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A national Veterans For Peace Executive Director Garett Respenhagen will present an online Earth Day presentation about the links between militarism, climate crisis and military intervention. The presentation will be held on Thursday, April 21 at 7 p.m. The event is sponsored and sponsored by Milwaukee Veterans For Peace and Peace Action Wisconsin.
Reppenhagen served as a Cavalry/Scoutsniper in U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry Division. Garett served a 9-month-long peace-keeping mission in Kosovo and was also on the ground in Baquaba, Iraq. After being discharged in 2005, Garett began to work as a veteran advocate. He was the Chairman of the Board of Iraq Veterans Against the War and worked in Washington, DC as a lobbyist, Vice President of Public Relations, Veterans For America’s Nobel Prize-winning Veterans For America, and was the Rocky Mountain Director of Vet Voice Foundation.
Under his leadership, Veterans For Peace has launched a Climate Crisis and Militarism Project, to educate the public on the links between militarism and war, climate change, and environmental damage.
“I don’t want to see my child struggling in a world filled with famine, natural disasters, climate refugees, and violence to meet scarce resource demand,” Reppenhagen said. “As a former US Army sniper in Iraq, I feel it is necessary to speak out against unchecked militarism that contributes to massive climate destruction.”
Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7165675210?pwd=WjJUcTE3c0gwd1NhQndab3dFQ3hRQT09
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/402176244595363
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