Campaign wins Army objector discharge

In August, we launched a campaign to "Free Army conscientious objector Dustin Stevens and the end illegal pre-trial punishment of the Fort Bragg 50!" With your help, we did just that! Dustin is certain that he would still be facing over a year in the stockade if it were not for your support. It is not everyday that we win an outright victory for GI resisters. In May 2002, after five months in the Army, then 19-year-old Spc. Dustin Stevens refused to graduate with his 82nd Airborne Division training unit. "I knew in my heart and in my mind, I couldn't kill anybody and couldn't be a part of an organization that did so," he explains. Instead of discharging Dustin as a conscientious objector, his command simply ordered him to go home and await discharge papers. In January 2009, during a routine traffic stop, Dustin was shocked to learn that there was a warrant for his arrest. He was immediately arrested, turned over to military police, and was held on restriction at Fort Bragg, NC.