It’s often people who’ve never experienced war that label conscientious objectors as cowards or traitors,’ he said.

a b "More than 10,000 march on Pentagon, leading war profiteers". Answer.pephost.org. Archived from the original on July 14, 2009 . Retrieved 2009-07-16. He handed himself in after two years and six days' absence, during which he went to south-east Asia and Australia. a b "Tens of thousands march in the US and Europe against war preparations". Wsws.org . Retrieved 2009-07-16. Glenton has written for several newspapers, including Declassified UK, [16] Vice News, [17] The Independent, [18] The Mirror [19] and The Guardian. [20] Since January 2020, he has been an active contributor at Double Down News. [21] Personal life [ edit ] Anti-war soldier Joe Glenton in medal return protest". BBC News. 2010-11-19 . Retrieved 2023-09-10.They were determined to send me and I was determined not to go. I’d done as much as I could in that situation. As is often the case with a lot of guys, I went AWOL.’ He wrote: "It is my primary concern that the courage and tenacity of my fellow soldiers has become a tool of American foreign policy.

Anti-war soldier Lance Corporal Joe Glenton jailed for nine months". York Press. 2010-03-06 . Retrieved 2023-09-17. Glenton told the prime minister in his letter that the army mission would fail and troops should be withdrawn from the country. On April 30, 2007, thousands of Afghans staged a protest accusing U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops of killing civilians in the western province of Herat. The protesters stormed a government district headquarters in Shindand, south of Herat city, where Western troops have a large base. The anti-U.S. protest came a day after an angry demonstration in eastern Nangahar province over the killing of civilians by coalition and Afghan forces there. [20] At the time of the protest against the war, the number of British soldiers killed by the war since 2001 stood at 345. [64] [65] 2011 [ edit ] Anti-war march in St. Paul, Minnesota, March 19, 2011When he first raised with his staff sergeant his reluctance to be deployed again, instead of being dealt with in a sensible way, it resulted in the sergeant at the time bullying and intimidating L/Cpl Glenton," he said. It is important to grasp that every recruit to the military makes the choice to join according to their place on a spectrum, where their reasons run from ideological at one end to economic at the other. Those motivations are further coloured by class, culture and experience. The decision is not made in a vacuum of free will, and for many it is hardly a choice at all. Glenton was at first charged with desertion, which carries a maximum 10-year sentence, as well as five other offences connected to his anti-war activity. But these were reduced to a single charge of awol. Hugues Micol's graphic novel Scalp: La Chevauchée funèbre de John Glanton et de ses compagnons de carnage, again based on Chamberlain's book, was published in 2017 by the French publisher Futuropolis [ fr].

Glenton, Joe (2023-01-08). "If Harry sounds callous about killing, he is. All of us who served were – at least he knows why". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2023-09-09. Yet the people who sent these young, working-class men into this conflict to have their bodies and their minds blown apart, who looked on and did not even count the numbers of Iraqi and Afghan civilians dead, have, at worst, faced a few tame questions from inquiries. These inquiries were set up not by the people affected, but by increasingly embarrassed sections of the establishment hoping for “closure” on a weeping political sore. I have a slightly more sophisticated view of the origins of the “war on terror” these days, but his sense of reactionary outrage was fairly closely to mine at the time. Samuel Chamberlain (1829–1908), who claimed to have been a member of the gang, wrote an account of their activities in his memoir, My Confession.Going awol, she said, "cannot be seen as a means to secure a swift exit from the services". Peters additionally cast doubt on Glenton's anti-war credentials, saying he had not raised this as an issue when he first returned to the UK last year. Afghan war protest targets NATO meet in Edinburgh". Archived from the original on February 22, 2013. In many aspects, Glenton’s advocacy is sincere, which is demonstrated by the fact that his net worth is unknown. Joe Glenton authored a book titled “Solider Box.”(Source: Metro) Students March in Anti-War Rally". Media.www.lavalleystar.com. 2009-05-27. Archived from the original on 2011-07-13 . Retrieved 2009-07-16.