Dodger Yotsiriza: Sitikupita!

Ndi CJ Hinke
Kuchokera ku Otsutsa Aulere: Otsutsana Nkhondo M'ndende ndi CJ Hinke, akubwera kuchokera ku Trine-Day mu 2016.

Bambo anga, Robert Hinke, sanali ndale. Ndiponso sanali wachipembedzo. Komabe, iye anali wathunthu pacifist.

Pamene ndinali kamnyamata kakang'ono, ananditengera ku chimodzi mwa ziwonetsero zotsutsana ndi chilango cha imfa kwa azondi a atomi, Ethel ndi Julius Rosenberg. Iye anali wokonda ndi kuwonetsera moyo wake wonse motsutsana ndi chilango cha imfa, cholakwika chimene sichikanatha kuwonongedwa.

Bambo anga anali ndi zaka zakubadwa pamene US anadziponya ku Nkhondo Yachiwiri Yadziko Lonse. Akanadziwa kuti anthu amakana kulowa usilikali chifukwa cha zimene amakhulupirira, sindinamvepo akunena. Sindinayambe ndamuwona akuvota.

Iye anali mcheza mpira wa mpira ku Rutgers. Pamene adaitanidwa kuti ayambe kukonza thupi, adakakamiza wina wodewera kuti aswe mphuno yake pomunyoza amayi ake. Akuluakulu a boma atamuuza kuti adatha kumenyana naye, adakalipira msilikali wa mpira uja kuti amupangire m'mphuno. Analephera kuwirikiza thupi lachiwiri-chipinda chosasunthika chinkaimira msirikali yemwe sankakhoza kuvala maski.

Ndimachokera ku "dada ndi chivundikiro". Tinaphunzitsidwa kusukulu kuti kubisala pansi pa madesiki athu ndikuphimba mitu yathu kudzatipulumutsa ku bomba!

Sindinali mnyamata wopanduka kwambiri. Kuvomereza kukhulupirika ku mbendera ndichifukwa chake ndikudziwiratu kuchokera kumanzere. Koma, polowa nawo a Cub Scouts, ndikuwonekera pamsonkhano kuti nditenge chikole, ndinadziwa kuti sindingathe kuvala yunifolomu ndikutsata malamulo; Ndinaponyera pansi pini yanga ndikunyansidwa ndikuyendayenda pamsewu.

Ndinali 13 mu 1963, pamene Komiti Yachigawo ya SANE Nuclear Policy inadutsa kudera lakwawo la Nutley, New Jersey, motsogoleredwa ndi dokotala wazamuna Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903-1998). Ndinawerenga tsamba la SANE lonena za chiwonongeko chokhazikika.

Pasanapite nthawi, ndinayendetsa ndege ya SANE kupita ku United Nations kuti ndikathandize Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Uku ndikumangidwa kwanga koyamba chifukwa chosamvera malamulo. M'mamawa a New York City, ndinakumana ndi anthu oyamba kugonana ndikuphunzira kusewera blackjack pogwiritsa ntchito fodya.

Kuyambira pano, ndinawerenga zonse zomwe ndingazipeze zokhudza Hiroshima ndi Nagasaki, ndi kuyesedwa kwa zida za nyukiliya. Ndinayamba kuphunzira chinenero cha Chijapani chaka chotsatira kuti ndiyandikire kwambiri nkhaniyi ndi chiwawa choopsa chimene America adachita ku Japan ndi padziko lapansi.

Anzanga apamtima anandidziwitsa ku Msonkhano Wachisanu ndi Mzanga waumulungu ndi umboni wawo wamtendere, powona Kuwala mwa munthu aliyense. A Quakers ndi mpingo wamtendere koma abwenzi anga sali achipembedzo, komanso sindinali nawo. Iwo sanatenge zaka zambiri pozindikira kuti sindingathe kulembetsa ku Vietnam.

Mwachidule, kulembetsa chakudya kumapereka makina a nkhondo. Ngati simukukhulupirira mu nkhondo, muyenera kukana zolembazo.

