Resister

Thanks to ALPF, I have learned that another American war resister is seeking asylum in Canada. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Benjamin Lewis, former Marine Corps mortarman, Iraq veteran, IRR recall resister, peace activist ❋ Benjamin Lewis And Brandon Neely (2008)

Veterans Against the War and many other large-scale and grassroots organizations to solicit change in a largely unrepresentative democracy, and to allow the voices of the people to ring through the halls of the Capital., former Marine Corps mortarman, Iraq veteran, IRR recall resister, peace activist ❋ Unknown (2008)

What stuns me, whenever I listen to a 'resister's' story, is how YOUNG these men are...like the 'shiminitism'sp12th-graders choosing jail over killing their neighbor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Gee, it's not hard to see what the news outlet's editorial bent is, even on their "hard news" headlines - all you have to do is look to see if they use "resister" or "dodger." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Israel is the "resister" here, of aggressive acts of war by a terrorist organization based in Lebanon and supported by Syria and Iran. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Letter writer Ken Bennett (Disgraced U.S. soldier a deserter, not 'resister', Letters, Jan. 21) must have forgotten that Canada would not send a single soldier into combat in Iraq in ❋ Unknown (2010)

Letter writer Ken Bennett (Disgraced U.S. soldier a deserter, not 'resister', Letters, Jan. 21) should get his facts straight before adding insult to the injury that Cliff Cornell has endured. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Letter writer Ken Bennett (Disgraced U.S. soldier a deserter, not 'resister', Letters, ❋ Unknown (2010)

Federal Court grants War Resistor a judicial review: Kimberly Rivera is the first female Iraq War resister to seek refuge in Canada. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Commenting after resister Kimberly Rivera received a negative IRB decision on January 7, 2009, he referred to Iraq war resisters as, “bogus refugee claimants” in a later interview on Parliament Hill. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sanctuary for war resister: Rodney Watson takes refuge in Vancouver church ❋ Unknown (2009)

Iraq resister to seek sanctuary in Canada as he and others face punishment under a charge of being Absent Without Official Leave (“going AWOL”) or for desertion under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for refusing to participate in the Iraq war for moral reasons. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kimberly Rivera is the first female Iraq War resister to seek refuge in Canada. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Indeed, Mr. Press is amusingly chagrined to discover that Mr. Jevtić does not live up to the author's romantic notions of a resister: He's a gruff, burly, not particularly ambitious guy who mostly enjoys watching sports on his giant flat-screen TV. ❋ Ruth Franklin (2012)

His captors sell him to a small resister town called Phoenix. ❋ Erika Nelson (2009)

All of which to say: * I* will tell * you* how * you* will speak * my* language, English, in * my* English country, Canada, and you will henceforth use the word “deserter” in lieu of the weasel word you are currently misusing, “resister”, is that clear? ❋ Unknown (2009)

After being deported, war resister Robin Long was sentenced to 15 months in prison, the harshest punishment so far for resisting the Iraq war, partly because of his political statements about the war. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She was “shocked” that Minister Kenney would attribute the systematic delays in the refugee claim process to the war resisters, slamming the Minister for the lack of credibility to his argument since the number of war resister claims was “miniscule”. ❋ Unknown (2009)