![]() And there was no steering mechanism, no mast, no motor, no nothing.”īut there was more to this broken-down old ship than what the eye could see. ![]() “A lot of the side planking was gone,” Champagne said. It was far from seaworthy, and those who had already looked it over thought it was better suited for firewood than seafaring. The boat - named the Golden Rule - wasn’t much to look at. The call was from one of Champagne’s fellow members of Veterans for Peace, or VFP, asking him to go check out a boat that had been hauled out of the water in Humboldt Bay, California - only an hour’s drive north from his home in Garberville, where he was serving as the president of the local VFP chapter. But in 2010, he received a call that opened his eyes to a story of resistance he had never heard before. He’s been kicked out of college, where he was accused of starting a riot. Fredy Champagne has been a peace activist ever since he returned from combat in Vietnam. ![]()
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