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# War Resisters League

Resisting War at Home & War Abroad since 1923

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- [Dorie Bunting: Peacemaker in the Desert](https://www.warresisters.org/dorie-bunting-peacemaker-desert-0/) - By Craig Simpson Dorelen (Dorie) Feise Bunting passed away August 24, 2023, at 101 years old. From her teenage years until well into her 90s, Dorie was present and active in the peace and justice movement. She touched the lives of many people in New Mexico and around the world. She was my mentor and friend
- [DISARMAMENT ONE STEP AT A TIME](https://www.warresisters.org/disarmament-one-step-time/) -  “History is not a collection of dramatic dates of great leaps from oppression to liberation. It is more often seemingly endless night broken by dawn. History is made by people as ordinary as ourselves, but extraordinary in that they have been seized by a dream for which they are willing to struggle and to
- [War Resisters League - Southwest Campaigns: Kirtland AFB, Sandia and Los Alamos Laboratories](https://www.warresisters.org/war-resisters-league-southwest-campaigns-kirtland-afb-sandia-and-los-alamos-laboratories/) - Military Occupation of New Mexico (map) courtesy of Swarthmore College Peace Collection WRL Southwest formed as a chapter and then as a regional office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the Vietnam War. We wanted to be a voice for peace, pacifism and nonviolence in the area, which hosted the Kirtland Air Force Base and the
- [July 4, 1976: The July 4th Coalition Highlights American Revolution's Unfinished Business](https://www.warresisters.org/july-4-1976-the-july-4th-coalition-highlights-american-revolutions-unfinished-business/) - WRL'S Continental Walk took place during the U.S. bicentennial year. WRL was also active with the anti-establishment July 4th Coalition, which highlighted the American Revolution's unfinished business to create a just and equal society. More than 30 organizations made up the Coalition, and 40,000 joined the march and rally in Philadelphia, led by Native Americans
- [Barefoot Gen and Two Great Peace Walks, 5 Decades Later](https://www.warresisters.org/barefoot-gen-and-two-great-peace-walks-5-decades-later/) - Hiroshima, August 6, 1977. Suddenly, a commotion — punctuated by very loud short bursts of whistles — can be heard emanating from the main street. A long line of riot police wielding huge shields is trying to keep up with a rapidly moving column of young men and women waving antinuclear flags and signs filling
- [ORIGINS: Reminiscences of The Continental Walk 50 Years Later](https://www.warresisters.org/origins-reminiscences-of-the-continental-walk-50-years-later/) - Even before its first step, The Walk was attacked in the Congressional Record by a U.S. Congressman as well as dismissed by the head of one of our sponsoring organizations who privately commented, “It’ll never make it out of the Mohave desert.” Despite doubters, neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stayed
- [CRISSCROSSING THE COUNTRY: Reminiscences of The Continental Walk 50 Years Later](https://www.warresisters.org/crisscrossing-the-country/) - If it weren’t for local and regional organizers, the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice might just have been a single route from San Francisco to Washington DC. Local organizers throughout the country were The Walk’s unsung heroes, putting together events, generating publicity, contacting the media, setting up hosting, providing food, and coordinating with
- [Statement of Ukrainian Pacifist Movement regarding the U.S. aggression against Venezuela](https://www.warresisters.org/statement-of-ukrainian-pacifist-movement-regarding-the-u-s-aggression-against-venezuela/) - Together with all participants of the "World BEYOND War" network, the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement condemns the military aggression of the United States against Venezuela.
- [Statement from RAMALC Regarding US Military Action Against Venezuela](https://www.warresisters.org/statement-from-ramalc-regarding-us-military-action-against-venezuela/) - From the Latin American and Caribbean Antimilitarist Network (RAMALC), in light of the current situation in Venezuela, we reject the bombing of Venezuelan territory by the United States, which has also affected the civilian population. Isn't a bombing the first step in a strategy that seeks to invade, extract the resources they want, and establish
- [War Resisters League Honors the History of Armistice Day](https://www.warresisters.org/war-resisters-league-honors-the-history-of-armistice-day/) - As the United States celebrates “Veterans Day” on November 11th, WRL calls for a return to its pacifist origins as Armistice Day which marked the anniversary of the end of the “Great War” (World War I). On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, it was a time to mourn those
- [WRL Stands in Solidarity with Indigenous-led Movements](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-stands-in-solidarity-with-indigenous-led-movements/) - On Indigenous Peoples Day and every day, WRL stands in solidarity with Indigenous-led movements and organizations working to build Indigenous power and liberation. For decades, the War Resisters League has supported and worked alongside Indigenous-led movements to protect communities and sacred lands in the southwest from uranium mining. In recent years, WRL has supported Indigenous-led
- [September 11, 2001](https://www.warresisters.org/september-11-2001/) - On September 11, 2001, War Resisters League staff person David McReynolds, wrote this from the WRL National Office which was only a mile and half north of the World Trade Towers: "As we write, Manhattan feels under siege, with all bridges, tunnels, and subways closed, and tens of thousands of people walking slowly north from Lower Manhattan. As we sit in our offices here at War Resisters League, our most immediate thoughts are of the hundreds if not thousands of New Yorkers who have lost their lives in the collapse of the World Trade Center. The day is clear, the sky is blue, but vast clouds billow over the ruins where so many have died, including a great many rescue workers."
- [“More Creativity Not War”: Origins of a Classic WRL Poster](https://www.warresisters.org/more-creativity-not-war-origins-of-a-classic-wrl-poster/) - After the September 11, 2001 attacks, President George W. Bush and the U.S. government quickly sought revenge on Afghanistan even though Afghan people had nothing to do with the attack. WRL immediately issued a statement drafted by David McReynolds and, along with many other peace groups, organized vigils opposing the country’s blood lust. This activity
- [War Tax Resistance: A Guide to Withholding Your Support from the Military | Corrections for 2025 6th Edition (print book)](https://www.warresisters.org/corrections-for-2025-6th-edition/) - The 6th Edition of War Tax Resistance was published just as the Trump administration came into power, heralding an uncertain future for the IRS and taxation. Trump himself says he wants to simplify the tax system, cut taxes, abolish the IRS and replace it with an “External Revenue Service.” (Tariffs are part of that plan).
- [The Farmworkers Strike and WRL’s 50th Anniversary](https://www.warresisters.org/the-farmworkers-strike-and-wrls-50th-anniversary/) - Seth Foldy recalls the 1973 United Farmworkers strike by grape workers and WRL members' part in supporting the strike and grape boycott right after WRL's 50th Anniversary conference.
- [Young Indiana Jones and the Rise of Pacifism](https://www.warresisters.org/young-indiana-jones-and-the-rise-of-pacifism/) - Lucasfilm released a series of educational, historical documentaries in 2007. They were companions to “The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones,” a television series created and produced by George Lucas/Lucasfilm in the 1990s. Lucas wanted to inspire interest in history, taking advantage of the popularity of the Indiana Jones feature films starring Harrison Ford. Twenty-two television
- [WAR IS OVER. If you want it.](https://www.warresisters.org/war-is-over-if-you-want-it/) - April 30, 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. This blog's title is a message from a billboard in Times Square, December 1969.
- [Music Fuels Movements for Social Change](https://www.warresisters.org/music-fuels-movements-for-social-change/) - When Pete Seeger said, “The right song at the right moment can change history” he spoke a truth that resonates with peace and justice activists across time and space. No matter our age, where we live, or which action we take for peace and social justice, songs bring us together and give us strength, courage,
- [Honoring Vietnam Veterans Against the War](https://www.warresisters.org/honoring-vietnam-veterans-against-war/) - Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) received the WRL Peace Award in May 1988. Accepting the award were New Jersey veterans and activists David Cline and Clarence Fitch (pictured). During this Veterans Day/Armistice week it is fitting to remember them and tip our hats to the important contribution of VVAW to the antiwar movement during and after the U.S. war
- [The Magic of the Archive](https://www.warresisters.org/magic-archive/) - The first photograph I came across in the War Resisters League Records was unexpected. Well, I say photograph, but really it was a black-and-white negative strip with four images. The images were of a group of four people (friends? I’ve been encouraged to avoid assumptions, judgments, and storytelling in my descriptions, but this won’t be
- [The 1971 May Day Actions](https://www.warresisters.org/1971-may-day-actions/) - With the slogan “If the government won’t stop the war [in Vietnam], we’ll stop the government,” the largest mass arrests in U.S. history – 13,500 – occurred in May 1971 as hundreds of autonomous affinity groups from around the country converged on Washington, DC. On May 1, a couple days before the action, more than
- [WRL Supports GI Resisters](https://www.warresisters.org/war-resisters-league-supports-gi-resisters/) - Active military considering their options can look to the War Resisters League and other organizations for examples of GI resistance as well as practical guides. WRL’s new Resources for GI Rights and Resistance (PDF download) includes stories of GI resisters, videos featuring WRL members, articles, book reviews, and a book published by War Resisters' International. Check
- [WRL Peace Calendars Featuring Children’s Voices and Thoughts](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-peace-calendars-featuring-childrens-voices-and-thoughts/) - I write this overview of the WRL peace calendars focused on young people as tens of thousands of them are now facing the horrors of war. Thus, some of the children’s personal statements in the calendars have a heartbreaking immediacy. Still, through descriptions of support, service, resistance projects, and individual actions undertaken by an impressive
- [The WRL Peace Calendar: An Overview](https://www.warresisters.org/the-wrl-peace-calendar-an-overview/) - For 58 years WRL members and friends could count on having a pacifist touchstone at their fingertips: The War Resisters League Peace Calendar. It was a spiral-bound 5½ by 8½ inch datebook, with a page for each week of the year that allowed owners to record appointments and such. And a cover that consisted of beautiful
- [WRL Peace Calendars Featuring Women’s Voices, Art, and Activism](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-peace-calendars-featuring-womens-voices-art-and-activism/) - With the second wave of feminism gaining wide acceptance by social change organizations, WRL leaders decided that it, at last, needed to codify the accomplishments of pacifist women. Thus the organization’s 1972 peace calendar, In Woman’s Soul, whose title was taken from Emma Goldman’s pronouncement that women’s emancipation begins in their soul, was devoted to the writings and artwork of
- [Peter Kiger, 1938 – 2019](https://www.warresisters.org/peter-kiger-1938-2019/) - Former WRL staff member Peter Kiger died on August 19 in New Castle, Indiana. He was 80 and had Parkinson’s disease. Born and raised in Spiceland, Indiana, Peter became a Quaker whose life mission was peacemaking. But during his freshman year at DePauw University (1956) — before becoming a pacifist — he won a Chicago
- [Solidarity Banners for Gaza](https://www.warresisters.org/solidarity-banners-gaza/) - If you are requesting a banner, please be sure to fill out our online request form here The War Resisters League (WRL) is proud to offer two powerful banner designs to support activism and advocacy efforts concerning the disastrous situation in Gaza. WRL is subsidizing the production of these banners, making them available at a greatly reduced
- [A Chance Acquaintance Changes a Life](https://www.warresisters.org/chance-acquaintance-changes-life/) - It was a few minutes before midnight on August 27, 1963, when I arrived by train from my home in Scarsdale, NY, at the 125th Street train station in New York City and walked half a dozen blocks to the Harlem office of the Congress of Racial Equality, known as “CORE,” with a ticket to board
- [Bayard Rustin’s 1965 WRL Peace Award Acceptance Speech](https://www.warresisters.org/bayard-rustins-1965-wrl-peace-award-acceptance-speech/) - - April 27, 1965 - A.J. Mustei: I present to Bayard Rustin at this 42nd annual dinner of the War Resisters League the 7th Annual Peace Award and the scroll, which I am presenting to him, reads as follows: To Bayard Rustin, pacifist, who has suffered for his convictions and held firmly and courageously to them.
- [Annual Tax Day Protests](https://www.warresisters.org/annual-tax-day-protests/) - “[T]he customary band of pickets” was how a 1953 New York Times article dismissively termed Tax Day demonstrators from WRL, Catholic Worker, and the Peacemakers outside the Manhattan IRS. The article went on to report “they either refused to pay Federal income taxes or sympathized with those who did not because ‘the huge program of
- [Stop the War on Ukraine](https://www.warresisters.org/stop-war-ukraine/) - Living Peace 3: Letters of Wars and Peace January 8, 2025 Letter by Yurii from Ukraine READ MORE Ukraine: About 300 criminal cases against conscientious objectors from War Resisters' International The number of new criminal cases against conscientious objectors has surged since summer 2024 after the General Prosecutor's Office wrote to local prosecutors. About 300
- [WRL Statement on Ukraine](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-statement-ukraine/) - The War Resisters League was founded in the aftermath of a horrendous European war by those who resisted conscription and their supporters. They united around a powerful affirmation: war is a crime against humanity. Over the course of almost 100 years since that time, our commitment to this principle has been tested by many political struggles
- [Stop the War on Ukraine: Calls to Action](https://www.warresisters.org/stop-war-ukraine-calls-action/) - War Resisters League believes that war is a crime against humanity; we are clear that war is never the answer. As an antimilitarist organization we refuse to take sides between the armed camps. We do recognize and oppose what the U.S. does and is doing to feed this conflict, and other conflicts. We stand with
- [War Is a Crime Against Humanity: Stop the Violence Immediately in Israel-Palestine](https://www.warresisters.org/war-is-a-crime-against-humanity-stop-the-violence-immediately-in-israel-palestine-2/) - WRI exec statement: on the Israel-Hamas ceasefire January 20, 2025 - As a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel comes into force, we can only begin to imagine the relief of all those who were being bombed yesterday, but are not being bombed today. All wars are crimes against humanity. The last fifteen months of relentless, genocidal
- [War Is a Crime Against Humanity: Stop the Violence Immediately in Israel-Palestine](https://www.warresisters.org/war-is-a-crime-against-humanity-stop-the-violence-immediately-in-israel-palestine/) - War Is a Crime Against Humanity: Stop the Violence Immediately in Israel-Palestine
- [WRL Goes to the Movies](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-goes-to-the-movies/) - Popular films aren’t usually known for promoting peace. There’s a lot of focus on big action sequences in the wide release movies that studios hope will become summer blockbusters, especially when superheroes are involved. In 1987 and 2007, two WRL Peace Calendars sought to highlight movies that promote peace and justice. WRL’s interest in movies
- [ANTIMILITARIST ROOTS: nonviolent resistance for a world in crisis](https://www.warresisters.org/antimilitarist-roots-nonviolent-resistance-world-crisis/) - The War Resisters' International is holding its conference and assembly - Antimilitarist Roots: nonviolent resistance for a world in crisis - from Friday June 16 to Monday June 19, 2023 in London. The event will bring activists together to discuss the future of our grassroots movements, build allyship internationally, and respond to the challenge we
- [Texas Peacework and WRL (Part II)](https://www.warresisters.org/texas-peacework-and-wrl-part-ii/) - Part 2 (continues from previous blog post) ...So life went on at The Farm, hosting peace camps, attending public meetings about Pantex, doing lectures about nukes, planting and watering trees, hosting pilgrimages passing through like Pastors for Peace and Bike Aid, following nuclear weapons truck convoys into and out of Pantex as part of a
- [Early Congressional Smear Attempt of WRL](https://www.warresisters.org/early-congressional-smear-attempt-of-wrl/) - During my research of WRL's history, every now and then a little gem pops up, thanks to the continuing digitization of old magazines and newspapers, not to mention new student theses and books by historians. One such item dates to the earliest days of WRL. In July 1926, when not yet three years old, an
- [Radicalizing the WRL](https://www.warresisters.org/radicalizing-the-wrl/) - Historian Scott Bennett writes in his 2003 book, Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963: In 1945 those COs who believed strongly that pacifism offered the potential for revolutionary social change, and who were dissatisfied with the WRL, the FOR, and the SP, began communicating with one another about how to
- [Remembering Linda](https://www.warresisters.org/remembering-linda/) - August 7th is Linda Thurston’s birthday. She would have turned 65 this year. Linda Marie Thurston, WRL’s much loved Operations Coordinator, passed away suddenly in late May 2021. We held a celebration of her life last August. And we continue to honor and remember Linda in many ways...
- [War Resisters League's First 50 Years: The Slideshow](https://www.warresisters.org/war-resisters-leagues-first-50-years-the-slideshow/) - In August 1973, the War Resisters League marked its 50th anniversary during the annual conference at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, CA. Over 550 attendees gathered to commemorate the occasion through reflection and rededication over three days. On the first evening, Larry Gara presented a slideshow to a packed hall. He had spent several years bringing together WRL’s history thus far through photos and stories of the individuals who dedicated themselves to nonviolence and pacifism. Titled “A Glimpse at Our Past: Contents and Images of WRL's First 50 Years”, the slideshow is now available online including the complete script with notes accompanying each slide.
- [One Hundred Years of Resistance: WRL's timeline](https://www.warresisters.org/one-hundred-years-of-resistance-wrls-timeline/) - In her diary on October 19, 1923, the 48-year-old New York City educator Jessie Wallace Hughan (1875-1955) wrote, “Tracy [Mygatt] to dinner—had hair done—organized real War Resisters League ...” WRL was founded as a militant secular pacifist organization with the slogan that “Wars will cease when men refuse to fight.” It evolved into one that embraces a
- [Bayard Rustin Receives 1965 WRL Peace Award](https://www.warresisters.org/bayard-rustin-receives-1965-wrl-peace-award/) - On April 27, 1965, Bayard Rustin was presented with the seventh annual War Resisters League Peace Award at WRL’s 42nd annual dinner. In making the presentation A.J. Muste noting that Bayard “suffered for his convictions and held firmly and courageously to them… [A] tireless seeker for more effective ways to advance the cause of freedom, peace, and humanity throughout the world.” Hear the recording and read an annotated transcript of Rustin's remarks in this blog entry...
- [Protests Against War Toys](https://www.warresisters.org/protests-against-war-toys/) - My parents started the War Resisters League New England when I was a baby. Instead of summer camp, I went to the WRL Organizer Training Program at Woolman Hill for 10 days and ran around in the woods with other kids.. We didn’t go on vacation- we went to meetings. But they felt like vacations
- [Witness Against Torture: The Campaign to Shut Down Guantanamo](https://www.warresisters.org/witness-against-torture-the-campaign-to-shut-down-guantanamo/) - It is impossible to overstate the importance of the War Resisters League's office at 339 Lafayette Street in the formation of Witness Against Torture in 2005. In December of that year, 25 Catholic activists violated the Bush administration's bans on travel to Cuba (technically, they just didn't want travelers to spend any in Cuba) and walked more than
- [WRL’s Liberation and Vera Williams featured in Signal:08](https://www.warresisters.org/wrls-liberation-and-vera-williams-featured-in-signal08/) - This is a summary....
- [The Personal and the Political of an Early Peace Walk](https://www.warresisters.org/the-personal-and-the-political-of-an-early-peace-walk/) - The late 1950s and early ‘60s ban-the-bomb marches between Aldermaston and London during Easter weekends were an inspiration to me. I read about them in the onion-skin copies of Peace News airmailed from London to the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA) office in New York. In 1962 CNVA organized Trident Walks for Nuclear Disarmament, named for three marches from Chicago, Hanover,
- [Peace Vigils: Then and Now](https://www.warresisters.org/peace-vigils-then-and-now/) - Standing in a peace vigil holding a sign is a common form of nonviolent activism. The May-June 1967 edition of WRL News features a front page photo of the Times Square Weekly vigil to end the Vietnam War. Standing on April 29, 1967 are WRI Secretary Devi Prasad and Otto Nathan, a WRL Executive Committee member and a regular at
- [1973 Manhattan Die-In: My First WRL Demonstration](https://www.warresisters.org/1973-manhattan-die-in-my-first-wrl-demonstration/) - It was the summer of 1973, and I itched to attend an IMPEACH NIXON event in the New York City area. On the edge of my Impeach The President button I saw the phone number for The Committee To Impeach The President. I called that number and asked, "Are there any Impeach Nixon events happening soon?"
- [Mandy Carter: Scientist of Activism Exhibit and WRL Southeast](https://www.warresisters.org/mandy-carter-scientist-of-activism-exhibit-and-wrl-southeast/) - In the spring of 2022, I set out to learn about the work of the War Resisters League Southeast regional office, based in the Triangle region of North Carolina. One person at the heart of that work, and at the heart of many liberation struggles out of the US South during the 1980s and beyond,
- [February 29: A Night Out of Time](https://www.warresisters.org/february-29-a-night-out-of-time/) - What a line-up at WRL’s A Night Out of Time party and benefit on February 29, 1996. The night featured poets and Fugs founders Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg; authors Quentin Crisp, Barbara Garson, Norman Rush; playwrights and theatre luminaries Karen Malpede, George Bartenieff, Judith Malina, and Hanan Resnikov with members of the Living Theatre;
- [The WRL Pie Chart](https://www.warresisters.org/the-wrl-pie-chart/) - Today, March 14, is Pi Day (3.14), which brings to mind WRL’s annual pie chart. With millions of copies distributed, it is the most disseminated piece of literature in WRL’s history, reaching far beyond its membership to emphasize — obvious to many* beyond peace circles — that it’s military spending and war that bloats federal
- [WRL Volunteers: Mid Century](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-volunteers-mid-century/) - WRL never had enough staff to accomplish all its work, so volunteers regularly contributed time and skills. When it was founded in 1923, the volunteers were mainly well-educated and financially-comfortable women who had known each other previously from peace activities to end World War I. In the World War II era, when men involved with
- [STOP the Bombings and END U.S. Military Assistance to the Philippines](https://www.warresisters.org/stop-bombings-and-end-us-military-assistance-philippines/) - The War Resisters League (WRL) and New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (NYCHRP) urge an end to the indiscriminate bombings of Filipino villagers by the Philippine government and an end to U.S. security assistance to the Philippine government. Even as the Philippine government has re-engaged in peace talks with the National Democratic
- [Sharing WRL Stories: What is Yours?](https://www.warresisters.org/sharing-wrl-stories-what-is-yours/) - Last fall, when the WRL 100th Anniversary committee asked me to write a letter about WRL’s 100th Anniversary projects, I had no idea how many friends of mine have been active with WRL over the years. Then email messages started coming to me from friends across the U.S. who were excited to see my picture
- [Timeless Tax Day Readings](https://www.warresisters.org/timeless-tax-day-readings/) - April 20, 1971To the Editor of the Boston Globe:For thirty years, as religious pacifists and advocates of the way of love and nonviolence in all human relationships, my husband and I have been active in the search for peace. It is, therefore, with special dismay that we watch the increase in lawlessness and violence in
- [A Day on Park Avenue and a Luxury Suite in the Waldorf Astoria 1972](https://www.warresisters.org/a-day-on-park-avenue-and-a-luxury-suite-in-the-waldorf-astoria-1972/) - It’s been more than 50 years, but I still remember the ITT demonstration as one of the most creative and dramatic WRL actions of that furiously turbulent time in the antiwar movement. It was also one of the most fun. My family and I lived on Staten Island at the time, and I was charged
- [Campus Protests: Echoes from 1970](https://www.warresisters.org/campus-protests-echoes-from-1970/) - As students demonstrate in support of Palestine and a ceasefire in Gaza on university campuses across the U.S. and beyond, this week's WRL 100th History blog looks back at the student actions of May 1970. On May 1, student strikes broke out around the country following Nixon's invasion of Cambodia and grew after the May
- [#Refuse War - International CO Day](https://www.warresisters.org/refuse-war-international-co-day/) - Where there is war, there are also people who bravely and conscientiously refuse to participate. That is true in the Ukraine, in Israel, in the US, and around the globe. International Conscientious Objectors Day, observed on the 15th of May, is a time to promote the right of conscientious objection and to support those who
- [Salaam Shalom Solh: 2008 WRL Calendar Stories Remain Exemplary Even After 16 Years](https://www.warresisters.org/salaam-shalom-solh-2008-wrl-calendar-stories-remain-exemplary-even-after-16-years/) - The 2008 War Resisters League calendar, Salaam, Shalom, Solh: Nonviolence and Resistance in the Middle East and Beyond stands out for me as one of the most substantial pieces of activist literature that I've helped to create. More than an event program or handout, I had to compile enough stories for 52 weekly entries. The
- [How Can You Portray 100 Years of Resistance to War?](https://www.warresisters.org/how-can-you-portray-100-years-of-resistance-to-war/) - How can you portray 100 years of nonviolent resistance to war and the causes of war? If you’re the 100-year-old War Resisters League, you create a traveling exhibit and book based on the exhibit chock-full of photos and stories reflecting that century of activism. Arnie Alpert gives a taste of the book and exhibit and
- [Spring 1972: Blockades by the Bay and the June 10th New Jersey Action](https://www.warresisters.org/spring-1972-blockades-by-the-bay-and-the-june-10th-new-jersey-action/) - In Spring 1972 People’s Blockades sprang up around the country. Their goal was to prevent munitions from leaving U.S. ports for Vietnam. One target of the blockade was Earle Naval Ammunitions Depot, located in New Jersey on Sandy Hook Bay, with multiple types of actions involving several pacifist organizations and more than a hundred activists.
