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American Voices Abroad (AVA) Military Project a project of U.S. citizens living overseas supporting U.S. military personnel stationed overseas AWOL Army Specialist AgustÍn Aguayo to Turn Himself in Tomorrow 26th of September PRESS CONFERENCEArmy Specialist Agustín Aguayo is a Conscientious Objector, a War Resister, and an AWOL U.S. Soldier who will speak to supporters and the media before turning himself in to Military Authorities on Tuesday September 26
Agustín
Aguayo, Specialist First
Class and medic with the 1st Infantry Division, which
deployed to Iraq for a second time on September 1st, 2006.
Agustín applied to the Army for conscientious objector (CO) status in
February, 2004. When his application was denied, he filed a habeas
corpus civil law suit in Washington, DC against the Secretary of the
Army in August, 2005. On August 24, 2006 his habeas was
denied. And so an appeal was filed in the Washington DC court of
appeals -- the first such appeal since 1971. When the Army in
Schweinfurt, Germany tried to take him to Iraq by force on September 2nd,
2006, he escaped and has been AWOL since then.
Supporters and family
of War Resister Agustín Aguayo who will be accompanied by his wife Helga
Aguayo and Fernando Suarez del Solar, father of first Mexican
green-card marine who died in Iraq, will speak at a press conference
before Aguayo turns himself in to authorities at the Fort Irwin Army
base near Barstow, CA.
WHEN: at
11:00 AM on Tuesday, September 26, 2006
WHERE: Our Lady Queen of Angels Church, 535 N. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
CONTACTS: Elsa Rassbach -
AVA Military Project;
Elsa_Rassbach@compuserve.com;
Cell Phone: (646)
400-9206.
Fernando
Suarez Del Solar - Guerrero
Azteca Peace Project (Spanish-speaking);
fernando@guerreroazteca.org;
Phone: (858) 774-0172
Peter
Goldberger & Jim Feldman
(Aguayo Attorneys)
– Phone;
(610) 649-8200
J.E.
McNeil & Bill Galvin –Center on
Conscience & War Phone; (202) 483-222.
Endorsing Organizations:
Center on Conscience &
War (CCW), the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO),
Military Counseling
Network (Germany), Code Pink, Connection, E.V. (Germany), Courage to
Resist,
Global Exchange,
Guerrero Azteca Peace Project, Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW),
Military Families Speak
Out (MFSO – Orange County); Munich American Peace Committee (MAPC – AVA
in Munich, Germany), Not In Our Name (Bay Area Chapter).
Fernando Suarez del Solar, Founder & Director Guerrero Azteca Peace Project (760)233-0630 Direct telephone, (760)746-4568 Main telephone, (760)737-2334 Fax PO Box 300221,Escondido,CA 92030-0221 fernando@guerreroazteca.org www.guerreroazteca.org FOR A GENERATION FILLED WITH PEACE AND LOVE |