Por Amor Al Pueblo: Not Guilty! - The Trial of the Winooski 44

by Ben Bradley (Editor)

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176 pages, Paperback

First published October 18, 1986

About the author

Ben Bradley, Professor Emeritus, Charles Sturt University

Ben Bradley was educated at Oxford and Edinburgh, where, with Colwyn Trevarthen, he began his pioneering research on infancy. He later migrated to Australia, where he was appointed Foundation Professor of Psychology at Charles Sturt University in 1998-and where he is now Professor Emeritus. He wrote the widely-translated Visions of Infancy (1989), and Psychology and Experience (2005). Amongst many research highlights are studies: with Jane Selby and Michael Smithson, proving young infants can participate in social groups; and, on the literary structure of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859). His film Darwin's Babies, received its world premiere at Darwin 2009: A Celebration of the bicentenary of Darwin's Birth in Cambridge, UK

Reviews

[Jackmccullough · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have to rate this a "five" because I was one of the lawyers in this case. It still rates as one of the high points of my legal career.

[Lea · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was a defendant, and this book hits the highlights of a trial that shook Congress and hastened the conclusion of the war. I had traveled to Nicaragua with Witness for Peace, and experienced first hand the impact of the US covert war on the Nicaraguan people. The visit to our Senator's Office did not have to result in arrests. The VT Constitution charges citizens with the responsibility of calling our elected officials to a town meeting to instruct them on how we want them to vote. We asked Sen. Stafford to come home and meet with us, then we went to his office and waited. The time in his office included several community education sessions, an ecumenical prayer service, and bountiful feasts as community members brought food for the civil disobedients. The trial itself was a revelation of the machinations of covert war, and the importance of people refusing to keep silent. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/11/...

[Mary Russell · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am also rating this book "five" because I was one of the jurors in this case, and I love how Bradley used the transcripts of the trial, instead of writing it as a novel. I just completed my 3rd duty as a juror, in a criminal case in Colorado, and my experience as a juror on the Winooski 44 trial continues to influence me. I felt it was a privilege to serve on both trials. I just watched the new movie, "Kill The Messenger", about investigative reporter Gary Webb, and feel the trial of the Winooski 44 would make an excellent film, exposing more of the corruption in our government and the propaganda used to hide it.