- [WRL Exhibit on Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Nuclear Terror](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-exhibit-on-hiroshima-nagasaki-and-nuclear-terror/) - In 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum unveiled a radically scaled back exhibition that glorified the bombings, prominently presenting Enola Gay (the Hiroshima bomber) as if it were a holy relic. The original draft text of the exhibit had been an even-handed history and evaluation of the August 6 and 9, 1945 bombings. But caving to howls of the American Legion and conservative members of Congress, the Smithsonian deleted all criticisms of the bombings and presented a sanitized version without graphic images of the destruction. Instead, they highlighted how the plane was restored, showed photos of machinery, interviews of the Enola Gay crew, and stressed how “the bombings were necessary” to save American lives. Consequently, WRL with other peace groups formed the Enola Gay Action Coalition to prepare for protests at the opening, as well as to create our own exhibit “Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and 50 Years of Nuclear Terror”—as an answer to the Smithsonian’s crude attempt at censorship and historical revisionism....
- [“USA-USSR Disarm!”: Telling It to the Nuclear Powers on Both Sides of the World](https://www.warresisters.org/usa-ussr-disarm-telling-it-to-the-nuclear-powers-on-both-sides-of-the-world/) - On September 4, 1978 WRL members launched simultaneous disarmament demonstrations on the White House Lawn in Washington, DC and in Red Square in Moscow, USSR. This creative—and maybe rash—action was the brainchild of WRL staffers, notably Jerry Coffin and Lynne Shatzkin Coffin. I was honored to be tasked to lead the Washington contingent. (See Steve Sumerford’s
- [Anti-Draft CD, a Policeman Named Ray, and Oranges on a Mahogany Table](https://www.warresisters.org/anti-draft-cd-a-policeman-named-ray-and-oranges-on-a-mahogany-table/) - During the Vietnam War era, between 1964 and 1973, the U.S. military drafted 2.2 million men out of an eligible pool of 27 million. Of those, 16.3 percent were Black. Of Vietnam combat troops, 23 percent were Black. Indeed, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to the Vietnam War as a white man’s war, a
- [WRL’s Anarchist-Socialist Softball Games](https://www.warresisters.org/wrls-anarchist-socialist-softball-games/) - When I was growing up in the 80's and 90's, the War Resisters League would have their National Committee meetings hosted by a different local group every summer. Always a WRL local affiliate, it meant that we got to go somewhere else around the country. As a kid, these meetings ended up feeling like vacations.
- [WRL's Debate to Hire Bayard Rustin](https://www.warresisters.org/wrls-debate-to-hire-bayard-rustin/) - Not much time goes by in political discourse without some mention of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which took place 61 years ago this week. It was the largest gathering for civil rights of its time, with an estimated 250,000 people attending. Martin Luther King, Jr. made his “I Have a Dream”
- [Learn About Our Radical Past Through Larry Gara's Radical Quizzes](https://www.warresisters.org/learn-about-our-radical-past-through-larry-garas-radical-quizzes/) - Between 1989 and 2002, Larry Gara produced four “radical quizzes” for WRL’s Nonviolent Activist to encourage everyone to learn about our radical past. The first, “A Radical Quiz,” was published in the September 1989 issue. Gara, a professor at Wilmington College in Ohio, a WWII resister, and a long-time WRL member, wrote an introduction for
- [Home Is Where WRL Is: A History of WRL’s Office Spaces: From a Living Room to a Loft (Part I)](https://www.warresisters.org/home-is-where-wrl-is-a-history-of-wrls-office-spaces-from-a-living-room-to-a-loft-part-i/) - In our 100 year history, the WRL national office, surprisingly, has had only a few locations in New York City. Each was unique in its own way. WRL was first located in Jessie Wallace Hughan’s apartment. The founder of WRL, she brought into the fold activists from a variety of progressive organizations. Soon there were
- [Home Is Where WRL Is: A History of WRL’s Offices: The Peace Pentagon and Beyond (Part II)](https://www.warresisters.org/home-is-where-wrl-is-a-history-of-wrls-offices-the-peace-pentagon-and-beyond-part-ii/) - After leaving 5 Beekman Street with a very light load—courtesy of the FBI theft—WRL and its peace group mates moved to 339 Lafayette Street at the western edge of the East Village. (For the story of WRL’s pre-Lafayette Street homes, see Home Is Where WRL Is: A History of WRL’s Offices, Part I: From a
- [Uncovering the roots of Barbara Deming’s revolutionary nonviolence and feminism](https://www.warresisters.org/uncovering-roots-barbara-demings-revolutionary-nonviolence-and-feminism/) - April 29th, 2021 Uncovering the roots of Barbara Deming’s revolutionary nonviolence and feminism By Joanne Sheehan This article has been adapted from a talk on “The Revolutionary Nonviolence by Barbara Deming: Two Handed Practices” which Joanne Sheehan gave with Ynestra King, who is writing a book about Barbara Deming. Most who are familiar with author
- [War Resisters' International statement on Ukraine](https://www.warresisters.org/war-resisters-international-statement-ukraine/) - In response to this morning's news, the War Resisters' International Executive Committee has released the following statement. As War Resisters' International, we are extremely concerned about the war in Ukraine. War is a crime against humanity! We call on Russia to immediately cease all attacks and withdraw its troops from the borders with Ukraine. We
- [Letter from National Committee, December 2021](https://www.warresisters.org/letter-national-committee-december-2021/) - Dear friends, WRL shares greetings and wants to send you some news. These have been challenging times filled with much transition, loss and grief, and hope for the future. We share some of this below. Our much-loved Operations Coordinator, Linda Thurston passed away suddenly in late May 2021, and it has been a painful and
- [Bob Meola, 1952-2021 - ¡Presente!](https://www.warresisters.org/bob-meola-1952-2021-presente/) - WRL is saddened by the death of long time WRL organizer and former NC member Bob Meola on November 17, 2021. In the 1980’s Bob was a co-founder of the Southern California War Resisters’ League. After he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, Bob became active with WRL West. He faithfully organized the May
- [Nonviolence in Action online conference - November 20th-28th](https://www.warresisters.org/nonviolence-action-online-conference-november-20th-28th/) - Join us for Nonviolence in Action: Antimilitarism in the 21st century an online conference bringing together activists from across the international peace movement to learn, strategise and build solidarity. The War Resisters’ International (WRI) network – and the whole international peace movement - finds itself at an important crossroads. Over the last hundred years we have been
- [Sewing Resistance to Militarism: Arpilleras and other transnational textiles - Sunday, November 14th](https://www.warresisters.org/wri100-arpilleras/) - Virtual Tour by curator Roberta Bacic and short film on arpilleras Organized by War Resisters League to mark the centenary of War Resisters' International Sunday, November 14th 7 - 8.30pm (UK time) 2 - 3.30pm (US Eastern time) 11 - 12.30pm (US Pacific time) Zoom link: bit.ly/arpilleras-zoom The Conflict Textiles curated exhibition, Nonviolence
- [WRL’s Statement on September 11, 2001](https://www.warresisters.org/wrls-statement-september-11-2001/) - On September 11, 2001, War Resisters League staff person David McReynolds, wrote this from the WRL National Office which was only a mile and half north of the World Trade Towers. As we write, Manhattan feels under siege, with all bridges, tunnels, and subways closed, and tens of thousands of people walking slowly north from
- [We Have A New Mailing Address!](https://www.warresisters.org/we-have-new-mailing-address/) - Dear friends, War Resisters League's mailing address has changed. To reach us, write to: War Resisters League 30 E. 125 St. #229 New York, NY 10035
- [Store Update: We are closed from June 24th until July 19th](https://www.warresisters.org/store-update-we-are-closed-june-24th-until-july-19th/) - The WRL Store is moving to our New England Office as the National office moves out of the office on Canal St in NY and work is done remotely. The Store will be closed from the end of day on June 24th until July 19th. You can still place orders at our online store but
- [Applicants have until July 5th to apply for Development & Membership Coordinator position](https://www.warresisters.org/applicants-have-until-july-5th-apply-development-membership-coordinator-position/) - War Resisters League is extending the deadline to submit applications for the Development and Membership Coordinator Position to July 5th. Job posting: The War Resisters League seeks to hire a passionate and dedicated individual to create and implement a development and membership program to continue supporting nearly 100 years of challenging all wars. About WRL:
- [She Wove Us Together: Linda Marie Thurston, 1958-2021](https://www.warresisters.org/she-wove-us-together-linda-marie-thurston-1958-2021/) - Linda Marie Thurston, who spent a lifetime forging connections between and among people, organizations, and ideas in peace and justice movements, passed away in her Brooklyn, NY home due to natural causes. She was 62 years young. Linda was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on August 7, 1958, the oldest child of James Thurston Sr.
- [Mourning Linda M. Thurston: Funeral Service Info](https://www.warresisters.org/mourning-linda-m-thurston-funeral-service-info/) - May 31st, 2021 For people who are in New York, there will be a public viewing and funeral service scheduled for Wednesday June 2nd from 6 PM - 8 PM ET and Thursday June 3rd at 11 AM ET this week at T.C. Carrillo Funeral Service in the Bronx, respectively. The details are posted on Facebook, Instagram,
- [Linda Marie Thurston, rest in eternal power and memory. We love you greatly.](https://www.warresisters.org/linda-marie-thurston-rest-eternal-power-and-memory-we-love-you-greatly/) - May 25, 2021 To our dear community, We are grieved to be sharing with you all devastating news: Linda Thurston, War Resisters League's Operations Coordinator passed away unexpectedly this past weekend. Linda first organized with WRL for the Day Without the Pentagon action in 1998 and later joined the national staff collective in 2007 where
- [We're Hiring! Development & Membership Coordinator](https://www.warresisters.org/were-hiring-development-membership-coordinator/) - WRL Development & Membership Coordinator: Job Posting May 2021 The War Resisters League seeks to hire a passionate and dedicated individual to create and implement a development and membership program to continue supporting nearly 100 years of challenging all wars. About WRL: The War Resisters League (WRL) affirms that all war is a crime against
- [An update on Mumia: Freedom is the only treatment](https://www.warresisters.org/update-mumia-freedom-only-treatment/) - April 29th, 2021 Dear friends, We are relieved to share that Mumia Abu-Jamal— journalist, author, and WRL Peace Awardee— is recovering from heart surgery and that, thanks to continued pressure, he was able to speak with his wife Wadiya after the operation. But, we need to keep the pressure on. Mumia's doctors remain very concerned about his treatment
- [Early WRL Demonstration](https://www.warresisters.org/early-wrl-demonstration/) - One of WRL’s earliest known street actions was a demonstration marking the 10th anniversary of the World War I armistice. On November 10, 1928, 27 pacifists and socialists -- including the Youth Division of the War Resisters League, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Union Theological Seminary, Young People’s Socialist League, Bronx Free Fellowship – marched from Bowling
- [From North Carolina to the USSR: Direct Action against Nuclear Weapons](https://www.warresisters.org/north-carolina-ussr-direct-action-against-nuclear-weapons/) - Steve Sumerford, personal collection A Durham, North Carolina newspaper article on War Resisters League Southeast staff organizer Steve Sumerford’s arrest in Moscow’s Red Square during a War Resisters League-organized banner-drop in support of ending the nuclear arms race in both the US and USSR. A sister action took place simultaneously in Washington, D.C., September 4,
- [War Resisters League 100th Anniversary Blog](https://www.warresisters.org/war-resisters-league-100th-anniversary-blog/) - Please join us during this 100th year of actions and educational events, which we are initiating with a weekly blog focusing on highlights from WRL’s 100 years, as we head towards the actual October 19 anniversary. Founded 100 years ago this year as a secular militant pacifist organization, the War Resisters League is made up of people
- [Jessie Wallace Hughan and the Founding of WRL](https://www.warresisters.org/jessie-wallace-hughan-and-founding-wrl/) - Up until the first world war, peace and antiwar groups tended to be either religious (such as, AFSC and FOR) or women-only (Women’s Peace Society, Women’s Peace Union, Woman’s Peace Party, WILPF). Hughan sought to change that with the 1915 founding of the Anti-Enlistment League and its pledge to be “against enlistment” for war and
- [MLK and WRL](https://www.warresisters.org/mlk-and-wrl/) - “As you know, the establishment of social justice in our nation is of profound concern to me. This great struggle is in the interest of all Americans and I shall not be turned from it. Yet no sane person can afford to work for social justice within the nation unless he simultaneously resists war and
- [Journey of Reconciliation](https://www.warresisters.org/journey-reconciliation/) - The Journey of Reconciliation in 1947 was the first major national project organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), co-sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR). An interracial group of 16 rode on buses through the upper South to test the implementation of the 1946 Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation on interstate travel. They
- [Reproductive Freedom - WRL Statement](https://www.warresisters.org/reproductive-freedom-wrl-statement/) - In 1981, shortly after Ronald Reagan became President, the right to choose to have an abortion and sexual freedom was increasingly under attack. The Feminist and Lesbian and Gay Task Forces of the Mobilization for Survival (MfS), a national network that included WRL, with goals to: abolish nuclear weapons and power, stop military intervention, meet
- [WRL Organizational Statement: Spring 2022](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-organizational-statement-spring-2022/) - Dear WRL Community, We hope this message finds you at peace despite seemingly endless moments of challenge, hardship and the ongoing horrors of war and militarism. We wanted to take this opportunity to reconnect with you all – our members, allies, comrades, and friends to provide an important update on behalf of the organization. In
- [Just in Time for Tax Season, it's WRL's famous "Pie Chart": Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes](https://www.warresisters.org/just-time-tax-season-its-wrls-famous-pie-chart-where-your-income-tax-money-really-goes/) - For almost 40 years, War Resisters League has researched and produced an annual pie chart flyer to call attention to the vast amount of our income tax dollars spent on the military and war. This year the pie percentages look different than previous years: the red slices add up to 37% — but the military budget
- [Introducing the War Resisters League 100th Anniversary Blog](https://www.warresisters.org/introducing-the-war-resisters-league-100th-anniversary-blog/) - Founded 100 years ago this year as a secular militant pacifist organization, the War Resisters League is made up of people united in nonviolent opposition to all wars while seeking to remove the causes of war, including racism, sexism and all forms of exploitation. Throughout its 100 years, WRL has held conferences, given out annual
- [Wind in its Sails: the Voyage of the Golden Rule](https://www.warresisters.org/wind-its-sails-voyage-golden-rule/) - As the Golden Rule continues its voyage up the East Coast, it is sailing into cities with historic connections. It is now in Philadelphia, home of crew member George Willoughby, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and so many Quaker supporters. Onto New York, home of the War Resisters League office which provided staffing and organizing.
- [Remembering Harry Belafonte](https://www.warresisters.org/remembering-harry-belafonte/) - Harry Belafonte stands with musicians at concert to raise funds for the Montomery Bus Boycott, May 24, 1956. (Photo courtesy WRL/David McReynolds Photo Project) WRL Executive Committee minutes from 1956 have an item on "Non-Violent Work in Race Relations”. Bayard Rustin and Ralph DiGia, WRL staff, were tasked with "Assisting in a fund-raising concert to support
- ["Stop Militarism in Our Schools!" and the Protest Art of Peg Averill](https://www.warresisters.org/stop-militarism-our-schools-and-protest-art-peg-averill/) - Peg Averill’s “Stop Militarism in Our Schools!” poster excites me not only for its anti-conscription stance and connections to the Vietnam War, but also for its contemporary relevance, art historical references, and uniquely gender-ambiguous figure. Averill’s “Stop Militarism in Our Schools!” poster immediately stood out to me when choosing a Cooper Hewitt collection object for
- [WRL News and The Nonviolent Activist Online: Personal Reflection](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-news-and-nonviolent-activist-online-personal-reflection/) - As the Fall 2022 Freeman Intern, I spent the past several months working with The Nonviolent Activist and WRL News. I found the experience challenging and inspiring. It gave me the chance to reflect on 61 years of resistance and consider my own relationship with pacifism. The Nonviolent Activist was launched in 1984. I was
- [Virginia Baron's Introduction to the 1997 WRL Peace Calendar](https://www.warresisters.org/virginia-barons-introduction-1997-wrl-peace-calendar/) - Virginia Baron edited the 1997 WRL Peace Calendar, “Womanspirit Moving,” a collection of profiles, quotations, and stories about women organizing for peace and justice around the world. In a lifetime of activism herself, Virginia worked for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, traveled the world on peace delegations, and was active with War Resisters League for at
- [The Middle Years: The Emerging Role of Women in WRL](https://www.warresisters.org/middle-years-emerging-role-women-wrl/) - In accord with Jessie Wallace Hughan’s belief that WRL would likely be more effective if led by men, the role of women, and certainly their authority, decreased substantially post WW II. Indeed, for the next several decades WRL women primarily served as adjuncts to men: doing office work so men could organize demonstrations or resist
- [Because I Have Gotten to be 80 Years Old](https://www.warresisters.org/because-i-have-gotten-be-80-years-old/) - Twenty years ago, on March 19, 2003, the U.S. launched the disastrous and deadly invasion of Iraq. With great hope and determination, millions around the world joined antiwar protests on February 15, a month before the attack. 100 years ago in December Grace Paley was born. That’s something brighter to celebrate during this Women’s History Month.
- [The Early Years: The Feminist Leadership of WRL](https://www.warresisters.org/early-years-feminist-leadership-wrl/) - In founding and then leading WRL for nearly 20 years, Jessie Wallace Hughan was supported by an impressive group of women, many having previously headed other women’s pacifist, suffragist, anti-conscription, and socialist organizations. Unusually independent for their time, most had graduated from prestigious universities, supported themselves with careers, and were engaged in romantic relationships with like-minded women. Among these colleagues
- [Southern Intersectional Organizing in the Reagan Era: WRL Southeast](https://www.warresisters.org/southern-intersectional-organizing-reagan-era-wrl-southeast/) - When, in late 1979, Durham, NC-based lesbian feminist organizer Joanne Abel heard about the Klan and Nazi murders of five local leftists at a Greensboro march organized by the Communist Workers Party, she called a friend at the War Resisters League. WRL Southeast office staff organizers Steve Sumerford and Dannia Southerland helped organize a contingent
- [History of the Broken Rifle Logo](https://www.warresisters.org/history-broken-rifle-logo/) - The broken rifle, long associated with WRL and War Resisters’ International predates both organizations. It first appeared in January 1909 on the cover of the Dutch publication De Wapens Neder (Down with Weapons), the periodical of the International Antimilitarist Union in the Netherlands. In 1915 it was on the cover of a pamphlet, Under det
- [First U.S. Demonstration Against the War in Vietnam War](https://www.warresisters.org/first-us-demonstration-against-war-vietnam-war/) - Sixty years ago, the United States had 16,000 military personnel in Vietnam propping up the increasingly brutal South Vietnamese regime headed by Ngô Đình Diệm. Within six years the number of U.S. troops would escalate to over a half million, resulting in almost 60,000 U.S. combat deaths and more than a million Vietnamese, Cambodian, and
- [Out & Outraged: Direct Action During the AIDS Crisis](https://www.warresisters.org/out-outraged-direct-action-during-the-aids-crisis/) - In the late 1980s it seemed there was no end to the AIDS crisis and increasing homophobia across Reagan-era America. The Supreme Court’s 1986 decision in Bowers v. Harwick upholding Georgia’s sodomy law led more than half a million LGBTQIA+ folks and allies to converge on Washington, DC from October 8-13, 1987 for what would become a series of historic events.....
- [Gay Liberation and a Mid-Century Coming Out Story](https://www.warresisters.org/gay-liberation-and-a-mid-century-coming-out-story/) - “I had mixed reactions when I was informed that WIN was coming out with a special issue on the homosexual and his oppressed state in society. I wondered if the time was right for such a step with the Movement. I feared that such an issue might prove divisive and hurt more than it helped.
- [Texas Peacework and WRL (Part I)](https://www.warresisters.org/texas-peacework-and-wrl-part-i/) - I first heard of War Resisters League some time in the mid to late 1980's as I was getting involved in protesting the Pantex nuclear warhead assembly plant, from whence comes EVERY finished U.S. warhead, located northeast of where I lived: Amarillo, TX......
