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Adriene Jenik (she/they) is an artist, educator and end of life doula who resides in the high desert of California. Her computer and media art spans 3 decades, including pioneering work in interactive cinema and live telematic performance. She has been written about in The New York Times, published in The Drama Review, and recognized by the Rockefeller Foundation. Her current creative research practice spans “data humanization” performances, public climate future readings with her ECOtarot deck, and experiments in extreme experiential learning. She is also the creative producer of The Artists’ Grief Deck. Jenik serves as Professor of Intermedia at the School of Art, Arizona State University, affiliate faculty in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and Deset Humanities Center, and a sustainability scientist in the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation. Source: ASU
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Bill Galvin is a Vietnam era conscientious objector. He has been working to support conscientious objectors since the early 1970’s. He was on the staff of the United Presbyterian Church’s Emergency Ministry on Conscience & War, and later CCCO. He is active in the Presbyterian Church having served on the Peace & Justice committee of the Baltimore Presbytery and their special task force to address urban violence. Bill received the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship’s 2009 Peaceseeker Award. He is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and sits on the National Committee of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship. He is also a former board member of the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund, an organization that lobbies to extend CO Rights to taxpayers. At CCW he coordinates and trains military counselors, counsels military personnel, and assists counselors throughout the GI Rights hotline with difficult cases. Bill monitors the Selective Service System, and trains draft counselors. He is on the board of the GI Rights Hotline and he is involved in all aspects of CCW’s advocacy for CO rights. Bill is the author of a comprehensive guide for conscientious objectors in the military, and he is currently writing a manual for military chaplains. Source: CCW
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Bruce Gagnon speaks internationally on this high stakes topic and has written for publications such as Earth Island Journal, CounterPunch, Z Magazine, Space News, National Catholic Reporter, Asia Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Canadian Dimension. He has produced two videos, Arsenal of Hypocrisy (2003) and Battle for America’s Soul (2005) and he published a book, Come Together Right Now: Organizing Stories from a Fading Empire (2005). He is host of “This Issue”, a cable TV program that airs in five communities in Maine, his home state. In 2003, Dr. Helen Caldicott named Gagnon a senior fellow at the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, where he also serves on her advisory board. Source: Americans Who Tell the Truth
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Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford is an ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren - which is one of the three Historic Peace Churches along with the Mennonites and Quakers - and works for the church as director of News Services and associate editor of Messenger magazine. Source: Linkedin
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Maj. Danny Sjursen is an esteemed author and served as a U.S. Army officer from 2005-2019.He entered West Point in July of 2001, two months before the September 11th attacks and served as U.S. Army officer from 2005-2019, with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is contributing editor at Antiwar.com, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy (CIP), and his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Huffington Post, The Hill, Salon, The American Conservative, Mother Jones, ScheerPost and TomDispatch, among other publications. He taught American and Civil Rights History at West Point and is the author of two books: Ghostriders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge (2015), a memoir and critical analysis of the Iraq War, and Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War (2020), A True History of the United States (2021), and co-editor of Paths of Dissent (2022). He has a BA in history from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and a MA in American and military history from the University of Kansas. In 2019, he was awarded the Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship. He also co-hosts the podcast "Fortress on a Hill," along with fellow vet Chris "Henri" Henriksen.
