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Tag: Veterans for Peace

Author Brian Willson to visit Coos County on 2011 Book tour

Willson left from Portland State University Saturday morning, June 25th, and he will arrive in San Francisco on July 16th. He will celebrate his seventieth birthday on July 4 in his former hometown of Arcata. In 1987, while engaging in a nonviolent blockade in protest of weapons shipments to El Salvador at the Concord Naval Weapons Station in California, Willson was run over by an accelerating US Navy ammunition train and lost both of his legs below the knee.

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KBOO Radio tomorrow

Tomorrow morning I will be interviewed on KBOO FM at 9:30 regarding the upcoming Winter Soldier event in Portland, October 18, 12:00PM to 5:00PM at the First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th Ave (@ Main) in Portland. Panelists...

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War is a racket

“War is a racket.” So spoke Marine Brigadier General Smedley D Butler, America’s most decorated general. “It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only...

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We should leave Afghanistan

Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) consists of families with loved ones who have or are currently serving in Iraq. MFSO is often mistakenly believed to be an anti-war organization yet many members are third and fourth generation...

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