- [Militarized Response Tracker #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd](https://www.warresisters.org/militarized-response-tracker-justiceforgeorgefloyd/) - Sunday May 31st, 2020 We’re heartbroken and outraged and like so many of you, refuse to allow the systematic killing of Black people in the United States to continue without a fight for justice. There is a lot to be outraged about: from how the politics of COVID-19 pandemic put the lives of Black and
- [TAKE ACTION: STOP U.S. ARMS TRADE](https://www.warresisters.org/take-action-stop-us-arms-trade/) - Friday May 25th Over the last month, under the cover of COVID, a new series of Arms Sales were proposed by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the section of the Pentagon responsible for handling major arms sales. According to US law, there is a 30 day period to mount a legislative challenge to these sales before
- [Back to basics: solidaridad | تضامن | solidariteit | solidarity | એકતા | 연대 | mshikamano](https://www.warresisters.org/back-basics-solidaridad-mshikamano/) - April 16th, 2020 Dear friends, We knew this was going to be a tough and pivotal year politically, but few predicted the extent to which it would be so. Constant updates from the COVID-19 pandemic to the Democratic Primaries to chaos from within the Trump administration are alarming and hyperstimulating. For many young people, this
- [Join us and Register for an Online Town Hall on 4/6: Racial Justice Has No Borders, Militarization in the time of Pandemic](https://www.warresisters.org/rjhnbtownhall/) - powered by Typeform
- [Important Message Regarding WRL’s store + Mutual Aid resources](https://www.warresisters.org/important-message-regarding-wrls-store-mutual-aid-resources/) - Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 Dear friends, We’re writing to touch base during this time of crisis and uncertainty, to offer an update on WRL’s operations and to share a few resources on what we can be doing to love and protect each other in these strange and difficult times. Like many of our peer organizations,
- [Welcome News: NYC set to divest city pension funds from Nuclear Weapons](https://www.warresisters.org/welcome-news-nyc-set-divest-city-pension-funds-nuclear-weapons/) - Every move towards a world free of warfare is a move worth taking. That’s why I spoke on behalf of War Resisters League at New York City Council on Tuesday - to voice our support for Resolution 0976 and Introduction 1621. These proposals reaffirm New York City as a nuclear-free zone, and instruct the pension
- [What you need to know about ending endless wars](https://www.warresisters.org/what-you-need-know-about-ending-endless-wars/) - January 17, 2020 End endless wars. It's a phrase we're hearing come up more and more in media, from community leaders to talking heads to presidential candidates— and it's a stance we fully embrace in its truest sense. Which is why we're alarmed to hear "end endless wars" regularly framed in exclusive terms as withdrawal of groundtroops from the Middle East region. The
- [Against War With Iran, Against WWIII](https://www.warresisters.org/against-war-iran-against-wwiii/) - Wednesday, January 8th, 2020 Dear friends, Early Friday morning, in an act of imperial power and disregard for international law, the US assassinated Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani and Kata’ib Hezbollah’s Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at Baghdad International Airport via targeted drone strike and immediately deployed more troops to the region for “protection.” That same day, police
- [Against War with Iran](https://www.warresisters.org/against-war-iran/) - Friday January 3rd, 2020 This morning, WWIII was trending on our social media as Gen Z all mentally prepped themselves to be recruited and deployed to Iraq/Iran. How did we get here and what can we do about it now? After the Pentagon continued to defend troop presence in Iraq to fight ISIS under Obama,
- [2019 Staff Reflections](https://www.warresisters.org/2019-staff-reflections/) - We’re going to be honest with you; our fundraising isn’t where it needs to be. We’ve raised just under half of what we’ll need to keep our programs going in 2020. We believe this work is important because we believe a better world is possible: just read from staff below. And we know that as a
- [A Revolutionary Nonviolent Perspective on US Uprisings](https://www.warresisters.org/revolutionary-nonviolent-perspective-us-uprisings/) - July 9, 2020 Previoulsly published on Waging Nonviolence We are activists, we are practitioners of revolutionary nonviolence, and we are outraged. Outraged at the 400-year long history of violence against Black people in this country; outraged at the racist and murderous system that founded police, who kill Black people with impunity; outraged at the state-sanctioned brutality meeting
- [U.S. Elections | Pre-Debate Notes](https://www.warresisters.org/us-elections-pre-debate-notes/) - October 22, 2020 It is 11 days until election day and tonight is the last debate between the two people who are essentially running to be Commander in Chief of the United States Military. Based off of what we know what topics the moderator will cover, here is what you should watch out for in tonight’s
- [For our 97th Birthday, take our membership survey for a chance to win raffle tickets!](https://www.warresisters.org/our-97th-birthday-take-our-membership-survey-chance-win-raffle-tickets/) - On October 19, 1923, New York City educator and queer activist* Jessie Wallace Hughan wrote in her diary: “Tracy [Mygatt] to dinner—had hair done—organized real War Resisters League.” That was 97 years ago today. At WRL resisting war has always meant addressing the root causes of violence by forging relationships and building movements that empower
- [It's time for LANDBACK.](https://www.warresisters.org/its-time-landback/) - October 12th, 2020 In honor of Indigenous People’s Day we are amplifying visionary, Indigenous-led leadership today from our friends at the NDN Collective, who are launching the LANDBACK Campaign. LANDBACK is a movement that has existed for generations with a long legacy of organizing and sacrifice to get Indigenous lands back into Indigenous hands -- and
- [No To War in Artsakh! Solidarity with antiwar Armenians and Azeris! Զոորակցություն Հայերի Հետ](https://www.warresisters.org/no-war-artsakh-solidarity-antiwar-armenians-and-azeris-զոորակցություն-հայերի-հետ/) - October 6th, 2020 At least 150 people have been killed so far from the fighting between Turkey-backed Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh (also known as Artsakh and Karabagh) which began last week on September 27th when Azeri forces shelled the area. This conflict, with roots in Russian-drawn borders, Soviet-era imperialism and propped up by the modern
- [Call for Submissions: 2020 Elections + Antiwar Politics](https://www.warresisters.org/call-submissions-2020-elections-antiwar-politics/) - October 3rd, 2020 Friends, I'm excited to share with you the first call for submissions from War Resisters League's newest committee, the Editorial Committee. We are comprised of writers and organizers based across the Americas with ties to Black, Indigenous, MENA, Latin American, and white communities of resistance. Every month, we meet to discuss pressing issues
- [They're Out! Thank You.](https://www.warresisters.org/theyre-out-thank-you/) - We are happy to be emailing with great news: all five activists are home and we’ve successfully fundraised the total bond amount to reimburse those who stepped up to help get our folks to safety. We’re blown away by your support. 167 people came together and through large and small gifts, got us to our
- [Emergency Fundraising: Bail them out!](https://www.warresisters.org/emergency-fundraising-bail-them-out/) - On Monday August 17th five WRL members blockaded the entrance to Combined Systems International — the largest tear gas manufacturer in the U.S. Our group successfully deterred a shipment from entering Combined Systems Inc. and had many meaningful conversations with neighbors and folks driving by. All five members of the blockade were arrested and kept overnight at
- [We're blockading the entrance to a tear gas manufacturer right now](https://www.warresisters.org/were-blockading-entrance-tear-gas-manufacturer-right-now/) - Monday, August 17th, 2020 Right now, 5 activists are blockading the entrance of Combined Systems Inc. with giant tear gas cans and gas masks, refusing to move. These five are with a group of 40 activists from cities across the U.S. who are onsite in Jamestown, PA with the goal of shutting down operations at Combined
- [Hiroshima & Nagaski - Marking 75 Years](https://www.warresisters.org/hiroshima-nagaski-marking-75-years/) - August 6, 2020 August 6th and August 9th this week mark the 75th year since the United States used nuclear weapons on civilians living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed over 200,000 people. To this day, survivors are #stillhere and fighting for the abolition of nuclear weapons. As we remember the incredible violence of
- [John Lewis, CT Vivian Presente!](https://www.warresisters.org/john-lewis-ct-vivian-presente/) - July 20, 2020 We are filled with gratitude for the wisdom and leadership of Rep. John Lewis and Rev. CT Vivian, two people who dedicated their lives to racial justice in the United States and made incredible contributions towards collective freedom, nonviolent struggle, and Black liberation. Both Lewis and Vivian were active in the 1960’s civil rights movement
- [It's Time to Abolish DHS](https://www.warresisters.org/its-time-abolish-dhs/) - In a continued effort to crush the Black Lives Matter movement, Trump sent Federal agents to the streets of Portland to “quell” the weeks of rallies to defund the police. Civilians in Portland, a majority-white city, have reported cases of unmarked vans “snatching” protestors off the streets and tear gassing civilians (even while a federal
- [Now Recruiting Members for our New Editorial Committee](https://www.warresisters.org/now-recruiting-members-our-new-editorial-committee/) - War Resisters League is creating a space for accessible antiwar analysis that pushes forward the viewpoints of people struggling for justice around the world in a way that creates more and new opportunities for solidarity. Building on the War Resisters League’s long history as a home for open and honest debate and much-needed analysis of
- [Have you been tear gassed? We want to hear from you.](https://www.warresisters.org/have-you-been-tear-gassed-we-want-hear-you/) - July 10, 2020 At the same time that we are facing tremendous horrors, we are experiencing the powerful accumulation of years of abolitionist organizing led by Black feminists. The future we want feels so much more possible than it ever has. The state has been doing everything in its power to keep that from becoming
- [Tear Gas - What You Need To Know](https://www.warresisters.org/tear-gas-what-you-need-know/) - From 2012 to 2014, War Resisters League ran the Facing Tear Gas campaign aimed at exposing the tear gas industry: who's making it, who's buying it, and where it's used. Tear Gas, unsurprisingly, was found to be a common tool for state oppression from the United States to Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, and elsewhere. Now in 2020,
- [Action Alert | Free Mumia, bring him home to heal!](https://www.warresisters.org/action-alert-free-mumia-bring-him-home-heal/) - Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021 Dear friends, Today we write to you with serious news. Mumia Abu-Jamal is experiencing a severe decline in health and we must act now to secure his release from prison. While Mumia Abu-Jamal— the 66 year old award winning journalist, former Black Panther, and US political prisoner— has been ill for
- [Biden dropped seven 500lb bombs last night. Here is what you need to know.](https://www.warresisters.org/biden-dropped-seven-500lb-bombs-last-night-here-what-you-need-know/) - Friday, February 26th Dear Friends, Last night, Biden dropped seven 500-pound bombs on a small cluster of buildings on the Syrian side of the Syria-Iraq border¹. The bombings destroyed these buildings, ammunition and weapons stored inside, and killed at least 17 militia members affiliated with Kataib Hezbollah and other groups.² These militia members are Iraqi, backed
- [The Roots of Revolutionary Nonviolence in the United States are in the Black Community](https://www.warresisters.org/roots-revolutionary-nonviolence-united-states-are-black-community/) - By Joanne Sheehan First published on Waging Nonviolence, February 15th 2021 Many are wondering how to respond to the current white supremacist threat. We only have to look to history — to those who organized against the brutal culture and laws of segregation in this country — for inspiration on the importance of relationship
- [We need to strategically eliminate fascism, not engage in hollow calls for peace.](https://www.warresisters.org/we-need-strategically-eliminate-fascism-not-engage-hollow-calls-peace/) - Thursday January 14th, 2021 We need to strategically eliminate fascism, not engage in hollow calls for peace. By War Resisters League For 97 years, War Resisters League has worked diligently to resist all wars at home and abroad through resisting the root causes of war: racism, sexism, and all forms of exploitation. Throughout the decades,
- [Call for Submissions | A Critical Look at Borders](https://www.warresisters.org/call-submissions-critical-look-borders/) - Friday December 11th, 2020 Borders motivate both conflict and cooperation between states, and are a key factor in deciding the movement of people and goods around the world. Borders are often-times colonial constructs that divide Indigenous lands and peoples, such as Israeli borders over Palestinian land. Increasingly, borders have become a space of hyper-militarization and policing
- [December of Dissent: Help us raise $30K to resist war!](https://www.warresisters.org/december-dissent-help-us-raise-30k-resist-war/) - Wednesday, December 9th, 2020 Dear Friends, We kicked off our year-end fundraising on Giving Tuesday by asking you to help us raise $5,000 for WRL’s antiwar work. With your help and matching funds from a generous donor we raised $8,192! Thank you! Now, for the month of December we’re setting an ambitious goal to raise
- [#GiveToResistWar](https://www.warresisters.org/givetoresistwar/) - December 1, 2020 Today is Giving Tuesday which means we’re here to ask you to #GiveToResistWar! We have a goal of raising $5,000 by the end of today to support WRL’s antimilitarist work. Thanks to a generous donor, when you give today every dollar you give will be matched! Will you make a gift right now to
- [War Resisters League Commends Kings Bay Plowshares](https://www.warresisters.org/war-resisters-league-commends-kings-bay-plowshares/) - Thursday, November 19th, 2020 Written by Ellen Barfield with support from Joanne Sheehan WRL thanks and honors the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, three of whom (Carmen Trotta, Martha Hennessy, and Clare Grady) were sentenced last week for their bold Trident disarmament action at the Kings Bay nuclear submarine base in south Georgia. Several of the Kings Bay
- [Our next commander in chief is not Donald Trump](https://www.warresisters.org/our-next-commander-chief-not-donald-trump/) - As Leftist and progressive organizers going into this election cycle, we knew our best chances to continue making gains against oppression would not be under a Trump administration. This is why many, like LUCHA in Arizona, PA Stands Up, New Florida Majority, and Working Families Party, worked to get out the vote for the Biden campaign
- [Submission: Leftists and anti-authoritarians have an obligation to vote out Trump](https://www.warresisters.org/submission-leftists-and-anti-authoritarians-have-obligation-vote-out-trump/) - October 30th, 2020 Dear Friends, Earlier this month we shared with you our Editorial Committee's letter on 2020 Elections and Antiwar politics. We're pleased to share this piece in response from Joey Ayoub, a Lebanese academic based in Zurich who writes extensively on anti-authoritarian struggles worldwide. He writes: Biden is problematic, but he can be pushed to the left
- [Call for Submissions | Reimagining Safety → Problematizing Policing and Envisioning Alternatives](https://www.warresisters.org/call-submissions-reimagining-safety-→-problematizing-policing-and-envisioning-alternatives/) - It’s undeniable: the violent police crackdowns against Black Lives Matter protests throughout the United States in summer 2020 have decreased public support for police and increased criticism of their role in American society. Images and video of heavily armed and armored police tear gassing, pepper spraying, and assaulting demonstrators have vividly called into question the
- [We made serious mistakes. An apology to action participants.](https://www.warresisters.org/we-made-serious-mistakes-apology-action-participants/) - Dear friends, organizational partners, allies, and community members: We’re here to share with our broader community some insight to what WRL has been focusing on internally, and to apologize to our community members and comrades who have been harmed after participating in a WRL action. For background, we recently held an action in Trump country.
- [Resources to Stop a Coup](https://www.warresisters.org/resources-stop-coup/) - October 27th, 2020 Trump has repeatedly said he will not peacefully transfer power and there is legitimate fear that the election may be stolen. If Trump makes good on this promise, then make no mistake: we are headed towards a coup. The President has also called on white supremacists to “protect the vote,” threatened to call out troops
- [What to watch for in tonight’s presidential debate](https://www.warresisters.org/what-watch-tonights-presidential-debate/) - September 29th, 2020 Ahead of tonight’s U.S. presidential debate, we are thinking of the root causes of war, chiefly: racism, sexism, and all forms of exploitation. While we don’t know exactly what will come up in tonight’s debate, here are some things to watch out for: Taxes. We shouldn’t be merely calling for Trump
- [Long-time WRL member Dr. Linnea Capps, MD, MPH passes away on April 19th, 2021](https://www.warresisters.org/long-time-wrl-member-dr-linnea-capps-md-mph-passes-away-april-19th-2021/) - April 21st, 2021 Dear friends, War Resisters League is saddened to learn of the passing of our long-time member, Dr. Linnea Capps, MD, MPH. She will be dearly missed. We will be sharing reflections about her, starting with this one from Matt Meyer: Dr. Linnea Capps, MD, MPH June 19, 1950—April 19, 2021 Reflections by
- [Help stop people from joining the police](https://www.warresisters.org/help-stop-people-joining-police/) - April 15th, 2021 Dear friends, If you know someone— a friend, family member, colleague, or neighbor— who is thinking about becoming a cop, now is an important moment to engage in a tough but necessary conversation on why they shouldn’t join the police force. Download our free brochure So You Wanna Be A Cop? to
- [Take action tonight before Mumia's heart surgery tomorrow.](https://www.warresisters.org/take-action-tonight-mumias-heart-surgery-tomorrow/) - April 14th, 2021 Dear friend, Earlier in March, we wrote to you with calls to action for Mumia Abu-Jamal as his health took a serious decline after contracting COVID-19. Tomorrow, Mumia is scheduled to have heart surgery. This call to action was put together by the International Movement to Free Mumia. Please read, take action, and
- [Call for Pitches | A Critical Look at Authoritarianism(s)](https://www.warresisters.org/call-pitches-critical-look-authoritarianisms/) - Authoritarianism is a driving force of war, both at home and abroad. But what exactly is authoritarianism and what are the strategies to resist it? The War Resisters League’s Editorial Committee invites pitches for articles that can help us both amplify ongoing work resisting this political phenomenon and clarify opportunities for antiwar and antimilitarist movements
- [Guidelines on how to pitch the Editorial Committee](https://www.warresisters.org/guidelines-how-pitch-editorial-committee/) - Monday March 29th, 2021 War Resisters League’s Editorial Committee regularly puts out calls for submissions to foster conversation on a variety of antiwar/antimilitarist topics. We want to hear from people directly impacted by war: grassroots activists, academics, our membership, and freelance journalists and writers from around the world who are committed to resisting the
- [Nonviolence is an exploration- Join us!](https://www.warresisters.org/nonviolence-exploration-join-us/) - March 22, 2021 Dear friends, I often quote Barbara Deming’s reminder that “nonviolence is an exploration, one that has just begun” at trainings with groups looking to achieve justice using nonviolence strategies. By engaging in this exploration, we continue to both learn new aspects of the power of nonviolence and develop more creative ways to
- [Your Submissions, Published: A Critical Look at Borders](https://www.warresisters.org/your-submissions-published-critical-look-borders/) - March 19th, 2021 Dear friends, In December, War Resisters League’s Editorial Committee put out a letter taking a critical look at borders where we discussed how borders motivate both conflict and cooperation between states, and discussed their impact on Indigenous communities. We asked you to join in the conversation through our call for submissions.
- [Order WRL’s famous pie...chart.](https://www.warresisters.org/order-wrls-famous-piechart/) - March 14th, 2021 Dear friends, It's Pi day and we couldn't resist a little pun. For almost 40 years, War Resisters League has researched and produced an annual pie chart flyer to call attention to the vast amount of our income tax dollars spent on the military and war. Since World War II, roughly
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- [WRL Endorses Statement of Unity by Korean Americans and Allies on the Historic Inter-Korean Summit and the U.S.-North Korea Summit](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-endorses-statement-unity-korean-americans-and-allies-historic-inter-korean-summit-and-us-north/) - The full statement and endorsement is below and can also be found here. Since the historic April 27 summit between the leaders of North and South Korea at Panmunjom, longstanding tensions and war threats on the Korean peninsula have given way to the promise of peace and reconciliation. Soon, another historic summit, between the United
- [March for Our Lives: Demilitarize!](https://www.warresisters.org/march-our-lives-demilitarize/) - As energy builds across the country for March for Our Lives mobilizations tomorrow, WRL calls on all anti-militarists to push the narrative of gun control to full disarmament! Once again, as our country recoils in outrage after another mass shooting at Great Mills High School in Maryland, as family and friends of Stephon Clark demand justice
- [Activists protest Saudi Crown Prince’s visits to US cities, call on elected officials to oppose US role in Saudi war on Yemen](https://www.warresisters.org/activists-protest-saudi-crown-princes-visits-us-cities-call-elected-officials-oppose-us-role-saudi/) - Protestors told de Blasio to denounce prince visit; told Schumer & Menendez to immediately commit to vote to end US support for Saudi war on Yemen CONTACTS: New York, NY: Isaac Evans-Frantz, 347-756-1896, actioncorps.nyc [at] gmail.com Washington, DC: Ariel Gold, 510-599-5330, ariel [at] codepink.org Tuesday the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is meeting with
- [WRL Joins Human Rights Coalition To Blast CIA Torturer as Trump’s Pick for CIA Head](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-joins-human-rights-coalition-blast-cia-torturer-trumps-pick-cia-head/) - Human Rights Coalition Blasts CIA Torturer as Trump’s Pick for CIA Head March 15th, 2018 - Washington, D.C. A coalition of human rights groups working to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and end US torture condemns President Trump’s nomination of Gina Haspel for Director of the CIA. Haspel's documented involvement in torture should absolutely disqualify
- [WRL Endorses Call to Reject War Criminal Kissinger from NYU Event](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-endorses-call-reject-war-criminal-kissinger-nyu-event/) - War Resisters League endorses call by NYU student activists demanding NYU cancel event hosted by war criminal Henry Kissinger. Read the statement and endorsing organizations below. “The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer.” Henry Kissinger, 1975 For over half a century, Henry Kissinger has stood as the morally reprehensible poster
- [A Message from Movement Elder, Mandy Carter](https://www.warresisters.org/message-movement-elder-mandy-carter/) - Dear Community, I graduated high school in the summer of 1966 in Central New York during the tail ends of the Civil Rights Movement and during the height of the U.S.-led wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. That summer, almost 400,000 men were drafted. Having lived and been raised in two orphanages and a foster
- [Building Anti-colonial Power - 1 Year After Hurricane Maria](https://www.warresisters.org/building-anti-colonial-power-1-year-after-hurricane-maria/) - Dear Primxs, A year ago today, the deadliest U.S.-based natural disaster - Hurricane Maria - devastated the island of Puerto Rico, home to over 3 million people. The hurricane shattered an already unstable infrastructure, crumbling from almost two centuries of parasitic U.S. colonialism. 3,000 people died because of an explicit strategy to keep aid from
- [Meet WRL's new National Organizer, Tory Smith](https://www.warresisters.org/meet-wrls-new-national-organizer-tory-smith/) - Dear Troublemakers, On January 19th, 2003, I was a high school student in Washington D.C., huddled against the wind in a massive crowd all holding up signs declaring we were against the illegal war that was about to start. I didn’t have a full understanding of the history that lead our empire up to that
- [Meet WRL's New Field Organizer, Yuni Chang](https://www.warresisters.org/meet-wrls-new-field-organizer-yuni-chang/) - Dear Community, My parents were born in Seoul in the fresh aftermath of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War. Before the U.S. split the peninsula with the creation of a border at the 38th parallel, my grandmother waded across rivers in secret, with newborns in tow, so that her family in the north would have
- [A Death in the Family: David McReynolds, Pacifist, Socialist, Ailurophile](https://www.warresisters.org/death-family-david-mcreynolds-pacifist-socialist-ailurophile/) - As WRL reflects on David's life and legacy, heading into our 95th year of radically resisting war, we're humbled and grateful for the kind of politic David brought to our movement + organizational spaces. To make a gift to WRL in David's honor, click here. To write a message of remembrance for David in our 95th Anniversary
- [David McReynolds  (1929 - 2018)](https://www.warresisters.org/david-mcreynolds-1929-2018/) - UPDATE: Hear the presentations from the Memorial for David McReynolds here. The memorial was held on Saturday, December 1 at 12 PM – 3 PM at Judson Memorial Church in New York. Scroll down for links to more articles about David. Early Friday morning, August 17, socialist, photographer, and lifetime War Resisters League member David
- [The New Antimilitarism: Our AMC Reportback](https://www.warresisters.org/new-antimilitarism-our-amc-reportback/) - Hey community, It's been a few weeks since you helped us get folks out to Detroit for the Allied Media Conference to attend our workshop Liberate the Skies: The New Antimilitarism - thanks for helping us get folks there! The first of its kind at the AMC, the workshop was an intentional space for us
- [Resisting Occupation: A Teach-In on Kashmir](https://www.warresisters.org/resisting-occupation-teach-kashmir/) - War Resisters League is proud to announce and report back from the first of WRL's Zone’s of Forgotten Conflict teach-in series. We were honored to partner with the South Asia Solidarity Initiative, to hold up resistance to India’s occupation of Kashmir and to have Kashmiri scholar activists Hafsa Kanjwal and Mohamad Junaid as guest speakers,
- [Conscientious Objection is a Human Right!](https://www.warresisters.org/conscientious-objection-human-right/) - As long as there has been war, there’s been those who are willing to fight and those who actively refuse to take part. Today, on International Conscientious Objector Day, we uplift all who refuse military enlistment morally, politically, spiritually, or otherwise. Throughout history conscientious objectors (COs) have been persecuted around the world for their actions, from petty fees to imprisonment, exile
- [WRL is Hiring a New Organizing Team!](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-hiring-new-organizing-team/) - The War Resisters League seeks to hire two passionate and dedicated individuals to make up its core programmatic team. The National Campaigner and the Field Organizer will work together to coordinate, develop, and implement WRL programmatic work, including building campaigns to fulfill WRL’s mission and strategic priorities. We are seeking two experienced and committed grassroots
- [Resist Militarism: Lessons from Mexico & Cross Border Solidarity](https://www.warresisters.org/resist-militarism-lessons-mexico-cross-border-solidarity/) - The People's Human Rights Observatory is an initiative of grassroots and popular organizations in Latin America, the Caribbean and Palestine that seeks to monitor, document, disseminate, promote and demand the protection of Latin American communities Human Rights, Democracy and Social Justice from a perspective of constructing and deepening of resistance, rebellion, memory and popular power.
- [Act Now: Stop Fueling War in Yemen](https://www.warresisters.org/act-now-stop-fueling-war-yemen/) - Today marks 15 years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq. While we rally in the streets to demand accountability for the violence visited upon Iraqis for more than a decade, our collective responsibility to dismantle militarism wherever it roots, in whatever form it takes, cannot be ignored. That’s why, as we look towards a future
- [From Kashmir to the Philippines, Give to Grassroots Decolonial Education](https://www.warresisters.org/kashmir-philippines-give-grassroots-decolonial-education/) - Dear Resisters, When I joined WRL’s National Committee in 2017, an unprecedented number of members from diasporic and marginalized communities were also joining, and I was thrilled to be working with a group of people ready to build a truly internationalist antiwar movement. As we acknowledged the many ongoing conflicts, occupations, and wars happening around
- [WRL at 95: Where We've Been, Where We're Going](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-95-where-weve-been-where-were-going/) - This past summer, WRL National Committee member Debbie Southorn took a moment to collect stories about our past, present, and future. Give it a listen above and stay tuned for more awesome opportunities for future podcasts! If you are a lifelong WRL member with a story to be shared, contact Raúl at raul [at] warresisters.org.
