Stories by Sarah Lazare
Sarah Lazare is the Project Director of Courage to Resist, an organization that supports military war resisters.
AWOL soldiers who turned themselves in endure deplorable conditions, not knowing whether they'll face charges, trial, deployment, or medical release.
Posted on Aug 11, 2009, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Forty miles south of Seattle, at Ft. Lewis Army Base, COFFEE STRONG provides a space for soldiers to explore GI resistance.
Posted on Mar 5, 2009, Source: Courage to Resist
Canadians overwhelmingly support allowing U.S. war resisters asylum. So why doesn't their government?
Posted on Feb 20, 2009, Source: Courage to Resist
Shepherd has been living underground in Germany for nearly two years; he applied for refugee status on the grounds that the Iraq War is illegal.
Posted on Jan 8, 2009, Source: AlterNet
How 21-year-old soldier Blake Ivey came to see war as "flat-out murder."
Posted on Oct 23, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Soldiers who decide to become conscientious objectors face a major struggle, but it can also be "the most liberating thing ever."
Posted on Oct 8, 2008, Source: AlterNet
At the Veterans for Peace conference, IVAW member Harvey Tharp discusses the war, the election, and why he resigned in protest over the war.
Posted on Sep 1, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Long, an Iraq War resister deported from Canada last month, was sentenced to 15 months of prison and dishonorable discharge.
Posted on Aug 25, 2008, Source: Courage to Resist
The first war resister to be deported from Canada since the Vietnam War faces court-martial and three years in jail. Who is next?
Posted on Aug 21, 2008, Source: AlterNet
