Army moving against Lt. Watada Sgt. James Circello, AWOL,
protests war Message from Elliot
D S Adams
Stop the deportation of Robin Long from Canada!
By Courage to Resist Yesterday, October 1, U.S. Iraq War resister Robin Long was arrested in Nelson, British Colombia—a small city about 50 miles north of where Washington State and Idaho intersect with Canada. He was taken to the police station and detained. Today, Tuesday, he was flown to Vancouver, where the authorities intend to possibly bring him to the border and hand him over to U.S. military authorities. Supporters on both sides of the border are taking emergency action: “Stop the deportation of U.S. war resister Robin Long!” E-mail, call, fax, and/or write Canadian officials today:
Robin, a native of Boise, Idaho hitchhiked to Canada in June 2005 seeking sanctuary after leaving his Fort Knox, Kentucky based tanker unit in order to resist deployment to Iraq. Emergency rally Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 4:30 pm at the Dundas Street West and University Avenue in Toronto, Canada organized by the War Resisters Support Campaign (Canada) Read complete action alert and background info
Despite Constitution, Army moving against Lt. Watada
By Courage to Resist The Army appears ready to retry First Lt. Ehren Watada a week from now—Tuesday, October 9—at Fort Lewis, Washington. As scheduled, the retrial will be heard by the same military judge that orchestrated the February mistrial in order to give the prosecution a “do-over” after they rested their case against the first officer to publicly refuse to deploy to Iraq. Supporters of Lt. Watada and GI resisters are being urged to take action to highlight double jeopardy outrage! Michael Wong, a member of the Watada Support Committee and Veterans for Peace, is working hard to mount a public response. Mike Wong states:
Friends and allies around the country are being encouraged to hold teach-ins, demonstrations, press conferences (if you have lawyers who can address the double jeopardy issue, please have them speak), write letters to the editors, anything you can do, on the weekend prior to October 9 and/or on the day of. Read complete call to action and background
AWOL Army paratrooper protests war
By James Circello Jr. and Courage to Resist. October 2, 2007 Sergeant James Circello Jr. is an Army Airborne Infantryman who went AWOL in April 2007 because of his opposition to U.S. military intervention in the Middle East. James enlisted in the Army in 2001 following the attack on the World Trade Center. He spent a year in the Kirkuk area of northern Iraq with the 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade from March 2003 to March 2004. After much soul-searching, James left his base in Vicenza, Italy (Caserma Ederle) on April 10, 2007. Recently he has attended the Veterans for Peace National Convention in St. Louis this August, the mass anti-war march on Washington DC last month, and is currently working with Iraq Veterans Against the War and Courage to Resist. James plans to turn himself over to military authorities soon and will undoubtedly need our support. I saw kids turn into animals I enlisted in September 2001 I saw kids turn into animals. I saw soldiers mistreating detained Iraqis. Questionable shootings. One platoon in particular killed so many people, I did see a side of Iraq I didn't know existed. Read Sgt. James Circello's complete story, view video
A message from Elliot D S Adams
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