- [December of Dissent: From Turtle Island to Palestine](https://www.warresisters.org/december-dissent-turtle-island-palestine/) - Dear Friends, My name is Sandra Tamari, the Executive Director of Adalah Justice Project and a friend of The War Resisters League. My work is centered around fighting for the rights of Palestinians: as a Palestinian living in the United States, I have spent over 15 years connecting people across borders to resist settler-colonial violence—
- [Political Education to Spread Antimilitarism](https://www.warresisters.org/political-education-spread-antimilitarism-0/) - Friends, I’m Citlali Perez, I am a rising sophomore at DePaul University and have worked with the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council as a youth leader. In the spring of 2019, I was part of WRL’s three-day Demilitarization School in Chicago, where I learned a lot about what militarization looks like around the world that I hadn't
- [Political Education to Spread Antimilitarism](https://www.warresisters.org/political-education-spread-antimilitarism/) - Friends, I’m Citlali Perez, I am a rising sophomore at DePaul University and have worked with the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council as a youth leader. In the spring of 2019, I was part of WRL’s three-day Demilitarization School in Chicago, where I learned a lot about what militarization looks like around the world that I hadn't
- [Foresight 2020: December of Dissent](https://www.warresisters.org/foresight-2020-december-dissent/) - Friends, They say hindsight is 2020. As we finish up the end of the decade, we say: don’t look back without looking forward. When we look ahead to 2020 and beyond we see struggle, promise, hope, and victory for self determination, from Gaza to Santiago to Hong Kong to Kafranbel to Baghdad. When you zoom
- [Larry Gara, Lifelong War Resister 1922 – 2019](https://www.warresisters.org/larry-gara-lifelong-war-resister-1922-2019/) - History professor, pacifist and WRL member (since 1940) jailed during World War II, prison abolitionist, jazz aficionado, birder, vegetarian. Gara died at age 97 on November 23, 2019, in his hometown of Wilmington, Ohio. He was a professor of history at Wilmington College from 1962 to 2002, when he retired from teaching. Larry called himself
- [Meet WRL's Communications Coordinator - Shiyam Galyon!](https://www.warresisters.org/meet-wrls-communications-coordinator-shiyam-galyon/) - Dear Friends, What does a U.S.-based antiwar movement look like that has deep connections across the country and around the world? That is agile and responsive under systems of settler colonialism, under authoritarian systems, and towards refugees and migrants whose bodies are on the line between borders? That dismantles systems of oppression in the United
- [Another Death in the Family: Simon Harak, 1948-2019](https://www.warresisters.org/another-death-family-simon-harak-1948-2019/) - Fr. G. Simon Harak SJ, the exuberantly pacifist Jesuit priest and onetime WRL Disarmament Coordinator, died November 3 in Campion Health Center, Weston, Mass. He was 71 and had dealt for some six years with frontotemporal degeneration (also called frontotemporal dementia). Simon was the kind of pacifist who sees peace and justice as inextricably bound
- [WRL Activist Update: Linnea Capps, MD](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-activist-update-linnea-capps-md/) - Linnea Capps, pacifist activist, physician engaged in liberation medicine (the conscious, conscientious use of health to promote human dignity and social justice), and philanthropist for more than 40 years, recently left her longtime home in Brooklyn, NY, to live in a care facility in Kansas. She, along with her cats Rosie and Flora, is now
- [It's our 96th!](https://www.warresisters.org/its-our-96th/) - Today on our 96th birthday, War Resisters League is as energized and hopeful as ever in working to dismantle the military industrial complex. When people ask us why, we say: it’s because the life and dignity of everyday people are worth fighting for, across the United States and around the world. We are deeply moved
- [War Resisters League in Solidarity with No New Jails NYC](https://www.warresisters.org/war-resisters-league-solidarity-no-new-jails-nyc/) - The War Resisters League stands in solidarity with our comrades in No New Jails, who have been organizing to stop Mayor Bill de Blasio’s jail expansion plan and are holding it down at City Hall today. Join us in Abolition Square & tell your city council members that we don’t need new jails! Through our
- [How We Win - Summer Update](https://www.warresisters.org/how-we-win-summer-update/) - Congratulations to Decolonize This Place and partners, whose campaign calling for the resignation of Safariland CEO and Vice Chairman of the Whitney Museum of Art's Board of Trustees, culminated in a successful win last Thursday with Warren Kanders' announcement that he is resigning from the Whitney's board. A result of cross-movement organizing, Decolonize This Place's nine weeks
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- [Stop Urban Shield Coalition Victory: WRL Statement](https://www.warresisters.org/stop-urban-shield-coalition-victory-wrl-statement/) - Congratulations to the Stop Urban Shield Coalition on the recent victory of demilitarizing emergency preparedness in California’s Bay Area! In other words: ending Urban Shield. Since 2013, this cross-community coalition has organized tirelessly against Urban Shield — a SWAT team training and weapons expo, that brought together local, regional, and international police to collaborate on,
- [Demilitarist School: Report Back from Chicago](https://www.warresisters.org/demilitarist-school-report-back-chicago/) - In April, WRL piloted our first Demilitarist School in Chicago! Over three days, 13 young people and a group of Demil School facilitators, including WRL staff and National Committee members, gathered to grapple with the scale of US militarism. Participants delved into discussions about strategies for dismantling militarism and the ways antimilitarist work feeds into struggles for Black
- [Update: Resisting Airwars Curriculum](https://www.warresisters.org/update-resisting-airwars-curriculum/) - Dear War Resisters Family, My name is YaliniDream and I'm a cultural worker, organizer, and facilitator currently supporting WRL by drafting the Resisting Airwars curriculum for WRL’s new Demilitarist School. I’m writing because this April, young people in Chicago participated in WRL’s first “school” with workshops on what militarism looks like - from police militarization
- [On Martin's 90th, we recommit to the struggle](https://www.warresisters.org/martins-90th-we-recommit-struggle/) - Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 90 this year. As we mark his birthday on this holiday, we are reminded of his work, his words, his inspiration, and his legacy… and we wonder what work he may have gone on to do if he had lived. We are reminded of all of those in
- [A Teach-In on Militarized Disaster Response and Climate Colonialism](https://www.warresisters.org/teach-militarized-disaster-response-and-climate-colonialism/) - ​ A Call to Action on Puerto Rico, International Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines, and War Resisters League present a teach-in on the impacts of climate change and militarism. RSVP: On Facebook or Email us at wrl [at] warresisters.org WRL ORGANIZING TEAM STATEMENT ON MILITARISM & CLIMATE CHANGE As an organization that strives to target
- [Holiday Party and Ralph DiGia Award](https://www.warresisters.org/holiday-party-and-ralph-digia-award/) - WRL Holiday Party & Ralph DiGia Award December 14, 2018 6:30pm 168 Canal St. 6th Floor NYC As we continue to celebrate WRL’s 95th Anniversary year, we are very pleased to announce that longtime WRL activist, Vicki Rovere, will be accepting the Ralph DiGia award at WRL’s annual Holiday Party this December 14th. Join us
- [WRL at 95: Redefining our Base, Building our Power](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-95-redefining-our-base-building-our-power/) - At Ninety-Five, the War Resisters League Tries New Tactics “We’re acknowledging the many ways militarization shows up in our lives and neighborhoods.” by Eleanor J. Bader | October 24, 2018 Read on The Progressive When educator Jesse Wallace Hughan founded the War Resisters League in 1923 in the wake of WWI, her focus was on ending armed conflict. Ninety-five years
- [Honduran Migrant March: A Refugee Crisis caused by US Policy and US Partners](https://www.warresisters.org/honduran-migrant-march-refugee-crisis-caused-us-policy-and-us-partners/) - WRL endorses the Honduras Solidarity Network's statement in solidarity with the Honduran Migrant Caravan. Read their statement below and support all asylum seekers. "On October 12, 2018, hundreds of women, men, children, youth and the elderly decided to leave Honduras as a desperate response to survive. The massive exodus that began in the city of
- [Busting Border Patrol's Recruitment Propaganda](https://www.warresisters.org/busting-border-patrols-recruitment-propaganda/) - Dear WRL Friends and Family, I’m Heath Rudd (pronouns they/them/theirs), WRL’s Fall 2019 Bilezikian Intern. Over the past three months, I had the special opportunity to work with WRL to develop a new resource to counter Border Patrol recruitment. As someone who loves interrogating history for the betterment
- [We were the only voice of dissent that day](https://www.warresisters.org/we-were-only-voice-dissent-day/) - My name is Lucia Sandoval, and I am a member of Puente Human Rights Movement, a long-standing grassroots organization that campaigns to bring attention to the realities of policing and surveillance that harm us every day in the borderlands of Arizona. Last year, when we learned the annual National Homeland Security Conference (NHSC) would be
- [Young people are ready to end war](https://www.warresisters.org/young-people-are-ready-end-war/) - Dear friends, When we were just starting elementary school, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. And just the other week, the Afghanistan Papers confirmed that political and corporate elites have been lying to us our whole lives, so that they can use our communities for their power and profit. That’s why we joined a team of young
- [To be abolitionist is to be antiwar](https://www.warresisters.org/be-abolitionist-be-antiwar/) - Peace everyone, My name is Maya Jenkins, and I am an organizer with No New Jails in NYC. For the last year, No New Jails has been organizing to stop Mayor de Blasio’s jail expansion plan, close all jails on Rikers Island, and ensure that the $11 billion budgeted for new jails are funding what
- [December of Dissent: A Message from Bogota](https://www.warresisters.org/december-dissent-message-bogota/) - Hi All, I’m Natalia, and I’m the Right to Refuse to Kill Programme worker at War Resisters’ International (WRI) based in Colombia. Last July, WRI organized the International Conference “Antimilitarismos en Movimiento” along with other grassroots antimilitarist organizations in Colombia. We were so lucky to have War Resisters League’s participation in the conference and to
- [Call for submissions // noSWATzone Zine](https://www.warresisters.org/noswatzine/) - Call for Submissions for No SWAT Zone: a zine on resisting police militarization Send Submissions to: tara [at] warresisters.org Calling all activists and organizers resisting police militarization around the world: -How you are impacted by policing and/or war? -Are you leading a campaign against domestic or international militarization? -Are you building alternatives to
- [WRL Condemns Baton Rouge Police Department Repression](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-condemns-baton-rouge-police-department-repression/) - War Resisters League condemns in the strongest terms the Baton Rouge Police Department’s heavily militarized response to protests against the murder of Alton Sterling by BRPD this past Tuesday, July 5th. We stand with protesters in demanding justice after the brutal murder of Alton Sterling by BRPD on July 5th, the very police department known for
- [Media Advisory: Community Groups Rally in Chicago to Denounce Islamophobic & Hyper-Militarized SWAT Training](https://www.warresisters.org/media-advisory-community-groups-rally-chicago-denounce-islamophobic-hyper-militarized-swat-training/) - **** Media Advisory **** For Immediate Release Press contact: Debbie Southorn: 971.227.3829, dsouthor [at] gmail.com () Community Groups Rally to Denounce Islamophobic & Hyper-Militarized SWAT Training Coalition calls on Stonegate & Cook County DHS To End Relationship with Illinois Tactical Officers Association in Chicagoland. WHAT: The #StopITOA coalition,
- [Opposing CATO's Fear-Mongering Trainings!](https://www.warresisters.org/opposing-catos-fear-mongering-trainings/) - War Resisters League condemned in the strongest terms Symposium on Islamic Terrorism held on August 24th and 25th in San Diego, hosted by the California Association of Tactical Officers (CATO). The epitome of a growing culture of fear increasingly relied on by policing, this symposium featured infamous anti-Islam conspiracy theorist Ryan Mauro as their top presenter. Ryan
- [Press Release: UASI Fuels Police Militarization](https://www.warresisters.org/press-release-uasi-fuels-police-militarization/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Tara Tabassi cell (917) 971-2498 || tara [at] warresisters.org Stephen McNeil cell (415) 350-9305 || SMcNeil [at] afsc.org June 13, 2016 CIVIL LIBERTIES, HUMANITARIAN AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS CALL FOR MAINTAINING PRESIDENT’S CUT TO URBAN AREA SECURITY INITIATIVE (UASI) UASI Fuels Police Militarization New York, NY, Chicago, IL, and San
- [Media Advisory: Civil Liberties, Humanitarian and Religious Organizations Call For Maintaining President's Cut to Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI)](https://www.warresisters.org/media-advisory-civil-liberties-humanitarian-and-religious-organizations-call-maintaining-presidents/) - + + + FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Tara Tabassi cell (917) 971-2498 || tara [at] warresisters.org Stephen McNeil cell (415) 350-9305 || SMcNeil [at] afsc.org May 25, 2016 CIVIL LIBERTIES, HUMANITARIAN AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS CALL FOR MAINTAINING PRESIDENT’S CUT TO URBAN AREA SECURITY INITIATIVE (UASI) UASI Fuels Police Militarization New York, NY
- [SOA Watch Encuentro at the Border](https://www.warresisters.org/soa-watch-encuentro-border/) - Oct.7-11: Converge on the US/Mexico Border War Resisters League is endorsing the SOA Watch Convergence at the Border and we encourage you to join the October 7-11 vigils, protests and workshops at the Eloy Detention Center, in Tucson, and in Nogales, Arizona/ Sonora at the border wall. Visit the convergence webpage for more information: http://SOAW.org/border
- [NC Elections 2016 - Statements of Candidates](https://www.warresisters.org/nc-elections-2016-statements-candidates/) - Statements of Candidates * = incumbents For information on the NC Elections and how to vote, go to our NC Elections 2016 information page. Jerica Arents (Midwest) Jerica Arents teaches in the Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies program at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. Her ongoing interests center on racism and its connection to state
- ["Against the Battalions in Blue" - New Piece by Skanda Kadirgamar](https://www.warresisters.org/against-battalions-blue-new-piece-skanda-kadirgamar/) - (originally published in truthout on August 31st, 2016) Police violence is at the heart of a perpetual crisis in the United States. Today military-grade equipment and training is broadly available to officers. Such developments are especially distressing given the impunity American police have always enjoyed when terrorizing or attacking racialized communities. The tendency to wage
- [Applications Open: 95th Anniversary Bilezikian Internship](https://www.warresisters.org/applications-open-95th-anniversary-bilezikian-internship/) - Want to work with one of the oldest and most dynamic antiwar and antimilitarist organizations? Want to build your existing skills and learn to connect organizing with grassroots fundraising? Want to hone your organizing and fundraising skills? Apply to WRL's 95th Anniversary Bilezikian Internship! WRL works on an array of antimilitarist projects including counter-recruitment work
- [WRL Supports Black & Palestinian Solidarity](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-supports-black-palestinian-solidarity/) - As an organization dedicated to peace, justice and nonviolent liberation, the War Resisters League stands firmly in solidarity with the Movement For Black Lives' newly released Vision for Black Lives Platform. The Vision for Black Lives is an important, comprehensive analysis and policy platform rooted in dozens of organizations' work across the country. The Black
- [Lawrence (Larry) Egbert, Presente!](https://www.warresisters.org/lawrence-larry-egbert-presente/) - June 9, 2016 Lawrence Deems Egbert, Jr. Husband, Father, Friend Presente! Lawrence Deems Egbert, Jr., M.D., M.P.H., a resident of the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore, died of a heart attack Thursday evening, June 9th. He was the oldest and the longest-surviving of the three sons of Lawrence D. Egbert, Sr. and Lyn Forsyth Egbert. He is
- [Letter to House Committee on Appropriations: Cut UASI funding!](https://www.warresisters.org/letter-house-committee-appropriations-cut-uasi-funding/) - **MEDIA ADVISORY HERE** Below is a letter to the House Committee on Appropriations as they debate the new budget-- including a proposed cut by President Obama. Today, WRL is joined by thirty-three other civil liberties, religious, and peace and social justice groups called on the House Appropriations Committee to maintain the President’s cut to Urban
- [Protest Gov. Cuomo's Anti-BDS Executive Order!](https://www.warresisters.org/protest-gov-cuomos-anti-bds-executive-order/) - As members of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, we stand against Gov. Cuomo's anti-BDS executive order & urge all to take the following action steps laid out by the US Campaign: Governor Cuomo and the opposition are desperate to stifle the growing movement for Palestinian rights. On Sunday, June 5th, on
- [Bob Fitch, Presente!](https://www.warresisters.org/bob-fitch-presente/) - April 29, 2016 Bob Fitch, PRESENTE The activist-photographer whose iconic images of actions and activists helped shape for four decades this country's, and indeed the world's, perception of the great social movements of our era, died April 29 at 76. And because he freely shared his work with the social movements he documented—including WRL—his iconic
- ["What's Next"? We Hope More Nonviolent Campaigns!](https://www.warresisters.org/whats-next-we-hope-more-nonviolent-campaigns/) - “What next?” The big question after our weekend of resistance. Movements are made of large demos, lobbying and grassroots campaigns. But nonviolent actions are most effective as part of nonviolent campaigns and we need build our skills to build campaigns. We need tools to organize campaigns. Our "Handbook for Nonviolent
- [Shoe-Throwing Still Gets No Love In Iraq: An Interview with Dhurgham al-Zaidy](https://www.warresisters.org/shoe-throwing-still-gets-no-love-iraq-interview-dhurgham-al-zaidy/) - Shoe-Throwing Still Gets No Love In Iraq: An Interview with Dhurgham al-Zaidy by Ali Issa Reprint from Medium on 12.15.16 “I cannot leave the square. Whatever al-Abadi or anyone else says . . .” Dhurgham al-Zaidy, Friday, 5.27.16 This past Summer, Baghdad’s Tahrir square was once again filled with tear gas. Protesters escaping the toxic fumes have
- [On the Ground in Turkey: Repression Gets Personal](https://www.warresisters.org/ground-turkey-repression-gets-personal/) - After the mass escalation of anti-government protest this past late May in Turkey, events there have fallen out of the headlines. But mobilization and repression continue. This past November 23rd for example, the Turkish police cracked-down hard on a teacher's demonstration in Ankara called for by the progressive union Eğitim-Sen against the privatization of schools.
- [Hey, Mayor de Blasio: Peace, Not Police!](https://www.warresisters.org/hey-mayor-de-blasio-peace-not-police/) - Version of letter published in NY Daily News on 6.5.15 Dear Mayor de Blasio, As you and your office prepare to finalize the city's budget, I urge you to reject NYPD Commissioner Bratton's controversial request to fund 450 new paramilitary cops to his department. You have previously stated that you believe NYPD staffing levels to
- [MEDIA ADVISORY: Activists Call on DOJ to End Widespread Teargas Torture in US Prisons before Trump Inauguration](https://www.warresisters.org/media-advisory-activists-call-doj-end-widespread-teargas-torture-us-prisons-trump-inauguration/) - MEDIA ADVISORY For immediate release 1/6/17 Conect: Ali Issa, Organizer, War Resisters League Cell: (718)310-9968 ali [at] warresisters.org () warresisters.org Activists Call on DOJ to End Widespread Teargas Torture in US Prisons before Trump Inauguration New testimony from 21 states - backed by a petition signed by 13,000 - reveals the breadth of
- [Bahrain Watch: "Stop the Shipment!"](https://www.warresisters.org/bahrain-watch-stop-shipment/) - Bahrain Watch: Leaked Document Shows Massive New Tear Gas Shipment Planned for Bahrain Bahrain's police forces have fired "canisters directly at protesters and conducting nighttime bombardments of residential areas. Since 2011, 39 deaths may be attributable to the misuse of tear gas by police. Now, a leaked document, apparently a tender from the Ministry of
- [5/4: Bostonians Host Speak Out Against Militarized Police](https://www.warresisters.org/54-bostonians-host-speak-out-against-militarized-police/) - MEDIA ADVISORY For immediate release: April 30, 2014 (Wednesday) Contact: Kimber Heinz, Facing Tear Gas campaign Cell: (919) 666-7535 kimber [at] warresisters.org http://facingteargas.org One year after the police lockdown of Watertown following the Marathon bombing, Bostonians who live and work in neighborhoods and communities facing SWAT raids and surveillance will testify at a “speak out”
- [Press Release: In the Wake of Ferguson, Bay Area Groups Call for an End to Police Militarization](https://www.warresisters.org/press-release-wake-ferguson-bay-area-groups-call-end-police-militarization/) - For Immediate Release Contacts: Ali Issa, War Resisters League, ali [at] warresisters.org Rachel Herzing, Critical Resistance, rachel [at] criticalresistance.org BAY AREA COMMUNITY GROUPS CALL ON OAKLAND TO STOP POLICE MILITARIZATION AND URBAN SHIELD AT THE MARRIOTT A new Bay Area coalition has formed to pressure the Marriott to stop an annual international SWAT training and
- [Press Release: Bay Area Victory and Rally to Stop Urban Shield and Police Militarization](https://www.warresisters.org/press-release-bay-area-victory-and-rally-stop-urban-shield-and-police-militarization/) - For Immediate Release Contact: Ali Issa, War Resisters League, ali [at] warresisters.org, (718)310-9968 BAY AREA COALITION PUSHES URBAN SHIELD OUT OF OAKLAND FOR NEXT YEAR, BUT FIGHT AGAINST POLICE MILITARIZATION EXPO AND TRAINING CONTINUES Bay Area groups rally to call on Alameda County Sheriff's Office to Stop Urban Shield and all police militarization after successfully organizing
- [Press Release: Activists Lockdown Chicago Streets to Denounce Islamophobic & Hyper-Militarized SWAT Training](https://www.warresisters.org/press-release-activists-lockdown-chicago-streets-denounce-islamophobic-hyper-militarized-swat/) - #StopITOA Coalition disrupts business as usual in downtown Chicago on first day of Illinois Tactical Officers Association Conference More on the 2016 campaign here ************************************************************************************************************* **** Press Release **** For Immediate Release Press contacts: Debbie Southorn: 971.227.3829, dsouthor [at] gmail.com Tara Tabassi 917 971 2498 tara.tabassi [at] gmail.com
- [Shared Space, Shared Vision!](https://www.warresisters.org/shared-space-shared-vision/) - Dear Friends, I'm Sky Hall, a member of WRL's National Committee, sustainer at WRL, and neighbor to WRL as a member of the AJ Muste Institute's staff union in our new shared office space. In this year of transitions—some exciting and others foreboding on a presidential scale—WRL bid farewell to our beloved home of
- [Are You Antiwar?](https://www.warresisters.org/are-you-antiwar/) - Dear Friends, I'd be quick to tell you that I'm queer. HIV positive. Puerto Rican. But antiwar? This past February, yearning for a political home rooted in social justice, I found the War Resisters League. As an intern with WRL I branded the launch to WRL's No Swat Zone campaign. I spoke at a press
- [War in the Age of Trump?](https://www.warresisters.org/war-age-trump/) - Dear Friends, Normally, WRL takes no stance on electoral politics. As we watched the field of candidates narrow to two enthusiastic friends of war-making and militarism over the past year, we are now just beginning to learn how the President-elect will go about unleashing the kind of violence that ruptures the lives of entire countries,
- [Reinvigorating the Peace Movement](https://www.warresisters.org/reinvigorating-peace-movement/) - Dear Friends, My name is Ana Conner, and I’m a fundraiser at Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. I’m also a volunteer and monthly sustainer at WRL. Specifically, as someone who is a part of the movement and works to secure funding for social justice, I’m calling on you to join me in supporting WRL. Here’s
- [December of Dissent: Dare to Demilitarize!](https://www.warresisters.org/december-dissent-dare-demilitarize/) - -- placeholder -- -- placeholder -- This December, we're raising $20,000 to end war! Here are a few reasons to give this year. Click the images to read more, and check out for weekly updates! We're 93 years young. We're prepared to struggle and win. We're
- [Thanks to all who gave this #GivingTuesday!](https://www.warresisters.org/thanks-all-who-gave-givingtuesday/) - Thanks to all who participated in #GivingTuesday, helping WRL to raise $4,455 for nonviolent resistance! Just days after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, large nonprofit organizations saw an outpour of support. The ACLU reported just over $9 million in donations. Planned Parenthood received 200,000 separate contributions. The Trevor Project collected
- [Open Letter to the U.N. Security Council on the Government of Iraq’s NGO Shelter Policy](https://www.warresisters.org/open-letter-un-security-council-government-iraqs-ngo-shelter-policy/) - October 2016 U.N. Security Council United Nations, New York, U.S.A. Open Letter to the U.N. Security Council on the Government of Iraq’s NGO Shelter Policy CC: UNAMI, OHCHR, OCHA, UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women, SGRG-SVC Office (Arabic Version) النسخة العربية (Kurdish Version) دانه يا كوردي Print friendly version (English) Your Excellencies, The undersigned nongovernmental organizations
- [Facing Tear Gas Happy Hour in Austin!](https://www.warresisters.org/facing-tear-gas-happy-hour-austin/) - MonkeyWrench Books in Austin is hosting War Resisters League organizer Kimber Heinz's talk about the Facing Tear Gas' campaign against Urban Shield. Facing Tear Gas works towards ending the militarization of police and the industry that profits from police repression. It connects the dots between US support for the criminalization of dissent globally to those
- [STOMP (STop Oppressive Militarized Police) Coalition forms in Boston](https://www.warresisters.org/stomp-stop-oppressive-militarized-police-coalition-forms-boston/) - A new coalition of groups against militarization forms in Boston and announces community event. From their facebook page: "STOMP, STop Oppressive Militarized Police, aims to bring together activists and communities struggling against the wars on drugs, immigrants, dissent, and terror to mobilize and build cross-movement dialogue about the militarization and federalization of our local police
- [noSWATzone Condemns Albuquerque Police Repression](https://www.warresisters.org/noswatzone-condemns-albuquerque-police-repression/) - April 1st, 2014 - WRL's noSWATzone campaign condemns in the strongest terms the Albuquerque Police Department's heavily militarized response to protests against police brutality this past Sunday night, March 30th. We also share in the protestor's shock over the APD's March 16th shooting of James Boyd - the 23rd such killing by the APD since 2012 according to the Associated
- [Solidarity With Occupied Ferguson](https://www.warresisters.org/solidarity-occupied-ferguson/) - "No violence, just justice." - Lesley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown. August 13, 2014 War Resisters League condemns the ongoing militarized lockdown and attack against the community of Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. We are saddened and outraged over the murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson Police, this past Saturday, August 9th.
