Amber interviews Shawna Foster, a Unitarian Universalist minister and Army veteran about religion, social justice, and anti-war organizing.

Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SKmNwq4hmAZjEEetx3cT9ZQjQ2MgsVTq/view?usp=sharing

Show notes:

Fiasco, Thomas Ricks: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/books/25kaku.html

Iraq Veterans Against War (Now known as About Face): https://aboutfaceveterans.org/

GI Rights hotline: https://girightshotline.org/en/

Industrial Areas Foundation: http://www.industrialareasfoundation.org/

Shawna’s podcast:

Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rev/id1293878122?mt=2

Another podcast, The Inner Game, that Shawna has been a guest on: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kdnk/the-inner-game/e/57081739

Amber talks with Cathrine “Katie” Schmid, an active duty transgender woman who is currently a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Trump administration ban on transgender military members. https://www.lambdalegal.org/in-court/cases/karnoski-v-trump

Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XbJ7F1bhD-YjwNWBVx2blg1oGMhSIvif/view?usp=sharing

Seattle Met article: https://www.seattlemet.com/articles/2017/10/20/meet-the-trans-jblm-soldier-who-s-suing-trump

Trump’s July 2017 tweets: https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/26/politics/trump-military-transgender/index.html

Palm Center report: https://www.palmcenter.org/publication/report-of-the-transgender-military-service-commission/

Organizations mentioned:

SPART*A: https://spartapride.org/

OutServe-SLDN: https://www.outserve-sldn.org/

Lambda Legal: https://www.lambdalegal.org/

TAVA: http://transveteran.org/

Minority Veterans of America: https://minorityvets.org/

Gender Justice League: https://www.genderjusticeleague.org/

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Amber interviews Krystal TwoBulls, an Army veteran and Northern Cheyenne and Oglala Lakota Indigenous woman. Krystal is one of the co-directors of the #DropTheMIC campaign with About Face: Veterans Against the War. Krystal and Amber discuss Indigenous resistance, militarism, and why we need to center Indigenous Peoples in anti-military industrial complex work.

Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mHMQ7eT33cc3KINRYG9kszger4BeRpJk/view?usp=sharing

About Face is currently conducting their annual fundraiser. Just $5 can go a long way in supporting the organization in providing materials, training, travel, and so much more.

You can make a one-time donation here: https://www.gofundme.com/about-face-veterans-against-the-war

To become a member or monthly sustainer, go here: https://aboutfaceveterans.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VetsAboutFace/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/VetsAboutFace

Show notes:

The Militarization of Indian Country: http://www.honorearth.org/the_militarization_of_indian_country_by_winona_laduke

This recent article, written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, discusses how the U.S. military was built around internal imperialism and genocide of Indigenous Peoples. http://bostonreview.net/race/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-what-white-supremacists-know#.XAK2v-C6CIo.twitter

Doctrine of Discovery: http://ili.nativeweb.org/sdrm_art.html

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/un_declaration_on_the_rights_of_indigenous_peoples/

An interactive map to help you learn which Native Lands you are living on: https://native-land.ca/

Support our patreon! ALL labor and production costs are donated, leaving 100% of financial support of the podcast going back to the people we are interviewing and the organizations they work with! https://www.patreon.com/UApodcast2001