Panali nthawi imeneyi ndinayamba kukana kulipira msonkho wa nkhondo kuntchito yanga. Zochita izi zinapangitsa kuti zedi zitheke kukhala wothirira ndiwo zamasamba: Ngati sindidzapha, ndiyenera kulipira munthu aliyense kuti andichite chifukwa cha ine. Sindinadziwe aliyense wamasamba; Ine ndinali ndisanamvepo za china chirichonse koma chinali funso la kupanga ntchito yopanda chinyengo kwa ine. Ndimakondabe lero.

Ndinayamba kugwiritsa ntchito nthawi yanga yonse yaulere ku magulu a zachiwawa ku 5 Beekman Street mumunsi wa Manhattan. Ndinafika ku ofesi ya National Union Union Student Peace Union ndipo ndinaphunzitsidwa ndi adindo a American pacifists, AJ Muste. Ndayesetsa kuchita nawo nkhondo ku War Resisters League ndi Komiti Yopanda Chiwawa, nthawi zambiri ndikugwira ntchito pamakalata awo ndikuthandizira ndi makalata.

Nthawi imeneyi inkawotchedwa makalata ambiri omwe ankawotcha ngati zandale zandale. Kukonzekera kwa khadi ndi kubwezeretsa kwachitika kuyambira kuyambika kwa 'mtendere nthawi' SSA ku 1948 koma kuwonongeka kwa makadi a makhadi sikunapitsidwe mosavomerezeka kufikira msonkhano wapadera wa Congress unaperekedwa ku 1965. Mmodzi mwa oyambirira kuwotchedwa, mu 1965, anali bwenzi langa, Mkatolika Wogwira Ntchito David Miller, ku Whitehall Street Induction Center ku New York. Kukana kwa 30,000 kukana mu July 1966 kuwuka kwa 46,000 ndi October.

Gulu laling'ono lathu, kuphatikizapo Dr. Spock, adagwidwa tsiku lomwelo kuti atseke zitseko za pakati. Ine, komabe, ndinatsimikiza kuti sindidzalemba khadi kuti ndiwotche. Ndinachita izi, ndikukondwera ndikupandukira pamene mmodzi wa akuluakulu a malamulo adandipatsa ine yekha! Chotsatirachi chinatsatiridwa ndi Komiti ya Fifth Peace Parade, yomwe inatsogoleredwa ndi Norma Becker, yomwe ndinathandizira kukonzekera mu March 26, 1966 ndi Sybil Claiborne wa Greenwich Village Peace Center.

Tinalingalira kuti ndife gulu latsopano la anyamata achichepere, The Resistance. Ndinagwira ntchito nthawi zonse kwa The Resistance ndipo pamapeto pake ndinasankha kukambirana ndi magulu osiyanasiyana omwe amapanga Mobe pakukonzekera kukonzekera kukonzekera nkhondo ku Vietnam pa April 15, 1967.

Kugwa uku, mgwirizano wathu wachipanichi unadutsa malire kupita ku Montréal komwe chilungamo cha padziko lonse cha 1967, Expo '67, chimachitikira ku likulu la French Canada. US idalamula chimphona chachikulu chopangidwa ndi akatswiri amtsogolo a Buckminster Fuller kuti apange bwalo ladziko lonse. Tidavala masikipa ojambulidwa ndi zilembo zankhondo yankhondo pansi pa zovala zathu za mumsewu ndikupita nawo pachionetserocho ndikutsika pamakwerero oyenda kuti tikwere nawo. Tidamangidwa ndi makwerero ndikuchotsedwa, ndipo tidakhala usiku usanatulutsidwe popanda mlandu kuchokera ku Ndende ya Bordeaux ya 1908. Zachidziwikire, tidapanga nkhani zapadziko lonse lapansi. Takulandilani ku Canada!

Kukaniza kunali yisiti yomwe inakula Mobe; ife tinayambitsa mkate kuti zichitike. Pulezidenti wa Mobe adapita ku Komiti Yoyendetsera Nkhondo Yothetsa Nkhondo ku Vietnam, motsogoleredwa ndi Dave Dellinger, amene adatsogolera 100,000-strong Confront ya Warmaker kuti ayende pa Pentagon pa October 21, 1967.

682 ife tinamangidwa ku Pentagon, kumangidwa kwakukulu kwa anthu osamvera ku America m'mbiri yakale. (Inde, anthu ena amaika maluwa mu mbiya za mfuti za National Guardkeepers kutiteteza ife ndipo asilikali ena adalowa nafe-ine ndinawona!)