- [Action Alert: Call to #StopITOA](https://www.warresisters.org/action-alert-call-stopitoa/) - ACTION ALERT: CALL STONEGATE NOW To #StopITOA Charles Baptist, General Manager of the Stonegate Conference & Banquet Centre Ask to speak with Charles Baptist or leave him a voice mail. Sample script: "My name is [name] from [city] and I am appalled that the 2016 "Illinois Tactical Officers Association" will be taking place
- [Sanaa Review: Ray of Light from Yemen](https://www.warresisters.org/sanaa-review-ray-light-yemen/) - While Trump escalates long-standing US complicity in the catastrophic war on Yemen through its arming of Saudi Arabia and more, we are deeply inspired by the launch of مجلة صنعاء "Sanaa Review": an e-zine by Yemenis that cuts through silence and distortion, bringing us the brilliance of independent Yemeni journalism, art and thought now. This media work
- [Just out! Article by WRL Organizers Ali Issa & Tara Tabassi](https://www.warresisters.org/just-out-article-wrl-organizers-ali-issa-tara-tabassi/) - Published July 6th 2017 on The New Inquiry No SWAT Zone: Resisting Police Militarization Under Trump By Tara Tabassi and Ali Issa A volunteer screams in pain as Hollywood-grade prosthetics litter a football field strewn with body parts and gore. A “Muslim man” just fired from his job returns to his office as
- [Bill Koehnlein Presente!](https://www.warresisters.org/bill-koehnlein-presente/) - OBITUARY WILLIAM W. KOEHNLEIN (1949-2017) ANNOUNCEMENT: Celebrating the Life of Bill Koehnlein Saturday, March 24, 2018 Saint Mark's Church in-the-Bowery Parish Hall 131 East 10th Street (at Second Avenue) New York, NY 10003 1:00-4:00pm William (Bill) W. Koehnlein, life-long peace and social justice activist, organizer and educator, died in Manhattan on November 19, 2017, after
- [#YemenCantWait Rally: 28 Orgs Rallied Today at Schumer & Gillibrand's Office to End US-Backed Blockade & Bombing](https://www.warresisters.org/yemencantwait-rally-28-orgs-rallied-today-schumer-gillibrands-office-end-us-backed-blockade-bombing/) - MEDIA CONTACT: Isaac Evans-Frantz, Action Corps NYC Organizer, 347-756-1896, actioncorps.nyc [at] gmail.com (actio) #YemenCantWait Rally Draws 28 Organizations and Reps from Schumer, Gillibrand Offices "I long for the day when Yemen is free of war and destruction and where the Yemeni people can live in peace. It is incumbent on the UN and all nations to call
- [WRL supports the "Movement Technologist Statement"](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-supports-movement-technologist-statement/) - Movement Technologist Statement We work with information technology. Some of us are movement technologists -- people who bring their political commmitment to developing technology and tech capacity for social justice organizations and communities. Others are movement activists who use technology in our work. We were among over 50 technologists and organizations of
- [JOB OPENING at National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee](https://www.warresisters.org/job-opening-national-war-tax-resistance-coordinating-committee/) - JOB OPENING at National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC) is looking for applicants for its Coordinator position, to start May 2018. NWTRCC, founded in 1982, is a national coalition of organizations and individuals who work together to support, coordinate, and publicize war tax resistance efforts. The Coordinator
- [Visions for Solidarity with Yemen](https://www.warresisters.org/visions-solidarity-yemen/) - As I write this message to you, I am also responding to voicemail messages describing heavy aerial bombardments near my family’s home in Sana’a, Yemen. Alongside devastating blockades, this is the daily reality for 27 million Yemenis forced to live through the horrors of a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led war. At the same time, these messages remind
- [Joanne Landy, Presente!](https://www.warresisters.org/joanne-landy-presente/) - Joanne Landy, a visionary that inspired so many of us striving for a world free of war and oppression, died October 14 in Manhattan. She was 75. Joanne - whose imagination rejected the binaries that so often limit our political work - spent a lifetime engaged in a "neither East nor West" critique of Cold War politics. She was a co-founder
- [Negotiate, Don't Escalate!](https://www.warresisters.org/negotiate-dont-escalate/) - Yesterday North Korea fired a ballistic missile at Hokkaido Island-- the first missile of its kind to fly over Japan amidst rising global tensions. Meanwhile, US and South Korean military exercises continue while Trump renews threats of escalation, fueling an all too costly arms race. As the international community calls for diplomatic solutions, today we turn
- [Sanctuary Cities Beyond Militarism](https://www.warresisters.org/sanctuary-cities-beyond-militarism/) - This past weekend, thousands across the country mobilized in airports, in defiance of the executive order “Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”, popularly known as the #MuslimBan. From taxi drivers and Yemeni business owners striking to lawyers, translators and protesters flooding arrivals halls, it was exhilarating. At the same time,
- [Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq](https://www.warresisters.org/against-all-odds-voices-popular-struggle-iraq/) - "Other histories had been possible for Iraq, and indeed might yet be possible. The social basis for the Popular Movement to Save Iraq remains, even if in the shadows. It is the only force that could provide an alternative to the history of blood that stands before Iraq, the nest of bones, the sky of death." - Vijay Prashad, from
- [Celebration of the World March for Peace - December 2 in NYC](https://www.warresisters.org/celebration-world-march-peace-december-2-nyc/) - Download the flyer. Celebration of the World March for Peace Wednesday, December 2, 6:30 p.m. – Reidy Friendship Hall The World March for Peace - which WRL has endorsed - is taking place in 100 countries and 300 cities from October 2, 2009 through January 2, 2010. On November 30, the international team of marchers
- [Stop Urban Shield 2015!](https://www.warresisters.org/stop-urban-shield-2015/) - WHAT IS THE STOP URBAN SHIELD COALITION? Stop Urban Shield is a broad coalition of grassroots community and social justice organizations primarily based in the Bay Area but with partnering community groups across the nation who have come together united against Urban Shield. Urban Shield, a SWAT team training and weapons expo that brings together
- [U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: Don't impose death sentence on 82-year-old nun and peacemaker](https://www.warresisters.org/us-attorney-general-dont-impose-death-sentence-82-year-old-nun-and-peacemaker/) - Sixteen years in prison is not enough? Sister Megan Rice and her friends, all peace activists, already face 16 years in prison if convicted for a nonviolent peace action. Sister Megan, Greg Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli went to Oak Ridge, Tennesse, to say NO to nuclear holocaust. Instead of dropping charges, the US Attorney General
- [Banner Dropped @ WRL Headquarters...](https://www.warresisters.org/banner-dropped-wrl-headquarters/) - We Want Peace, Not Police! We are proud to announce two brand new banners now hanging above the WRL National Office at 339 Lafayette St. Thanks to WRL's Demilitarize Health and Security working group for their hard work and initiative! And thank you to Cindy Trinh of Activists of New York for these great
- [The Day the World Says "No"](https://www.warresisters.org/day-world-says-no/) - Today, May 15th, is a global holiday: Conscientious Objection Day. Part of building a culture of peace is marking new traditions. This holiday - created in England in 1985 - gives us a valuable chance to thank war resisters for their service: service to a future demilitarized world. Conscientious objectors have risked death, prison, humiliation,
- [May Day 2015](https://www.warresisters.org/may-day-2015/) - This past May Day in NYC, WRL was drummin' for the revolution against policing, war, and worker exploitation. "From the fight to reduce the working day to the movement against borders, we believe that real economic justice requires an end to exploitation and inequality internationally. Resisting militarism for over ninety years, we aspire toward a
- [Statement in Solidarity with the Egyptian Conscientious Objector Mark Nabil Sanad](https://www.warresisters.org/statement-solidarity-egyptian-conscientious-objector-mark-nabil-sanad/) - 9 April 2015 We, peace and human rights organizations, declare our support and solidarity with No to Compulsory Military Service Movement and with the Egyptian conscientious objector, Mark Nabil Sanad. We condemn the silence of Egyptís authorities over conscientious objectorsí suffering. We call on the Egyptian authorities to restore his civil rights and to recognize
- [Judith Malina, Presente!](https://www.warresisters.org/judith-malina-presente/) - The world stage has lost a shining light and WRL has lost a dear friend. We mourn the death April 10 at the age of 88 of legendary pacifist actor-director Judith Malina, co-founder of the Living Theater. She was 88. Judith and her husband, actor-director Julian Beck, founded the Living Theater in 1947. It soon
- [Stay Tuned: WIN's Final issue!](https://www.warresisters.org/stay-tuned-wins-final-issue/) - In production now: The final issue of WIN Magazine. WRL has been putting out regular print publications for 70 years, starting with WRL News in 1945, but that long run is coming to an end. Regrettably, WRL will cease production of a print publication with WIN's Spring 2015 issue. The issue is a document for
- [Juanita Morrow Nelson -- August 17, 1923 – March 9, 2015](https://www.warresisters.org/juanita-morrow-nelson-august-17-1923-march-9-2015/) - Juanita Nelson was a Civil Rights activist, one of the 5 founders of the present day war tax resistance movement, a community land trust organizer, and organic farmer. Juanita and her partner Wally Nelson, a World War II resister, made their home at Woolman Hill, in her words to “lessen dependence on a violent society.”
- [Narayan Desai, 1924-2015](https://www.warresisters.org/narayan-desai-1924-2015/) - We mourn with sadness the passing of Narayanbhai - teacher, trainer, author, spinner: total revolutionary. We celebrate a long life rich in history though never in funds, Narayan grew up in Gandhi's ashram, the son of Gandhi's personal secretary and biographer, Mahadev Desai. A devotee of Jayaprakash (JP) Narayan's work and call for TOTAL REVOLUTION,
- [Ending Police Militarization, One City at a Time](https://www.warresisters.org/ending-police-militarization-one-city-time/) - Ending Police Militarization, One City at a Time Published on Truthout on Tuesday, 29 September 2015 00:00 By Ana Conner and Tara Tabassi Oakland police participate in Urban Shield training in October 2012. (Photo: San Leandro Privacy / Flickr) Urban Shield, the world's largest SWAT training and war-weapons expo, was held in September in California's
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- [Against All Odds: Press and Coverage](https://www.warresisters.org/against-all-odds-press-and-coverage/) - Praise for Against All Odds: "The thesis of Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq, should be obvious. But in fact it is revolutionary, at least for people like me, who came up in the U.S. anti-war movement in 2003 and continue to be inundated with media and political images of Iraq as solely a
- [Press Release // International Solidarity Action with Syrian & Iraqi Refugees & Muslims](https://www.warresisters.org/press-release-international-solidarity-action-syrian-iraqi-refugees-muslims/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Over 800 New Yorkers Rally for HUMAN RIGHTS TRUMP OPPRESSION, International Solidarity Action for Syrian and Iraqi Refugees, and Muslims CONTACT: Linda Sarsour: lindasarsour [at] gmail.com (917) 306-3323 Jamila Hammami: jamila [at] qdep.org (347) 496-8490 Over 800 New Yorkers Rally for HUMAN RIGHTS TRUMP OPPRESSION, International Solidarity Action for
- [Ibrahim Abdil-Mu'id Ramey Presente](https://www.warresisters.org/ibrahim-abdil-muid-ramey-presente/) - IBRAHIM ABDIL-MU'ID RAMEY: AN APPRECIATION (May Allah ta'Ala forgive him all his sins and grant him the highest of Jannah) By Matt Meyer Ibrahim Abdil-Mu'id Ramey (Clayton), who passed away yesterday, Friday, 11th of December 2015, was a dynamic speaker, fine writer, and keen strategic thinker – but he devoted most of his adult life
- [Sojourn to Justice: Action Report from Guantanamo](https://www.warresisters.org/sojourn-justice-action-report-guantanamo/) - From November 22nd through December 1st, a delegation of 14 members of Witness Against Torture--WRLs sibiling organization including three members of WRL--returned to Cuba and brought their demand to shutdown Guantanamo Bay straight to the U.S. naval base and detention center. It's hard to believe that just 10 years ago, 25 people walked to
- [Give the Gift of Peace!](https://www.warresisters.org/give-gift-peace/) - As you plan your gift giving, be sure to visit the WRL store. We've got calendars, hats, t-shirts, buttons, books, DVDs, organizing tools and more! 90 Years of Revolutionary Nonviolence: WRL Perpetual Calendar Published in honor of our 90th Anniversary, this beautiful calendar chronicles the 90 year history of WRL with historical notes, posters and
- [Week of Action: Countering the Militarisation of Youth!](https://www.warresisters.org/week-action-countering-militarisation-youth/) - This week is the 2nd International Week of Action Against the Militarisation of Youth. Join the War Resisters International with nonviolent actions this week and stand against the many ways young people are engaged in wars all around the world! Check out #YouthAgainstWar hashtag on social media and follow WRI on Twitter and Facebook for further updates. Here
- [Celebrate GI Resistance on Veteran's Day](https://www.warresisters.org/celebrate-gi-resistance-veterans-day/) - With fifty new troops being deployed to Syria, wars continuing all over and military bases firmly rooted in 662 locations worldwide, we, as antiwar activists we ask ourselves: “What is the human cost?” Occupied people prevented from self-determination due to mass violence and 22 U.S. veteran suicides per day are the systematic and inevitable costs of militarism.
- [International Activists in Seoul to #StopWarBiz](https://www.warresisters.org/international-activists-seoul-stopwarbiz/) - A letter from our National Organizer, Tara Tabassi: The arms trade is global, but so is our resistance! “Stop. Arms. Trade!!”-- the chant is still ringing in my ears as I return to the 339 Lafayette office to see my War Resisters League family after two weeks in Seoul. After repping War Resisters League at
- [Remembering Vera B Williams, 1927 - 2015](https://www.warresisters.org/remembering-vera-b-williams-1927-2015/) - WRL mourns the passing of Vera B. Williams (1927-2015), award-winning writer, illustrator, and activist, Vera was a longtime member of WRL, serving on the board and creating illustrations for our Peace Calendars and many other materials. Vera, we celebrate your life and remember you always as a comrade in peace. Rest in Power! We'll post
- [Upcoming "Against All Odds" Events](https://www.warresisters.org/upcoming-against-all-odds-events/) - Upcoming Events: Coming Soon . . . Don't see an event near you? Invite Ali Issa to speak in your community or on your campus by e-mailing: Ali [at] warresisters.org Past Events: Against All Odds: A Night Celebrating Iraq, featuring the Narcicyst June 25th, 2015 - Alwan for the Arts,
- [Massive Protest Wave in Iraq Challenges Sectarianism](https://www.warresisters.org/massive-protest-wave-iraq-challenges-sectarianism/) - Latest piece on the protest upsurge in Iraq by WRL's Ali Issa: "Since a new wave of protest in Iraq — the largest in decades — has forced the Iraqi government to finally begin acknowledging the fundamental problems with the now 12-year-old quota system, Iraqis across sectors and at the grassroots are striving to chart
- [Facing Tear Gas: Chemical Weapons Abuse in US Prisons](https://www.warresisters.org/facing-tear-gas-chemical-weapons-abuse-us-prisons/) - Facing Tear Gas: Chemical Weapons Abuse in US Prisons by YaliniDream Multiple letters from Mount Olive Correctional Complex (MOCC) in West Virginia, report at least 5-7 imprisoned people are sprayed by tear gas, pepper spray or other chemical agents each week. First-hand testimonies refer to the guards' lax references to the frequent use of these
- [25 Years Since: Standing with Amiriyah](https://www.warresisters.org/25-years-standing-amiriyah/) - 25 years ago today a tragedy took place: The U.S. bombing of the Amiriyah Shleter in Baghdad. To mark this day, and look towards a world where such violence is not possible, we join members of the Iraqi Transnational Collective in spreading the following reflection, art, analysis and action. Resisting Amnesia: 25 Years After the Al Amiriyah
- [On MLK Day: A Special Message from Arun Kundnani](https://www.warresisters.org/mlk-day-special-message-arun-kundnani/) - On this MLK day, let us recall Dr. Martin Luther King's deepest legacy. He understood that denouncing the violent extremism of young, angry men in the ghettos could not be done without hypocrisy unless one also condemned the far greater violence of the U.S. war machine in Vietnam. When governments decide political problems can be
- [9 Tips for Muslims Who Want To Make Social Change](https://www.warresisters.org/9-tips-muslims-who-want-make-social-change/) - War Resister's League's very own Uruj Ehsan Sheikh just published on www.muslimmatters.org! 9 Tips for Muslims Who Want To Make Social Change We are in a historic moment. Renewed Islamophobia has emerged in the mainstream. GOP candidates' anti-Muslim rhetoric and an upsurge of hate crimes against Muslims have gone unabated. The Syrian and Iraqi refugee
- [Police Militarization Comics](https://www.warresisters.org/police-militarization-comics/) - Needing some cartoon-style popular education to start the conversation on police militarization, its federal funding and the militarization of emergency services? Check out these two that our friend and cartoonist comrade Ethan Heitner drew for War Resisters League, as part of the Stop Urban Shield work! Check out Ethan Heitner's blog Freedom Funnies
- [Media Advisory: Groups Decry Notorious Islamophobe to Address NY State SWAT Teams This Week](https://www.warresisters.org/media-advisory-groups-decry-notorious-islamophobe-address-ny-state-swat-teams-week/) - + + + For Immediate Release April 26, 2016 Contact: Ali Issa, War Resisters League, ali32123 [at] gmail.com, (718)310-9968 Ursula Rozum, Syracuse Peace Council ursula [at] peacecouncil.net, (315) 414-7720 COMMUNITY GROUPS FROM ACROSS NY STATE HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE TO OPPOSE MILITARIZATION OF POLICE AND SYRACUSE PD PARTICIPATION IN VERONA SWAT EXPO Groups decry extreme anti-Muslim
- [Military Surveillance: We Are Coming For You!](https://www.warresisters.org/military-surveillance-we-are-coming-you/) - War Resisters League is proud to join our comrades in A.J. Muste Institute, Campaign to Bring Mumia Home, Iraq Veterans Against the War, National Lawyers Guild, Granny Peace Brigade and Time's Up in a legal challenge to the military's spying of antiwar activists in the Pacific Northwest. For more information, read the National Lawyers Guild's
- [Stop NYTOAC!](https://www.warresisters.org/stop-nytoac/) - Every year in Verona, New York, hundreds of SWAT officers gather at NYTOAC to "talk shop" with major arms dealers and Islamophobic ideologues. Let's block it and shift resources where they belong: our communities' needs! For a recent article by Naomi Dann of Jewish Voices for Peace + Ali Issa of WRL, Read here!
- [Gloria Williams, ¡presente!](https://www.warresisters.org/gloria-williams-presente/) - Gloria Williams, 1950-2016 Gloria Williams, longtime WRL stalwart and former National Committee member, writer, journalist, and videographer, committed pacifist and indefatigable fighter for social justice, died February 29 in Iowa City after a long illness. She was 65. Gloria wrote about the threat of genetically engineered food and about the detainees at Guantanamo. She
- [Not another #Feministfail](https://www.warresisters.org/not-another-feministfail/) - Happy International Women's Day! Hi! We are members of the New York City chapter of AF3IRM--a national organization of women engaged in transnational feminist, anti-imperialist activism. Join AF3IRM & War Resisters League today as we celebrate our herstories and engage in a collective retelling of history to include women, queer, and trans community members. As we
- [Support #Justice4Rasmea Today!](https://www.warresisters.org/support-justice4rasmea-today/) - Our comrades in the Rasmea Defense Committee are calling for support! Rasmea Odeh, a long time immigrant rights leader and Arab community organizer is currently facing imprisonment and deportation. Join the War Resisters League in circulating this call, and help us amplify Rasmea's fight against politically motivated charges today! Learn more about Rasmea's case here,
- [Terrorism and Trump: New Challenges for Social Justice Organizations](https://www.warresisters.org/terrorism-and-trump-new-challenges-social-justice-organizations/) - by Bob Wing and Max Elbaum originally published on Znet, 12.23.15 "The wake-up call is right there in the front page headline of the Dec. 11 New York Times: 'Poll Has Trump Gaining Ground on Terror Fear.' [ . . . ] Understand that the fight against racism cannot be won just by struggling around domestic
- [27th Annual Raffle for Resistance Winners!](https://www.warresisters.org/27th-annual-raffle-resistance-winners/) - We’re excited to announce the winners of our 27th Annual Raffle for Resistance! This year’s raffle items are a collection of powerful art highlighting political artists whose works nourish movements for peace and liberation telling stories of resilience, struggle for liberation and connect contemplation and action across communities. Congratulations to all the winners! Grand
- [Open Letter to Hillary Clinton on Counter-Terror Funds](https://www.warresisters.org/open-letter-hillary-clinton-counter-terror-funds/) - War Resister's League's Tara Tabassi just published this letter on citylimits.org! "We need it, we need it! I want it!" Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, referring to federal homeland security funding for New York during a Saturday sit-down with reporters and editors from The Daily News Open Letter to Hillary Clinton on
- [Kunduz Hospital Bombing = War Crime](https://www.warresisters.org/kunduz-hospital-bombing-war-crime/) - The War Resisters League stands with Afghans United for Justice as they condemn the Kunduz hospital bombing as a war crime, and call for an independent investigation into the U.S. airstrikes on this Afghanistan hospital. "The human cost of this war crime continues beyond the October 3 airstrike. The whole city of Kunduz is now without
- [Michael Ratner, Presente!](https://www.warresisters.org/michael-ratner-presente/) - May 11, 2016 Michael Ratner, PRESENTE The fight for justice without borders lost a heroic leader when visionary human rights lawyer Michael Ratner died too soon on May 11. He was 72. For more than four decades, Michael led the Center for Constitutional Rights as it expanded the protections of the U.S. Constitution to citizens
- [James Haughton, Presente!](https://www.warresisters.org/james-haughton-presente/) - April 17, 2016 James Haughton, PRESENTE Text excerpted from Sam Roberts memoir published May 5, 2016 in the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/nyregion/james-haughton-who-fought-racial-barriers-in-building-trades-dies-at-86.html James Haughton, Who Fought Racial Barriers in Building Trades, Dies at 86 James Haughton, a civil rights advocate who aggressively challenged racial barriers to hiring at construction sites in the 1960s and ’70s
- [WRL moves to 168 Canal Street!](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-moves-168-canal-street/) - After five decades, WRL's national office has a new home! War Resisters League 168 Canal Street, Suite 600 New York, NY 10013 (We hope to move into the new space in late June.) Last month, we celebrated our history at 339 Lafayette... We packed and moved our things... And honored the spirits of
- [Liz Proefreidt, Presente!](https://www.warresisters.org/liz-proefreidt-presente/) - April 29, 2016 Elizabeth Proefriedt, sister, friend and activist PRESENTE It is with many tears and mourning hearts, that we announce the passing of our dear friend Sister Liz Proefreidt, longtime peace activist. Liz was a dynamo of love, generosity, faith, commitment to peace and justice, music, poetry, and service, a courageous inspiration to all
- [Daniel Berrigan, Presente!](https://www.warresisters.org/daniel-berrigan-presente/) - April 30, 2016 Daniel Berrigan, Uncle, Brother, Friend, PRESENTE A statement from the Family of Father Dan Berrigan, SJ This afternoon around 2:30, a great soul left this earth. Close family missed the “time of death” by half an hour, but Dan was not alone, held and prayed out of this plane of existence by
- [WRL seeking conference organizer for our 90th Anniversary](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-seeking-conference-organizer-our-90th-anniversary/) - War Resisters League is seeking a conference organizer for our 90th Anniversary Conference to take place August 1-4 at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Revolutionary Nonviolence: Building Bridges across Generations and Communities will bring together WRL members from around the country as well as allies and other interested people. While celebrating WRL's 90th anniversary, we
- [Join in the global chorus against "Stars Earn Stripes"](https://www.warresisters.org/join-global-chorus-against-stars-earn-stripes/) - WRL (though our WRL NYC Local) has been active in the protest of this outrageous reality game show with General Wesley Clark and celebrities playing at "war." Help us tell NBC: Battle is Not a Sport – War is Not a Game. Sign the petition to be sent to NBC! If you're in NYC on
- [Unwelcome NATO/G8! Join WRL in Chicago, May 18-19](https://www.warresisters.org/unwelcome-natog8-join-wrl-chicago-may-18-19/) - As thousands will converge in Chicago during the international summits of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Group of 8 (G8) this spring, WRL and a group of organizations* committed to ending U.S. militarism and its maintenance of economic injustice globally are looking to you and to your organizing networks to help us
- [Suzanne Ross](https://www.warresisters.org/suzanne-ross/) - Dear friends, In the introductions to WRL's recent book, We Have Not Been Moved, the mini-biography of contributor Suzanne Ross was inadvertently cut short. At this time when her work to free imprisoned journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal has become more crucial than ever, we wanted to correct that omission by including her full mini-biography here, as
- [April 15 Global Day of Action on Military Spending](https://www.warresisters.org/april-15-global-day-action-military-spending/) - Add your (war) tax day event to this list! This week, Portland, OR, Belfast, ME, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Phoenix, Bristol, RI joined the list of US cities where activities to mark Tax Day and the Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) will occur. On Long Island, NY, 4 Congressional offices will be visited.
