NEW YORK - May 31 - The War Resisters League, the 80-year-old peace organization, is proud to announce that its 2004 Peace Award will be given to Fernando Suarez del Solar.

Fernando Suarez del Solar paid the highest price for "regime change" in Iraq. His son, Jesus Alberto Suarez del Solar Navarro, was a Marine killed at the beginning of the war last year. He was killed not by the Republican guard or Saddam loyalists, but by a U.S. cluster bomb.

Mr. Suarez del Solar mourns the death of his son in an immoral war and is working with Military Families Speak Out, a network of families opposed to the war in Iraq. In December 2003 Mr. Suarez de Solar took his grief to Iraq. With other military families, he went to see where his son died and to try and understand why.

WRL bestows the Peace Award annually on activists who have generously contributed their time, hard work and creative energies to the movement for peace and justice. WRL honors people who may not be well known in the media as movement leaders, but who are carrying out important work behind the scenes or at the grassroots community level.

Please join us to honor Fernando Suarez del Solar

WRL Annual Dinner and Peace Award

Friday, June 11, 2004 at 6:30 p.m.

Cyril and Methodius Hall

502 W. 41st Street (at 10th Avenue) New York, NY

Tickets (sliding scale): $25 and $45 (No one turned away) To reserve you seat, please call 212-228-0450.

Ellen Barfield, member of War Resister League's Board and the National Vice President of Veterans for Peace, will present the Peace Award to Fernando.

Entertainment will be provided by Harmonic Insurgence, an acappella vocal ensemble singing music for unsettled times, and Chris Brown and Kate Fenner. Chris and Kate's acclaimed protest anthem, Resist War, can be heard and downloaded for free at www.resistwar.com.

The evening will be co-hosted by two gifted and committed activists -- Ellen Davidson, who works with WRL, Indymedia, Peoples' Voice Café and the People's Music Network, and Ibrahim Abdul Mu'id Ramey, the disarmament coordinator for Fellowship of Reconciliation and an activist with the Muslim Peace Fellowship.

Food by Paci-Feasts Catering

The War Resisters League affirms that all war is a crime against humanity. We therefore are determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive nonviolently for the removal of all causes of war. www.warresisters.org

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