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REFUSENIKS AND MILITARY FAMILIES SPEAK OUT
a Payday event, part of the 6th Global Women’s Strike
Video Premiere: Refusing to Kill – refuseniks from around the world speak
out against military murder, rape & other torture
SATURDAY 12 MARCH 2005 2 - 5 pm
(refreshments 1.30 - 2pm)
Trinity United Reformed Church, (TURC) Buck St, London NW1
Kentish Town Rd end, behind Camden Sainsbury's)
Very near Camden Town tube, buses C2, 134, 214
Wheelchair accessible
Donations suggested £5 waged, £2 unwaged
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Speakers include:
Rose Gentle, mother of Gordon Gentle, a young soldier killed in Iraq last
year, and founder of Military Families Against the War: “Blair made secret
promises to President Bush behind our backs, without a thought for people
like Gordon, or like my daughter Maxine, deprived of her brother. I grieve
also for all the Iraqis who have died in this war.”
Sue Webster, wife of Abdullah, a US soldier currently serving a 14-month
sentence for refusing to serve in Iraq: “Far from being a deserter or a
coward, my husband is a brave man with principles who is being punished for
his conscientiously held beliefs.”
Payday, an international and multi-racial network of men, co-ordinates men’s
participation in the Global Women’s Strike. We organise with women and men
refusing the military’s lethal and repressive work, from the US and the UK
to Israel and Eritrea. The ‘poverty draft’ – which drives people to join up
because of economic necessity – enables the US and other armies around the
world to make ‘endless war’. Thus those refusing the military are a vital
part of the movement to end not only war but poverty.
VIDEO CAFÉ: 2ND SHOWING of Refusing to Kill Friday 18 March 7pm
Crossroads Women’s Centre,
230a Kentish Town Rd. London NW5 entrance on Caversham Rd., nearest tube Kentish Town, wheelchair accessible
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Payday payday@paydaynet.org www.refusingtokill.net 020 7209 4751
Global Women’s Strike womenstrike8m@server101.com 020 7482 2496
New video: REFUSING TO KILL
Refuseniks from around the world speak out against murder, rape & other torture
James Fairweather, WWII veteran from Jamaica posted in Germany in 1946
“I saw the devastation that war caused and that women and children are the
main victims. If we ‘fraternized with the enemy’ we risked military prison,
but we gave them food anyway.”
Stephen Funk, US marine, six months in jail for refusing to fight in Iraq
“I am not an advocate for gay inclusion in the military because I do not
support military action.”
Shimri Tzameret, Israeli refusenik, won his right not to serve after two
years in jail ”Already for years I know that I am not going to join the army. I know it
with as much certainty as I know that I will never kick a homeless person
lying on the sidewalk, never rape a woman, and when I will have a child -
never abandon it.”
Harriet, refugee, escapee from the Ugandan army “I joined the army because it would give me the means to look after my
children . . . but there was bullying, sexual harassment, rape and torture”.
Rev. Dorothy Mackey, STAAMP (Survivors Taking Action Against Military
Personnel) “In my first five years in the US army I was raped three times, twice by
military doctors during Ob-Gyn appointments.”
Alex Izett, Gulf War Syndrome survivor “I started my 40-day hunger strike to get a public inquiry in the UK – for
recognition that veterans had been poisoned by their own country.”
Camilo Mejia, US Staff Sergeant, spent nine months in jail after refusing to
return to Iraq “I'd rather go to prison for desertion than kill a child by mistake. Prison
ends, but you never get over killing a kid.”
Available on VHS (PAL/NTSC) or DVD, 45mins, cost £7
Produced by Payday, a network of men working with the Global Women’s Strike
payday@paydaynet.org www.refusingtokill.net Tel: 020 7209 4751
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