While his initial meetings with the V.C. in Paris were fresh in his memory, Kerry helped a small group of activists -- Jeremy Rifkin, Tod Ensign, Jane Fonda, Attorney Mark Lane and others -- set up "Winter Soldier" hearings in Detroit. By way of closed-circuit television via Windsor, Canada, these hearings featuring VVAW members told of the atrocities they had committed on their Vietnamese victims and spoke of their horror, shock and pain at what they had done while wearing Uncle Sam's uniform.
citizen-soldier.org/CS07-CamiloTestimony.html
Tod Ensign, director of Citizen Soldier, a non profit GI rights advocacy group, has provided two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Hilary Clinton (D-NY) and Carl Levin (ranking Democratic member from MI) with details about the nature of Mejia's testimony and requested that they arrange for him to be called as a witness to assist their committee's investigation.citizen-soldier.org/draftchatter.htmlFurther info contact: Tod Ensign, Dir., Citizen Soldier (212) 679-2250
Tod Ensign, director of Citizen Soldier, a GI/veterans rights advocacy group in New York, is author of America's Military Today, to be published by the New Press in November 2004.citizen-soldier.org/cs12-enlistment.html
For More details on recruitment see Military Life: The Insider's Guidecitizen-soldier.org/CS-END-year.PDF, page 2
by Tod Ensign, ARCO Press (1990) available in larger public libraries.
We work as part of the Bring Them Home Now Coalitionwhich has been organizing family members to speak out against Bush’s war in communities across the U.S.
Surrendering to the Military: Challenging the War
On March 15, 2004, Sgt. Mejia spoke at a public rally/press conference at the Peace Abbey, near Boston, MA and then surrendered to military authorities. Once he is assigned to a military base, the command will decide whether to prefer criminal charges or separate him administratively. Meija could be charged with both desertion and "missing a movement to avoid hazardous duty" Each carries a maximum prison term of five years. He could also be given a Dishonorable Discharge. If he is placed on trial, Citizen Soldier cooperating attorney Louis Font, of Boston, will offer expert witnesses to testify that the US invasion and occupation of Iraq violates international law, including the UN Charter. In addition, Meija will file an application for discharge as a Conscientious Objector (CO).
NYS Department of StateClear Actions , February 2004, Issue Number 16
Peace House, Since 1982
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Citizen Soldier is a Project of Alternatives to Militarism, Inc., a tax exempt public foundation. Studs Terkel, Pete Seeger, and Nat Hentoff are three of their 21-person National Advisory Board. Since the Vietnam war they have been defending conscientious objectors who based their refusal on political, moral, and/or religious grounds. In Iraq, American troops without adequate training or equipment are being killed every day by a determined opposition. In Iraq, a third of the combat troops are reservists who’ve been activated for 12-18 month tours. Citizen Soldier says that today, reservists must fill a major hole left when the active military was cut to 1.4 million from 2.1 million just ten years ago.
President George H. Bush wrote in his memoir, "A World Transformed" that in Iraq "there was no viable ‘exit strategy’ we could see." He said "we had been consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the UN’s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, (we) could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."
Citizen Soldier says "the best way to support our troops is to bring them home now", a position they claim is steadily gaining support. To contact them, call 212/679-2250 or on the internet www.citizen-soldier.org.
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Thank you! Why am I not surprised to see Hitlery involved with this creep?