Brian Willson joined us on Air Cascadia this morning in the run-up to the 'Conscience in Action' event tomorrow at the 1st Unitarian. For those of you who are not familiar with Willson’s story, In 1987, while engaged in a protest of U.S. weapons to Central America, Willson and other members of a Veterans Peace Action Team blocked railroad tracks at the Concord, California Naval Weapons Station. An approaching train did not stop, and struck the veterans. Willson was hit, ultimately losing both legs below the knee while suffering a severe skull fracture with loss of his right frontal lobe. Subsequently, he discovered that he had been identified for more than a year as an FBI domestic "terrorist" suspect under President Reagan's anti-terrorist task force provisions and that the train crew that day had been ordered to not stop the train to prevent any Hijacking attempts. Brian Willson’s ‘No Retreat and No Surrender’ approach to war resistance is the 'gold standard' for generations of anti-war activists.
Aururo Uribe is another unlikely and unsung hero in the Environmental Justice struggle. Uribe took on the Helena Chemical Company and perhaps single-handedly saved hundreds of lives in his small agricultural community. Using the power of the press he threw a wrench in the works and virtually halted Helena’s history of poisoning people and contaminating land.
And The Good News: FERC judge responsible for the Oregon LNG misconduct hearings sent an email to everyone who submitted a Notice of Intent to Participate in upcoming town hall hearings. Their notice of intent letters would become part of a public record if the writers don’t withdraw them. And who, in point of fact, would do that?
- KBOO