Apologies for coming late to the July 18 writeup on PFC LaVena Johnson by Ann Friedman of Feministing. The post asks readers to spare just a couple of minutes to sign the Danielle Vyas-authored petition to Congress and President Bush, which has (of this writing) 2374 signatures with a goal of 3000. Friedman references posts [...]
Noted Writings
Kim Brummell, an Army veteran and member of the North Carolina American Civil Liberties Union, has written about PFC LaVena Johnson in a post titled “Deadly Wall of Silence.” How will cases like this affect women signing up for the service and staying in the military? How will it affect the respect citizens have for [...]
A couple of posts regarding LaVena Johnson came across my desk yesterday. One of them is a reprised article from early in the effort to prompt a renewed investigation of LaVena’s death in Iraq; the other is a new entry commenting on the provisional Oversight Committee report released this week. The revisited post by jurassicpork [...]
Josh Lucker of Socialist Appeal attended the Black & Green Wednesday panel discussion on PFC LaVena Johnson that was held on June 4, and has published an article in support of the effort to re-investigate her death in Iraq. On June 6th, a panel discussion was held in St. Louis to discuss the death of [...]
I learned this weekend that DailyKos blogger Gemina13 posted this June 30 diary: “Justice for Pfc. LaVena Johnson”: Women soldiers in the Iraqi-Afghanistan theaters have mostly been ignored, save when they can be trotted out for the cameras like Pfc. Jessica Lynch. Used by the armed forces in greater numbers, women soldiers are not only [...]
In the wake of several online articles on the death in Iraq of PFC LaVena Johnson and her family’s efforts to prompt a renewed investigation by the Army, Loren from Chicago saw that there was no Wikipedia entry for LaVena and so created one. There are links to several references and also to the official [...]