On Monday Susan Galleymore, whose son served in Iraq and Afghanistan will be a guest on Uprising. Galleymore is author of “Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak about War and Terror”

Speaking Events:

Susan Galleymore will be speaking on Sunday at noon at the Arlington West weekly anti-war vigil on the north side of Santa Monica Pier on the beach in Santa Monica.

LOCATION: Arlington West Santa Monica – north of Santa Monica Pier, on the beach, Santa Monica, CA 90401

Book signing to follow Susan’s presentation

Sponsored by Veterans for Peace, LA Chapter

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Galleymore will also be at an event at AFSC on Sunday starting at 2:30 pm.

LOCATION: American Friends Service Committee -LA, 634 S. Spring St., Main Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90014

RECEPTION: 2:30 pm, event begins 3:00 pm and ends 4:30 pm. Music, entertainment, and refreshments will be provided.

MC: Eisha Mason, Host of KPFK’s Morning Review and Assoc. Regional Director, AFSC’s Pacific Southwest Region

SPEAKERS: US Military Moms Susan Galleymore, author and founder of MotherSpeak and.

* Rossana Cambron, a member of the San Gabriel Chapter of Military Families Speak Out, whose son is an active US service member completing a tour in Iraq
* Cole Miller is the Founding Director of No More Victims and co-creator and producer of an award-winning co-environmentally focused radio series, Isla Earth. He travels frequently to the Middle East, and manages the day-to-day operations of NMV.
* Suhaila Nasir, co-founder of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund who lived through al Nakba, the partition of Palestine, the 1948 Palestine War and the beginning of the Palestinian refugee problem
* Patty Domay, a local citizen activist who works to oppose military recruiters in her neighborhood.
* MC: Eisha Mason, Host of KPFK’s Morning Review, Assoc. Regional Director, AFSC-Pacific SW Region
* POETRY: Vivien Sansour, a native of Palestine, poems will include: “Live From Gaza” and “A letter from an Israeli soldier to his mother.”

BOOK SIGNING: With author Susan Galleymore to follow the event.