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CJ Hinke was arrested in more than 35 civil disobedience actions organized by the pacifist movement from 1963 to 1969. He was the last American arrested for the Vietnam draft and was pardoned by Jimmy Carter in his first official act as US president. After moving to Canada, he defended himself before the British Columbia Supreme Court, and served prison time, including solitary confinement, for blockading clearcut logging and roadbuilding by multinational corporados. Fear is what keeps most citizens from active resistance. This book is intended to break that cycle of fear and encourage broad resistance to militarism. Free Radicals: War Resisters in Prison is the first chronicle of absolutist resisters to war from World War I through Iraq and Afghanistan, surveying military conscription and desertion worldwide. The book's extensive bibliography on war resistance, conscription, and prisons is the first in its field.
About the author
Living in Thailand since 1989,
CJ Hinke co-founded Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT) to campaign against pervasive censorship in Thai society following a military coup d'etat in 2006. FACT's campaign is active both locally and internationally in opposing online, book, and film censorship: "Freedom of opinions, freedom of thought, freedom of ideas, every one of us deserves a voice." CJ Hinke sits on the WikiLeaks international advisory board and FACT provided the very first documents--Thailand's Internet blocklists--to the WikiLeaks platform. As a Quaker, the author co-founded the Bangkok-based Nonviolence Conflict Workshop (NVCW) to promote the peaceful political solutions based on the teachings of Gene Sharp and Thailand Peace Pledge support conscientious objection and oppose military conscription.
