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Article: Leave us alone: a growing antiwar movement gains momentum.(news)
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- Colorlines Magazine
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- March 22, 2006
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After three months of hard labor, Iraq war resister and former Navy petty officer Pablo Paredes considers himself a free man. Recruited in high school, he joined the Navy but refused to board his ship headed for Iraq. During the subsequent trial, Paredes applied for conscientious objector status and was denied. Last May, however, a military judge decided not to sentence him to jail. Instead, Paredes got three months of hard labor without confinement, a reduction in rank to E-1 (the lowest rank in the military) and was discharged. It was considered a victory by the national counter-recruitment movement that has gained momentum over the last year through campaigns such as ...