- [WRL is looking for a Summer 2013 Freeman Intern to work in Historic Preservation and Research Assistance](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-looking-summer-2013-freeman-intern-work-historic-preservation-and-research-assistance/) - WRL is looking for a Summer 2013 Freeman Intern to work in Historic Preservation and Research Assistance Are you interested in radical history? Want to work with one of the oldest and most exciting anti-militarism organizations? We are currently taking applications for our Summer Freeman Internship Program. The Summer 2013 Freeman Intern will focus primarily
- [JOB OPENING: WRL Development & Membership Coordinator](https://www.warresisters.org/job-opening-wrl-development-membership-coordinator/) - UPDATE: THIS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED. Please note: WRL has an office cat. The office is not wheelchair accessible. War Resisters League seeks an enthusiastic and experienced grassroots fundraiser, who brings initiative and works well collaboratively, to coordinate and facilitate our fundraising program, and increase our income, national visibility and membership base. The Development &
- [Join Now! April Days of Action Against Drone Warfare](https://www.warresisters.org/join-now-april-days-action-against-drone-warfare/) - War Resisters League encourages you to join now with people across the United States who are planning actions and education programs in the month of April aimed at ending drone warfare and surveillance. Please sign up today to get connected with organizing efforts in your area.
- [U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: Don't impose death sentence on 82-year-old nun and peacemaker](https://www.warresisters.org/us-attorney-general-dont-impose-death-sentence-82-year-old-nun-and-peacemaker-0/) - Sixteen years in prison is not enough? Sister Megan Rice and her friends, all peace activists, already face 16 years in prison if convicted for a nonviolent peace action. Sister Megan, Greg Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli went to Oak Ridge, Tennesse, to say NO to nuclear holocaust. Instead of dropping charges, the US Attorney General
- [Facing Urban Shield Reportback and Press Coverage](https://www.warresisters.org/facing-urban-shield-reportback-and-press-coverage/) - On Friday, October 25th, more than 100 police and military agencies from California and across the US were joined by their counterparts from Israel, Guam, Bahrain, and Brazil for a massive SWAT team training and weapons expo called Urban Shield. The Facing Urban Shield Action Network, with more than 30 endorsers in the Bay Area,
- [90 Years of Revolutionary Nonviolence: New WRL Perpetual Calendar](https://www.warresisters.org/90-years-revolutionary-nonviolence-new-wrl-perpetual-calendar/) - Order Now! WRL’s New Perpetual Calendar Highlights Revolutionary Nonviolence on the Occasion of Our 90th Anniversary. This perpetual calendar can be used year after year. You can just write in the dates! It includes an event related to WRL and nonviolence for each day, with a line to add your own reminders of birthdays, etc.
- [Howard Clark](https://www.warresisters.org/howard-clark/) - Please join War Resisters League in honoring Howard Clark, who passed away unexpectedly at home last weekend. War Resisters International was founded in 1921 to promote nonviolent action against the causes of war and to support and connect people around the world who refuse to take part in war or the preparation of war. In
- [Want to get more involved in WRL? NC Nominations are open.](https://www.warresisters.org/want-get-more-involved-wrl-nc-nominations-are-open/) - UPDATED DEADLINE: OCTOBER 14. Do you have what it takes to help lead the War Resisters League? Do you have the skills and vision to help chart WRL's course in promoting revolutionary nonviolent change? Do you know someone who does? Nominations are open for the at-large seats on the National Committee (NC). This is WRL's
- [HIROSHIMA DAY OBSERVATIONS 2013](https://www.warresisters.org/hiroshima-day-observations-2013/) - In New York and other cities and towns across the country, peace activists will hold protests, vigils and educational events to observe the 68th anniversary of the US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If you have planned an action you would like posted here, let us know at wrl [at] warresisters.org New York City
- [Facing Urban Shield Action Network](https://www.warresisters.org/facing-urban-shield-action-network/) - What is Urban Shield? From October 25th -28th, 2013 in Oakland, California, Urban Shield - a trade show and training exercise for SWAT teams and police agencies will bring local, national and international law enforcement agencies together with “defense industry contractors” to provide training and introduce new weapons to police and security companies. The
- [In Memoriam: Toshi-Aline Ohta Seeger, 1922-2013](https://www.warresisters.org/memoriam-toshi-aline-ohta-seeger-1922-2013/) - She was, of course, Pete Seeger’s wife and partner for nearly 70 years. But she was also his producer, the director of his television program, an Emmy-winning television producer, an organizer of the first Newport Folk Festivals, a documentary film producer, and a moving spirit behind the Clearwater movement to clean up the Hudson River.
- [Hiroshima Day: We Have Not Been Moved book event in DC](https://www.warresisters.org/hiroshima-day-we-have-not-been-moved-book-event-dc/) - In conjunction with the War Resisters League Conference Busboys and Poets & Teaching for Change welcome SONIA SANCHEZ and MATT MEYER to sign and discuss: We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America Edited by Elizabeth Betita Martínez, Mandy Carter & Matt Meyer with an Introduction by Cornel
- [Registration still open for WRL's 90th Anniversary Conference!](https://www.warresisters.org/registration-still-open-wrls-90th-anniversary-conference/) - Revolutionary Nonviolence: Building Bridges Across Generations and Communities War Resisters League 90th Anniversary National Conference Thursday, August 1 – Sunday, August 4th, 2013 Georgetown University in Washington, DC It is still possible to register for the conference. The housing deadline has passed, but there is some on-campus housing available. So please do REGISTER TODAY! The
- [New Book from War Resisters International!](https://www.warresisters.org/new-book-war-resisters-international/) - New from War Resisters International! Sowing Seeds: The Militarisation of Youth and How to Counter It by Owen Everett Around the world children, adolescents, and young adults encounter the military and military values in a variety of ways, from visits to schools by military personnels, to video games and the presence of the military and
- [90 Years Young!](https://www.warresisters.org/90th_anniversary/) - War Resisters League is proud to have reached our 90th anniversary and we have had a great celebration all year. In August, we held our 90th Anniversary conference, REVOLUTIONARY NONVIOLENCE: Building Bridges Across Generations and Communities in Washington, DC. In October, we celebrated and honored Harry Belefonte, Joan Baez and Daniel Ellsberg at our 90th
- [New! Facing Tear Gas Campaign Website](https://www.warresisters.org/new-facing-tear-gas-campaign-website/) - Facing Tear Gas is a campaign to end the US’s role in the business of tear gas in solidarity with global nonviolent uprisings and those facing US-backed repression everywhere, including within the US. Check out our new website: facingteargas.org
- [Solidarity with #direngeziparki and the people of Turkey](https://www.warresisters.org/solidarity-direngeziparki-and-people-turkey/) - From WRL's Facing Tear Gas Campaign: Over the past several days, Turkey has seen some of its largest mass mobilizations in years. Protesters are pouring into Taksim Square, Gezi Park, and other public spaces throughout the country in the thousands to reject neoliberalism and government-backed urban gentrification. As they brave vomit-inducing tear gas, rubber bullets,
- [International Day of Action For Military-Free Education and Research](https://www.warresisters.org/international-day-action-military-free-education-and-research/) - As part of its Countering the Militarisation of Youth work, War Resisters International is coordinating an International Day of Action For Military-Free Education and Research, which will take place on 14 June 2013. The day will be based on the September 2012 week of action in Germany, which was supported by over one hundred groups
- [Dannia Southerland, 1950- 2013](https://www.warresisters.org/dannia-southerland-1950-2013/) - Dannia Southerland, 62, passed away on February 9, 2013 in Durham, NC. Dannia, who went by Sunshine at the time, was on the WRL/Southeast staff from 1978 until 1984. A strong woman with a strong presence, Sunshine had a great smile and ability to raise important issues and challenge us all. Mab Segrest wrote about
- [May 15 is International Conscientious Objectors Day](https://www.warresisters.org/may-15-international-conscientious-objectors-day/) - May 15th is International Conscientious Objectors day. Around the world, peace and justice activists and organizers will be remembering the generations who refused to go to war, and raising awareness of the many who continue to be persecuted and imprisoned for refusing to kill. For info on actions around the globe, check out War Resisters
- [Lawsuit filed to end 30 years solitary confinement for Russell Maroon Shoatz](https://www.warresisters.org/lawsuit-filed-end-30-years-solitary-confinement-russell-maroon-shoatz/) - Lawyers for former Black Panther political prisoner Russell “Maroon” Shoatz filed a federal lawsuit on May 8, 2013 against Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) officials, demanding an end to almost 30 years of solitary confinement. In one of the most overtly biased and egregious uses of “restricted housing,” Maroon – who will turn seventy-years-old this
- [NATO/G8-free Video Call for Submissions!](https://www.warresisters.org/natog8-free-video-call-submissions/) - Calling all social justice videographers! The Network for a NATO-free Future (see member organizations below) is helping put together a counter-summit to the G8 and NATO summits happening this May in Chicago. To help give a U.S.-based community organizers and local activists an idea about what NATO is, its role in the world, and its
- [ICBM Minuteman III launch still set for November 14](https://www.warresisters.org/icbm-minuteman-iii-launch-still-set-november-14/) - The next ICBM Minuteman III launch is still set for November 14, 2012 UFPJ disarmament working group and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom are calling a protest at 11:55pm (five minutes to midnight) on November 13. WRL endorses the demonstrations against these offensive tests and the continued subjugation of the people formerly
- [Defend Bradley Manning, War Crime Whistleblower](https://www.warresisters.org/defend-bradley-manning-war-crime-whistleblower/) - The Bradley Manning Support Network and Courage to Resist have established a legal defense fund for Pfc. Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking intelligence documents to WikiLeaks. He is charged with eight violations, including allegedly leaking the “Collateral Murder” video to WikiLeaks (for a detailed account of the actions depicted in
- [Run for Peace 2009](https://www.warresisters.org/run-peace-2009/) - Dear Friends, The War Resisters League does a lot of work for peace—organizing demonstrations, publishing a quarterly magazine, developing resources and trainings on nonviolence… Most of this work is done from the comfort of a chair (although you can get a workout on the picket line). Now, the War Resisters League is taking our message
- [This December, Double the Resources for Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/december-double-resources-resistance/) - We are absolutely thrilled to announce this special opportunity made possible by an anonymous donor and longtime friend of the War Resisters League in Texas. To support WRL in reaching our fundraising goals this year, until the end of December, every one-time or sustainer donation you make online will be generously DOUBLED up to $20,000
- [Prisoners for Peace Day](https://www.warresisters.org/prisoners-peace-day/) - Each year on December 1st War Resisters' International and its member mark Prisoners for Peace Day, when WRI and its affiliates (including WRL) publicise the names and stories of those imprisoned for actions for peace. Many are conscientious objectors, in jail for refusing to join the military. Others have taken nonviolent actions to disrupt preparation
- [Training for a Nonviolent Mass Movement!](https://www.warresisters.org/training-nonviolent-mass-movement/) - Training across Generations Earlier this month over two dozen organizers from across the Northeast gathered at the Voluntown Peace Trust in Connecticut for the first in a series of planned "Training 4 Trainers" weekends. "WRL has a long history of providing resources in nonviolence training. This past weekend strengthened our commitment by offering this unique
- [War Resisters League is looking for a Freeman Intern for Fall 2014](https://www.warresisters.org/war-resisters-league-looking-freeman-intern-fall-2014/) - We're looking for an energetic, passionate intern to help us relaunch our website, promote our organizing resources, and to be part of the life of our national office. The Freeman Intern will work closely with WRL's Office Coordinator. The work will include: Migrating content from our old website to our new site, due to launch
- [We Pushed Urban Shield Out of Oakland, But the Struggle Continues!](https://www.warresisters.org/we-pushed-urban-shield-out-oakland-struggle-continues/) - On Friday, September 5th, hundreds of of protesters gathered in front of the Marriott in Downtown Oakland, CA, to stand against Urban Shield and declare two major victories: Urban Shield will no longer be held at the Marriott and it will no longer take place anywhere in Oakland. Reclaiming the streets in celebration of our power,
- [A Letter on the Current Iraq Crisis from the Right to Heal Initiative](https://www.warresisters.org/letter-current-iraq-crisis-right-heal-initiative/) - June 19, 2014 U.S. Department of State Attention: Secretary John Kerry 2201 C Street NW Washington DC 20520 Dear Secretary Kerry: The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 incited a previously unimaginable deepening of sectarian divisions among the people of Iraq following the overthrow of the repressive Ba’athist regime of Saddam Hussein. The US government
- [Boston STOMP Report Back and Press Roundup](https://www.warresisters.org/boston-stomp-report-back-and-press-roundup/) - We can't be afraid, we cannot let the police scare us into not doing anything to help our communities." -Kazi Toure, National Jericho Movement, Boston Resident Last weekend, police and SWAT teams from across Massachusetts arrived in Boston to train in military tactics in the name of "public safety." On that Sunday, STOMP (Stop Oppressive
- [Join WRL in South Africa this summer!](https://www.warresisters.org/join-wrl-south-africa-summer/) - Registration deadline extended to 31 May 2014! Seven months after the passing of South African independence leader Nelson Mandela, War Resisters International will be hosting a momentous conference in Cape Town, South Africa: "Small Actions - Big Movements: the Continuum of Nonviolence." Rooted in the historic struggle against apartheid in South Africa, this conference will
- [Tear gas is NOT nonlethal: ways to resist US tear gas shipments](https://www.warresisters.org/tear-gas-not-nonlethal-ways-resist-us-tear-gas-shipments/) - Since last week, the streets of Turkey have again been filled with tear gas following the death of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan, who was in a coma since June 2013 after being hit in the head by a tear gas canister while buying bread during the government repression of last summer's Gezi Park uprising. March 13th
- [WRL sponsors the GI Coffeehouse West Coast tour](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-sponsors-gi-coffeehouse-west-coast-tour/) - Join Under the Hood Cafe and Outreach Center (Killeen, TX), Coffee Strong (Lakewood, WA), and The Clearing Barrel (Kaiserslautern, Germany) for the first-ever GI Coffeehouse West Coast Tour! With stops in more than a dozen cities, coffeehouse organizers will meet with local activists and supporters, sharing information and stories from the coffeehouses, which over the
- [Become a WRL Sara Bilezikian Peace Intern: Apply Now!](https://www.warresisters.org/become-wrl-sara-bilezikian-peace-intern-apply-now/) - WRL is looking for a Spring 2014 Bilezikian Organizing Intern! Want to hone or share your organizing skills? Want to work with one of the oldest and most exciting anti-war and anti-militarism organizations? We are currently taking applications for our Spring 2014 Bilezikian Internship Program, which runs for 13 weeks starting Monday, March 10th. Application
- [Welcoming Our New National Committee](https://www.warresisters.org/welcoming-our-new-national-committee/) - We are thrilled to share the results of War Resisters League's National Committee (NC) election with you all, and delighted to welcome new and incumbent members to our leadership structure. Nearly 200 WRL members participated in our most recent election online or by mail, sending ballots from Alaska to Puerto Rico, and contributing to a
- [Pete Seeger, 1919-2014](https://www.warresisters.org/pete-seeger-1919-2014/) - A giant has left our world. With millions, we mourn Pete’s departure on Monday, January 27th. We share his family’s sorrow for the loss of his daily presence, following so closely the death last July of his beloved wife and their beloved mother/grandmother Toshi. Yet even as we grieve—“we” here refers to the world at
- [Historic Protest Settlement from 2004 RNC: WRL Speaks](https://www.warresisters.org/historic-protest-settlement-2004-rnc-wrl-speaks/) - January 16th's historic settlement awarded to protesters at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City was the largest in U.S. history - and many a WRLer was in the mix! At the press conference, Ed Hedemann of the WRL - NYC local said: "The government can place FBI agents behind every mailbox and
- [Peace Activists Who Exposed COINTELPRO Go Public](https://www.warresisters.org/peace-activists-who-exposed-cointelpro-go-public/) - Peace activists involved with the March 8, 1971 break-in that exposed the FBI's repressive COINTELPRO operation have come forward to share their story and draw connections to widespread government surveillance today. WRL's WIN Magazine was first to publish the complete collection of the documents in our March 1972 issue. Download and read a PDF of
- [2009 Peace Awardees arrested in Zimbabwe](https://www.warresisters.org/2009-peace-awardees-arrested-zimbabwe/) - Ellen Chademana and Ignatius Muhambi of the gay rights group Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe, 2009 WRL Peace Awardees, were arrested last week after a raid on their offices. From SWRadio Africa: Gay rights pair finally released on bail By Violet Gonda27 May 2010 The two members of the gay rights group Gays and Lesbians
- [For Allies](https://www.warresisters.org/allies/) - ◊Links to groups that serve as allies Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (YANO) American Friends Service Committee—Youth and Militarism Program Coalition Against Militarism In Our Schools** -Great example of students and adult allies working together to evoke change National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) CodePink Leave my Child Alone! ◊ Resources
- [WRL Track Club](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-track-club/) - War, Empire and the Economy Got You Down? We have the Solution! Don’t Just Stand There…. Run! The War Resisters League Track Club is committed to building community and building muscles, and we want to run with you. After a decade long (or so) hiatus, we reformed in 2009, and ran the Hartford Marathon and
- [In Memory of Bob Witkowski](https://www.warresisters.org/memory-bob-witkowski/) - Robert C. “Bob” Witkowski, 57, of Ashley, PA, (formally of Wilkes-Barre) passed away on March 20, 2010, unexpectedly at his home. Bob was born in Jersey City, NJ. He was the son of Charles and the late Florence H. Witkowski of Wood-Ridge, NJ. Bob was employed at the Salvation Army in Hanover Township, PA, and
- [Tax Day Actions 2010](https://www.warresisters.org/tax-day-actions-2010/) - Join in the work of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee including WRL members across the country in organizing against taxpayer dollars spent for war and militarism! The numbers are staggering: Over $1 trillion spent so far on the invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Nearly half of each tax
- [May 3rd WRL action for nuclear abolition](https://www.warresisters.org/may-3rd-wrl-action-nuclear-abolition/) - We Declare NYC a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (starting with Grand Central Station)! Monday, May 3, 2010 8-10am Grand Central Station War Resisters League is marking the beginning of the United Nations’ Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference with creative and nonviolent direct action at Grand Central Station. We assert that “Nuclear Disarmament Begins at Home.” Throughout
- [October Actions Against the War in Afghanistan 2009](https://www.warresisters.org/october-actions-against-war-afghanistan-2009/) - Join the War Resisters League in saying “No to War in Afghanistan. No to Torture and Vengeance.” The War Resisters League is standing with other organizations and communities to mark eight years of war and destruction in Afghanistan, to say no to war and torture, and to call on the Obama administration to listen to
- [Peace Protests at Vandenberg Air Force Base](https://www.warresisters.org/peace-protests-vandenberg-air-force-base/) - Vandenberg Space Command will fire a test ICBM Minuteman to Kwajalein on in June 5, 2010. A peace protest will be held at the front gate of Vandenberg AFB in Santa Barbara County, CA on June 5 at 1pm during World Nuclear Weapons Abolition Day. For more information, go to www.vandenbergwitness.org
- [Prophecy Tickets](https://www.warresisters.org/prophecy-tickets/) - NEARLY SOLD OUT! Call for tickets now: 212.228.0450 x17 Theater Three Collaborative, Inc. presents A fierce and funny new American play about bearing witness and finding family Friday, June 4, 2010 7:30 p.m. A Benefit for the War Resisters League Written & Directed by Karen Malpede Buy your tickets today! Call 212.228.0450x17
- [WRL Track Club Invitation](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-track-club-invitation/) - War, Empire and the Economy Got You Down? We have the Solution! Don’t Just Stand There…. Run! The War Resisters League Track Club is committed to building community and building muscles, and we want to run with you. After a decade long (or so) hiatus, we reformed in 2009, and ran the Hartford Marathon and
- [Afghanistan Escalation 2009](https://www.warresisters.org/afghanistan-escalation-2009/) - As the war in Afghanistan has entered into its ninth year and as President Obama has issued orders for a swift deployment over the next six months of 30,000 additional US troops, WRL calls on its members and supporters in a moment of national urgency. By promising a timetable for troop withdrawl alongside an escalation
- [Twenty-Four Anti-Torture Activists Acquitted](https://www.warresisters.org/twenty-four-anti-torture-activists-acquitted/) - Twenty-Four Anti-Torture Activists Acquitted in Trial for Protest at the US Capitol Calling for Guantanamo's Closure and the Investigation of Deaths at the Prison For Immediate Release June 15, 2010 Contact: Jeremy Varon: M: 732-979-3119 jvaron [at] aol.com Helen Schietinger: M: 202-344-5762 h.schietinger [at] verizon.net WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Monday, June 14, twenty-four activists with
- [Join Witness Against Torture's Days of Action in D.C. June 22-25 2011](https://www.warresisters.org/join-witness-against-tortures-days-action-dc-june-22-25-2011/) - CALL TO ACTION – JOIN US ON JUNE 22-25, 2011 We must continue to speak and act against the ongoing crime of Guantanamo! We walk in shame and grief and anger. We walk mindful of broken promises, hollow words, and bankrupt institutions. We walk for men torn from their families and homelands, tortured and abused
- [Act with Iraqis Standing Up to the US Military Presence in Their Country](https://www.warresisters.org/act-iraqis-standing-us-military-presence-their-country/) - Since February 25th Iraqis – fueled by the air of audacity sweeping the Arab world – have been organizing weekly Friday protests against government corruption and sectarianism, a shocking lack of public services, and for the release of Iraq’s thousands of arbitrarily imprisoned. This coming April 9th though, 8 Iraqi civil-society organizations are taking this
- [March with WRL on April 9 in NYC!](https://www.warresisters.org/march-wrl-april-9-nyc/) - On Saturday, April 9, 2011 WRL members and members of many other peace and justice groups will be meeting at the Gandhi statue at Union Square West and 15th Street at 12pm. WESPAC and WRL are also calling for group participation in a feeder march to Union Square that will leave at 11:30am from the
- [Israeli Apartheid Week 2011](https://www.warresisters.org/israeli-apartheid-week-2011/) - Throughout March 2011, in cities all around the globe, Palestine solidarity activists are participating in Israeli Apartheid Week. IAW is a flurry of events which aim to expose the multiple ways the state of Israel commits the crime of Apartheid, as well as call on global civil society to participate in BDS – boycott, divestment
- [April 8 2011 Pentagon Action](https://www.warresisters.org/april-8-2011-pentagon-action/) - Announcing an April 8 Civil Resistance Action at the Pentagon: We will come together in solidarity to act in resistance against the activities of the U.S. military and form autonomous affinity groups that will be acting in nonviolent civil resistance at the Pentagon on April 8. We will encourage groups to descend on the Pentagon
