On May 1st, David Brownlow, Executive Director for Believers Against The War; and James DeYoung, PhD, professor of Western Bible Seminary; met to debate the Iraq War “How should Christians Stand”. To watch the debate, please click here: Google Video
Oregonian article by Steve Dunn regarding the debate here: God’s people and mindless propaganda.

Evangelicals: Against abortion, and now war
More Christians who backed Bush are rethinking their support
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 in The Oregonian
JULIE SULLIVAN
Suzanne Brownlow shivers on the Interstate 205 overpass as a cutting wind whips her sign: “Honk to End the War.” Her weekly demonstration is the latest turn in a fractious journey that has taken the […]

10 MFSO/GSFSO families plus children were present and heard at this
hearing. It’s been making the news and the front page of our paper.
Torn by war and a resolution
A nonbinding state proposal backing a troop pullout puts Oregon families in opposite corners
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
JULIE SULLIVAN
The Oregonian

SALEM — The two mothers have more in common than […]

On November 30th the Portland City Council heard testimony from many citizens including MFSO-Oregon members on an “Out of Iraq” resolution. It passed unanimously. Here’s a message from one of the organizers:
WE DID IT!
By unanimous vote, the Portland City council adopted our resolution to bring
the troops home from Iraq and fund human needs!
A “standing room […]

From the Wilamette Weekly film listings for this weekend:

Military Families Speak Out: Oregon
An absolutely heartbreaking documentary featuring the pain and grief of a handful of Oregon military families who have lost loved ones in Iraq. Much of the film is taken up with candid accounts of the needless waste of human life and the anger […]

Adele Kubein of MFSO Oregon spoke on the California Bay Area station KPFA’s program ‘Countdown 2006!’ on Monday on the topic of the November Elections.
Listen to the radio archive here on kpfa.org

in the News Register, McMinville, Oregon: original article
Published: August 24, 2006
By DAVID BATES
Jeremiah Busby and his mom, Deborah Barquinero, are both fighting the war in Iraq.
Busby, 26, does his fighting with bullets - bullets fired from a Bradley fighting vehicle, which has saved him from more than one roadside bomb attack by insurgents.
Barquinero does her […]

Coming home - Volunteers offer professional help to veterans coping with aftereffects of Iraq or Afghanistan
The Oregonian
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
DEE ANNE FINKEN
Accustomed to helping people deal with their emotions, Portland social worker Carol Levine was floundering with her own feelings less than a year into the U.S. war in Iraq.
Old enough to remember — […]

Published: December 2, 2004: Original Article
By DAVID BATES
Of the McMinnville News-Register
Early the Saturday morning after the election, Deborah Barquinero lay in the quiet of her bedroom, ruminating in her southeast McMinnville home about President George W. Bush and Iraq.
“I just woke up, and I said, ‘This is wrong. It’s wrong!’” she recalled.
Outside, the air was […]