Peace movement organizer and U.S. Army veteran George Mische will speak at SUNY Fredonia, McEwen Hall Room 202, on Friday April 11, 7:30 to 9:00 pm.  The  event will be hosted by  SUNY Fredonia Students for Peace, the  Dunkirk-Fredonia Center for Peace and Justice, and SUNY Fredonia’s  Latinos Unidos. 

George Mische became famous for his civil disobedience with the Catonsville Nine, a group of nine men and women who removed several hundred draft records from the Selctive Services Offices in Catonsville, Maryland, burning them in protest of the war in Vietnam.

Mische attended the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service School and participated in the Alliance for Progress. He returned to the United States in 1964 because he disagreed with U.S. foreign policy in Latin America.

Like several of the other Catonsville Nine members, Mische was motivated by what he had experienced abroad. He knew the Berrigan Brothers and in 1968 was living in a communal house in Washington, D.C., where four other members of the group became involved: the Melvilles, John Hogan, and Mary Moylan.

After the Catonsville action, Mische remained active in labor and peace organizing and in Democratic party politics. He served for several years on the St. Cloud, Minnesota, City Council.

The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.