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Saying
No to War:
When Conscience Requires Refusal
A Symposium
hosted by members of the faculty of the
Social Transformation Concentration
of
Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center
Co-sponsored by
American
Friends Service Committee
Bay Area Saybrookians
Bay Area United
Against War
Central Committee
for Conscientious Objectors
College Not Combat
Not
In Our Name
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Featuring
Kevin and Monica Benderman
US Army Sergeant Kevin Benderman is a two-time
enlistee. After serving a term in Iraq, Benderman concluded
that "war is the destroyer of everything that is good
in the world," and applied to the Army for conscientious
objector status. The Army has responded by denying his application
and charging him with desertion. His trial begins May 11.
Monica Benderman, Kevin's wife, is his chief supporter and
partner in this process. For more information, or to make
a donation to the Benderman Defense Fund: www.bendermandefense.org.
Jeff Paterson
Jeff Paterson, National Staff Member, Not
in Our Name, is a former Marine Corporal who was the first
publicly known 1990 Gulf War resister. After holding a press
conference to protest the coming war in August 1990, Jeff
sat on the runway to resist deployment to the Middle East
after the military rejected his bid for a conscientious
objection discharge. One hundred other military resisters
would eventually be imprisoned for their opposition to the
war.
William K. Bruff (Discussant)
William K. Bruff, Ph.D., is Associate Vice
President of Academic Affairs, Saybrook Graduate School
and Research Center. A Quaker and conscientious objector,
he refused to register for the draft during the Vietnam
era.
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Saturday, April 30, 2005
2:00-4:00 PM
747
Front Street, Third Floor*
San Francisco, California
In
the Rollo May Library At
Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center
Admission is Free to the Public
*747 Front Street,
corner of Broadway, just two blocks from the Embaradero and Broadway
Muni Stop.
Click here for an online map to the event.
This event is wheelchair accessible.
This event was made possible in part due to a generous grant by
the Agape Foundation
Fund for Nonviolent Social Change, in addition to individual
and organizational co-sponsor contributions.
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Kevin
and Monica Benderman
(Photo Credit: Lewis M. Levine, distributed by www.bendermandefense.org)
Three
Direct Ways You Can Support
Kevin Benderman Today!
1.
Express your support to Kevin and Monica.
If you want your letter entered into the Congressional Record
by Kevin and Monica's Congressional Representative, Cynthia
McKinney, click
here. If you just want to write Kevin and Monica privately,
click here.
2. Email Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,
asking what purpose is served by court-martialing Kevin
Benderman (click
here to go the Department of Defense Comments website
and then click on the "Ask a Question / Make a Comment"
tab).
3. To make a donation to help cover Kevin's
legal defense costs, click on the button below.
For
those who want their donation to be tax-deductible, click
here to go to the Kevin Benderman C.O. Defense Fund, established
as an affiliated project of the the Traprock
Peace Center in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Donations
by check should be made out to "Kevin Benderman Defense,"
and sent c/o Kevin and Monica Benderman, P.O. Box 2322, Hinesville,
GA 31310.
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Alternative to Those Yellow "Support Our Troops" Ribbons
Can
one care strongly about the well-being of the men and women in
the deadly combat zones of Iraq while being strongly opposed to
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