On the Line
On the Line Warning: Another Flood To dramatize the risk of impending climate disaster, Greenpeace in May constructed a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat, Turkey, where the biblical boat was...
...troops, reparations to Iraq, and full benefits—including health care—for returning servicemen and women...
...Iraq Vets Speak Out Garett Reppenhagen heard about Iraq Veterans Against the War while he was still serving in Iraq in 2004...
...There's an increased spirit of rebellion within the military these days, with the war in Iraq and the repeated extended I deployment," says Paul Abernathy, I who joined IVAW in 2005...
...One of the events Reppenhagen has helped plan is Operation First Casualty...
...Members of IVAW, dressed in camouflage, march through a U.S...
...Even tu ally a fight broke out, with a white student getting knocked unconscious, though he wasn't hospitalized...
...On the Line Warning: Another Flood To dramatize the risk of impending climate disaster, Greenpeace in May constructed a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat, Turkey, where the biblical boat was said to have landed...
...When one black student decided to sit there anyway, white students put up nooses on the tree and taunted black students...
...What prevents a lot of people from jumping through that window is they don't know what kind of support is waiting for them on the other side...
...David Enders...
...For more information, go to ivaw.org...
...Labor, environmental, human rights, peace, global justice, and other democracy activists objected to the further integration of the three economies, as well as to the secrecy of the summit and to the fact that corporate executives were invited but not other people...
...And it is launching a "truth in recruiting" campaign around the country, as well as participating in anti-war demonstrations...
...Free the Jena Six Jena, Louisiana Demonstrators marched through town on July 31 to protest the prosecution of six black students who allegedly beat up a white student after racist incidents at Jena High School...
...The group calls for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S...
...The purpose is to bring a small part of the truth of the occupation of Iraq home to the American people," says Adam Kokesh, one of the vets who participated in an Operation First Casualty event in Washington, D.C...
...The other cases are pending...
...Australians Want Pentagon Out Protesters denounced the Canada-U.S.Mexico summit in Montebello, Quebec, in August...
...I joined them when I got out in February 2005...
...After a photo appeared of him participating in an Operation First Casualty event, the military reduced his discharge from honorable to general...
...Peace activists in Australia rallied in June to protest a biennial joint U.S.-Australian military exercise, Talisman Saber 2007, in Shoalwater Bay adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef Marine National Park...
...I pretty much just hit the ground running and have been organizing with them ever since," says Reppenhagen, who has been chair of the group's executive board since December...
...He convicted Mychal Bell, sixteen, as an adult on reduced charges of aggravated battery...
...The local D.A...
...Activists accused them of being agents provocateurs...
...The police force denied the charge...
...charged the six with attempted murder...
...The military reports 9,000 ' active duty members going AWOL (not reporting for more than thirty days) since 2003-"It takes a huge amount of . courage to face that system," Reppenhagen says...
...The Quebec provincial police admitted to having three undercover officers disguised as protesters...
...Kokesh served in Falluja with the Marines in 2005...
...It all started last fall when white students insisted that blacks could not sit under the "white" tree in the school courtyard...
...IVAW, which has twenty chapters, provides a lot of support...
...city "making arrests" and acting out other combat scenes...
Vol. 71 • October 2007 • No. 10
