Category: Profiles in Resistance

Michael began the 8 month process that would end with an Honorable Discharge. As of February, 2009, Michael joined the Courage to Resist organizing collective.

US Army Infantry, Iraq Veteran enlisted in 2002, at the age of 17. Attended basic training at Fort Benning

When asked why he deserted and refused deployment, Weiss replied “I had no intention of boarding the flight, your honor.

“Now I see war, racism, poverty, and ecocide to be four corners to a table that needs to be tossed like a money-changers table in the Temple.

26-year-old Army specialist assigned to the 58th Combat Engineer Company based at Ft. Irwin, California joined the Army in 2004 after a zealous recruiter approached him at a civilian job fair in South San Francisco.

Rodney Watson went to Iraq with the U.S. army to serve his country, but instead was horrified by the “violence and racism a lot of American soldiers showed toward the Iraqi people we were supposed to be helping out.