Bishop SPEAKS!

Join Travis Bishop to honor his courage. This event will be at Coffee Strong, and starts at 3 pm Sunday, March 28. Refreshments will be provided by Coffee Strong staff.

He was tried by the military for his stand against an occupation he believes is illegal. He insists that it would be unethical to have deployed to support an occupation he opposes on moral and illegal grounds. He filed for conscientious objection (CO) status.

Between 2000 and 2006, more than 40,000 troops from all branches of the military deserted. Army desertion rates jumped by 42 percent from 2006 to 2007.

See the list of supporters who made his early release possible. This community of support is growing!

Jeff Paterson, Sarah Lazare and everyone else at Courage to Resist
Chuck Luther (fearless G.I. Advocate and head of Disposablewarriors.com),
CPT Glendening with the US Army Trial Defense Services (trial co-counsel)
Cynthia Thomas (director of the Under the Hood G.I. Coffee house in Killeen),
Victor Agosto (fellow Afghanistan war resister)
Michael Kern, and the rest of the Fort Hood chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War,
The many Texans who traveled to Fort Hood to attend Travis’ trial and to protest in the weeks he was being held in the Bell County jail,
Dahr Jamail and Eric Thompson (who provided compelling first-hand account reporting from the trial),
Legrand Jones (post-trial co-counsel at Fort Lewis),
the London office of Amnesty International,
Seth Manzell (director of Coffee Strong, the GI coffee house at Fort Lewis),
Gerry Condon, president of Greater Seattle Veterans For Peace, and all of the other local supporters of Travis in the Tacoma-Seattle area,
the 538 people who wrote letters of support for Travis
the many people who have written letters to Travis while he has been in the brig at Fort Lewis.