MEDIA ADVISORY

FROM BOULDER TO BAGHDAD: DAN WINTERS LEAVES FOR IRAQ

Dan Winters, a Boulder activist who works with the Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace and Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, leaves for Iraq on December 25th. He will join the Iraq Peace Team and other humanitarian organizations who are in Iraq to assist ordinary Iraqi citizens and to monitor the effects of economic sanctions and military  intervention in their country.
 
This will be Winters' third trip to Iraq. His first trip was in 1991, during the Gulf War; he was in Baghdad when the US bombing began. His second was in 2000, when he joined former Attorney General Ramsey Clark's mission to deliver $300,000 worth of medical supplies to Iraqi civilians.

He has no plans to leave Iraq in the event of war.

THERE WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO Learn about Winters' personal and political motivations FOR THIS TRIP on Monday December 23rd.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS CONFERENCE

DATE/TIME:

Who: Dan Winters
When: 10:00 a.m., Monday, December 23, 2002.
Where: 1520 Euclid Ave., Boulder

Who: Dan Winters
When: 2:00 p.m., Monday, December 23, 2002.
Where: 901 W. 14th Avenue, Denver

Contact:

Dan Winters (303) 444-8405  cell (720) 309-7585
dancwinters@yahoo.com

Jeff Fuller (303) 543-0542
 j.b.fuller@attbi.com