Category: Profiles in Resistance

She remains on active duty until 2009 and has been active in anti-war and anti-rape protests. Her mother Sara Rich says, The Army has turned her into a fierce warrior for peace and justice.

He later served 9 months in prison for desertion and was released in February 2005. In August 2007 he was elected Chair of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

There is no way to justify war because you’re paying with human lives.” In September 2003, he was court-martialed and sentenced to six months imprisonment and reduction in rank to private.

Watada was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1978. Watada joined the US Army after the war in Iraq had begun, stating that he was motivated “out of a desire to protect our country” after 9/11.