Letter

By Our Readers, Scott Sherman, Patricia J. Williams & Miles Schuman

This article appeared in the February 7, 2005 edition of The Nation.

January 20, 2005

Link to original article.

NORTHERN EXPOSURE

Toronto

Thanks to Alisa Solomon for "War Resisters Go North" [Jan. 3], on Jeremy Hinzman's application for refugee status in Canada. I am a Vietnam War resister at the War Resisters Support Campaign. Our goal is to convince the Canadian government to offer sanctuary to war resisters, as it did during the Vietnam War, when perhaps 60,000 of us came north. We believe that forcing war resisters to go through a drawn-out refugee process is inappropriate. US war resisters, after all, are conducting themselves exactly as Canada did in refusing to join the illegal Iraq War.

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About Scott Sherman

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About Patricia J. Williams

Patricia J. Williams, a professor of law at Columbia University and a member of the State Bar of California, writes The Nation column "Diary of a Mad Law Professor." Her books include The Rooster's Egg (1995), Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race (1997) and, most recently, Open House: On Family Food, Friends, Piano Lessons and The Search for a Room of My Own (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2004.) more...

About Miles Schuman

Miles Schuman is a family physician and member of the medical network of the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture. more...
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