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David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of David Swanson and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed War. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk World Radio. He is a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. Swanson was awarded the 2018 Peace Prize by the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation. He was also awarded a Beacon of Peace Award by the Eisenhower Chapter of Veterans For Peace in 2011, and the Dorothy Eldridge Peacemaker Award by New Jersey Peace Action in 2022. Swanson is on the advisory boards of: Nobel Peace Prize Watch, Veterans For Peace, Assange Defense, BPUR, and Military Families Speak Out. He is an Associate of the Transnational Foundation, and a Patron of Platform for Peace and Humanity.Find David Swanson at MSNBC, C-Span, Democracy Now, The Guardian, Counter Punch, Common Dreams, Truthout, Daily Progress, Amazon.com, TomDispatch, The Hook, etc. Source: https://davidswanson.org
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In 1982, Hasbrouck was selected for criminal prosecution by the U.S. Department of "Justice" (specifically, by William Weld and Robert Mueller) as one of the people they considered the most vocal of the several million nonregistrants for the draft. As one of 20 nonregistrants who were prosecuted before the government abandoned the enforcement of draft registration, Hasbrouck was convicted and "served" four and a half months in a Federal Prison Camp in 1983-1984. The high-profile trials of resistance organizers proved counterproductive for the government. These trials served only to call attention to the government's inability to prosecute more than a token number of nonregistrants, and reassured nonregistrants that they were not alone in their resistance and were in no danger of prosecution unless they called attention to themselves. Source NNOMY Web
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Jeff Paterson, a former Marine who was the first soldier to publicly refuse orders to the 1st Iraq War in 1990. Paterson had been a Marine for five years and was on the verge of returning to civilian life when his discharge was cancelled in lieu of orders for deployment to the Persian Gulf. On August 7, 1990, as his unit boarded an aircraft in Hawaii, he sat down on the tarmac and refused to move. A week later he held a press conference where he stated, “I will not be a pawn in America’s power plays for profit and oil in the Middle East” Paterson was a Courage To Resist founding member and has served for many years as the Project Director. Source: Wikipedia
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John has been a writer, researcher and organizer focused on demilitarization and human rights, especially in the United States and Latin America, for more than 35 years. He co-authored the "Care First, Jails Last” policy adopted by Alameda County, as well as local legislation on militarized equipment used by police in Oakland and Berkeley, California. He represented AFSC in the Stop Urban Shield Coalition to end a militarized SWAT team competition, including representing the coalition in two county committees that helped reformulate emergency response policies in Alameda County and ended Urban Shield. From 1989 to 2014, he served the interfaith pacifist organization Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), as coordinator of the Task Force on Latin America and the Caribbean, where he founded the FOR Colombia peace team. He is the author of Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama (2003) and Plan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism (2018), both published by Duke University Press. John has been quoted in the LA Times, the Washington Post, the Nation, and Counterpunch, The Intercept_ among other outlets. He is also a blogger for the Huffington Post.
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Jerry Lembcke earned his Ph.D. in Sociology in 1978 from the University of Oregon. He is Associate Professor Emeritus of Sociology and has taught Development of Social Theory, Sociology of Power, and, recently, Reading the Times. Professor Lembcke's research interest centers on media (re)constructions and myth-making. His recent book is Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal. Lembcke's The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam is a 1998 book by Vietnam veteran and sociology professor Jerry Lembcke. The book is an analysis of the widely believed narrative that American soldiers were spat upon and insulted by anti-war protesters upon returning home from the Vietnam War. The book examines the origin of the earliest stories; the popularization of the "spat-upon image" through Hollywood films and other media, and the role of print news media in perpetuating the now iconic image through which the history of the war and anti-war movement has come to be represented.
Lembcke contrasts the absence of credible evidence of spitting by anti-war activists with the large body of evidence showing a mutually supportive, empathetic relationship between veterans and anti-war forces. The book also documents efforts of the Nixon Administration to drive a wedge between military service-members and the anti-war movement by portraying democratic dissent as a betrayal of the troops. Lembcke equates this disparagement of the anti-war movement and veterans with the similar stab-in-the-back myth propagated by Germany and France after their war defeats, as an alibi for why they lost the war. Lembcke details the resurrection of the myth of the spat-upon veteran during subsequent Gulf War efforts as a way to silence public dissent. Source: Wikipedia
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Kathleen (“Kathy”) is a legal worker focusing in the areas of military administrative law and discharge review. She serves on the board of directors of the national GI Rights Network. She is the author (with Majorie Cohn) of Rules of Disengagement: the Politics and Honor of Military Dissent, and was also a contributing author in Clark Boardman Callahan’s Sexual Orientation and the Law. She is a frequent contributor to MLTF’s quarterly journal, On Watch, as well as an editor for the publication.
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Laurel Krause is co-founder and director of the Kent State Truth Tribunal. She is an advocate for Kent State truth and for the protection of protesters in the United States today, also dedicated to safe renewable energy and combating climate crises. Since 2007 Laurel has written on these topics at her blog, MendoCoastCurrent. Laurel makes her home at the Allison Center for Peace on the Mendocino Coast of Northern California. Before spearheading this effort for her sister Allison Krause killed in the May 4, 1970 Kent State massacre, Laurel worked in sales and marketing at technology start-ups in the early days of Silicon Valley.
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Margaret was a core organizer of the Occupy Movement in Washington, DC. That work developed into Popular Resistance in 2013, which she directs. Popular Resistance is a daily movement news website that also organizes issue campaigns and participates in coalitions for economic, social and environmental justice and peace. Popular Resistance hosts an online free school. Margaret's articles are frequently published in TruthOut, Dissident Voice and other online outlets. She hosts Clearing the FOG Radio and is interviewed on other radio and television programs. She was featured on Bill Moyers' Journal twice.
