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This week on Uprising:

* The Road From Ar Ramadi by Camilo Mejia
* Black Agenda Radio on White Man’s Wars

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The Road From Ar Ramadi

GUEST: Camilo Mejia, author of “The Road From Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia”

In 2004 Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia was court-martialed by the US military for desertion. A veteran of the US war on Iraq, Mejia had spent 8 years in the military and eventually filed for conscientious objector status, becoming the first publicly known US soldier to do so. Now, his first book and memoir, Road from Ar Ramadi, details his journey from a willing participant in the Iraq war, to a war resister. This journey includes first hand experiences of prisoner abuse, discord among his demoralized comrades, and the incessant brutalization of Iraqis by American soldiers. Mejía was eventually convicted of desertion by a military jury and sentenced to a year in jail and a bad conduct discharge. He was released from prison on February 15, 2005 and since then has spoken at innumerable peace rallies and marches against the Iraq war. Throughout his book, Road From Ar Ramadi, Mejia is painfully honest about his own complicity in the war. During a visit to Los Angeles, he joined Sonal in studio. Sonali began by asking him to read a section of his book about a conversation with an Iraqi store owner.

Uprising’s Subversive Thought for the Day
“Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we can not have both” – Abraham Flexner