Refuseniks from around the world speak out
against murder, rape & other torture
Presentation and screening of the film produced by Payday followed by a discussion.
Casa delle culture via S. Crisogono, 45 (Trastevere)
July 6, 7pm
Speakers include:
Giorgio Riva - Payday, UK Ernesto Pallotta - Carabinieri per la pace Philip Rushton - author of the book "Riportiamoli a casa: Il dissenso militare nelle forze armate statunitensi" Paola Gasparoli - Un ponte per...
presented by U.S. Citizens for Peace & Justice, Rome
(Film in English with Italian subtitles)
From the film:
James Fairweather, WWII veteran from Jamaica posted in Germany in 1946 “I saw the devastation that war caused and that women and children are the main victims. If we ‘fraternized with the enemy’ we risked military prison, but we gave them food anyway.”
Stephen Funk, US marine, six months in jail for refusing to fight in Iraq “I am not an advocate for gay inclusion in the military because I do not support military action.”
Shimri Tzameret, Israeli refusenik, won his right not to serve after two years in jail ”Already for years I know that I am not going to join the army. I know it with as much certainty as I know that I will never kick a homeless person lying on the sidewalk, never rape a woman, and when I will have a child - never abandon it.”
Harriet, refugee, escapee from the Ugandan army “I joined the army because it would give me the means to look after my children . . . but there was bullying, sexual harassment, rape and torture”.
Rev. Dorothy Mackey, STAAMP (Survivors Taking Action Against Military Personnel) “In my first five years in the US army I was raped three times, twice by military doctors during Ob-Gyn appointments.”
Alex Izett, Gulf War Syndrome survivor “I started my 40-day hunger strike to get a public inquiry in the UK – for recognition that veterans had been poisoned by their own country.”
Camilo Mejia, US Staff Sergeant, spent nine months in jail after refusing to return to Iraq “I'd rather go to prison for desertion than kill a child by mistake. Prison ends, but you never get over killing a kid.”
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Upshot of our Nov. 9th group discussion on current politics:
It wasn't the Russians that got us Trump. Or Comey. Or even the massive GOP election fraud. It was the DNC.* *Dem National Committee
To learn how to stop the DNC
from delivering us another Trump, read Autopsy: the Democratic Party in Crisis.
Photo of a school in Yemen bombed by Saudi Arabian jets supplied by the U.S. and fueled in the air by the U.S. Air Force.
Tell Trump to STOP THIS CARNAGE, not fuel it! Click here.
Also participate in the CodePink email and/or phone initiative:
Click here to sign a petition, to put an end to the sanctions against Syria - their only effect is to take a terrible toll on the population, causing them to migrate! And click here to see the video by the Italian Committee to lift sanctions against Syria.
Did someone tell you that U.S. military intervention in Iraq was over? Not true: we're at it again. This time the pretext to drop bombs is "curbing ISIS" (which was created by the U.S. in the first place, to overturn al-Malaki in Iraq and then Assad in Syria, and is now out of hand.
Like what happened to "our" creature al Qaeda in Afghanistan). And the death toll continues to rise...
Write your senators and tell them: "Enough! U.S. out!! Iraq has shown it can curb ISIS by itself!"
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