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Veterans Call to Conscience Speakers Bureau Available for National & International Press |
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| Press Release 3/1/2003 | |
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Dave Allen
Gulf War Winooski, Vermont 802.598.7453 FreeRangeMedia@adelphia.net
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101st Airborne Air Assault as an anti-tank crew-member during the Persian Gulf War. Member of Green Mountain Vets for Peace (VFP).
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Robert Bossie
Air Force 1955-1959 Chicago, Illinois 312.641.5151 Bob_Bossie@claret.org
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Member of Priests of the Sacred Heart. Co-Founder of Voices in the Wilderness. Member of the 1991 Gulf Peace Team, which positioned themselves on the Iraq-Saudi Arabian border to oppose the war. Traveled to Iraq three times with medicines in open violation of sanctions. Speaks widely on Iraq.
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Scott Camil
Marine Corps 1965-1969 Box 141693 Gainesville, FL 32614 Gainesville, Florida 352.375.2563 s.camil@att.net
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20 months in Vietnam, 2 Purple hearts. Southeast Regional Coordinator VVAW 1971-1973. Gainesville 8 defendant 1972-73. Founder Gainesville Veterans for Peace 1987. VFP Central American fact finding trip, 1987. Eastern United States Coordinator, Vietnam Friendship Village project. Member, Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist. Green Party Agent, Alachua County FL. St. Johns Sierra Club Executive Committee member, Political. Draft counselor, Central Committee for Conscience Objectors, Alachua
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Carl Dix
Army 1968-1972 Brooklyn, NY 866.841.9139 x2670 carldix@hotmail.com Short Bio
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Vietnam War resister 1969-Fort Lewis 6. Sentenced to 19 months in Leavenworth Prison. National Spokesperson for the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP).
Unique perspective on revolution in the United States.
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Joseph C. Farah
Army 1960-1963 Indianapolis, Indiana 317.514.3600 ndyvetsforpeace@aol.com Short Bio
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Chapter President-Indianapolis Veterans For Peace (VFP). Writer-researcher, educator, independent scholar and published critic. 1998 traveled to Viet Nam with former American POW's.
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Kim Hawkins
Navy 1987-1991 (Gulf War) Trenton, Maine aardvark340@hotmail.com
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Robert Kirkconnell
Air Force 1967-1994 Cell 909.553.1937 bobkirk47@aol.com
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Spent 27 years on active duty in the US Air Force. Two tours in Viet Nam. One tour in Turkey. Many years in Asia. Decorations include: Bronze Star with a combat V device. Four Meritorious Service Medals. Letters of Appreciation concerning Camp David Accords from: President Jimmy Carter & Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. War Planner for Joint Airborn/Air transportability Training Exercises in the Pacific -- including Korea. Witnessed and part of an investigation into heroin smuggling by a government agency or agencies in South East Asia. Active Member of Veterans for Peace, Palestine Media Watch, The We Project (educating Palestinian children under occupation).
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Marty Kunz
Navy 1970-1976 Seattle, Washington 206.374.2215 Marty@vvawai.org
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National Organizer Vietnam Veterans Against The War Anti Imperialist (VVAWAI). Organizer, Veterans Call to Conscience Project. Organized Seattle Protest against Flag Burning Law 1989. Organized National Anti Intervention Conference 1994
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O'Kelly McCluskey
WWII / Korean Veteran Navy enlisted, 1944-1946; DAV USAF officer, 1953-1957 Seattle, Washington Veterans For Peace
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Spoke out against French Imperialism backed by US reinstitution colonialism on Algeria and Vietnam. Threatened with a court martial and resigned his career rather than be silenced. Became a lawyer & endorsed by Senator Eugene McCarthy as a Peace candidate for U.S. Congress
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Stan Nishimura
Army: 1964-1967 203.498.8185 nouswar@aol.com
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Born: 1943 in Poston, Arizona, a U.S. concentration camp for Japanese people. Member, Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti Imperialist (VVAWAI) & Connecticut Peace Coalition/New Haven. Organizer for Not In Our Name Project-CT. Initiator, Veterans Call to Conscience
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Jeff Paterson
Marine Corps 1986-1990 San Francisco, California Available through 316.462.0507 jeff@paterson.net http://jeff.paterson.net Short Bio
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First Active Duty Military Resister to 1991 Gulf War, Organizer for Not in Our Name (NION). Member, Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti Imperialist (VVAWAI). Court martial proceedings stopped due to non-stop protest & growing U.S. anti war movement.
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Randy Rowland
Army 1967-1979 Seattle, Washington Available through 316.462.0507 randyro@attbi.com
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Presidio 27 Mutineer - 1968. Served 18 months in Leavenworth Military Prison. Founder of Pepper Spray Productions.
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James Ryan
Army 1962-1967 Home 216.362.3474 (Istanbul), cell phone 535.935.1015 jimryan62@yahoo.com Short Bio
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Resides in Istanbul, Turkey. Graduate of U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Writer, Unique perspective on U.S. troops in Turkey.
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Joe Urgo
Air Force 1966-1970 In Vietnam from Dec67 to Dec68 Redvet55@hotmail.com Short Bio
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Former National officer of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Organizer for the Winter Soldier Investigation into U.S. war crimes in Vietnam. Organizer, Dewey Canyon III - Aug. 1971. The first Vietnam Veteran to travel to Hanoi on a peace mission. Long time revolutionary activist. Member, Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist (VVAWAI), and Activist for Not In Our Name Project (NION)
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Dr. William Warrick
Army Security Agency 1968-1971 Gainesville, Florida Days: 352.372.1504 352.376.1005 asavetmd@bellsouth.net Short Bio
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Gainesville Veterans for Peace (VFP). Family doctor in Gainesville Florida for 20 years.
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Cora Tula Watters
Marine Corps - Korean Era Lynx, Ohio Available for interviews through 316.462.0507 tulanappe9@yahoo.com The Peace Anthem for the World Short Bio
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Mixed blood Appalachian Shawnee. A warrior woman. Visually impaired grand-father memorized the eye chart so he could pass and enlist in the SeaBees. Her uncle a WWII veteran. Her aunt was a Corps Wave. Her cousin a Marine. Cora joined the Marines when the U.S. went to war with Korea. "This proposed war of President Bush is neither a just war nor a war for freedom. This is a imperialistic scheme to rule the world and a private vendetta. No longer a 'give me your tired, your poor' haven for the oppressed, or a protector of the endangered, we have become a greedy, profit-grabbing nation whose leadership is more interested in oil than in world peace."
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Dave Wiggins, MD
Gulf War High Point, North Carolina Practicing Emergency Room Physician. 336.886.5101 Cell: 336.259.0382 dwiggmd@yahoo.com Short Bio
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Gulf War Conscientious Objector-Court-martialed. Former Distinguished Graduate of West Point. Resigned commission by blocking military traffic in King Khalisd Military City on the front lines. Initiator of the Veterans Call to Conscience Project.
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Howard Zinn
Boston, Massachusetts Air Force 1943-1945 617.244.0779 hzinn@bu.edu
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Author of "A People's History of the United States." People's Historian
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