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Breaking Cadence: Insights From a Modern-Day Conscientious Objector
by Rosa del Duca
You probably think that you would never join the military. Think again. Every year thousands of young Americans surprise family and friends, signing long, legally-binding contracts with an organization they know very little about. Many of them join to pay for college. But what happens when pride and optimism turn into regret and refusal to play a role in war? Hear perspectives about the military, the Iraq War and conscientious objection you have likely never heard before. Strong voices in the war against the war. More info on Breaking Cadence the podcast and Breaking Cadence the memoir at rosadelduca.com or https://books2read.com/breakingcadence
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Episodes
Habeas Corpus
46m · PublishedSteven Collier, a San Francisco lawyer, represented the first public conscientious objector in the Iraq War. He also went up against the federal government and won two habeas corpus proceedings for conscientious objectors. What is habeas corpus? In short, an old writ that protects soldiers and others from being "unlawfully detained." Because when the military denies CO cases, sometimes they do so out of spite or assumption.
Support the showDifferent Decade, Same Problem
55m · PublishedFanny Garcia, photographer, artist and veteran, tells us her story of becoming a conscientious objector during the Iraq War. She joined out of a desire to escape a small, confining life. Later, she realized she was a conscientious objector. And she took a big risk. She based her CO application on being vegan. Can vegan values help prove you have strong morals? Find out. After you listen, find out more about Fanny and her artwork at https://www.fannygarcia.com/
Support the showThe Deal
57m · PublishedIn the fall of 2000, I was a low-income, high school senior, itching to get out of my small town. Strong-willed, independent and a know-it-all, I impulsively signed a six-year contract with the National Guard to pay for college. My escape route was paved.
At first, I was excited and proud to wear the uniform. But as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq unfolded, I became anxious, depressed, and furious with myself for signing that contract. I became increasingly conflicted about my role in war. Eventually, I found out there was a name for what I'd become. I was a conscientious objector.
In this inaugural episode of Breaking Cadence: Insights from a Modern-Day Conscientious Objector, we time travel. We go back to the fall of 2000 and I ask my mom and my two sisters what they thought when I announced I was joining the Montana Army National Guard. Later, I ask them what they thought when I admitted I was seeking a discharge on the grounds I was a conscientious objector.
Many of us have moments like this. Big decisions that shape our lives in unexpected ways. Regrets that haunt us, that inform what kind of adults we turn out to be, that perhaps never sit well because they're just too fraught.
Woven between these interviews are themes of youth, naïveté, choice, morality, and judgement.
Breaking Cadence: Insights From a Modern-Day Conscientious Objector has 13 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 11:41:53. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on July 29th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on March 26th, 2024 01:58.
