The War Resisters Support Campaign (WRSC) is a Canadian non-profit community organization, founded in April 2004 in Toronto, Ontario to mobilize support among Canadians and worldwide to convince the Canadian government to offer sanctuary to all U.S. military personnel who wish to come to Canada because of their opposition to the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
See also: Canada and Iraq War Resisters, List of Iraq War Resisters, Jeremy Hinzman, Robin Long, Joshua Key, and Daniel SandateRead more about War Resisters Support Campaign: Overview, The War Resisters in Canada, Important Dates, Punishments Given To Iraq War Resisters, Resisters Who Went Back, See Also
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“In time of war you know much more what children feel than in time of peace, not that children feel more but you have to know more about what they feel. In time of peace what children feel concerns the lives of children as children but in time of war there is a mingling there is not children’s lives and grown up lives there is just lives and so quite naturally you have to know what children feel.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child’s separation.”
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