Political strategist Roy Temple was kind enough to promote yesterday’s piece on LaVena to the front page of Fired Up! Missouri. Many thanks to Roy and the readers of Fired Up!
April 2007
As before – following the Crooks & Liars post on LaVena Johnson – the Facebook community is responding today with many visits to the petition page. My thanks to all of you! Also: Don’t forget to write!
In her first tour of duty in Iraq, Army Spc. Suzanne Swift was subjected to sexual harassment from one superior officer and coercion by another into a sexual affair. Rather than face that kind of degradation again, Spc. Swift refused to return for a second deployment to Iraq. The response from a military that should [...]
From today’s Associated Press article on a U.S. House committee’s quest for honest answers for two military families: “After successive failed Department of Defense and Army inquiries, only a comprehensive, unrelenting congressional investigation can do justice to Pat’s memory, and restore service members’ confidence in their chain of command,” said Rep. Mike Honda, a Democrat [...]
This website is now located at a more streamlined URL - www.lavenajohnson.com. Anyone who has bookmarked or shared the original address need not worry, however; the URL www.lavenajohnson.blogspot.com will continue to work.
Chuc Smith of the St. Louis chapter of Veterans for Peace will be handing out flyers regarding the case of LaVena Johnson at today’s Make Hip Hop, Not War concert. The music event is one of a series making its way around the country. Make Hip Hop, Not War Concert Arrives in St. Louis Free [...]