Los Angeles, CA Event: Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak about War and Terror

DATE: Sunday, May 3, 2009

LOCATION: American Friends Service Committee -LA, 634 S. Spring St., Main Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90014

RECEPTION: 2:30 pm, event begins 3:00 pm and ends 4:30 pm.
Music, entertainment, and refreshments will be provided.

MC: Eisha Mason, Host of KPFK's Morning Review and Assoc. Regional Director, AFSC's Pacific Southwest Region

SPEAKERS: US Military Moms Susan Galleymore, author and founder of MotherSpeak and.

Rossana Cambron, a member of the San Gabriel Chapter of Military Families Speak Out, whose son is an active US service member completing a tour in Iraq
Cole Miller is the Founding Director of No More Victims and co-creator and producer of an award-winning co-environmentally focused radio series, Isla Earth. He travels frequently to the Middle East, and manages the day-to-day operations of NMV.
Suhaila Nasir, co-founder of the Palestine Children's Relief Fund who lived through al Nakba, the partition of Palestine, the 1948 Palestine War and the beginning of the Palestinian refugee problem
Patty Domay, a local citizen activist who works to oppose military recruiters in her neighborhood.
MC: Eisha Mason, Host of KPFK's Morning Review, Assoc. Regional Director, AFSC-Pacific SW Region
POETRY: Vivien Sansour, a native of Palestine, poems will include: "Live From Gaza" and "A letter from an Israeli soldier to his mother."

BOOK SIGNING: With author Susan Galleymore to follow the event.

Includes art work by Iraqi children and sponsored by Iraqi Children's Art Exchange

This event is free and open to the public. For more info on event call (213) 489-1900

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Co-SPONSORS: Thanks to American Friends Service Committee - Los Angeles, and MotherSpeak. Media Sponsor: KPFK FM 90.7

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