seven year’s in prison, on March 6 for refusing to return to Iraq. For nearly three years, he has unsuccessfully fought the Army for a conscientious objector discharge.

For more information about the Aguayo’s, including leaflets, videos, etc.: http://www.couragetoresist.org and http://www.aguayodefense.org

If you can’t make the dinner, please consider an urgently needed and much appreciated tax-deductible donation to Agustin’s defense fund. Online at http://www.couragetoresist.org/donate – or make check payable to “Courage to Resist / IHC”, note “Agustin Aguayo defense” on the memo line, and send to: Courage to Resist, 484 Lake Park Ave #41, Oakland CA 94610.

Dinner hosted by Courage to Resist and Veterans for Peace SF Bay Area Chapter 69.

Co-sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, SF Code Pink, Watada Support Committee, APIs Resist!

(If your organization can would like to contribute as a co-sponsor, please contact us!)

For more information: 510-764-2073
Added to the calendar on Tue, Feb 20, 2007 1:36PM
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