Laurel Krause is a writer and truth seeker dedicated to raising awareness about ocean protection, safe renewable energy and other environmental issues. She publishes a regular blog on these topics at MendoCoastCurrent. She is the co-founder and director of the Kent State Truth Tribunal. Before spearheading this effort for her sister Allison Krause, who was killed at Kent State University on May 4th, 1970, Laurel worked at new technology start-ups in Silicon Valley.
To the Hague: Justice for the May 4th Kent State Massacre?
A KSTT email to the Int'l Criminal Court at the Hague:May 7, 2012To the International Criminal Court at the Hague,On May 4, 1970 Allison Krause, my sister, was shot dead by an Ohio National Guard bullet as she protested the Vietnam War, the American war draft and the military occupation ...
President Obama: Kent State Letter from Allison's Family
May 1, 2012President Barack H. ObamaThe White HouseWashington DC 20500Dear President Obama: Last week my mother Doris Krause urged me to write a personal letter to help you understand the May 4th Kent State Massacre from a mother's perspective, one parent to another. Voicing my reluctance to write again, I ...
4/21/12 ~ Kent State Peace is a VIRTUAL PETITION running for 30 Days from April 4th thru May 4th, 2012. WE ARE DEMANDING President Obama, Attorney General Holder and the Obama Admin OPEN an Immediate, Impartial Investigation into the New Evidence in the Kent State Massacre by May 4th. http://bit.ly/HcliUaSeeking ...
4/6/12 ~ Our third posting into 30 Days for Kent State Peace, a VIRTUAL PETITION to Pres Obama & AG Holder. Our Plea: EXAMINE the New Evidence in the Kent State Tape. It is going on TWO YEARS since new Kent State evidence emerged yet we have NOT RECEIVED ONE ...
4/5/12 ~ Yesterday we began 30 Days for Kent State Peace, our VIRTUAL PETITION of the Obama Administration. OUR PLEA is for an Immediate Investigate into the New Evidence in the May 4th Kent State Massacre. In 29 days it will be the 42nd anniversary of the slaughter of Allison ...
On May 4, 2012, it will be 42 years since the U.S. Federal Government took aim with live ammunition at student protesters at Kent State University, murdering four students & wounding nine by national guard gunfire.As Allison Krause's sister (one of four student protesters murdered), our family has been shocked ...
Mr President, Let Us Live in Peace on a Healthy Planet Earth
PRESIDENT OBAMA promised on October 27, 2007: "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am President, it is the FIRST THING I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You ...
Laurel Krause's Open Letter on Kent State to President Obama
Mailed on May 6, 2011Dear Mr. President,My sister Allison Krause was killed at Kent State on May 4, 1970. I co-founded the Kent State Truth Tribunal with Emily Kunstler and we opened our doors for the first of three tribunals last year right around this time.On May 1-4, 2010 we ...
Nuclear Power, Kent State & Arthur Krause
HERE WALKS my dad, Arthur Krause with Reverend John Adams and other protesters on his last trip back to Kent State. His daughter, Allison Krause, was slain at Kent State in the student protest against the Vietnam war on May 4, 1970, a day that forever changed our family and ...
President Obama -- Consider Mendocino Energy
Dear President Obama,Continuing to hear comments that you, your administration and your cabinet members consider nuclear power as a clean, renewable solution is most alarming.Mr. President, let’s consider the nuclear event occurring in Japan right now and learn the simple truth that any safe renewable energy portfolio DOES NOT include ...
Dear President Obama: Please Honor Allison on International Women's Day
Dear President Obama, My sister Allison Krause was one of four students killed by national guard gunfire at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. Allison protested the Vietnam war and the military occupation of her campus that day. Here's my writing, also published at Rep Kucinich's request in the ...
Krause to Congress: This Wednesday, December 1st Examine the Kent State Tape
The government crossed the line in the killing of four young peoplein the killing of our Allisonas she rallied against the war on May 4, 1970A civil rights battle on U.S. soil in our timesKent State is personal for us yet important for allRepresentative Dennis Kucinich upon learning of the ...
