may 26 vigil for war resister (DESERTER/COWARD) dale landry
On Tuesday, May 26, Toronto-area supporters of US war resisters will gather outside the Federal Court to show support for former US soldier Dale Landry. Dale was granted leave to appeal the IRB's negative decision in his refugee claim.
Dale is a principled and outspoken activist on behalf of peace, and for all other war resisters. He lives in the Parkdale section of Toronto and works at reBoot Canada, a nonprofit company that provides computers, training and technical support to charities and low-income people. Dale is an active member of the War Resisters Support Campaign, and I'm honoured to call him my friend.
Dale is profiled in this story in the Dallas Observer, and this story from Guelph (he's the one of the left).
If you're in Toronto on Tuesday, please join us for a vigil in support of Dale, and if you can, attend the hearing.
When: Tuesday, May 26, 8:30 a.m.
Where: Federal Court Building, 180 Queen Street West (west of University)
Subway: Osgoode
Why: LET THEM STAY!
Memorial Day message from Blackfive
Matt Burden has a must-read message as we head into Memorial Day weekend. He e-mails “a pre-emptive strike on the attempts of the media to project victimhood. I can’t speak for all of the Fallen, but I know what my three brothers would have wanted me to do on Memorial Day: Honor them by ensuring that our future was worth the sacrifice of their tomorrows.”
Read the whole thing here.
“… The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain …” - Abraham Lincoln
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