- [Be an Organizing Intern at the WRL National Office!](https://www.warresisters.org/be-organizing-intern-wrl-national-office/) - War Resisters League is looking for a New York City-based part-time intern for a twelve-week period, June 13 – August 31. The intern will work 20 hours a week on a number of organizing projects and administrative tasks, including the following: Working with local WRL chapters and affiliate groups all over the country, contacting them
- [Nonviolent Civil Resistance on March 19th at the White House](https://www.warresisters.org/nonviolent-civil-resistance-march-19th-white-house/) - Led by Veterans for Peace on March 19th - the anniversary of the brutal invasion of Iraq, where over a million Iraqis and almost 5,000 US soldiers were killed with thousands more grievously injured - as the occupation of Iraq and the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan continue unabated, Veterans for Peace is calling for
- [DON'T BUY WAR TOYS](https://www.warresisters.org/dont-buy-war-toys/) - WAR IS NOT A GAME Playing with war toys and violent videos numbs people to the terrible truth: War means death and suffering, not fun and games. Playing violent video games has been directly linked to increased aggressive behavior. A Harvard School of Public Health study found significant amounts of violence even in video games
- [UPDATE: Results of Nov 18 trial of May 3rd Grand Central NPT Protesters](https://www.warresisters.org/update-results-nov-18-trial-may-3rd-grand-central-npt-protesters/) - From Bev Rice: I was delighted to tell my NLG lawyer, Mark Taylor, that the MTA policeman who wrote the summons wasn't my arresting officer. After being sworn in, this officer said he was called in from Penn Station because "there was a war protest in Grand Central." When Judge Weinberg asked him for details,
- [National Committee Elections 2011](https://www.warresisters.org/national-committee-elections-2011/) - MAY 1, 2011 Balloting has closed. Thanks to everyone who voted! ELECTION of AT-LARGE MEMBERS to the WRL NATIONAL COMMITTEE The National Committee The National Committee (NC) is WRL's highest decision-making body and meets twice a year in New York City to shape the League's policy and direction and set its budget. (The Administrative Coordinating
- [NC Elections 2011 - Statements of Candidates](https://www.warresisters.org/nc-elections-2011-statements-candidates/) - MAY 1, 2011 Balloting has closed. Thanks to everyone who voted! Statements of Candidates (* = Incumbent) JASON AHMADI (Southwest) I have found that building real relationships and community is essential to resisting this culture and practice of war. In my anti-nuclear organizing in the rural pueblos of Northern New Mexico, I feel I have
- [Take a Stand for Peace - December 16 in Washington, DC](https://www.warresisters.org/take-stand-peace-december-16-washington-dc/) - Join activist veterans marching in solidarity to the White House, demanding an immediate end to U.S. wars, whether conducted by occupation troops, drones or proxy, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Palestine. We will be nonviolently refusing to leave the White House, willing to be dragged away and arrested for peace. We believe that the
- [Shut Down the School of the Americas! November 19-21, 2010](https://www.warresisters.org/shut-down-school-americas-november-19-21-2010/) - November 19-21: Close the school of the Americas Join us to remember the victims and to celebrate the resistance! (para información en español, haga click aquí) Thirty years have passed since Maryknoll missioners Maura Clark, Jean Donovan, Ita Ford, and Dorothy Kazel were brutally killed by graduates of the SOA in El Salvador. They are
- [Homecoming in Detroit and on Coming Home from the US Social   Forum](https://www.warresisters.org/homecoming-detroit-and-coming-home-us-social-forum/) - It’s been nearly five days since returning home from Detroit and I think that the word most present in the minds of many of the WRL members who were at the second-ever U.S. Social Forum is “unpack.” Aside from the bags full of notes and posters, books and pins that we carried home with us,
- [One Nation for Peace! Oct 2 in D.C.](https://www.warresisters.org/one-nation-peace-oct-2-dc/) - 2010 War Resisters League is a member organization of the Peace Table for October 2, bringing local and national peace organizations to this massive demonstration to counter racist, classist, and anti-immigrant attacks from the right and to unify a majority of the people of the U.S. around an inspiring vision of our nation based on
- [War Profiteers are the 1%: November 30th action in NYC](https://www.warresisters.org/war-profiteers-are-1-november-30th-action-nyc/) - On Wednesday, November 30th, 2011, War Resisters League joined with Occupy Wall Street activists and United for Peace and Justice for a protest at the Aerospace and Defense Finance Conference, a meeting in which Department of Defense officials met with the CEOs of 30 military contractors, including reps from three of the top five defense
- [Bite the Bullet](https://www.warresisters.org/bite-bullet/) - Individuals, companies and corporations have always taken advantage of warfare to make enormous economic profit. For centuries, ordinary people, who suffer most from war, have resisted these war profiteers. One of the major factors in Harry S. Truman's rise to the U.S. presidency was his relentless ("Give 'em Hell, Harry!") pursuit of war profiteers. But
- [WRL endorses October 2011 nonviolent action in D.C.](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-endorses-october-2011-nonviolent-action-dc/) - Stop the Machine! Create a New World! A Call to Action - Oct. 6, 2011 and onward October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world
- [WRL is looking or a Summer 2012 Freeman Intern to work in Fundraising and Membership Development](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-looking-or-summer-2012-freeman-intern-work-fundraising-and-membership-development/) - Want to hone or share your grassroots fundraising skills? Want to work with one of the oldest and most exciting anti-militarism organizations? We are currently taking applications for our Summer 2012 Freeman Internship Program, which runs for 13 weeks starting June 4 (dates are flexible). Application deadline: May 11. You do not have to be
- [Empire on Wall Street](https://www.warresisters.org/empire-wall-street/) - On 10/14, WRL and the South Asia Solidarity Initiative organized an action at Occupy Wall Street about the costs of U.S. military intervention all over the world and those who profit from it. Download the toolkit for a National Day of Action on November 17th, when we will be asking our members and supporters to
- [Marv Davidov, 1931 - 2012](https://www.warresisters.org/marv-davidov-1931-2012/) - Long-time Minnesota peace activist Marv Davidov died on January 14 at age 80. WRL New England Staffer Joanne Sheehan wrote about Marv on the War Resisters International website: "I don't remember when I first met Marv Davidov, sometime in the '70. I first heard of him when I learned about the Honeywell Project, which he
- [Unwelcome NATO/G8! WRL in Chicago, May 18-19](https://www.warresisters.org/unwelcome-natog8-wrl-chicago-may-18-19/) - WRL is headed to Chicago! Please join us in spreading the word about the counter-summit planned for May 18-19 and the call for videos that WRL is launching as part of the popular education-based organizing of the Network for a NATO-free Future. See below for info or get in touch with the WRL national office
- [Legal support for G.I.s participating in Occupy Wall Street actions](https://www.warresisters.org/legal-support-gis-participating-occupy-wall-street-actions/) - As veterans and servicemembers have been joining in and supporting their local #Occupy movements, the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild has stepped up to coordinate legal support for active duty servicemembers, reservists, and veterans who are facing harassment and/or legal sanctions for participating in these important protests. The MLTF can be
- [Protesters convicted in Protest at Vandenberg Air Force Base](https://www.warresisters.org/protesters-convicted-protest-vandenberg-air-force-base/) - Father Louie Vitale was convicted and fined $1000 for trespass at Vandenberg protesting the ICBM launch on August 22, 2009. Sister Megan Rice was convicted and fined $500 for the same incident. More details available soon. See www.macgregoreddy.com for background on the protest and updates on the convictions of Fr. Louie and Sr. Megan.
- [War Voices: A dialogue on ten years of U.S.-led war and occupation](https://www.warresisters.org/war-voices-dialogue-ten-years-us-led-war-and-occupation/) - On October 7th, War Resisters League joined with a number of our partner organizations in the anti-war movement to host War Voices,* a dialogue on these past ten years of U.S.-led war and occupation and their connections to the militarization of life here in the U.S. and globally. The evening's discussions among community leaders and
- [10 Years of detention and torture: Witness Against Torture January actions](https://www.warresisters.org/10-years-detention-and-torture-witness-against-torture-january-actions/) - From January 2-12 Witness Against Torture will spend two weeks in Washington D.C. leading up to the 10 year commemoration of the Guantanamo prison and along with it a system of indefinite detention and torture that targets Arab, South Asian, and Muslim men and necessitates the spread of rampant Islamophobia that we have seen escalating
- [May 12 Actions](https://www.warresisters.org/may-12-actions/) - On May 12, the War Resisters League participated in a day of teach-ins and actions with a broad coalition of unions and community organizations in New York City to stop the state and federal budget cuts which are threatening so many, and to highlight the billions that NYC tax payers are contributing to wars. Click
- [One Year After the Egyptian Revolution: Tear Gas and Police Repression](https://www.warresisters.org/one-year-after-egyptian-revolution-tear-gas-and-police-repression/) - Tear gas, policing, and the counter-revolution: January 25 marked one year since the beginning of the Egyptian revolution. One year after the fall of the Mubarak regime, the Egyptian people are still in the streets, calling for an end to the rule of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) that took power after
- [The War Resisters League Commemorates the 66th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima](https://www.warresisters.org/war-resisters-league-commemorates-66th-anniversary-atomic-bombing-hiroshima-0/) - For a list of events organized by Pax Christi USA chapters and affiliates please visit: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129544250468870 Friday August 5th. 4:00PM: at Dag Hammerskjold Plaza - East 47 St between 1 & 2 Aves, NYC. Musical performances by Ray Korona, the Raging Grannies, The Peaceniks, Russell Daisey, Bruce Markow and special guest from Japan singer/songwriter,
- [Apply now! WRL Winter 2013 Bilezikian Organizing Internship](https://www.warresisters.org/apply-now-wrl-winter-2013-bilezikian-organizing-internship/) - Want to hone or share your organizing skills? Want to work with one of the oldest and most exciting national anti-militarist organizations? We are currently taking applications for our Winter 2013 Bilezikian Internship Program, which runs for 13 weeks starting January 14 (dates are flexible). Application deadline: Friday, December 17. Our intern will work 20
- [Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki](https://www.warresisters.org/remembering-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/) - Click here to read the updated Hiroshima/Nagasaki exhibit created by members of the NYC chapter of WRL, detailing the history of the bombings and the emergence of the powerful US anti-nuclear movement. The exhibit is available also available in a downloadable PDF version, which can be used as a flyer at events, actions, and vigils
- [WEATHER UPDATE](https://www.warresisters.org/weather-update/) - UPDATE: November 3, 2012 The War Resisters League National Office has been closed since Monday, when the storm hit our area, resulting in a power outage in the neighborhood. Yesterday, November 2, electricity was restored to the neighborhood, and we are hoping to be back in the office this week. There are still major disruptions
- [Table of Contents - We Have Not Been Moved](https://www.warresisters.org/table-contents-we-have-not-been-moved/) - We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America Ultimately, there can be no peace without justice, and no justice without peace. The two great moral issues of our time, peace and human rights, are so closely related that we can say that they are one and the same. —Coretta Scott
- [Praise for We Have Not Been Moved](https://www.warresisters.org/praise-we-have-not-been-moved/) - Praise for We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America When we sang out “We Shall Not Be Moved” in Montgomery and Selma, we were committed to our unshakeable unity against segregation and violence. This important book continues in that struggle—suggesting ways in which we need to do better, and
- [We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America](https://www.warresisters.org/we-have-not-been-moved-resisting-racism-and-militarism-21st-century-america/) - Edited by Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez, Mandy Carter & Matt Meyer Introduction by Cornel West Afterwords/poems by Alice Walker & Sonia Sanchez We Have Not Been Moved is a compendium addressing the two leading pillars of U.S. Empire. Inspired by the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who called for a “true revolution of values”
- [24th Annual Raffle for Resistance - 2012](https://www.warresisters.org/24th-annual-raffle-resistance-2012/) - BUY TICKETS ONLINE! Nearly Twice as Many Prizes! $3 per ticket, $25 for a sheet of 12 PLEASE NOTE: RAFFLE TICKET DONATIONS ARE NOT TAX DEDUCTIBLE Raffle Drawing: Nov. 29, 2012 IF YOU BUY YOUR RAFFLE TICKETS ONLINE, WE'LL FILL THEM OUT FOR YOU Your raffle contribution directly supports the campaigns and programs of War
- [Recruiting Latinos: Selling the American Nightmare](https://www.warresisters.org/recruiting-latinos-selling-american-nightmare/) - Nonviolent Activist, March-April 2006 Recruiting Latinos: Selling the American Nightmare By Oskar Castro Facing a drop in African American recruitment numbers, yet still hoping to entice poor people of color, military recruiters are currently working overtime to swell the ranks with young Latinos and Latinas. Latinos are 14 percent of the U.S. population aged 18
- [Activist News (NVA Mar-Apr 2006)](https://www.warresisters.org/activist-news-nva-mar-apr-2006/) - Nonviolent Activist, March-April 2006 ACTIVIST NEWS U.S. Troops in Iraq Say End War in 2006 An overwhelming 72 percent of American troops serving in Iraq think the United States should exit the country within the next year, and more than one in four say the troops should leave immediately, a new Le Moyne College/Zogby International
- [From Soldier to Objector: Jose Vasquez](https://www.warresisters.org/soldier-objector-jose-vasquez/) - Nonviolent Activist, March-April 2006 INTERVIEWS: VETS AGAINST THE WAR From Soldier to Objector: Jose Vasquez Interviewed by Francesca Fiorentini and Steve Theberge Born in the Bronx, Jose Vasquez grew up in San Bernadino, Calif. In 1991, a junior in high school, he enlisted in the Army’s Delayed Entry Program. During his four-and-a-half-year tour of duty,
- [Blacks, Military Recruitment & Antiwar Movement: Not Showing Up](https://www.warresisters.org/blacks-military-recruitment-antiwar-movement-not-showing/) - Nonviolent Activist, March-April 2006 Blacks, Military Recruitment & Antiwar Movement: Not Showing Up By Kenyon Farrow When I was the Southern Region Coordinator for Critical Resistance I once spoke at an event in New Orleans entitled “What Now: War, Occupation, and the Peace Movement.” I was asked specifically to address why more people most adversely
- [The Mercenary Challenge to Anti-militarism: Privatizing (In)Security](https://www.warresisters.org/mercenary-challenge-anti-militarism-privatizing-insecurity/) - Nonviolent Activist, January-February 2006 The Mercenary Challenge to Anti-militarism: Privatizing (In)Security By Celine Joiris Mercenaries are nothing new; people outside of national armies have been fighting and dying for pay since the days of ancient Rome. Now in the midst of another empire’s reign, “private security companies”—as they are benignly called—have been on the rise
- [Merchant of Death of the Month: Science Applications International](https://www.warresisters.org/merchant-death-month-science-applications-international/) - Nonviolent Activist, January - February 2006 Merchant of Death of the Month: Science Applications International By Frida Berrigan WANTED: SAI, Inc. Aliases/Subsidiaries Bechtel SAIC Corporation LLC, a joint venture with Bechtel to “meet the unique challenge of science and engineering for the Yucca Mountain Project;” ANXeBusiness Corp., a computer corporation; Data Systems & Solutions, a
- [Policing Dissent](https://www.warresisters.org/policing-dissent/) - Nonviolent Activist, January - February 2006 Lessons from the Global Justice Movement Policing Dissent By Mike McGuire In November 1999, a relatively small number of committed activists took on the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the streets of Seattle and won. In addition to marching, activists devised a tactic of several layers of human blockades—some
- [Witness Against Torture Marches to Guantánamo](https://www.warresisters.org/witness-against-torture-marches-guantanamo/) - Nonviolent Activist, January - February 2006 Carrying outrage, compassion, and tourist visas, 25 U.S. activists began an 80-mile-march from Santiago, Cuba, on December 5, in the hopes reaching the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay and visiting prisoners detained there under horrific conditions. The activists, drawn largely from Catholic Worker communities across the United States,
- [IRS Blockade Media Reports](https://www.warresisters.org/irs-blockade-media-reports/) - Media Reports about the IRS Blockade in Washington, DC, on March 19, 2008 Washington Post “Cries Against War Sparse But Fierce” Fewer Than 1,000 Protest, 33 Arrested In Scattered Displays in the District, Michael E. Ruane (March 20) Detailed roundup with reference to RMO in lead; Ed Hedemann quoted “An Antiwar Blockade Amid the Apathy
- [War Resisters Block IRS HQ, 31 arrested](https://www.warresisters.org/war-resisters-block-irs-hq-31-arrested/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Frida Berrigan, 347-683-4928 War Resisters Block IRS HQ, 31 arrested March 19, 2008 -- Thirty-one people were arrested this morning as they staged a nonviolent blockade at the national headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, DC. The protestors had placed yellow police tape saying "WAR CRIME SCENE" across the
- [WRL Hiring new WIN Editor/Publisher](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-hiring-new-win-editorpublisher/) - JOB OPENING: Editor/Publisher of WIN Magazine The War Resisters League is seeking a seeking a self-motivated, professional, and skilled half-time Editor/Publisher to produce and manage (in consultation with Publications Committee) all phases of our quarterly publication, WIN Magazine. As one of the leading radical voices in the antiwar movement, we challenge military recruitment and war
- [WRL Report on the Antiwar Movement Coming in Late May](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-report-antiwar-movement-coming-late-may/) - Special Issue of WIN magazine will feature interviews from a cross section of grassroots organizers from across the country. Ordering information coming. For a preview, check out this adapted article from the NY Indypendent: What Is To be Done? Assessing The Antiwar Movement By Matthew Smucker Remember February 15, 2003? That day saw the largest
- [Death and Taxes . . . and a whole lot of fun](https://www.warresisters.org/death-and-taxes-and-whole-lot-fun/) - by Ruth Benn 3/2/2008 It’s like a double whammy losing Ralph at this time of year. He died on February 1, early on in tax season and just as Ed and I were working on the “Where Your Income Taxes Really Go” flyer. It’s also just when baseball season is starting up. Players are heading
- [Remembering Ralph](https://www.warresisters.org/remembering-ralph/) - by David McReynolds 02/05/08 (from EdgeLeft: An occasional column which can be freely used, sent on, etc.) This afternoon, February 1st, I got a call from Ruth Benn that Ralph DiGia, 93, had died at St. Vincent’s here in New York City. I had visited him this past Saturday and sensed he was losing his
- [Ralph DiGia: 1914-2008](https://www.warresisters.org/ralph-digia-1914-2008/) - Ralph DiGia, lifelong war resister and pacifist died February 1 in New York City. Ralph had a bad fall a couple of weeks ago, broke his hip, and has had a series of serious health problems following his admission to St. Vincent's Hospital. Ralph, 93, has been the heart and soul of War Resisters League
- [Shut Down the IRS March 19, 2008](https://www.warresisters.org/shut-down-irs-march-19-2008/) - SHUT DOWN THE IRS / SHUT DOWN THE WAR On March 19, 2008, we will set up a nonviolent blockade of the national Internal Revenue Service headquarters in Washington, DC, as part of the day of actions against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just as military recruiters supply the bodies for the war, the
- [Activist Profile: Lancaster SDS](https://www.warresisters.org/activist-profile-lancaster-sds/) - Becca Rast is a senior at J.P. McCaskey High School, in Lancaster, PA. Nick Martin is a recent graduate from Penn Manor High School, also in Lancaster. In February 2007 they co-founded Lancaster Students for a Democratic Society, one of the few SDS chapters that is primarily made up of high school students. They have
- [Operation No Recruits: Daily Reports](https://www.warresisters.org/operation-no-recruits-daily-reports/) - Operation No Recruits DAILY REPORTS FROM THE TIMES SQUARE RECRUITING STATION September 8, 10, 11 - 15, 2007 Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007 — NYC WRL / Washington Heights Counter-Recruiters / Rude Mechanical Orchestra At 8:30 am the NYC War Resisters League began blocking the front door of the yet-to-be-opened recruiting center. Shortly after, two counter-demonstrators
- [War Profiteers](https://www.warresisters.org/war-profiteers/) - Individuals, companies and corporations have always taken advantage of warfare to make enormous economic profit. For centuries, ordinary people, who suffer most from war, have resisted these war profiteers. One of the major factors in Harry S. Truman's rise to the U.S. presidency was his relentless ("Give 'em Hell, Harry!") pursuit of war profiteers. But
- [What We Ask of Members](https://www.warresisters.org/what-we-ask-members/) - What we ask of our members: • Signing on to the Statement • Financial support if possible. $26 per year (or more) will allow us to maintain our totally independent and autonomous funding structure. In fact, the majority of our annual budget comes from member and supporter donations like this, not grants or huge donations.
- [Stopping the Merchants of Death](https://www.warresisters.org/stopping-merchants-death/) - Stopping the Merchants of Death A Strategic Conference for Grassroots Activists Sept. 29 - Oct. 2, 2006 University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN According to all attendees, the SMoD National Conference was a success! To download a MS Publisher version of the official program, please click on the image (right) Click here to
- [Looting By Any Other Name](https://www.warresisters.org/looting-any-other-name/) - September 15, 2005 Looting By Any Other Name: The Profit-Driven War By Brian J. Foley [Text of speech given at the conference, "The Failure of Global Empire…] More than two years later, many people still ask, "Why did the US invade Iraq?" Some people answer, "For oil." Others say, "To remove a dangerous dictator," or,
- [The Return of the Intrepid War Museum demonstration Oct. 2, 2008](https://www.warresisters.org/return-intrepid-war-museum-demonstration-oct-2-2008/) - After two years of repairs the Intrepid aircraft carrier and war museum returned to its NYC dock. We greeted it with a silent vigil of signs, banners, and leaflets.
- [Nicholson Baker to Give the War Resisters League’s “Dave Dellinger Lecture on Nonviolence”](https://www.warresisters.org/nicholson-baker-give-war-resisters-leagues-dave-dellinger-lecture-nonviolence/) - PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Contact the NYC War Resisters League Phone: 718-768-7306 Email: nycwrl [at] worldnet.att.net Award-Winning Author to Talk About War, Nonviolence and History Nicholson Baker to Give the War Resisters League’s “Dave Dellinger Lecture on Nonviolence” Nicholson Baker, author of the
- [Nicholson Baker to Give the War Resisters League’s “Dave Dellinger Lecture on Nonviolence”](https://www.warresisters.org/nicholson-baker-give-war-resisters-leagues-dave-dellinger-lecture-nonviolence-0/) - PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Contact the NYC War Resisters League Phone: 718-768-7306 Email: nycwrl [at] worldnet.att.net Award-Winning Author to Talk About War, Nonviolence and History Nicholson Baker to Give the War Resisters League’s “Dave Dellinger Lecture on Nonviolence” Nicholson Baker, author of the recent controversial book Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II,
- [MEDIA ADVISORY:"Killing People Is Not What I Am," Says AWOL GI](https://www.warresisters.org/media-advisorykilling-people-not-what-i-am-says-awol-gi/) - FOR MORE INFORMATION: Daniel Marble: 732-644-5820 Attorney Larry Hildes: 360-715-9788 Chuck Fager, Quaker House: 910-323-3912 MEDIA ADVISORY "Killing People Is Not What I Am", Says AWOL GI A soldier who went AWOL two years ago rather than take part in combat is enroute to Fort Bragg to face military authorities. PFC Daniel Marble, 25, went
- [WRL Featured in HBO doc "Shouting Fire"](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-featured-hbo-doc-shouting-fire/) - Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech premieres on HBO on Monday, June 29, 2009 at 9 pm (8 pm CST). The film centers on noted free speech attorney Martin Garbus (father of the film's director Liz Garbus) and is illustrated by a half-dozen controversial stories of free speech abuse by the government.
