UPDATE: 'Eyes Wide Open'

Ceremony Announced for Arvada 'Eyes Wide Open' Exhibit

ARVADA, COLORADO -- A ceremony commemorating the Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War to Colorado exhibit will take place Saturday afternoon, October 13, at 1:15 P.M.

Vietnam veteran Rich Andrews of Boulder will make brief remarks focusing on "The Upside Down U.S. Foreign Policy of War and Oppression: How to Make Enemies and Build Insecurity."

BIOGRAPHY
Richard D. Andrews
Boulder (County), Colorado

Education: BS and MS Chemical Engineering, University of Kansas

Faith Community: Boulder Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Occupation and Business Titles:
CEO and founder, ZeoponiX, Inc. (invented, holds patent rights to and produces environmentally safe high efficiency fertilizers for specialty agriculture, sports fields, horticulture, reforestation, etc.)

President and founder, Boulder Innovative Technologies, Inc. (research, product development, applied science specialists in natural zeolite, applied to agriculture and environmental engineering)

General Partner, Amrita Organic Farm (aka Andrews Family LLLP), a family partnership, Boulder County, Colorado (producing organic fruits, vegetables, hops and herbs for local markets using sustainable farming practices; providing community meeting place for peace and justice, demonstration of innovative farming practices, and small scale economic relocalization programs)

Military:
U.S. Navy, officer, Vietnam era, 2.5 years (1969-1971); served in War room, managing top secret tracking of troops, weapons, and logistic info for generals and admirals of multiple service branches.

Peacemaking and Social Justice Community Activity:
Member of Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, International Collective (to take action to end wars and build community for peace, civil liberties, democracy and economic justice) www.rmpjc.org

Peace and Social Justice Committee, Boulder Friends Meeting (Quakers), outreach locally and internationally to build peaceful social systems with projects in Latin America, Africa, Asia, North America

Friends Committee on National Legislation (www.fcnl.org), at-large general committee delegate (the policy setting body of the Quaker peace lobby and educational organization in Washington, DC)

American Friends Service Committee, member, supporter and recepient of Jack Gore Peacemaker Award

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, engage in community and business development support work

Colorado Coalition for Prevention of Nuclear War, past board member, current advisor to board

Co-Founder of Colorado Communities for Justice and Peace (www.coloradopeace.org), statewide coalition of peace and justice groups (approximately 60 to 80 member organizations)

Co-Founder of Common Voice, interfaith social justice group and chapter of the national Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP)

Veterans for Peace, Boulder Chapter member

Local organizer of lobbying activities, peace rallies, marches, letter writing-petitioning campaigns, and other peacebuilding actions.

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in cooperation with the local Colorado Citizens for Peace will honor fallen U.S. military personnel and Iraqi civilians with its traveling exhibition: Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War to Colorado, which will be on display at Arvada's McIlvoy Park on Saturday, October 13, 2007.

Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War to Colorado focuses on the specific cost of the war to the state of Colorado. The exhibit includes 52 pairs of boots representing fallen servicemen and women from Colorado, and a visual representation of the Iraqi civilian casualties. The exhibit is part of AFCS's national Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War network.

CEREMONY: Saturday, October 13, 2007; 1:15 P.M.; Rich Andrews, Vietnam Veteran, Guest Speaker

WHO: American Friends Service Committee, Colorado Citizens for Peace and Arvada United Methodist Church

WHAT: Eyes Wide Open - AFSC's widely acclaimed war casualties exhibition illustrating the human cost of the Iraq war

WHERE: McIvoy Park; 5750 Upham Street, Olde Town, Arvada, CO 80002
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WHEN: Saturday, October 13, 2007; 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

CONTACT: Cindy Lowry -- Telephone: 303-463-7728

Comments

[Mark Oeser]

Dave,

I can not locate the Website address for CCFP anywhere in the site, do it you think that it would be to our advantage to have it displayed in a very visible place, or in several loations ?

Mark