商品簡介
War what is good for! Absolutely nothing. The author was the last American arrested for the Vietnam draft, pardoned by Jimmy Carter, and logged more than 35 civil disobedience arrests as part of the peace movement. When he decamped to Canada, his first job was cataloguing Bertrand Russell's papers at McMaster University. Fear is what keeps many ordinary people from active resistance. This book is intended to break that cycle of fear and encourage greater resistance to militarism. Free Radicals is the first genuine effort to present absolutist war resisters. The information in the book is unavailable elsewhere. It contains the author's extensive research on military conscription and desertion worldwide. The bibliography offers both academics and resisters and their family the most comprehensive resource available.
作者簡介
CJ Hinke is a translator, book publisher and bibliographer of numerous children's books in Latin and Thai. He has lived in Thailand since 1989 where he founded Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT) in 2006 to campaign against pervasive censorship in Thai society following the military coup. As a Quaker, he became an organiser in the pacifist movement opposing the war in Vietnam and was arrested more than 35 times in demonstrations of civil disobedience. After moving to Canada, in 1976, he became the last American arrested for the Vietnam draft. CJ formed the Society Protecting Intact Kinetic Ecosystems (SPIKE) which supported the successful tree-spiking defence of one of the world's last intact temperate rainforests in Clayoquot Sound off the west coast of Vancouver Island. FACT's campaign is active internationally in resisting Internet, book, film and self-censorship: "Freedom of opinions, freedom of thought, freedom of ideas, every one of us deserves a voice. CJ is a member of the WikiLeaks:Advisory Board.
