Current and Upcoming Events

Read about the Campaign to Keep Oregon's National Guard Home
from Iraq and Afghanistan
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)

MISSION STATEMENT

WHO WE ARE

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

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

RESEARCH

PUBLISH

HISTORY

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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