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On August 1 there will be a peace and media conference at Portland State. Barbara Wien will keynote and will be available to media beforehand. Wien is former Director of Peace Brigades International (unarmed bodyguards for human rights and democracy rights workers in hot conflict zones for the past 30 years). She is also a former officer of the United States Institute of Peace and the only one to resign in protest during the ramp-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. She is an astonishing person.

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