Join the next GI Resistance meetup, Wed, Aug 10
Presented by the GI Resistance Working Group of Veterans For Peace & Courage to Resist, 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern. Second Wednesday monthly.
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Category: GI Resisters
Advice hotline for war resisters from Russia, Belarus, & Ukraine
Courage to Resist recently contributed 1,000 euros to the advice hotline. Here’s an update on those efforts from Connection e.V. (Germany).
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Podcast: “I wanted to lay my rifle down.” – Hart Viges
“And I just, I started crying…I can’t do it. I can’t pull the trigger. I don’t want to kill anyone,” shared Hart after serving 11 months in Iraq.
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Podcast (VN-E46): “Arrested dozens of times, two years in prison” – Jim Albertini
“We need the next generations of activists to carry forward, to complete the work that we can’t get done in our lifetime.”
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Podcast (VN-E45): “It was a leap of faith” – Francesco Da Vinci
“It was pure hell… for the fact that I took that stand. I mean, all the labels, “Draft Dodger”, “Pinko”, “Commie”, “Shirker””, recalls Fran Da Vinci.
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Podcast: “What? Yes. That term..I’m a conscientious objector!” – Rosa del Duca
“Having signed a six-year contract, I thought there was absolutely nothing I could do. I just needed to hunker down and fulfill my contract.”
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