S. Brian Willson is a Viet Nam veteran and trained lawyer whose wartime experiences transformed him into a revolutionary nonviolent pacifist. He gained renown as a participant in a prominent 1986 veterans fast on the steps of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. The fast was in response to funding of Reagan’s Contra wars in Central America. One year later, on September 1, 1987, he was again thrust into the public eye when he was run over and nearly killed by a US Navy Munitions train while engaging in a nonviolent blockade in protest of weapons shipments to El Salvador. Since the 1980s he has continued efforts to educate the public about the diabolical nature of US imperialism while striving to “walk his talk” (on two prosthetic legs and a three-wheeled handcycle) by creating a model of right livelihood. He continues to write and has published two books, including, “Blood On The Tracks” and “My Country Is The World.” He is the subject of a new film about him called "Paying the Price For Peace" by Bo Boudart.
Brian is coming to Missoula on May 19-21 for the following events. Your donation will help us make this available.
Friday, May 19, 7 pm, Shakespeare & Co. Book Reading and signing with Brian Willson, a Vietnam veteran, peace activist, and attorney-at-law. In 1987, while engaged in a protest against the shipping of U.S. weapons to Central America,Willson and other members of a Veterans Peace Action Team blocked railroad tracks at the Concord, California Naval Weapons Station. An approaching train did not stop, and struck the veterans. Willson was hit, ultimately losing both legs below the knee while suffering a severe skull fracture with loss of his right frontal lobe. He will be reading from his book, Blood on the Tracks.
Sunday, May 21, 7 pm, the Public House. JRPC and the local Veterans For Peace Chapter are screning the film, "Paying the Price For Peace, about Brian Willson a Vietnam veteran, peace activist, and attorney-at-law who was injured while protesting the shipmnet of nuclear weapons to Central America in 1987. The event is free but donations to help cover costs are appreciated. Discusion will follow. Please join us.
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