Saturday, March 3, 2012

Positively political Casey and his VFP friends


Casey keeping and eye on the brunch fixings
What a day today. First of all Vic cooked up a breakfast spread for a dozen members of our local Veterans For Peace chapter in honor of Brian Willson, a longtime icon in the peace movement and original member of Veterans For Peace from its inception in 1985.




The building blocks of the fritata 
Honey-walnut, roasted vegetables

It goes without saying that the brunch was memorable, roasted root vegetables, a veggie frittata, Cuban black beans, and pot after pot of coffee to accompany round after round of political discourse. Brian and his partner Becky Luening were center stage on a final stop of his NW Washington book tour - and Casey didn’t seem to mind this morning distraction a bit.

Brian Willson with VFP activist Ellen Murphy
Later on that last night a crowd of over seventy-five Bellinghamsters gathered at the Whatcom Peace and Justice Center to hear Brian speak of his journey from the early days of his epiphany and evolution toward pacifism after Vietnam, through his 1987 protest outside the Concord, California Naval Weapons Center where an ammo train with a shipment bound for Nicaragua was ordered to run over Brian and other anti-war activists on the tracks, severing his legs; and finally to his current involvements with the Peace, Occupation, and sustainability movements.

L to r - Brian, Gene, Michael Jacobsen, John Chawick, Becky, Vic, and Casey
Long, long day for our guy, but a lot of ear rubs to make up for it.

We encourage everyone to pickup a copy of Blood on theTracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson and become immersed in this recounting of Brian’s incredible journey.

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