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[AltWeeklies.com Highlights] Robin Long, War Resister or Deserter? | A Boise man's journey from ...: "Our prime minister, Stephen Harper, is not respecting the will ofthe people or the will of parliament," said Olivia Chow, who representsdowntown Toronto in Canada's parliament and visited Long in the brig."He's anti-democratic, which makes a mockery of the claim of fightingin Iraq for democracy, by him rejecting parliament's decision to notdeport war resisters."

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | Afghanistan War Resister to "Put the War on Trial":     "TDS had communicated to the prosecution for me that we were willing to accept an Article 15 and do a month of extra duty, then if he (Agosto) got a summary court-martial we'd take it - which would mean Victor would serve a maximum of 30 days in jail, and receive an Other Than Honorable discharge," Branum explained, "So TDS said they took this offer to the CG (Commanding General) who was to sign off on it, but they said he made a mistake and wrote "special" rather than "summary" on the court-martial and sent it back down."

[Unfair Park] Dallas - Unfair Park - After Fleeing From Dallas to Toronto, One ...: "What Kim and her lawyer put forward was the evidence of what has happened to other U.S. soldiers who have deserted and spoken out," Michelle Robidoux, spokesman for the War Resisters Support Campaign in Toronto, tells Unfair Park. "Soldiers who have spoken out publicly in opposition to the war have faced targeted punishment while a majority of deserters get an administrative discharge." Boise soldier Robin Long, she points out, was ordered to serve 15 months in a Naval brig near San Diego.

[SignOnSanDiego.com: Metro] Activists take up war resister's case: “When I realized the war in Iraq was a mistake, I saw refusing to fight as my only option,” Long wrote in November in an open letter to Barack Obama published on the Web site of the war-resistance support group, Courage to Resist. “My conscience was screaming at me not to participate.”

[The Two Malcontents] The Two Malcontents » Cowardly Army Deserter Robin Long Freed From ...: About 200 American war resisters have gone north of the border, an echo from Vietnam, when some 90000 won refuge there. This time, the Canadian .

[Army Times - News] AWOL 3rd ID soldier gets 1 year in prison - Army News, news from ...: During the Vietnam War, thousands of Americans took refuge in Canada, most of them to avoid the military draft. Many were given permanent residence status that led to Canadian citizenship, but the majority went home after President Jimmy Carter granted amnesty in the late 1970s.

[AlterNet.org] From U.S. War Resisters, A Letter of Solidarity to Israeli Army ...: We stand in solidarity with the Israeli Shministim (Hebrew for 12th graders) who are also resisting military service. About 100 Israeli high school students have signed an open letter declaring their refusal to serve in the Israeli army and their opposition to "Israeli occupation and oppression policy in the occupied territories and the territories of Israel."

[AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09] 1 year in prison for soldier who deserted Army ...: During the Vietnam War, thousands of Americans took refuge in Canada, most of them to avoid the military draft. Many were given permanent residence status that led to Canadian citizenship, but the majority went home after President Jimmy Carter granted amnesty in the late 1970s.

[Amped Status] Amped Status » Blog Archive » Battlefield Report: US Soldier News ...: For nearly a decade, both wars have largely been reported by the media and explained to the public by lawmakers in statistical terms: thousands of U.S. soldiers killed in combat, hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis dead, and three-quarters of a million veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.

[Dear Kitty. Some blog] Dear Kitty. Some blog :: Rage Against the Machine antiwar concert ...: They should respect Parliament, and implement the June 3rd motion in support of war resisters staying in Canada; * 82% of Canadians oppose the Iraq war; 64% of Canadians in an Angus Reid national poll want war resisters to stay in Canada; ... AS MANY U.S. CONTRACTORS AS TROOPS IN IRAQ The U.S. has about the same number of private contractors in Iraq as uniformed service members. http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/08/military_contractorstroops_iraq_081208w/ ...

[OB Rag Blog] Deserter at Miramar Brig Supported by Antiwar Activists: (Sean Masterson / For The Times) At Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, from left, Reba Campbell, Dorothy Gesick and Martha Sullivan join demonstrators to protest the detention of Robin Long, an Army private who deserted to Canada on learning he'd be sent to Iraq. He was deported from Canada and is now serving a 15-month term.

[BLOGDIAL] BLOGDIAL » Blog Archive » No Sympathy for Corey Glass: It would have been far better for him and the cause of ending the american empire gracefully if he had secreted himself into Canada unnoticed, and then began an ‘AWOL Soldiers Blog’, telling the world of his fugitive adventures in Canada, his Iraq horror stories, the horror stories of other soldiers and other juicy pieces of writing. But that would take some intelligence, something clearly missing in this case.

[Connect the World] Connect the World: Blog Archive - Right to Refuse? « - Blogs from ...: I suspect the old addage would hold true that if the politicans were fighting on the front lines there would be fewer wars or that the wars would be much shorter. Recent media accounts in Great Britain and many of the other NATO countries do little to increase our trust in many of the politicans who for the most part appear to be padding their own pockets, fixing up their estates at taxpayers expense or having extra marital affairs or same sex affairs as their pleasure might have it.

[GNN Blogs] Iraq Veterans Against the War Violently Attacked by Police at Debates: A total of ten veterans were arrested during the action, including Matthis Chiroux (Army Sergeant), Kristofer Goldsmith (Army Sergeant), Adam Kokesh (Marine Sergeant), Mike Spinato, Geoff Millard (Army Sergeant), Marlisa Grogan (Marine Captain), Nathan Peld (Navy, 1998-2004), Nick Morgan (Army Sergeant), James Gilligan (Marine Corps, 6 years) and Jose Vasquez (Army “ Army Reserves, 1992-2007).

[This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here] This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here » Blog Archive ...: For a person like myself who was disturbed deeply enough over the Iraq war that it became necessary to seek out like-minded people to organize with, VFP was the most attractive because VFP (as well as IVAW) retains certain elements that are familiar to military veterans who have never been a part of the peace movement before or even associated before with left-wingers. Personally I never could stand to march in antiwar protests with regular civilians/non-veterans for the simple reason that they are SO unruly and undisciplined that it’s almost intolerable.

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