William Thomas, Guest Speaker 9/11 Truth -Anji Smith photo A professional photographer and investigative reporter for nearly four decades, my writing and photography have appeared in more than 50 publications in 8 countries—including translations into French, Dutch and Japanese. During the tumultuous ‘Sixties, I learned my photojournalism craft on the streets of Milwuakee and Chicago and the tuneful mud at Woodstock. At Marquette University I co-founded an co-edited the influential off-campus publication, PITH magazine. After resigning my U.S. Navy commission over the civilian slaughter in Vietnam, I moved to Vancouver, where I co-founded and co-directed Canada’s first west coast photography gallery, The Mind’ Eye at 52 Water Street in Gastown. After two years, I won a coveted berth as a “photog” on Canada’s top photo-illustrated daily news- paper, The  Vancouver Sun. I became a Canadian citizen in 1975. (Thank you, M. Trudeau!) During and immediately after the Gulf War, I served five months in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the oil-fired minefields of Kuwait as co-founder of a three-man Gulf Environmental Emergency Response Team. On my return home, I was commission by New Society Publishers to write Scorched Earth. My Gulf War Illness exposé in Monday was followed by Bringing With War Home for Earthpulse Press. With editor Tracy Friesen, I completed my 30-minute documentary, “Eco War”. Aired extensively by CBC Television – and also excerpted by NBC, CNN and the movie “The Corporation” – “Eco War” won the 1991 U.S. Environmental Film Festival Award for Best Documentary Short. After returning to Canada and receiving my life mission during a solo vision quest in the Coast Mountains, I co-founded the Green Islands Society on Salt Spring Island and went on to serve on the front-lines of sustainable logging and pulp-mill dioxins cleanup. But I wanted to shoot colour. After successfully passing my Sun apprenticeship in B&W news photography, I completed building a 31-foot trimaran in a Gabriola Island backyard. In 1976, I and put to sea from Victoria, British Columbia with my mate, Thea and freelanced throughout the South Seas, Hong Kong, South China and Japan as a writer and photographer. The first nonstop crossing of the North Pacific from Japan to Canada by trimaran was completed with Hiromi Nogi as crew. During that eight-year Pacific circumnavigation, my feature writing and colour photography under my birth name Randy (William) Thomas appeared in more than 50 publications in eight countries, with translations into French, Dutch and Japanese. I also won four Canadian feature-writing awards while writing for Monday Magazine and The Driftwood. Seeking to protect my home waters, I co-founded, served the Georgia Strait Alliance and conducted the first ecological survey of the Georgia Basin under sail. On my return home, I was commission by New Society Publishers to write Scorched Earth. My Gulf War Illness exposé in Monday was followed by Bringing With War Home for Earthpulse Press. With editor Tracy Friesen, I completed my 30-minute documentary, “Eco War”. Aired extensively by CBC Television – and also excerpted by NBC, CNN and the movie “The Corporation” – “Eco War” won the 1991 U.S. Environmental Film Festival Award for Best Documentary Short. I am the author of the print books:  Alt Health All Fall Down: The Politics of Terror and Mass Persuasion Scorched Earth Days Of Deception: Ground Zero and Beyond Bringing The War Home Chemtrails Confirmed 2010 Isle of Light: Photographs of Hornby Island Available as electronic downloads, my digital publications include: Chemtrails Confirmed 2010 (includes ATC interviews) ABCs Of Cell Phones & Other Hazards Of The Wireless Age  Days Of Deception: Ground Zero and Beyond Photowork magazine Visit my investigative reporting website Visit my photography website HOME