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| From the Military Law Task Force Website, EFL: The Military Law Task Force was formed in the 1970s in Washington, D.C. when Jim Klimaski, Mike Gaffney, and Keith Snyder first began publishing ON WATCH. In 1978, Kathy Gilberd became chair and the office was moved to San Diego, California. The core of the Military Law Task Force has been people who were draft counselors/lawyers during the Vietnam War. We taught draft counseling classes in the 60s and set up the original anti-draft organizations at colleges and universities. As the war continued, we then moved on to military counseling and law. The history of the Guild's anti-war and draft counseling work can be traced back to 1967, when folks, including Freddy Gardner and Joseph Tieger, created the first GI Coffee Houses. Also at this time, Support Our Soldiers (SOS) and the US Servicemen's Fund (USSF) began. The Guild began its military law counseling in 1968, and published the "Military Counseling Manual" in 1969. The Winter Soldier Investigation and the FTA shows with Jane Fonda also spurred the movement forward. -------------------- Those of us involved during the Vietnam War, in the resulting draft resistance, in Vietnam Veterans Against the War and other Veterans' rights organizations, Don't Ask Don't Tell struggles, the "small wars" (Grenada, Kosovo, etc.), the "larger wars," and the Gulf War, all formed the MLTF to keep in contact and continue our work. Others have joined with us as time moved on and have provided political and legal direction to our work. We maintain close contacts with CCCO (Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors), the GI Hotline, CCW (Center on Conscience & War), Servicemember's Legal Defense Network and other groups. The MLTF assists the NLG's Emergency Response Network and its broader anti-war efforts. Then we go to the bottom of the home page for the credits: The Military Law Task Force wants to thank RESIST and the Tides Foundation for making this website possible.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 Don't forget George Soros, the other big domestic enemy and Tides Foundation contributor! |
| Posted by: DanNY 2004-08-10 12:25 |