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Peace and Justice Works
Iraq Affinity Group

educating the public about the effects of U.S. policy on the people of Iraq,
and other areas including SW Asia, North Africa, and the "Middle East."

See our wish list (at the Portland Copwatch website)


Sign up for the Peace and Justice Works email list, which will include information about theIraq Affinity Group, by going to:
https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/pjw-list
Email list info updated 6/15


Current and Upcoming Events

Check out info on Emergency rallies in case of US bombings.

[Iraq 21 Years Later flyer]
Friday, March 22, 2024 5:00 - 6:00 PM
"Remembering the Relentless Bombing
of Iraq Since 2003

Rally and march
SW Yamhill and Broadway, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland
Friday Rally for Peace and Justice

More infoFlyer
[Guantanamo 22 Years Later flyer]
Friday, January 12, 2024
4:30-6:00 PM
"Guantanamo: 22 Years of Imprisonment without End...
for 30 People"

Rally and march
SW Yamhill and Broadway, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland

Expanded Friday Rally for Peace and Justice (note early start time)

More infoFlyerFact sheet
Afghanistan 22 Years Later flyer]
Friday, September 29, 2023 5:00 - 6:00 PM
"U.S. Bombs and Troops Still in Syria, Nine Years Later...
After 22 Years, USA Mostly Gone from Afghanistan "

Rally and march
SW Yamhill and Broadway, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland
Friday Rally for Peace and Justice

More info Flyer Fact Sheet
[Hiroshima 2023 art]
Wednesday, August 9, 2023 6:00 PM
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
90 Seconds to Midnight: No More Nuclear War

Japanese American Historical Plaza in Waterfront Park
NW Naito Parkway & Couch Street
Live event, visit Oregon PSR's website for more info
The Iraq Affinity Group is a cosponsor of this event.
Keep Oregon's Guard Home 2023

On August 3, 2023 fifteen (later joined by another two) Oregon-based groups sent a letter to Governor Tina Kotek, asking her not to deploy National Guard troops to undeclared war zones, calling attention to the then-upcoming anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Read more about the ongoing Troops Home Campaign.

[N Solomon flyer]
 

Tuesday, June 27, 2023 7:00 PM PDT
The Hidden Human Toll of Iraq and Other US Wars
an evening with Normal Solomon
live stream at youtube.com/peaceandjusticeworks
More infoFlyerWatch the video!


[ukraine statement 5/23]
 

PJW Iraq Affinity Group Statement on
the War in Ukraine
May 19, 2023 (updated from May 20, 2022)

[Iraq 20 Years Later flyer]
Friday, March 17, 2023 5:00 - 6:00 PM
"20 Years Later, the US is Still in Iraq
End the F-35 Fighter Jet Program"

Rally and march
SW Yamhill and Broadway, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland
Friday Rally for Peace and Justice

More infoFlyerFact Sheet
[Guantanamo 21 Years Later flyer]
Friday, January 13, 2023 4:30 - 6:00 PM
"30+ People, 21 Years and
Many Human Rights Violations in Guantanamo"

Rally and march
SW Yamhill and Broadway, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland
Expanded Friday Rally for Peace and Justice (note early start time)

More infoFlyer Fact Sheet
[Afghanistan 21 years later flyer]
Friday, October 7, 2022 5:00 PM
Send Aid, Not Bombs
End the US Wars in Afghanistan and Syria

SW Yamhill and Broadway, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland

More infoFlyer Fact Sheet
[Hiroshima 2022 art]
Monday, August 8, 2022 6:00 PM
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
Building Toward Nuclear Justice

Live event with livestream available, visit Oregon PSR's website for more info
The Iraq Affinity Group is a cosponsor of this event.
Download a flyer
[Ann Wright flyer]
 

Monday, June 20, 2022 7:00 PM PDT
The US and NATO's "Pivot to Asia" and Other Threats to Peace
an evening with Col. Ann Wright (ret.)
live stream at youtube.com/peaceandjusticeworks
More infoFlyerWatch the video!


[Iraq 19 years later flyer]
Friday, March 18, 2022 5:00 PM
Remembering the Devastating
US Invasion of Iraq 19 Years Later

SW Yamhill and Broadway, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland

More infoFlyer Fact Sheet
[Guantanamo 20 Years Later flyer]
Friday, January 7, 2022 4:30 - 6:00 PM
20 Years Into the "War On Terror,"
It's Way Past Time to Close Guantanamo

Rally and march
SW Yamhill and Broadway, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland
Expanded Friday Rally for Peace and Justice (note early start time)

More infoFlyer Fact Sheet
[Friday Rally 20 Years Later flyer]
Friday, November 5, 2021 5:00 - 6 PM
20 Years Protesting for Peace and Justice

Rally and march marking 20 years of the Friday Rally!
SW Yamhill and Broadway, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland

Flyer
[Afghanistan 20 Years Later flyer]
Friday, October 8, 2021 5:00 - 6 PM
20 Years Later, the Afghan War is Not Really Over

Rally and march
SW Yamhill and Broadway, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland
Friday Rally for Peace and Justice

