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Camillo "Mac" Bica, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, a long-time activist for peace and justice, a member of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the coordinator of the Long Island Chapter of Veterans for Peace.
Friday, December 25, 2009 Stuck in Traffic on Christmas Eve
As I waited, aggravated and impatient, in a long line of Christmas traffic for a very slow traffic light to change, a man dressed in Desert Camouflage BDUs slowly limped, cold and tired, down the long row of idling cars. Hanging around his neck was a sign on which was written, "Veteran, will work for wages to feed my family," and in his hand a coffee can hoping for a possible donation.
Friday, June 8, 2007 A Personal Legacy of War
As a consequence of the draft, many young Americans who questioned the justness and necessity of the war, were confronted with a profound moral dilemma. Whether to shame oneself and one's family by expatriating fleeing to Canada or risk injury or death by becoming, in their view, a murderer, or an accessory to murder that disguised itself as national defense. I had an additional option, however.
Thursday, May 24, 2007 An Open Letter to the Members of the 110th Congress (1 comments)
As was clearly demonstrated during the last election, America has had enough of an incompetent, deceitful, and arrogant Executive Branch and a cowardly and inept "rubber stamp" Congress. We have had enough of "middle of the road", "do nothing" politics while other people's children continue to die for a mistake.