A Mobe anali ndi masitolo ambiri amtundu komanso ambiri a 'New Left', monga a Students for a Democratic Society ndi ena okhudzidwa nawo nkhondo monga Komiti Yogwirizanitsa Ophunzira, Black Panthers, Congress of Racial Equality, Industrial Antchito a Dziko, ndi Yippies.

Monga nthumwi yoyendayenda, ndinapita ku msonkhano wachigawo woyamba wa Wobblies ndi msonkhano woyamba wa American Communist kuyambira pamene McCarthy's Red amaopseza. Ndinaona ntchito yanga monga kugwira mgwirizanowu kuti asakhale ndi chiwawa. Chiwawa chinali njira yodzigonjetsa ya boma lalikulu.

Ndinali kupereka uphungu wochuluka wa anyamata a msinkhu wa zaka zapakati pa The Resistance. Ambiri omwe ndimagwira nawo ntchito kundende amapita kundende, ndikulamulidwa zaka zitatu kapena zisanu pansi pa Selection Service Act. Ine ndikhoza moona mtima kuti ndisamayembekezere zochepa. Bambo anga sanali okondwa ndi mwayi uwu koma sanayese kundiletsa, kaya. Ndinayamba kulemba uphungu ku Canada, omwe amatchedwa kuti '' dodgers 'ndi omenyera nkhondo, komanso anasangalala ndikagwa kwa mtsikana wina wa ku Quaker ku Canada pamene ndikukonza Daniel Finnerty ndi Charles Funnell Anatengedwa ku ukapolo: Buku la Olemba Zaka Zakale Chifukwa cha Kutsutsana kwa Philadelphia mu 1967.

Pa May 6, 1968, masiku asanu kuchokera tsiku la kubadwa kwa 18th, ife tinakhala ndi chiwonetsero kutsogolo kwa Nyumba Yachigawo ku Newark, New Jersey, kumene madokotala ndi maulendo anali kukonzekera. Komabe, tsiku limenelo kuposa anthu a 1,500, omwe amasangalatsidwa ndi Bwalo la Mkate ndi Chidole ndi General Hershey Bar, (wotsogoleredwayo wa otsogolera, General Lewis B. Hershey), adakondwerera kukana kwanga kulembetsa. Panalibe zovuta kapena mankhwala tsiku limenelo. Ma Feds adasokonezedwa ndipo anasiya maofesi onse a draftee.

Oposa a 2,000 omwe anandithandizirawo adasaina chikalata cholengeza kuti adandipatsa uphungu, anandithandiza ndikundinyengerera kukana zolembazo, zomwe zimapereka chilango chomwecho cha zaka zisanu m'ndende komanso chabwino cha $ 10,000. Tinadzipatulira ku Federal Marshal ku Newark amene anangondimanga. Ndipo ine ndinali nditanyamula botolo la dzino!

Liwu lakuti 'evader' liri ndi malire osayenerera, ngati mmodzi anali wamantha. Tiyenera kusintha malingaliro chifukwa zinthu zokhazokha zomwe zikuthawa ndizopanda chilungamo. Ma CO amatchedwanso, mosasamala, 'shirkers' kapena 'slackers'. Chinthu chokha chomwe ife timagwiritsa ntchito ndikumenyana ndi maunyolo a nkhondo.

Ndinakonzeratu kale kusamukira ku Canada. Komabe, ndinali ndi zinthu zambiri zofunikira kuti ndithetse nkhondo.

Chilimwe changa cha 1968 chinagwiritsidwa ntchito ku Polaris Action Farm ya Komiti ya New England ya Nonviolent Action, yomwe inali pafupi ndi nyumba ya famu ya 1750 kumidzi ya Voluntown, Connecticut. M'chilimwechi, gulu lopambilana labwino lomwe limadzitcha okha a Minutemen akukonzekera kuwukira famu ya CNVA ndi kupha anthu onse okonda nkhondo. Apolisi adadziwa za chiwembu koma sanatiuze chifukwa adaganiza kuti tiyenera kuchenjeza a Minutemen.

