Sept 24 at 1PM, Grand Lake Theater, Oakland
Proceeds to benefit the October 5 protests.
Join military families and military resisters along with
activists from The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime for an
afternoon screening of “Sir, No Sir!”, David Zeiger’s award-winning
film illuminating the crucial role that G.I. resisters played in stopping the
Vietnam war, at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, 3200 Grand Avenue on Sunday
September 24, starting at 1pm, to be followed by workshops and
networking to organize for mass protest on October 5. Donation of $10 to $25 at
the door, and $5 for students and seniors.
For more information, call The World Can’t Wait | Drive Out The
Bush Regime at: 415.864.5153
Co-sponsored by Not In Our Name – Bay Area
Speakers:
Jeff Paterson -was the first U.S. military serviceperson to
publicly oppose, and be imprisoned for resisting the 1991 Gulf War. Active duty
Marine artilleryman Corporal Paterson was later discharged in lieu of court
martial due to growing public support and protest. Jeff is currently a staff
organizer with the national anti-war group Not in Our Name, and a active
supporter of Courage to Resist and the Friends and Family of Lt. Ehren Watada.
Nadia McCaffrey –
member, Gold Star Families Speak Out, www.PatrickSpirit.org, Mother of Sergeant Patrick McCaffrey, 34,
father of 2 young children, an American Patriot, fallen in an ambush, shot
multiple times, near Balad, Iraq, June 22 2004. Patrick is the first
combat-death in 58 years history of the California National Guard’s 579
Engineer Battalion based in Petaluma,
CA, Patrick is Casualty number
848.
Susan Galleymore, founder MotherSpeak, counselor for GI
Rights Hotline, core member of Courage to Resist is a military mom supporting
national and international families and troops who refuse to participate in
illegal war.
In the 1960’s an anti-war movement emerged that altered the
course of history. This movement didn’t take place on college campuses, but in
barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs
and in the dingy towns that surround military bases. It penetrated elite
military colleges like West Point. And it
spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It was a movement no one
expected, least of all those in it.
Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile. And by 1971 it had, in the words of one
colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about
the GI movement against the war in Vietnam.
The Vietnam War has been the subject of hundreds of films,
both fiction and non-fiction, but this story-the story of the rebellion of
thousands of American soldiers against the war-has never been told in film.
Today, with hundreds of thousands of American GIs once again
occupying countries on the other side of the world, these history-changing
events have been erased from America’s
public memory.
Sir! No Sir! aims to change all that. The film does four
things: 1) Brings to life the history of the GI movement through the stories of
those who were part of it; 2) Reveals the explosion of defiance that the
movement gave birth to with never-before-seen archival material; 3) Explores
the profound impact that movement had on the military and the war itself; and
4) Tells the story of how and why the GI Movement has been replaced with the
myth of the spat-upon veteran.
POLITICS AND THE OAKLAND, CA HISTORIC GRAND
LAKE THEATER
MOVIE PALACE
The Grand
Lake is a prominent Bay
Area political film mecca notorious for a high visibility Marquee frequently
repudiating the Bush Regime and sometimes featuring the World Can’t Wait –
Drive Out The Bush Regime!