October 2017 Newsletter
The Courage to Resist October 2017 newsletter is now in thousands of mailboxes around the world. If you didn’t get one in the mail, you can still read it below. If you’re having problems with the embedded PDF below, you can download the PDF directly here.
This issue includes:
- Resister, whistleblower Reality Leigh Winner
- Marine recruit needed skin grafts for chemical burns from boot camp hazing
- How to avoid the draft, by Donald Trump & friends
- How together we freed Chelsea Manning
“As an Army veteran, I’m so glad there’s an organization like Courage to Resist that really cares about people in the military and brings the whole community together in support of the heroes that follow the call of conscience and resist war…”
7 P.M., Thursday, October 5, 2017. Judge Brian K. Epps denied Reality’s bond request today. The whole government is against her. Unfortunately, she now has to wait another 5 months to go to trial. This is the government’s way of punishing her – keep her locked up for as long as possible because they’re going to have a heck of a time convincing a jury that warning the American people about the Russians trying to steal our election is a crime..
10:30 A.M., Friday, November 3, 2017.
Great news! The judge in the Beau Bergdahl desertion case has just set Beau Bergdahl free. He refused to sentence him to anymore time than the 5 years he had already spent as a prisoner of the Taliban. That renews my faith in the U.S. military. There’s still some honest, decent soldiers left in the military who don’t take orders from the draft-dodging Reichfeuhrer in the White House.