Ophika asanu okwerawo anafika usiku wa August usiku ndipo anakhazikitsa zida zankhondo pamtunda. Panthawiyi, apolisi a State Connecticut anadula Minutemen kukhala moto. Mmodzi mwa maulendowo anawombera dzenje la mmodzi wa anthu, Roberta Trask; ankafunikira opaleshoni yaikulu ndi kukonzanso. Kwa zaka zingapo, ndinalembera kundende ina ya Minutemen. New England CNVA amakhala ngati Voluntown Peace Trust.

Chilimwe changa cha 1969 chinagwiritsidwa ntchito ndi Arlo Tatum, George Willoughby, Bent Andressen ndi ena ku Komiti Yaikulu Yotsutsa Chikumbumtima ku Philadelphia, aphungu a amuna akuluakulu ndikukonzanso buku la 11th la CCCO la Handbook for Objectors. Ndinali ndi mwayi wokhala ndi olimbikitsa mtendere wamtendere Wally ndi Juanita Nelson. Sindinayambe ndakomana nawo olimbikitsa odzipereka kwambiri kapena wina aliyense mu chikondi .; iwo ankakondwerera moyo mwa njira iliyonse.

New England CNVA inandisankha ine monga nthumwi yawo ku Bungwe la Japan Socialist Party pachaka pa Conference Against A ndi H mu 1969 chifukwa cha kafukufuku wanga pa mabomba a atomiki ndi luso lachijapani. Ndinali mmodzi mwa anthu asanu ndi atatu omwe anali nthumwi padziko lonse ndipo makamaka wamng'ono kwambiri.

Palibe chimene chikanandikonzera Hiroshima pa 8: 15 ndiri pa August 6th pa epicenter ya "Little Boy" kuphulika kwa atomiki; palibe kuyitana kwakukulu kwa mtendere. Ndikugwira ntchito ndi World Friendship Center yomwe inakhazikitsidwa mu 1965 ndi Barbara Reynolds, ndinakhala nthawi zambiri ku chipatala cha Hiroshima ndi Nagasaki Atomic Bomb kumene anthu adakali ndi matenda a miyendo pafupifupi 70.

Kunja kwa asilikali a ku United States ku Naha, Okinawa, ndinapereka chinenero m'Chijapani. Kenaka ndinatembenuza oyankhula kuti awononge chiphona chachikulu cha US ndi malangizo othawa.

Mu September 1969, ndinapezeka ndikukhala ku Canada. Ntchito yanga yodalirika inali kugwira ntchito ndi mapepala ambiri olemba mabuku a British philosophy Bertrand Russell ku University of McMaster. Russell anali wothandizira kwambiri anthu amene anakana kulowa usilikali chifukwa cha zimene amakhulupirira, monga momwe Henri Barbusse, Albert Einstein, ndi HG Wells ankachitira.

Ndinalimbikitsidwa kwambiri ndi a Quaker pacifists a Toronto, a Jack ndi Nancy Pocock amene anatsegula kwawo ku Yorkville ndi mitima yawo kwa anthu ambiri omwe anatengedwa ukapolo, ndipo pambuyo pake anathawa ndi anthu othamanga ku Vietnam.

Zomwe ndidakumana nazo ngatiupangiri woyeserera zidanditsogolera kuti tigwire ntchito ndi a Mark Satin a Toronto Anti-Draft Program kuti tisinthe ndikukonzanso buku lachinayi la buku la Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada, lofalitsidwa mu 1970. Wofalitsa bukuli, House of Anansi Press , ndidayamba kucheza ndi maphunziro ena a Rochdale College ku Toronto, komwe ndidakhala nzika komanso woyang'anira.

Ntchito yanga yopindulitsa panthawiyo inali yotchuka ya Addiction Research Foundation ya Toronto, mtunda wautali kuchokera ku The Rock, kuchokera ku chipinda chimodzi kupita kuchipatala. Ndinabweretsa mankhwala osokoneza bongo kuchokera kwa anthu ogulitsa Rochdale kupita kwa madokotala a ARF kukayezetsa, kuteteza chitetezo cha midzi ya achinyamata. M'kupita kwa nthawi ndinasamukira ku ARF kupita ku chipatala cha Whitby Psychiatric kuchipatala kumene ndinakhala ndi aphunzitsi aakulu a British, RD Laing ndi David Cooper. Tinawalepheretsa makina osankhidwa ndi electroshock kumeneko ndipo tinatenga psychedelic zambiri.

