A RAWA class. Photo: Anja Niedringhaus / AP by Chris Sands, Foreign Correspondent The National, September 22, 2008 KABUL // They often stay in safehouses and they do not give their names to the media. Sometimes even their relatives have…
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Talking the politics of peace with Americans
Photo: The Minnesota Independent by Marianne Cerilli As a lead up to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul, I was asked by Stephan Peter, politics professor and Democratic Socialists of America member, to speak to students and activists. The…
Last minute reprieve for Iraq War resister Jeremy Hinzman
Judge grants U.S. deserter’s last-ditch effort to stave off deportation The Canadian Press, September 22, 2008 TORONTO — A high-profile American war dodger won a desperate bid to stay in Canada on Monday as a judge refused to allow Canada…
Why Canada should give sanctuary to U.S. war resisters
by Rev. Jack Risk Winnipeg Free Press, September 21, 2008 Why should Canada allow American war resisters to stay in our country? We have a clear memory, which disturbs us to this day, of watching a live Reuters feed of…
Peace activists occupy Tory candidate’s office to protest planned deportation of American Iraq war resister Jeremy Hinzman and his family
Peace activists occupy Tory election campaign office in Winnipeg, Sept. 20, 2008 to focus attention on deportation of American war resister Jeremy Hinzman. Photo: Paul Graham (Winnipeg, Sept. 20, 2008) Anti-war activists peacefully occupied the campaign office of federal Conservative…
Canada’s Afghanistan war tab $22 billion
by David Pugliese, Canwest News Service The Afghan war is going to end up costing the Defence Department more than $22 billion, both in actual money spent on the mission and future payments to rebuild equipment and provide long-term care…
On Sept. 17, help stop the deportation of war resister Jeremy Hinzman and his family
ON SEPTEMBER 17: Call Stephen Harper and Diane Finley. Insist that they stop the deportation of Jeremy Hinzman and his family. In 8 days, US Iraq war resister Jeremy Hinzman, his wife Nga Nguyen and their two children face deportation…
Harrowing video backs Afghan villagers’ claims of carnage caused by US troops
by Tom Coghlan The Times Online, September 9, 2008 [youtube t8p9nRXKpmc] As the doctor walks between rows of bodies, people lift funeral shrouds to reveal the faces of children and babies, some with severe head injuries. Women are heard wailing…
Not in 2009, not in 2011! End the war in Afghanistan, NOW!
Photo: Canadian Forces Combat Camera by the Canadian Peace Alliance Stephen Harper said today that Canadian soldiers will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by 2011. This contradicts previous statements by the Harper government that have alluded to another possible extension past…
What would Jesus think?
Open Letter to Christian US Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan by Stan Goff The Feral Scholar, September 14, 2008 Confession of faith and renunciation of evil On February 1, 1996, I retired from the United States Army. I had served…