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American Voices Abroad (AVA) Military Project
a project of U.S. citizens living
overseas supporting U.S. military personnel stationed overseas
10/25/2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AWOL Army Specialist AgustÍn Aguayo to Turn Himself in Tuesday,
September 26th.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Army Specialist Agustín Aguayo is a Conscientious Objector, a War
Resister, and an AWOL U.S. Soldier who will speak to supporters and the
media before turning himself in to Military Authorities on Tuesday,
September 26
Agustín Aguayo, Specialist First Class and medic with the 1st Infantry
Division, which deployed to Iraq for a second time on September 1st,
2006. Agustín applied to the Army for conscientious objector (CO)
status in February, 2004. When his application was denied, he filed a
habeas corpus civil law suit in Washington, DC against the Secretary of
the Army in August, 2005. On August 24, 2006 his habeas was denied.
And so an appeal was filed in the Washington DC court of appeals -- the
first such appeal since 1971. When the Army in Schweinfurt, Germany
tried to take him to Iraq by force on September 2nd, 2006, he escaped
and has been AWOL since then.
Supporters and family of War Resister Agustín Aguayo who will be
accompanied by his wife Helga Aguayo and Fernando Suarez del Solar,
father of first Mexican green-card marine who died in Iraq, will speak
at a press conference before Aguayo turns himself in to authorities at
the Fort Irwin Army base near Barstow, CA.
WHEN: at 11:00 AM on Tuesday, September 26, 2006
WHERE: Our Lady Queen of Angels Church, 535 N. Main Street, Los
Angeles, CA 90012
CONTACTS: Elsa Rassbach - AVA Military Project; HYPERLINK
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Cell
Phone: (646) 400-9206.
Fernando Suarez Del Solar - Guerrero Azteca
Peace Project (Spanish-speaking); Phone: (858) 774-0172
Email: HYPERLINK
"mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED];
Peter Goldberger & Jim Feldman (Aguayo Attorneys)
Phone; (610) 649-8200
J.E. McNeil & Bill Galvin Center on Conscience
& War Phone; (202) 483-222.
Endorsing Organizations:
Center on Conscience & War (CCW), the Central Committee for
Conscientious Objectors (CCCO),
Military Counseling Network (Germany), Code Pink, Connection, E.V.
(Germany), Courage to Resist,
Global Exchange, Guerrero Azteca Peace Project, Iraq Veterans Against
the War (IVAW),
Military Families Speak Out (MFSO Orange County); Munich American
Peace Committee (MAPC AVA in Munich, Germany), Not In Our Name (Bay
Area Chapter).
Fernando Suarez del Solar, Founder & Director
Guerrero Azteca Peace Project
(760)233-0630 Direct telephone
(760)746-4568 Main telephone
(760)737-2334 Fax
PO Box 300221,Escondido,CA 92030-0221
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HYPERLINK "http://www.guerreroazteca.org/"www.guerreroazteca.org
POR UNA GENERACION LLENA DE PAZ Y AMOR
FOR A GENERATION FILLED WITH PEACE AND LOVE
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