Panali nthawi imeneyi yomwe ndimagwira ntchito pamtunda wamtunda wamtunda wamtunda wamtunda wamtunda womwe unapanga kayendetsedwe ka kayendedwe ka dziko la Canada ndi Sweden chifukwa cha asilikali a usilikali achimerika ndi olemba masewera olimbitsa nyumba kale.

Ndikuyenera kutchula kuti moyo mu gulu la mtendere lamtendere ndilovuta kuchita. Koma kusagwirizana kwachidziwitso kumafuna nthawi zonse kubwezeretsa. Noncoöperation yeniyeni ili ndi nthawi yotsiriza ndipo kenako munthu ayenera kupita kuzinthu zatsopano, njira zatsopano. Mosiyana ndi anthu ambiri otsutsa ndondomeko omwe anatsala ku US, ndikupita ku Canada, monga ine Lowell Naeve m'masamba awa, kukonzanso kotsitsimutsa kumene kunandithandiza kukhalabe woona kwa chikumbumtima changa ndi makhalidwe abwino koma ndikukhalabe pamapeto kuganiza mozama ndi kusanthula.

Zingakhale zokhudzana ndi ine kuti ndisagwiritse ntchito kwambiri LSD pakati pa achinyamata chifukwa cholimbikitsa kulimbikitsa kukana. Ndizovuta kukhala chimodzi ndi chirichonse pamene kuvulaza wina kuli ngati kudzipha wekha. Ndikuyembekeza kufufuza kwa uzimu komwe kunapangidwa kotheka ndi psychedelics kubwerera kwa ife. Timafunikira izo ...

Kwa zaka makumi angapo zapitazo, ndakhala ndikudziwitsidwa ndikudziwitsanso zomwe ndikuchita mwachindunji. Ndemanga yanga yakula kwambiri. Tsopano ndikuvomereza mwakuya zokhuza zachuma ndikuwonongedwa kwa magetsi. Sindikuganiza kuti wochita zachiwawa ayenera kutero poyera ndikuperekedwa nsembe. Ndibwino kuti muzichita mobisa ndikukhalanso ndikudyetsa monkeywrench ina yomwe idzapindulitsa kwambiri kuthetsa chiwawa.

Ndondomeko ya "ukapolo" ingasinthe mkhalidwe wanga koma osati moyo wanga. Ku Canada, sindinalephere kuwuza FBI za kusintha kwanga. Komabe, nditatsutsidwa mu 1970, iwo sanandidziwitse. Ndinkadziwa kuti sindinavomereze pamene ndikupita ku US koma sindinalemetsedwe.

M'dzinja la 1976, ine ndinabwereka nyumba yaulendo ku farm Roberto, Washington. Point Roberts ndi American chifukwa cha malo ake pansi pa 49th kufanana. Zingatheke kupyolera mumadzi a ku America kapena pamsewu ... kudutsa ku Canada.

Nkhondo ya ku America inali itatha zaka zoposa. Komabe, madzulo amdima madzulo a December, akugogoda pakhomo adalengeza, US Marshals, apolisi apanyumba ndi akuluakulu a nduna. Nditawauza kuti ndine wa Canada ndipo ndimangotuluka mumsewu wawo tikafika kumalire, anandiuza kuti ndizivala mofunda.

Ndinamangidwa ndipo ndinkanyamula katundu, anandigwedeza m'boti laling'ono la aluminium kupita kwa wodula ku Coast Guard wa 70 ndi asilikali a 15. Pamene anyamata awa, onse aang'ono kuposa ine, adafunsa zomwe ndachita, adadabwa; kwa mwamuna, iwo amaganiza kuti zolembazo zatha. Ndichifukwa chake ndinafika ku Whatcom County Jail. Pofuna kusokoneza othandizira anga omwe anali kusonkhana kundende, adanditengera kundende ya King County ku Seattle. Ndinasala kudya mpaka Purezidenti watsopano atsegulidwe.

