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, Room 223 (Second 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.:
www.couragetoresist.org and 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 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! and Not in Our Name-Bay Area.
(If your organization can would like to contribute as a co-sponsor, please contact us!)
For more information: 510-764-2073
“There are a lot of turning points in my life — but [meeting Courage to Resist] was a turning point during my conscientious objection process.”
