GIs take Manhattan: Operation First Casualty

May 29th, 2007 by elliott

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The adage “in war, truth is the first casualty” is generally attributed to the ancient Greek playwrite Aeschylus, and the words still ring true a few millenia later.

Over Memorial Day weekend 2007, members of Iraq Veterans Against the War revived Aeschylus’ saying with Operation First Casualty. Simulating sniper fire and mass detentions on the streets of Manhattan, these antiwar veterans brought home a small piece of the Iraq War, and the meerkats were there to film it.

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  1. Thanks Meerkat! This is a great piece! I’m sending it to our network.

    Peace,

    Jose

    Comment by Jose Vasquez — May 29, 2007 @ 5:04 pm

  2. This is an awesome peice. I think I just realized how fucking cool IVAW is.

    Comment by Demond — May 29, 2007 @ 5:13 pm

  3. Thank you.

    Comment by bonny — May 29, 2007 @ 5:28 pm

  4. [...] see footage here [...]

    Pingback by Bring it On! » Blog Archive » Operation First Casualty- New York- I love these guys! — May 29, 2007 @ 6:15 pm

  5. the video won’t play when i click on the link.

    Comment by jason — May 29, 2007 @ 7:45 pm

  6. http://digg.com/search?section=news&s=gi+manhattan

    Comment by jeff — May 29, 2007 @ 10:59 pm

  7. If you can’t get this link to work try the direct link to our post on blip.tv:

    http://blip.tv/file/246231

    If that one still doesn’t work for you, you might need to download the latest flash player:

    http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

    or quicktime:

    http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html

    Comment by Jay — May 30, 2007 @ 8:52 am

  8. [...] Iraq and Afghanistan veterans bring the war to New York. [...]

    Pingback by Operation First Casualty | Prose Before Hos — May 30, 2007 @ 9:50 pm

  9. Thanks. It rally brings the war home.
    Victoria for AAW-France

    Comment by Victoria for Americans Againsr the War-France — May 31, 2007 @ 3:34 am

  10. Thank you to all the IVAW members… I hope you ralize how many people support you. Please keep hitting the streets, protests, vigils, we need you!!!

    Comment by Kathy — May 31, 2007 @ 10:52 am

  11. This video is also available on You Tube:

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=BabrfOC0cbM

    From there you can embed the video onto your own site, if you would like.

    Comment by meerkatmedia — May 31, 2007 @ 3:09 pm

  12. [...] to imagine a more powerful use of political street theatre than this. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and [...]

    Pingback by briarpatch magazine » War vets take Manhatten: Operation First Casualty — May 31, 2007 @ 11:02 pm

  13. Dang. Truth hurts. Thanks.

    Comment by Jan / The Faux Press — June 1, 2007 @ 12:15 pm

  14. [...] in multiple guerilla theater actions with the Iraq Veterans Against The War.  One of these, Gi's Take Manhattan, took place this last Memorial Day, and involved simulated combat action on the streets of New [...]

    Pingback by New Worlds Blog » A Veteran Under The Gun. — June 1, 2007 @ 8:38 pm

  15. Excellent piece. Very effective, profound guerilla theater. You have become a Voice. Thank you.

    Comment by byronius — June 1, 2007 @ 11:08 pm

  16. Meercat,

    Now we’ve all got an extra reason to be grateful to you for showing us this.

    Guess what? It’s now been “withdrawn” from Youtube.

    Comment by This Old Brit — June 3, 2007 @ 9:14 am

  17. To This Old Brit:

    To our knowledge, none of the videos has been taken down thus far. If you know of any censorship occuring, could you give specifics? We would be very interested to see who is taking our stuff down! :)

    Thanks everyone!

    Comment by eric — June 4, 2007 @ 3:26 pm

  18. [...] the video available on the meerkat media blog and eventually uploaded to YouTube, apparently by someone not affiliated with the production of the [...]

    Pingback by FlowTV » Bringing the War Back Home: YouTube and Anti-War Street Theater — June 8, 2007 @ 12:14 am

  19. great piece meerkats !!

    Comment by MIN — July 30, 2007 @ 10:47 pm

  20. [...] to imagine a more powerful use of political street theatre than this. Share this story: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and [...]

    Pingback by Briarpatch Magazine · War vets take Manhatten: Operation First Casualty — January 18, 2008 @ 12:06 am

  21. nice work man 10x

    Comment by bob — September 6, 2008 @ 4:51 pm

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