Ndinali nditangomaliza kumangidwa ku America chifukwa cha ndondomeko ya Vietnam, ndipo woyamba adakhululukidwa.

Jimmy Carter anasankhidwa Purezidenti mu November wa 1976. Tsiku lotsatira atatenga udindo, January 21, 1977, Carter oyamba ntchito yake monga Purezidenti ndi Proclamation 4483 yomwe inakhululukira anthu onse omwe amatsutsidwa kuti aphwanya malamulo a 1964 mpaka 1973. Kuphatikiza ndi ine-ndinayenda! Chikondwerero chachikulu cha omuthandiza chinachitikira ku Capitol Hill Methodist Church.

Chifukwa cha malo anga apakati mu bungwe lamtendere la America, ndinayambitsa zokambiranazi mu 1966 ndili ndi zaka 16. Ndinkaganiza kuti ndikupita kundende chifukwa cha ndondomekoyi ndipo ndinkafuna kuti ndisamangidwe. Posakhalitsa ndinawona kuti zoyankhulanazi zikanakhala za kudzoza komweko ndikulimbikitsanso kwa ena osungira masewera monga momwe analiri kwa ine.

Komanso, ubwenzi wanga ndi otsutsa ochita manthawu unanditsimikizira kuti chikumbumtima chinatsogolera kudzipereka, kudzipereka kuzinyoza, kukana kutsutsa, ndi kukana kufooketsa. Achinyamata ambiri omwe ankakonda kuchita zachiwawa ankandichititsa kuti ndizikonda kwambiri achinyamata.

Ndinaganiza zopangira ntchitoyi m'buku kuti ndigawane. Mng'oma wa Pacifist, wolemba ndakatulo Barbara Deming, inalembedwa ndi Richard Grossman ku New York. Ndi mawu ake oyamba, Dick anavomera kufalitsa bukuli. Dick anandipatsa ndalama za $ 3000 patsogolo ndipo anatilola kukhala kumudzi wake wa kumwera kwa Loweruka kwa mwezi umodzi. Komabe, ndinali ndikusamukira ku Canada, bukuli linatayika, ndipo ndinathawa ndi ndalama za Grossman. (Pepani, Dick!) Mchimwene wanga posachedwapa adapeza kachiwiri mabokosi anga a archives, patatha zaka zoposa 40.

Nthawi zina ndimamva ngati Forrest Gump ya kayendedwe ka pacifist yamakono. Ndinakumana ndi aliyense, ndasonyeza paliponse, ndinamangidwa nthawi zambiri. Ndakhala ndi mwayi wokhala banja la mibadwo itatu yotchedwa refuseniks. Lero ndimayesetsa kupereka chiphunzitso cha chikumbumtima kwa ophunzira anga.

Ndinkafuna kudziwa ngati zolembedwazo zinali zokhudzana ndi mbiri yakale kapena ngati zinali zogwirizana ndi akatswiri omenyana ndi nkhondo lero. Pogwiranso ntchito ndi zokambiranazi, ndikupeza kuti otsutsawa anafesa mbewu za nzeru zanga za anarchism, socialism, ndi pacifism, chilungamo chofanana, ufulu wa anthu. Sindinasuntheke tsopano kwa ine monga munthu wachikulire monga momwe analili pamene ndinali wachinyamata. Otsutsa amtendere awa adatiphunzitsa ife tanthauzo lonse lenileni la kulimba mtima.

Ndinadandaula chifukwa cha mutu wa buku lino mu 1966. Ndinagwiritsa ntchito mawu a Thoreau ndipo ndinatchula kuti, "M'chichepere Chachisanu ...". Ndikuganiza tsopano, kuti mutu umenewu unali wochokera m'nthawi yake, pamene anyamata ankaganiza kuti akupita kundende -ndende inali yotsiriza. Sindikukhulupirira zimenezo. Ndimaganiza kuti kusamvera kwapachiweniweni kwapakati pa zaka zapakati pa 21 iyenera kukhala kusankha kwathu koyamba ... ngati tadzipereka ku kusintha kweniyeni ndi tanthauzo. Ndipo CD imayenera kukhala ndi chisangalalo! Bwinobwino, musagwidwe ndikukhala ndi moyo tsiku lina. Uku ndiko kusandulika kosasinthika ...

