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Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit

07-24-91 15:06:00
VVAWAI GI RESISTER PROJECT

From vvawai Tue Jul 23 22:49:13 1991


The country is embroiled in the midst of a struggle to sum up the
Gulf war. During the Vietnam days we learned the importance of
these kinds of struggle in the realm of public opinion, and the
"Vietnam Syndrome" still haunts and hampers the politicians and
war-mongers. The verdict on the Gulf war will just as surely lay
the basis for future wars or opposition to those wars.

Meanwhile, the trials and imprisonment of the GI resisters
continues. These GI resisters are the moral high ground of the
Gulf war, the standard by which everything else can be measured.
They put into practice moral and political beliefs which contrast
sharply with the horror of what the Allies did to the people of
Iraq. When the question comes up in the future about how to resist
wrongful war, the resisters' example will be in many people's
minds. The dignity and heroism of their refusal represents one
road into the future. The New World Order and its crimes against
humanity is the other. Upholding the GI resisters is part of
fighting for a correct verdict and summation of the war. Since
many of them have gotten lengthy prison sentences and others now
face the possibility of the death penalty, they definitely need
our support.

With all of this in mind, VVAW AI is working on a project and we
need your help. We are developing a display of miniposters of each
resister called the "Real Heroes" series. Each miniposter will
consist of photo of the resister, printed in duotone, and a quote.
This display will be suitable for bookstore windows, coffeehouse
walls, or as a traveling wall of heroes for use at street fairs,
etc. The first installation of the "Real Heroes" project will
appear as the windows display in the Red and Black Books store in
Seattle in early August.

We made some picket signs for a recent demonstration that had
photos and quotes on them and the signs were very well received.
There is something about the photos that really puts a human,
personal face on the resisters stories and actions. It seemed
natural to publish this material so that others around the world
can also use it to keep the resisters in the public eye, and as
part of the fight for the guilty verdict on the war.

The ways in which we need your help are:

1) If you know of any military resisters, please let us know
about them. We are finding that there are many resisters who are
getting local press at best. If somebody from their area doesn't
plug those resisters into the national movement, they get lost. It
is far better to let us know about somebody we already have heard
about than to let military resisters slip through the cracks.
Also, please send us statements and photos of them if possible.

2) If you know of any places that could host the display, send us
the info.

3) Host the display for your area. We do not yet have a cost for
the series, but if you are interested, send e-mail to vvawai on
PeaceNet.

4) We will also be making the series source (Pagemaker on
Macintosh) available when finished. Again send e-mail if
interested. More info will follow in the near future.

5) Finally but just as important, we need your financial help to
complete this project. We are currently going ahead and incurring
debt to get this project out and your contributions will go a long
ways in helping to keep these military resister from being
forgotten.

Please give this project some serious thought and find the ways
to help make it a success. VVAW AI can be reached at:

E-mail : PeaceNet, vvawai ; America Online, VVAW AI
USMail: 4710 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105
Msg phone: (206) 292-1624
Fax phone: (206) 325-7794 (24 hrs)


-- Resist Your Evil Government
Origin: The Alien Nation (1033/1)

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