Town Hall Meeting with Mike Copass

The purpose of the meeting not only to awaken and inform, but to bring together citizens from our diverse community to share creative and effective measures towards ending the ongoing US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

We must act towards sharply reducing the number of wounded and traumatized soldiers (which increases daily in Iraq and elsewhere) - and to provide for the treatment, healing, and reintegration of vets into civilian life.

There is a national activist group "Code Pink" -- which is named after the emergency alert "Code" which is broadcast in the hospital when an infant or child is at risk of harm or kidnapping from the nursery. This hospital emergency code signals "all hands on deck" -- an immediate call to action to save the child.

In honor of Mother's Day, please mark this Town Hall Meeting on your calendar. I believe that this ongoing national emergency, this occupation-caused separation of sons and daughters from their family, must rouse us to similar action.

Seldom reported by the mainstream press, there have been several major surges for vets, first a surge in the number of traumatic brain injuries to soldiers serving in the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq (now estimated at nearly 300,000), second, a surge in the number of homeless veterans, and a finally, a heartbreaking surge in suicides among US military veterans, estimated at 120+ per week.