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Military Deserters Once Again Flock to Canada

By Megan Feldman March 12, 2009

Just 5 feet tall, with a baby strapped to her chest and a soft, faltering voice, Kim Rivera is anything but soldierly. Yet two years ago she was a Texas private in the War on Terror, guarding a gate with an M4 rifle and frisking Iraqi civilians at a base... More >>>

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Kim Rivera, the first female Iraq War deserter to seek refuge in Canada, waits for a streetcar in Toronto.

Army
deserter
Kim Rivera
grocery shops
for her family in
Toronto, where they
fled after she went
AWOL in 2007.

Kim Riverawaiting for news on her stay of deportationrests while husband Mario tends to their baby, Katie, at their Toronto apartment.

Mario checks his e-mail while waiting for news on the stay of deportation that would allow him and his wife to stay in Canada until a federal court reviews their case.

The Riveras third child, Katie, was born in Toronto last fall.

Ryan Johnson,
who deserted from Fort Irwin, California, and is seeking refuge in Canada, says
much of his family
has disowned him
because of his
decision.

Lee Zaslofsky,
a Brooklyn-born
Vietnam deserter who runs the Toronto-based War Resisters Support Campaign, protests
the deportation of
American deserters.

Ryan Johnson speaks to a group of supporters at the screening of the
documentary Deserter at the War Resisters Support Campaign offices in Toronto.

Air Force deserter Dale Landry (left) and Army
deserter Ryan Johnson ride the streetcar in Toronto.

We have a Rush Limbaugh government here this isnt how Canada is supposed to be.

Deserter Ryan Johnson (right) readies himself for the cold after a weekly meeting at the War Resisters Support Campaign headquarters in Toronto.

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We have a Rush Limbaugh government here this isnt how Canada is supposed to be.

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