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Why Do We Kill, Maim, and Colonize? Case of Norman Morrison

June 12, 2013 – 5:34 pm

S. Brian Willson, June 1986 While in Nicaragua during January and February of 1986, I was very moved by the attitudes of love and compassion extended to me by the Nicaraguan people. Why are they not angry and bitter toward me, a citizen of the mast powerful nation in the world that is waging a […]

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S Brian Willson, 71 years old, Guantanamo Fast Solidarity Statement, June 4, 2013.

June 5, 2013 – 9:32 am

(brianwillson.com; bloodonthetracks.info) My Personal Fast I have been on a 300-calorie-a-day indefinite hunger strike since Sunday evening, May 12. As of today, having completed 23 days of fasting, I have lost nearly 21 pounds. My participation in this strike was prompted by the decision of 130-140 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (where 166 total prisoners […]

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The Gated Society: The U.S. love affair with incarceration, solitary confinement and torture

May 29, 2013 – 11:28 am

I live in a country (the USA which in mid-2011 had 311,800,000 people) that imprisons more than 2.5 million of its citizens on an average day in more than 9,000 jails and prisons, boasting the highest per capita detention rate in the world by far – 800 prisoners for every 100,000 people {Local jails: 785,556 [Bureau […]

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Guantanamo Hunger Strike/Vigil

May 16, 2013 – 1:42 am

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release:             Contact: Dan Shea Thursday, May 16, 2013            503-750-7649 Guantanamo Hunger Strike/Vigil Begins Today at 3:00 PM in front of Portland City Hall (Look for a large colorful banner and people wearing prison-style orange jumpsuits.) Seventy-one-year-old S. Brian Willson, a Viet Nam veteran member of Veterans For Peace, Portland Chapter […]

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Brief History US Sabotage of Korean Peace and Reunification

April 4, 2013 – 1:24 pm

The U.S. decision to artificially divide an ancient homogenous Korea upon the surrender of the Japanese, August 15, 1945, and the subsequent U.S.-directed reign of terror, 1945-1948, that led directly to the war of national independence against western imperialist intervention, 1948-1950, and then, consequently, the hot war, 1950-1953, to be followed by extensive periods of […]

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