Kent State: The Death of Innocence and the First Amendment
Since the beginning of 2010, the Kent State Truth Tribunal has been focused on collecting and understanding the truth about the circumstances that surrounded the killing of four students and the wounding of nine others at Kent State University in Ohio on May 4, 1970. As new evidence emerges that ...
Shining a Light on the Kent State Shootings of 1970
This last weekend on August 7 and 8, the Kent State Truth Tribunal (KSTT) traveled to San Francisco to record and preserve narratives from west coast-based original witnesses to and participants in the 1970 Kent State shootings. My sister Allison Krause was one of the four students killed at Kent ...
Back in spring 1970, just after the shootings at Kent State, the Kent State University (KSU) campus went on lockdown and every KSU student was forced to leave within hours, many for good. Since we formed the Kent State Truth Tribunal (KSTT), I have heard many KSTT participants recollect their ...
Unjustified, Indefensible, Wrong
My sister Allison Krause was one of four students killed in the 1970 Kent State shootings. You may have heard about that day in American history - May 4, 1970 - when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students protesting the invasion of Cambodia. Some of those killed ...
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May 8th, 2012
To the Hague: Justice for the May 4th Kent State Massacre?
A KSTT email to the Int'l Criminal Court at the Hague:May 7, 2012To the International Criminal Court at the Hague,On May 4, 1970 Allison Krause, ...
May 1st, 2012
President Obama: Kent State Letter from Allison's Family
May 1, 2012President Barack H. ObamaThe White HouseWashington DC 20500Dear President Obama: Last week my mother Doris Krause urged me to write a personal letter ...
April 22nd, 2012
4/21/12 ~ Kent State Peace is a VIRTUAL PETITION running for 30 Days from April 4th thru May 4th, 2012. WE ARE DEMANDING President Obama, ...
April 6th, 2012
4/6/12 ~ Our third posting into 30 Days for Kent State Peace, a VIRTUAL PETITION to Pres Obama & AG Holder. Our Plea: EXAMINE the ...
April 6th, 2012
4/5/12 ~ Yesterday we began 30 Days for Kent State Peace, our VIRTUAL PETITION of the Obama Administration. OUR PLEA is for an Immediate Investigate ...
April 4th, 2012
On May 4, 2012, it will be 42 years since the U.S. Federal Government took aim with live ammunition at student protesters at Kent State ...
September 12th, 2011
Mr President, Let Us Live in Peace on a Healthy Planet Earth
PRESIDENT OBAMA promised on October 27, 2007: "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I ...
March 15th, 2011
President Obama -- Consider Mendocino Energy
Dear President Obama,Continuing to hear comments that you, your administration and your cabinet members consider nuclear power as a clean, renewable solution is most alarming.Mr. ...
October 5th, 2010
Kent State: The Death of Innocence and the First Amendment
Since the beginning of 2010, the Kent State Truth Tribunal has been focused on collecting and understanding the truth about the circumstances that surrounded the ...
September 12th, 2011
Mr President, Let Us Live in Peace on a Healthy Planet Earth
PRESIDENT OBAMA promised on October 27, 2007: "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I ...
April 4th, 2012
On May 4, 2012, it will be 42 years since the U.S. Federal Government took aim with live ammunition at student protesters at Kent State ...
May 1st, 2012
President Obama: Kent State Letter from Allison's Family
May 1, 2012President Barack H. ObamaThe White HouseWashington DC 20500Dear President Obama: Last week my mother Doris Krause urged me to write a personal letter ...
July 21st, 2010
Back in spring 1970, just after the shootings at Kent State, the Kent State University (KSU) campus went on lockdown and every KSU student was ...
August 12th, 2010
Shining a Light on the Kent State Shootings of 1970
This last weekend on August 7 and 8, the Kent State Truth Tribunal (KSTT) traveled to San Francisco to record and preserve narratives from west ...
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