From the story, "No Canada: U.S. military deserters once again flock to Canada to avoid war. Looks like this time they picked the wrong country." By Megan Feldman. Photos by Ian Willms.
Rivera and her children, Christian, 6, and Rebecca, 4, are waiting for Canada’s high courts to review the government’s denial of their asylum application.
Lee Zaslofsky, a Brooklyn-born Vietnam deserter who runs the Toronto-based War Resisters Support Campaign, protests the deportation of American deserters.
A handful of American Iraq War deserters hold signs at a Toronto demonstration, asking that Canada grant them shelter from what they say is an illegal and immoral war.
The documentary short Deserter, about Ryan Johnson’s decision to leave his post at Fort Irwin, California and flee to Canada, plays at the War Resisters Support Campaign office in Toronto.
Ryan Johnson, who left his post at Fort Irwin, California and fled with his wife to Canada, speaks to a group of supporters at the screening of the documentary, Deserter, at the War Resisters Support Campaign offices in Toronto.
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