Kuvota ndi mapazi anga sikunapangitse kuti ndisinthe. Ndinamangidwa ndi 1,500 ena ku Nevada Nuclear Test Site ku 1983; Quakers anali "gulu langa lachikondi" (sheesh!); tinatseka mikono ndipo tinathamanga mofulumira ndipo tikhoza kufika pamwamba pa mpanda, ndikupanga gogalu la Wackenhut kuthamanga kuthamangitsa ife pakati pa cacti ndi ma SUVs. Nditapemphedwa ndi apolisi a boma, ndinapatsa dzina langa kuti "Martin Luther King".

Ndinamanga nyumba yamtunda ku Clayoquot Sound kuchokera ku gombe la kumadzulo kwa chilumba cha Vancouver ku 1975. Anthu oyambirira anthu akhala pano zaka 10,000. Iwo anabwera ndi mkungudza pamene zaka zomaliza za ayezi zinatha. Kuchokera ku 1984 mpaka 1987, ndinateteza mvula yamkuntho yakale ya Pacific ya 1,500, yoyamba ku Meares Island, kumaso kwanga.

Njira yanga idachotsedwa kwa odula mitengo. Ndidathandizira kuyendetsa zisikoko zazikulu mumitengo yamtengo wapatali kwambiri kuti izikhala yopanda phindu kumakampani opanga mapepala achimbudzi komanso mapepala. Ponseponse, ma kilomita 12½ lalikulu odula mitengo adalasidwa pachilumba cha Meares, mitengo yopitilira 23,000 yakale. Ndinatsatira izi ndi zopereka zokomera mitengo ku Earth First! bukhu, Ecodefense: Chitsogozo cha Munda Woyeserera Monkey ndi EF! wothandizana naye Dave Foreman.

Sulfur Passage pa chilumba cha Clayoquot cha Vancouver Island nayenso anaopsezedwa ndi kale-growth clearcut logging. Ine ndi mwana wanga wamkazi tinaponyera pang'onopang'ono mumsewu kuti tisiye patsogolo. Ndani amalankhula pamitengo, mpaka patakwera makwerero athu? Nditamangidwa ndi helikopita, ndinadzichitira ndekha ku Khoti Lalikulu la BC ndipo ndinatumikira masiku a 37 kuti ndisamanyalanyaze ndende za ndende.

Antipodean corporado yaikulu kwambiri, yolamulira 20 ¢ ya ndalama iliyonse ya New Zealand, inali kutsogolera kudutsa kumadzulo. Ndinapita ku New Zealand pamodzi ndi gulu la anthu oimba nyimbo za Clayoquot kuti timveketse mau a 1990 Commonwealth Games ku Auckland. Tinathenso kutseka nsanja ya kampani ya olemba mitengoyo ndikukutumiza kuti tithawe.

Ndinamangidwanso ku Oakland, California chifukwa chotseka sitima zamaphunziro ku Station Concrete Naval Weapons ku 1987. Gulu laling'ono lathu linapanga njira ndi mahema. M'kati mwa hema, tinkabweretsa zipangizo zolemera ndipo tinali otanganidwa kuchotsa njanji.

Nditasamukira ku Thailand, chinsinsi, chongopeka, chosasamala chinachititsa kuti ndikufufuze maphunziro ndi kuphunzitsa ophunzira anga kupanga mapepala apikisano apadziko lonse. Ndinayamba ufulu wotsutsa ufulu wa ku Thailand (FACT) ndi pempho kwa Komiti ya National Human Rights Commission. Palibe amene adayankhula pagulu ponena za kupha anthu ku Thai komwe, boma likutsegula ma webusaiti oposa mamiliyoni oposa. MFUNDO inasintha zokambirana zadzidzidzi zokhudzana ndi kuyang'anitsitsa kuchokera pazomwe zimakhala zovuta. Kuwongolera kulibe vuto lotentha-pano apa.

MFUNDO yaikapo ziphuphu za boma monga mabungwe oyambirira a WikiLeaks ku 2006. Kumayambiriro kwa 2007, Julian Assange anandiitana kuti ndikatumikire ku bungwe la alangizi a mayiko a WikiLeaks, malo amene ndikugwiritsabe ntchito.

