Tod Ensign

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Tod Ensign (died May 2014

NYU and Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Wayne State University, as well as a BA from Michigan State University
.

Veteran's rights activism

Ensign co-founded Citizen Soldier in 1969 to advocate on behalf of GIs and

veterans who work to oppose command-tolerated racism, sexism, homophobia and militarism.[citation needed] Currently[as of?], the group has 7,500 members nationwide,[citation needed] who provide nearly all of its financial support.[citation needed] As an attorney, Ensign has participated in a broad range of legal cases involving GIs and veterans over the past 35 years.[citation needed] Two notable cases are the Agent Orange class action, which attempted to hold chemical manufacturers liable for the injuries their herbicide caused Vietnam veterans and their offspring and the Vietnam-Era Winter Soldier Investigation and National Veterans Inquiry
.

Following the

court martial
regarding illegal US military operations by his unit.

Ensign founded The Different Drummer coffeehouse near Watertown, NY, which strove to connect and inform service members.

Beginning in 2000, Ensign served on the executive board of the National Gulf War Resource Center, a coalition of Gulf War advocacy groups that advocates for research and health care for veterans from both Gulf wars. (He was the only non-veteran serving on this board).

Publications

Ensign was author of two books, Military Life: The Insider's Guide (Prentice Hall, 2000) and America's Military Today: The Challenge of Militarism (New Press, 2004). He was coauthor of GI Guinea Pigs (Playboy, 1980) the first

A-bomb
tests and the herbicide Agent Orange that was used during the Vietnam War.

He also contributed chapters to four other books, Ten Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military (New Press, 2006) Against the Vietnam War: Writings by Activists (Syracuse U. Press, 1999), Metal of Dishonor: Depleted Uranium (IAC Press, 1997) Collateral Damage (South Press. He has written dozens of articles for The Progressive, In These Times, Radical America, The American Pathologist, The N. Y. Daily News, Toward Freedom, Against the Current, the Weekly Guardian, the Non Violent Resister, the Indypendent, and several others.

He had one daughter.

References

  1. ^ Tod Ensign (paid death notice), New York Times, May 30, 2014. Accessed online 2014-07-21.
  2. ISBN 978-0-87223-569-4
    . Retrieved 20 August 2011.

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