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Maria came to CCW from the high desert of north-central New Mexico where she worked for disarmament and accountability of the two nuclear weapons laboratories in that state.
Before coming to CCW, Maria served as coordinator of the Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice. In that capacity, Maria organized Another Side: Truth in Military Recruiting, bringing the voices and experiences of combat and other veterans to thousands of students across the state and in Indian Country. It was during her time at the Peace and Justice Center that Maria began providing counseling to local members of the military and their families during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
With training by CCW’s Bill Galvin, Maria became the founding director of the New Mexico GI Rights Hotline, providing direct services and resources to callers and serving as a leading voice statewide on issues affecting service members and veterans, including conscientious objection, military sexual violence, post-traumatic stress disorder, and truth in recruitment. Maria has developed local and statewide policy on military recruiting in schools and jail diversion programs for veterans, favoring treatment as an alternative to incarceration. Maria joined the staff of CCW in 2011. Source: CCW
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Mary Beth Tinker was a 13-year-old junior high school student in December 1965 when she and a group of students decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam. The school board got wind of the protest and passed a preemptive ban. When Mary Beth arrived at school on Dec. 16, she was asked to remove the armband and was then suspended. Four other students were suspended as well, including her brother John Tinker and Chris Eckhardt. The students were told they could not return to school until they agreed to remove their armbands. The students returned after the Christmas break without armbands, but in protest, they wore black clothing for the remainder of the school year — and filed a First Amendment lawsuit. Represented by the ACLU, the students and their families embarked on a four-year court battle that culminated in the landmark Supreme Court decision. Dan Johnston, a young lawyer also from Des Moines and just out of law school, argued the case. On Feb. 24, 1969, the court ruled 7-2 that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
Mary Beth is now a retired registered nurse, and speaks with students, teachers, administrators and community groups throughout the country to share her story and the stories of young people everywhere. To kick off the Tinker Tour in the 2013-2014 school year, she was joined by First Amendment attorney Mike Hiestand, traveling to over 100 schools, colleges, universities, law schools, juvenile centers, and conferences to share the good news that the First Amendment is for young people too. Since then, Mary Beth has spoken with thousands of students about their rights. For 2021-22, Mary Beth is speaking virtually about her favorite subject… the rights of youth!
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Matthew has been a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy since 2010. In 2009, Matthew resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan with the State Department over the American escalation of the war. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew took part in the American occupation of Iraq; first in 2004-5 in Salah ad Din Province with a State Department reconstruction and governance team and then in 2006-7 in Anbar Province as a Marine Corps company commander. When not deployed, Matthew worked on Afghanistan and Iraq war policy and operations issues at the Pentagon and State Department from 2002-8. Matthew’s writings have appeared in online and print periodicals such as the Atlanta Journal Constitution, CounterPunch, CNN, Defense News, the Guardian, the Huffington Post, Mother Jones, the Raleigh News & Observer, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He has been a guest on hundreds of news programs on radio and television networks including the BBC, CBS, CNN, CSPAN, Fox, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, Pacifica and PBS. The Council on Foreign Relations has cited Matthew’s resignation letter from his post in Afghanistan as an Essential Document. Source: https://matthewhoh.com
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Michelle Cohen is the director of the alternatives to the military website Project Great Futures that came out of the Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools and is currently an Academic Pathway Advisor at Los Angeles Unified School District Division of Adult & Career Education (DACE) Source: Linkedin
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Tamara graduated with an MA in International Politics & Security Studies from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom in 2015. She was awarded the Rotary International World Peace Fellowship and was a senior researcher for the International Peace Bureau in Switzerland. Tamara is a member of the Canadian Pugwash Group, the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She is currently on the international board of Global Network Against Nuclear Power and Weapons in Space. Tamara was a co-founding member of the Vancouver Island Peace and Disarmament Network (now World Beyond War-Victoria). Tamara has an LLB/JD and MBA specializing in environmental law and management from Dalhousie University. She is the former Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Environmental Network and co-founder of the East Coast Environmental Law Association. For several years she was on the national board of Ecojustice Canada and the Nova Scotia Minister’s Round Table on Environment and Sustainable Prosperity.
Her research interests are the military’s impacts on the environment and climate change, the intersection of security and peace, gender and international relations, Canadian defence and foreign policy, feminist foreign policy, disarmament, resistance to NATO, and military sexual violence.