Panopo, ndine woyambitsa msonkhano wa Nonviolent Conflict Workshop ku Bangkok. Tikuyembekeza kuti tidzavomerezedwa chifukwa chokana kulowa usilikali chifukwa cha chikumbumtima chawo kudziko la Thailand ndi cholinga chofuna kuthetsa kulembedwa kwathunthu.

Ndikufuna makamaka kuvomereza ndikuyamikira komanso kukonda kwambiri owunikira pacifist omwe adandiphunzitsa ku 5 Beekman Street: AJ Muste (1885-1967); Dave Dellinger (1915-2004) (Kumasulidwa); Karl Bissinger (1914-2008), Grace Paley (1922-2007), Igal Roodenko (1917-1991), Ralph DiGia (1914-2008), Jim Peck (1914-1993), David McReynolds (War Resisters League); Bradford Lyttle, Peter Kiger, Marty Jezer (1940-2005), Maris Cakars (1942-1992) & Susan Kent, Barbara Deming (1917-1984), Keith & Judy Lampe, Paul Johnson, Eric Weinberger (1932-2006), Allan Solomonow (Committee for Nonviolent Action, New York Workshop in Nonviolence and WIN Magazine); Joe Kearns (Mgwirizano wa Ophunzira Wamtendere). M'magulu athu onse omenyera nkhondo, Max & Maxine Hoffer (Msonkhano wa Anzanu a Montclair); Marjorie & Bob Swann, Neil Haworth (New England Committee for Nonviolent Action); Wally (1909-2002) & Juanita Nelson, Ernest (1912-1997) & Marion (1912-1996) Bromley, (Opanga Mtendere); Arlo Tatum, George Willoughby (1914-2010), Bent Andresen, Lawrence Scott (Komiti Yaikulu ya Okana Kulowa Usilikali). Omwe olimba mtima pacifists amakhalabe achibale anga otsutsa. Anali ofatsa komanso okakamiza pakupanga dziko labwino kwa aliyense. Anandipatsa maphunziro amtendere abwino kwambiri omwe mwana wamwamuna waku Murrican akanatha kukhala nawo. Zakhalapobe mpaka lero.

Zingakhale zotsutsana ndi ine kuti ndisagwirizane ndi gulu langa lamtendere lachitetezo ndi zowonjezera: Ma Ravocal pro bono oyendetsa milandu, (ndipo kawirikawiri wanga): Bill Kunstler (1919-1995), Gerry Lefcourt, Len Weinglass (1933-2011), ndi Lenny Boudin (1912-1989). Iwo nthawi zambiri ankatchulidwa kuti anyozedwa podziteteza. Timothy Leary (1920-1996); Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997); AC Bhaktivedanta Swami (1896-1977) (Chisamaliro cha Krishna); Michael Francis Itkin (1936-1989) (Gay Bishop); Paul Krassner (Weniweni); Stokely Carmichael (Komiti Yogwirizanitsa Ophunzira Osafunika); Gary Rader (1944-1973) (Chicago Area Draft Resisters); Mtumiki Wokhudzana ndi Mtendere (1908-1981); Mario Savio (1942-1996); Jim Forest (Mkangano wa Katolika Wachikatolika); Aryeh Neier (New York Civil Liberties Union); Abie Nathan (1927-2008) (Liwu la Mtendere); Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989) (Yippie!); Bob Fass (WBAI); Dee Jacobsen (Ophunzira a Democratic Society); ndi Walter Dorwin Teague III (Komiti ya United States Yothandiza Pulogalamu ya National Liberation ya Vietnam). Ogwira ntchito zankhondo: Grey Nun Dr. Rosalie Bertell; Dokotala wa ku Australia Dr. Helen Caldicott; Mlongo Megan Rice, Michael Walli, Gregory Boertje-Obed (Transform Now Plowshares); Alongo Ogwira Ntchito Akatolika Rosemary Lynch ndi Klaryta Antoszewska (Nevada Desert Experience). Ndipo akatswiri athu: Richard Gregg (1885-1974), Gene Keyes, George Lakey, Gene Sharp, Paul Goodman (1911-1972), Howard Zinn (1922-2010), Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982), Noam Chomsky.