More infoFlyer
[9/11 20 Years Later flyer]
Friday, September 10, 2021 4:30 - 6 PM
9/11: Twenty Years of War, Stoking Fear,
Erasing Rights and Misdirected Funding

Rally and march
SW Yamhill and Broadway, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland
Expanded Friday Rally for Peace and Justice

More infoFlyer
[David Swanson flyer]
 

Thursday, June 24, 2021 7:00 PM PDT
Guided Missiles, Misguided Policies, and Changing Direction
an evening with David Swanson

live stream at youtube.com/peaceandjusticeworks
More infoColor FlyerB&W Flyer Promo Video

[Mission Accomplished? flyer]
Friday, April 30, 2021 5:00 - 6:00 PM
"Mission Accomplished?"
Iraq, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda Still Issues in 2021

Rally and march
SW Yamhill and Broadway, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland
Friday Rally for Peace and Justice

More infoFlyer
[Iraq 18 Years Later flyer]
Friday, March 19, 2021 4:30 - 6:00 PM
Iraq: Still Recovering 18 Years After The US Invasion

Rally and march
SW Yamhill and Broadway, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland
Friday Rally for Peace and Justice

More infoFlyer Fact Sheet

NOTE: Info on ongoing actions has been updated to reflect
  changes under the coronavirus pandemic.
PJW meetings are being held via conference call until
stay-at-home orders have been lifted.


[Gulf War 30 years later sign] Friday, January 15, 2021 5:00 PM
30 Years Too Long: US Out of Iraq!

Rally and march
SW Yamhill and Broadway, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland
Weekly Friday Rally for Peace and Justice
Join us in marking 30 years since the beginning of the "Gulf War,"
George HW Bush's first war on Iraq that began Jan 16, 1991.
Please wear a face covering and keep a safe distance from others.
See historical information on protesting the wars in Iraq
at our 25 years later page from 2016.
[Guantanamo 19 Years Later flyer]
Friday, January 8, 2021 4:30-6:00 PM
"No More Excuses: Shut Down Guantanamo!

Rally and march
SW Yamhill and Broadway, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland
Expanded Friday Rally for Peace and Justice

More infoFlyer
Satah Mirk January 2021 flyer] Tuesday, January 12, 2021 7:00 PM (PST)
ILLUSTRATING IMPRISONMENT:
Sarah Mirk Presents "Guantanamo Voices"

Streamed live on Youtube! See the presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn97R4zeakU

More infoFlyer Facebook *

[Three rallies fall 2020 flyer]
"US Out of Syria and Afghanistan!"
Three rallies for peace September-October 2020
Fridays Sept 25 & October 2 5:00 PM
"US Hands Off Syria's Oil" / "Get US Troops Out of Afghanistan"
Weekly Rally/March for Peace and Justice
Pioneer Courthouse Square / SW Yamhill & Broadway
Tuesday, October 6 4:30-6:00 PM
"19 Years in Afghanistan: End the War!"
Expanded weekly "Stand for Peace"
East end of the Burnside Bridge @ Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
More infoFlyerFact Sheet
PJW contacts Congress about War on Yemen (January 2018-May 2018)
Read PJW's letter about the war and congressional responses
posted 6/1/18
[No Boots/ No Bombs 
flyer]
Dec 2015->: Download and post "No Boots/No Bombs" poster
This poster was created by the PJW Iraq Affinity Group to refute the calls for "boots on the ground" in Iraq and Syria, and to be clear that saying we don't want troops engaging in combat also means no drones or aircraft dropping bombs.
Download it, print it, and post it!

Take Action To Stop a New Endless War! (2/12/15)
End Authorizations for Use of Military Force!

Download a letter to send congress

Other Information

 

Download our most recent Fact sheet
Remembering the Devastating US Invasion
of Iraq 19 Years Later
(March 18, 2022)

Monday, May 2 2011
PJW STATEMENT: Bin Laden assassination
is not something to celebrate

Read about the Campaign to Keep Oregon's National Guard Home
from Iraq and Afghanistan
Oregon campaign 
logo
Launched as part of the Campaign to Bring the Troops home in May, 2008
Guard Home Campaign Considers Successes in 2009 session (6/23/09)

Info on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Action
"Iraq for Iraqis Now! U.S. Out / Five Years of War and Occupation"
Day of action on the fifth anniversary of the invasion

More info   Images of our three 20-foot banners

See an image of the Message to the Iraqi People
low resolution-97KB / high resolution-3 MB
and short quicktime video

from the Mon., March 19, 2007 action
at Terry Schrunk Plaza

T-Shirts with the
Message to the Iraqi People --just $14

Contact PJW for more information

January-May, 2007: The Oregon House and Senate each passed resolutions regarding Iraq.
Peace and Justice Works and other groups worked on a
proposed statewide resolution in Oregon
calling for the troops to come home and to fund human needs.

The resolution was based on the Portland City Council resolution
adoped unanimously on November 30, 2006.
With the announcement of a "surge" in troop deployment,
and a limited six-month session for our legislators,
now is the time for Oregon to take a stand as a whole!

