Eyes Wide Open: New York is coming to the Brooklyn College Quad on Thursday, September 25, 2008, from 12:15 to 2:15 p.m.
      Eyes Wide Open: New York is an exhibit that displays the impact of the Iraq War on New York State. It exhibit features 183 pairs of combat boots memorializing the U.S. soldiers from New York State who have fallen in the Iraq War. The number of boots in the exhibit increases with each reported death. Each pair is tagged with the name and age of the deceased. A display of street shoes represents the thousands of Iraqi civilian causalities.
       The Brooklyn College Anti-War (BCAW) Coalition is sponsoring the exhibit. It will be on display from 12:15–2:15 p.m., Thursday, September 25, 2008, on the Quadrangle at Brooklyn College. A rain date has not been scheduled.
       BCAW is also sponsoring a discussion of GI resistance to the war, which will be held at the Brooklyn College Student Center that evening from 5 to 7 p.m. IVAW member Matthis Chiroux, a Brooklyn College student will speak. Mr. Chiroux has publicly refused a stop loss order to deploy to Iraq. Recently he received a letter from the military, which stated that he would not be prosecuted for his act of resistance.
       For more information about the Brooklyn College Anti-War Coalition may be found at www.bcantiwar.org. More information about the exhibit may be found at http://www.afsc.org/eyes/ or from the AFSC New York Metropolitan Region office in New York at 212-598-0950.