The Civilian Casualties of War

By Brave New Films

June 18, 2009

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The supplemental funding bill for the wars passed yesterday, with support from some Democrats who previously had been opposed to funding escalation. 32 House Democrats voted no, but that wasn't enough to stop the bill.

Brave New Films is back with Part 4 of Rethink Afghanistan, focusing on civilian casualties, and their point rings true now more than ever. The money in the supplemental will be spent on a war that wounds and kills civilians, as the families in the video attest. The sight of wounded children and thousands of people living in camps for internally displaced people is a sobering reminder of the importance of speaking out against the war. Brave New Films is asking for donations to RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, to help civilians wounded or displaced by the war.

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