Campaign to Bring Oregon's Troops Home

Sanctions lifted,
but UN gives control of Iraq to U.S.

On May 22, 2003, twelve years, nine months, and 16 days after sanctions were imposed on Iraq, the Security Council voted 14-0 to lift sanctions...
and give full authority in Iraq to the U.S and U.K.
Comments from Institute for Public Accuracy on the lifting of sanctions.

Please note below the revised information about our group, which has reassessed its mission in the aftermath of the war on Iraq and the lifting of sanctions. We have also added a contacts and references page for quick resource info.

Read our fact sheet: "US Out of Iraq! Demand Balanced Media Coverage" (April 12, 2003)
  

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Fact Sheets

Our Recent Fact Sheets:

Fact Sheet- March 18, 2022
Remembering the Devastating US Invasion
of Iraq 19 Years Later

Fact Sheet- October 8, 2021
20 Years Later, the Afghan War Isn't Really Over

Fact Sheet- March 19, 2021
Iraq: Still Recovering 18 Years After the US Invasion

Other Fact Sheets:

Fact Sheet-September 25, 2020
US Out of Syria and Afghansitan!

Fact Sheet-March 16, 2018
Iraq 15 Years Later: Forever War?

Fact Sheet-September 23, 2017
Opposing America's Ongoing Wars

Click here for: •other PJW/Iraq Affinity Group fact sheets
past Iraq Affinity Group and other PJW events

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Iraq Affinity Group

MISSION STATEMENT

The Peace and Justice Works Iraq Affinity Group is committed to educating the public about the effects of U.S. policy on the people of Iraq, and other areas including SW Asia, North Africa, and the "Middle East."**

WHO WE ARE

We are a secular grassroots group connected to the local peace and justice organization Peace and Justice Works. We are men and women, young and old, of various ethnic heritages and religious and spiritual beliefs.

We organize to improve the lives of the Iraqi people and ensure that Iraq's sovereignty is regained and respected. We will continue to oppose the expansion of the "War on Terrorism," especially as the U.S. threatens Iraq's neighbors with military action.

We believe the United States' pre-emptive war on Iraq and subsequent occupation are illegal and immoral. Following over twelve years of the most stringent economic embargo in world history which killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, we find the image of Americans as "liberators" a shocking rewrite of history.

The regime of Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictatorship, which caused fear and repression in Iraq. However, U.S. policy--both in installing and supporting Hussein and in deliberately preventing the rebuilding of the country's infrastructure for 12 years--is just as much responsible for the suffering there.

WHAT WE DO

EDUCATE

The Iraq Affinity Group organizes public visibility actions, teach-ins, forums, letter-writing and phoning efforts to raise awareness of the situation in Iraq. We encourage people to share information with their friends, families, neighbors and co- workers.

Reliable information about the U.S.' role in Iraq is difficult to find in the mainstream media. As such, the American public must get its information from elsewhere about Iraqi military and civilian casualties, the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died due to U.S./U.N. sanctions (1990-2003), and the probable ramifications of the U.S., U.K, World Bank and International Monetary Fund having complete control of Iraq's oil wealth.

The terms of UN Security Council resolution 1483 clearly identify the U.S. as an occupying power, yet call for an end to the occupation only once "an internationally recognised, representative government is established by the People of Iraq" By this Resolution, the U.N. retroactively approved of a war that it had opposed, and has given the U.S. an open-ended invitation to rule Iraq as a military satellite state.

NETWORK

Many other groups in Portland and around the country are opposed to U.S. policy in Iraq. We keep in touch with them, sharing information and creating a local and national response and activity network. See our contacts and references page for more information.

RESEARCH

We get our information from various sources including U.N. documents, small articles in the Oregonian, the internet, eyewitness reports, and various journals in the library. There are numerous websites with great up-to-date information on the situation in Iraq.

PUBLISH

We publish fact sheets a few times each year. We have written or participated in the creation of several articles in the Oregon Peaceworker and the Portland Alliance.

HISTORY

A major organizing effort of PJW since its inception in 1992, the Iraq Affinity Group's main focus has been to hold public activities regarding U.S. policy in Iraq. While our work was mostly ad hoc the first few years, the IAG has been meeting regularly since November, 1995, one or two times a month (please call for next meeting date!). We were among the 150 plus groups who helped organize massive peace rallies against the bombing of Iraq in early 2003.

From 1992 to the present, our Forums, rallies and demonstrations have brought the plight of the Iraqis to the attention of the public.

From 1993 to 2003 on January 16th, we held a public event commemorating the beginning of the first "Gulf War," making connections to other U.S. policies and reminding the community that the war continued in the form of sanctions and no-fly zone bombings.

Participants include PJW members, Portland area Iraqi-Americans, members of other area peace and social justice groups, and other interested parties. If you are interested in getting involved, please write or call:

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Contact
 



Peace and Justice Works Iraq Affinity Group
PO Box 42456
Portland, OR 97242
(503) 236- 3065
email:
iraq@pjw.info


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**Mission revised December, 2011 to more accurately reflect the group's work
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