- [100 Days to Close Guantanamo](https://www.warresisters.org/100-days-close-guantanamo/) - Protesters outside the White House on the 100th day, April 30, 2009 See media releases on the 100 Days Campaign: May 1, 2009 - 61 Anti-Torture Demonstrators Arrested at The White House April 29, 2009 - Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: Accountability, Torture, and the Obama Administration January 10, 2009
- [WRL- Delaware News: April 2009](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-delaware-news-april-2009/) - If you would like to join the new chapter or for any additional information on events, you can contact WRL Delaware at www.wrl-delaware.tk. April 26, 2009 Our new chapter got off to a good start on the March 20 - 22 Iraq War anniversary weekend. On the 20th, two of our small group (now numbering
- [National Counter-Recruitment and Demilitarization Conference](https://www.warresisters.org/national-counter-recruitment-and-demilitarization-conference/) - The National Counter-Recruitment and Demilitarization Conference will be held July 17 to 19th, 2009 in Chicago For more information: Call: 312.427.2533 Email: crconf [at] gmail.com Website: http://nnomy.org or write: AFSC 637 South Dearborn St #3 Chicago Illinois 60605
- [Anti-Torture Activists to Fast and Rally Sunday to Call on Obama to Close Guantanamo](https://www.warresisters.org/anti-torture-activists-fast-and-rally-sunday-call-obama-close-guantanamo/) - PRESS ADVISORY Witness Against Torture www.100dayscampaign.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 8, 2009 CONTACT: Frida Berrigan, 347-683-4928, frida.berrigan [at] gmail.com Gary Ashbeck, 410-913-2342, cruz69j [at] hotmail.com ANTI-TORTURE ACTIVISTS TO FAST AND RALLY SUNDAY TO CALL ON OBAMA TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO AND BAN TORTURE IMMEDIATELY WASHINGTON — On Sunday, January 11 — the seven-year anniversary of the
- [Memorial for long-time WRL staff member Karl Bissinger](https://www.warresisters.org/memorial-long-time-wrl-staff-member-karl-bissinger/) - Karl Bissinger, 1914-2008 A memorial for long-time War Resisters League staff member Karl Bissinger will be held on Thursday, January 29, 6 pm in the Community Room at Westbeth (155 Bank Street) in the west Village. Westbeth, with entrances mid-block at 55 Bethune Street or through courtyard at Bank Street, is on a block
- [Report from Rafah: Doctors Stopped At Borders](https://www.warresisters.org/report-rafah-doctors-stopped-borders/) - January 10, 2009 Report from Rafah: Doctors Stopped At Borders By Bill Quigley Bill is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola New Orleans. He is in Egypt as a human rights representative of the National Lawyers Guild, the Society of American Law Professors, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and
- [Volunteering at WRL](https://www.warresisters.org/volunteering-wrl/) - December 2008 LITERATURE AND ORGANIZING RESOURCES Volunteers Needed The War Resisters League designs, produces and distributes thousands of pieces of literature and organizing resources each year, including books, brochures, organizing guides, buttons, t-shirts and a range of current and classic anti-war posters. We need volunteers to help us fulfill the dozens of orders we receive
- [43rd Annual Peace Award Performers](https://www.warresisters.org/43rd-annual-peace-award-performers/) - Steve Earle from steveearle.com: "The city hasn't changed as much as real estate agents would have you believe," Steve Earle explains about his adopted hometown of New York City. "Specifically, my neighborhood hasn't changed that much. I point people in the right direction so that they can take their picture like the cover of Freewheelin'
- [Million Doors for Peace](https://www.warresisters.org/million-doors-peace/) - Join United for Peace and Justice coalition, of which WRL is a member group, in a Million Doors for Peace on Saturday, September 20. 1 million doors. 1 million conversations. 1 million voters. Be one of the 25,000 peace activists to knock on a Million Doors for Peace on Saturday, September 20. United For Peace
- [War Resisters Block IRS Headquarters, 32 arrested](https://www.warresisters.org/war-resisters-block-irs-headquarters-32-arrested/) - March 19, 2008 -- Thirty-two people were arrested this morning as they staged a nonviolent blockade at the national headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, DC. The protestors had placed yellow police tape saying "WAR CRIME SCENE" across four entrances to the building, including the main entrance on Constitution Ave. and additional entrances
- [Jericho 10th Anniversary Weekend of Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/jericho-10th-anniversary-weekend-resistance/) - "One of the first steps we are going to become involved in as an Organization of Afro-American Unity will be to work with every leader and other organization in this country interested in a program designed to bring your and my problem before the United Nations ... We must take it out of the
- [WRL Action Alert 12/21/09: Help the Gaza Freedom March Cross the Gaza-Egypt Border!](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-action-alert-122109-help-gaza-freedom-march-cross-gaza-egypt-border/) - From The Gaza Freedom March Steering Committee: UPDATE December 21, 2009 We are determined to break the siege We all will continue to do whatever we can to make it happen Using the pretext of escalating tensions on the Gaza-Egypt border, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry informed us yesterday that the Rafah border will be closed
- [Bill Sutherland, 1918-2010](https://www.warresisters.org/bill-sutherland-1918-2010/) - Bill Sutherland, unofficial ambassador between the peoples of Africa and the Americas for over fifty years, died peacefully on the evening of January 2, 2010. He was 91. A life-long pacifist and liberation advocate, Sutherland became involved in civil rights and anti-war activities as a youthful member of the Student Christian Movement in the 1930s.
- [CALL TO ACTION: Join Witness Against Torture January 11-22, 2010 in a Fast and Vigil to Shut Down Guantanamo, End Torture and Build Justice](https://www.warresisters.org/call-action-join-witness-against-torture-january-11-22-2010-fast-and-vigil-shut-down-guantanamo-end/) - CALL TO ACTION: Join Witness Against Torture January 11-22, 2010 in a Fast and Vigil to Shut Down Guantanamo, End Torture and Build Justice "I believe strongly that torture is not moral, legal or effective." Guantanamo is "a damaging symbol to the world... a rallying cry for terrorist recruitment and harmful to our national security,
- [Karl Bissinger, 1914-2008](https://www.warresisters.org/karl-bissinger-1914-2008/) - Beloved longtime WRL staff member Karl Bissinger succumbed to a stroke on November 19. Karl was an energetic and creative fund raiser, an enthusiastic civil disobedient, a generous host to countless meetings, and - most important - a loyal and supportive friend to hundreds of Greenwich Village artists and activists and a devoted, loving partner
- [Dennis Brutus Memorial](https://www.warresisters.org/dennis-brutus-memorial/) - Please join us for a Memorial for Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) South African poet, anti-apartheid fighter, and human-rights activist Sunday January 17, 2010 2 pm . . . . . Download the flyer here. Statement from the Brutus Family on the passing of Professor Dennis Brutus Professor Dennis Brutus died quietly in his sleep on the
- [A letter to President Obama from the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/letter-president-obama-national-campaign-nonviolent-resistance/) - September 15, 2009 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear President Obama: We are writing on behalf of the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance to seek a meeting to discuss the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. We are greatly concerned that the people of Afghanistan, like
- [Thursday, September 17 - October Actions Organizing Call](https://www.warresisters.org/thursday-september-17-october-actions-organizing-call/) - September 3, 2009 Dear Friends, We will be having an organizing call around the October 5th Actions next Thursday, September 17th at 12:00 (noon) EST. The call-in number is 518-825-1300, code 116563. We invite all those of you who are interested in coming to DC or who would like to plan something in your hometown
- [Thursday, September 17 - October Actions Organizing Call](https://www.warresisters.org/thursday-september-17-october-actions-organizing-call-0/) - September 3, 2009 Dear Friends, We will be having an organizing call around the October 5th Actions next Thursday, September 17th at 12:00 (noon) EST. The call-in number is 518-825-1300, code 116563. We invite all those of you who are interested in coming to DC or who would like to plan
- [Resources for Organizing for October 5th](https://www.warresisters.org/resources-organizing-october-5th/) - Resources for Organizing WRL is in the process of creating a web-based handbook for people organizing for October 5th. That will include tools for organizing to bring people to Washington, and tools for people planning regional actions. Until that is ready, we encourage you to refer to the following resources. The basic scenario for the
- [Civil Disobedience Action Planned at Republican National Convention](https://www.warresisters.org/civil-disobedience-action-planned-republican-national-convention/) - Aug. 30, 2004: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Ruth Benn (718-768-7306) Frida Berrigan (347-683-4928) Ed Hedemann (718-768-8841) PRESS RELEASE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ACTION PLANNED AT REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION New York, NY — At 7 pm on Tuesday, August 31, a mass nonviolent “die-in” at the Republican National Convention will be staged by the War Resisters League
- [Activist Reviews](https://www.warresisters.org/activist-reviews/) - Nonviolent Activist, January-February 2006 ACTIVIST REVIEWS Busting Myths By G. Simon Harak War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death By Norman Solomon 2005, John Wiley & Sons; 314 pages; $24.95, hardcover In his latest work, Norman Solomon continues his mission of myth-busting. He shows how mainstream media accede to, or
- [WRL NEWS](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-news-11/) - Nonviolent Activist, January - February 2006 WRL NEWS WRL Organizers Meet in NC Up until a couple of years ago, the structure of the WRL involved twice-yearly meetings of the elected National Committee plus representatives of each local. But the meetings were primarily concerned with business and the structure didn’t meet the locals’ needs to
- [Activist News: NVA Jan-Feb 2006](https://www.warresisters.org/activist-news-0/) - Nonviolent Activist, January - February 2006 ACTIVIST NEWS UFPJ Rejects Future Work With A.N.S.W.E.R. On December 12, the antiwar coalition United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) issued a statement entitled “Ending the War in Iraq, Building a Broad Movement for Peace and Justice, and Our Experience with ANSWER,” in which they announced the steering committee’s
- [NVA Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/nva-letters/) - Nonviolent Activist, January - February 2006 NVA LETTERS Déjà Vu I am deeply troubled by the article written by Bill Weinberg in your Nov-Dec 2005 issue: “The Question of International A.N.S.W.E.R.” As a 72-year-old who remembers the intra-left squabbles of the many “Socialist/Socialist Workers/SPF”groups of the 1950s and how those futile conflicts served mainly to
- [A Call for Mass Nonviolent Civil Disobedience at the Republican National Convention](https://www.warresisters.org/call-mass-nonviolent-civil-disobedience-republican-national-convention/) - A Call for Mass Nonviolent Civil Disobedience at the Republican National Convention Tuesday August 31, 2004 Our aim is to confront the administration with the death and suffering for which they are responsible: more than 10,000 Iraqis and Afghanis, as many as 1,000 Americans killed, thousands more wounded and scarred for life, as well as
- [Decades of Nonviolence Training](https://www.warresisters.org/decades-nonviolence-training/) - From The Nonviolent Activist, July - August 1998 Practicing Nonviolence By Joanne Sheehan The acquisition of the spirit of nonresistance is a matter of long training in … appreciation of the hidden forces within ourselves. It changes one’s outlook on life. — Mohandas Gandhi We have to practice nonviolence before we can practice nonviolence. I
- [Nonviolent Civil Disobedience at the 2004 RNC - Report and Aftermath](https://www.warresisters.org/nonviolent-civil-disobedience-2004-rnc-report-and-aftermath/) - Next Meeting of the WRL organizing group. Thursday, December 2 , 7 pm, 339 Lafayette St. (Bleecker St.) in Manhattan. We’ll evaluate the Nov. 3 demonstration and discuss plans for future events. Nov. 3rd Day-After-Election-Day Anti-war Demonstraton. Information about the planning for the “no matter who’s elected we need to demonstrate against the war”
- [Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence](https://www.warresisters.org/beyond-vietnam-time-break-silence/) - Nonviolent Activist, January - February 2006 Excerpts from a speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City. Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to

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- [Welcome to the War Resisters League Store!](https://www.warresisters.org/store/) - "You have to be persistent.” - Linda M. Thurston, ¡Presente! We hope you'll find these resources for resistance helpful.Questions? Please contact us at orders@warresisters.org. WE CANNOT TAKE ORDERS FROM OUTSIDE THE US DUE TO THE HIGH COST OF POSTAGE Wear your symbols. Stand Out.
- [War Tax Resistance Organizations](https://www.warresisters.org/war-tax-resistance-organizations/) - Redirection / Support / Related Campaigns In addition to the War Resisters League, the following organizations provide information and support for war tax resisters, including places to donate resisted taxes. National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC) is a coalition of local, regional and national groups supportive of war tax resistance. War Resisters League is
- [Trainings for Nonviolent Actions](https://www.warresisters.org/trainings-nonviolent-actions/) - TRAININGS There is an increased demand for nonviolence trainings. Exactly what is needed depends on the goal and experience of the participants. Training may include learning from the history of nonviolent social change, dealing with conflict, deescalation, group process, preparing to engage in nonviolent direct action Training is a participatory process of preparing people for
- [Venezuela](https://www.warresisters.org/venezuela/) - In solidarity with the Latin American and Caribbean Antimilitarist Network (RAMALC) of War Resisters’ International, we share their statement on the current situation in Venezuela. We reject the bombing of Venezuelan territory by the United States, which has also affected the civilian population. “We condemn this US military action, just as we have condemned every
- [Counter Recruitment](https://www.warresisters.org/counter-recruitment-0/) - WRL’s counter-recruitment work provides young people and their allies with the resources and training necessary to agitate against military recruitment in their schools and communities. WRL is a sponsoring organization of the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY). NNOMY is a national networking body that has assembled the best counter-recruitment materials and updated
- [GI Rights & Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/gi-rights-resistance/) - Since our founding in 1923, the War Resisters League has been committed to supporting conscientious objectors, GI resisters, and military families. WRL works with a number of organization giving direct support to members of the military who are questioning the their orders. Troops do have a duty to refuse illegal orders. About Face: Veterans Against
- [Nonviolent Action + Campaigns](https://www.warresisters.org/nonviolence/) - War Resisters League believes change happens through the implementation of revolutionary nonviolence. Nonviolent Direct Action (NVDA) is powerful. There are many dramatic images of nonviolent action; indeed, the ability to dramatize an issue is one of the strengths of nonviolence. However, this drama doesn't just happen. It gestates – in groups or cells of activists, in
- [Training Resources](https://www.warresisters.org/training-resources/) - War Resisters' International's Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns is a toolbox of ideas and resources to support activists to run more effective campaigns. War Resisters' International's New Worlds in Old Shells: A Handbook for Constructive Programme includes a chapter on Training exercises to help groups develop programs. READINGS ON NONVIOLENT ACTION For more info on techniques,
- [Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns](https://www.warresisters.org/wri-handbook/) - Revised Second Edition The Revised Second Edition of the Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns (2025) is an important resource for campaigning and activist organizations all over the world. The Revised Second edition (originally published in 2014) has been given a bit of a freshen up – it’s now available in color, with new photos and a clearer and
- [Centennial History Projects](https://www.warresisters.org/centennial-history-projects/) - One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance to War October 19, 2023 marked the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the War Resisters League. We have an active WRL 100th History Committee working on a number of projects and we invite your participation. WRL's 100th Anniversary Traveling Exhibit – Traveling set of banners featuring highlights of WRL’s
- [Organizing Effective Actions](https://www.warresisters.org/organizing-effective-actions/) - The following resources will help you organize effective actions. While all of these are also included in various training agendas, it is important for the organizers to understand them in order to prepare for trainings and actions. Dealing With Fear: Fear is a powerful emotion that can paralyze us or move us to act. We draw
- [Planning Nonviolent Campaigns](https://www.warresisters.org/planning-nonviolent-campaigns/) - It is important to tend to the underlying roots of the problems we are working to change. Demonstrations alone do not usually create the change we want. We often go from recognizing a problem to marching against it. Such protests should be seen as the first step in bringing the issue into the public arena and
- [Handbooks](https://www.warresisters.org/handbooks/) - The War Resisters' International's Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns: 232 page toolbox of ideas & resources to support activists to run more effective campaigns
- [A Revolutionary Nonviolent Perspective on US Uprisings](https://www.warresisters.org/revolutionary-nonviolent-perspective-us-uprisings-0/) - July 9, 2020 Previously published on Waging Nonviolence We are activists, we are practitioners of revolutionary nonviolence, and we are outraged. Outraged at the 400-year long history of violence against Black people in this country; outraged at the racist and murderous system that founded police, who kill Black people with impunity; outraged at the state-sanctioned
- [100 for 100: Sustain Antimilitarist Futures!](https://www.warresisters.org/100-100-sustain-antimilitarist-futures/) - Sustain our antimilitarist visions for the long-haul by giving monthly. With almost a century of resistance history, we're building an antiwar movement that seeks to dismantle war + militarism at its roots. By supporting War Resisters League, you're choosing to redistribute your resources to: Sustain nonviolent resistance: For 95 years, War Resisters League has resisted war
- [WRL History](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-history/) - Click here to read about our 100th Anniversary History Projects WRL's Journey from "Wars Will Cease When Men Refuse to Fight" to "Revolutionary Nonviolence" By Matt Meyer and Judith Mahoney Pasternak In her diary on October 19, 1923, the 48-year-old New York City educator Jessie Wallace Hughan (1875-1955) wrote, “Tracy [Mygatt] to dinner—had hair done—organized
- [Resources for Solidarity and Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/resources-for-solidarity-and-resistance/) - The words, lies and actions of the President in his first day of this term in office were meant to please his base and his billionaires. We are determined to be in solidarity with those who are targeted and those resisting his efforts. Many are looking towards On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. His Twenty Lessons
- [Resource Types](https://www.warresisters.org/resource-types/)
- [Gaza Ceasefire - Tools and Resources](https://www.warresisters.org/gaza-ceasefire-tools-and-resources/) - As a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel comes into force, we can only begin to imagine the relief of all those who were being bombed yesterday, but are not being bombed today.There needs to be a permanent end to the violence – the current ceasefire, if it is respected, is a first step in this
- [War Tax Resistance Resources](https://www.warresisters.org/war-tax-resistance-resources/) - War Tax Resistance: A Guide to Withholding Your Support from the Military, 6th Edition by Ed Hedemann and Ruth Benn. War Resisters League’s 200+-page comprehensive sourcebook. 8 1/2 x 11. 2025. Order online. Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes. Pie Chart street flyer, produced by the War Resisters League, showing the facts of federal
- [How To Resist War Taxes](https://www.warresisters.org/how-resist-war-taxes/) - Resisting war taxes is really very simple — don’t pay all the tax due on your annual Federal income tax form, or don’t pay the Federal excise tax on telephone bills, or both. Summarized below are a few war tax resistance methods. Detailed descriptions can be found in WRL’s War Tax Resistance: A Guide to
- [History of War Tax Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/history-war-tax-resistance/) - Refusing to pay taxes for war is probably as old as the first taxes levied for warfare. Up until World War II, war tax resistance in the U.S. primarily manifested itself among members of the historic peace churches — Quakers, Mennonites, and Brethren — and usually only during times of war. There have been instances
- [War Tax Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/war-tax-resistance/) - It is impossible to conduct modern warfare without soldiers and weapons. But before governments can buy weapons and hire soldiers, they must first raise the necessary money through taxes or borrowing. War tax resistance is refusing to pay some or all of those federal taxes that contribute to military spending.It is impossible to conduct modern
- [U.S. Military Spending](https://www.warresisters.org/us-military-spending/) - Historically, military spending has been the single largest portion of Federal Funds budget. Since World War II, the percentage that goes to the military — current and past spending — has varied from 45 to 90 percent. U.S. Federal Funds Budget Income tax money goes only into the Federal Funds part of the budget. The
- [Consequences of War Tax Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/consequences-war-tax-resistance/) - Direct action for peace often entails exposure to unpredictable risks. War tax resistance is no exception. Though getting a notice from the IRS is very likely, jail is virtually unknown for war tax resisters. IRS Notices and Fines Those who file but refuse to pay will probably get several tax due notices, adding on civil
- [Staff, Volunteers and Interns](https://www.warresisters.org/staff-volunteers-and-interns/) - Joanne Sheehan New England Regional Office Staff joanne [at] warresisters.org Joanne Sheehan has been on the staff of the New England Regional Office of WRL since she co-founded it in 1985. She as been a nonviolence trainer/workshop facilitator since the 1970s. She had worked with the Catholic Peace Fellowship and the Community for Nonviolent Action.
- [New England Office](https://www.warresisters.org/new-england-office/) - War Resisters League New England Regional Office PO Box 1093 Norwich, CT 06360 Phone: 860.639.8834 Email: joanne [at] warresisters.org Regional Staffperson Joanne Sheehan provides resources and organizing support in a number of areas related to WRL's pledge to resist war and to strive nonviolently to remove the causes of war including racism, sexism and all
- [National Office](https://www.warresisters.org/national-office/) - In March 2020, we began working remotely as part of the COVID-19 restrictions. We continue to monitor conditions in New York and might open an office sometime in the coming year. Staff continue to check mail and ship literature and merchandise orders. We continue our organizing work online. In 2016, after 40 years at 339
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- [WRL Magazines](https://www.warresisters.org/magazines/) - WIN magazine WIN magazine, formerly the Nonviolent Activist, was the quarterly magazine of the War Resisters League, an organization founded in 1923 with a basic pledge: The War Resisters League affirms that war is a crime against humanity. We therefore are determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive nonviolently for the
- [Police Militarism](https://www.warresisters.org/policemilitarism/) - WRL is fighting police militarism nationally through a grassroots campaign called noSWATzone. Find out how you can resist SWAT trainings today! Resist Police Militarization! War Resisters League works to strengthen the antiwar movement by connecting voices of resistance confronting the root causes of violence across the globe. Since 2011, we have focused on police militarization, from teargas to the
- [Solidarity with Iraq](https://www.warresisters.org/solidarity-iraq/) - ACT // Stay up to date on the asks from progressive Iraqi organizations on the ground! EDUCATE // Check out our Iraq study guide and start a discussion group! HOST // Bring author of Against All Odds, ali [at] warresisters.org (Ali Issa), to your town or university! SUPPORT // Buy your Against All Odds: Voices of Popular
- [So You Wanna Be A Cop?](https://www.warresisters.org/so-you-wanna-be-a-cop/) - Police departments across the U.S. are vigorously trying to rebrand themselves in the face of powerful movements challenging the harm they cause to so many. A key aspect of police department PR campaigns is to push “diversity” and invest heavily in recruitment initiatives. The police’s crisis of legitimacy means less people are joining the force!
- [WRL Centennial Oral History Project](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-centennial-oral-history-project/) - * Do you know someone with a WRL story that you would like to share with other war resisters?* Is there an activist in your area whose story you’d like to record? * Do you have stories you want to share? As part of the War Resisters League’s centennial, we are encouraging WRL members and supporters
- [Host the WRL Centennial Exhibit In Your Community](https://www.warresisters.org/host-wrl-centennial-exhibit-your-community/) - Celebrate 100 Years of Nonviolent Resistance to War and Injustice: Host WRL’s Traveling Exhibit in your community Eight Free-Standing Pop-Up Panels (each 83 in. by 34 in.): Founding and Early Years: 1920s & 1930s Militant Pacifism and Revolutionary Nonviolence Resistance to Nuclear Weapons and Power War Resisters League Printed Materials Disarmament & Antiwar Organizing International
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- [Planned Giving](https://www.warresisters.org/planned-giving/) - The Importance of WRL—Now and in the Future The future of a nonviolent world is safe in WRL’s hands. As supporters of revolutionary nonviolence, we know that to spread the message of justice and peace, it is essential to have a passionate, long-term commitment to fundamental social change. Since our founders first organized to end
- [WRL Local Chapters, Affiliates and Contacts](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-local-chapters-affiliates-and-contacts/) - LOCALS (Local Chapters), AFFILIATES and CONTACTS: LOCALS Illinois WRL Chicago c/o Charles Paidock3211 S. Union Ave. Chicago, IL 60616 312.714.7790 www.wrlchicago.org Maine Resources for Organizing and Social Change799 Unity RoadBenton, ME 04901207.607.2571sass.rosc [at] gmail.comwww.resourcesforsocialchange.org/ New Mexico Socorro Peace Vigil P.O. Box 635Socorro, NM 87801Contact: Richard Epstein575.835.2517rle [at] advancedreasoningforum.org New York NYC WRL Local Group c/o
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- [So You Wanna Be A Cop?](https://www.warresisters.org/so-you-wanna-be-cop/) - Police departments across the U.S. are vigorously trying to rebrand themselves in the face of powerful movements challenging the harm they cause to so many. A key aspect of police department PR campaigns is to push “diversity” and invest heavily in recruitment initiatives. The police’s crisis of legitimacy means less people are joining the force!
- [WRL Workshops](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-workshops/) - Over the past several years, War Resisters League has developed several interactive, popular education workshops that deal variously with: the war economy, tear gas, police militarization, and the complex role of identity in organizing, all with an eye towards day-to-day libratory organizing and training. This page then, gathers some of those efforts, often in partnership
- [End Prison Militarization: Sign Today!](https://www.warresisters.org/end-prison-militarization-sign-today/) - Take Action: End Tear Gas in Prisons Join The Nation and WRL in demanding that Sally Q. Yates, deputy attorney general of the Department of Justice, take action against human-rights abuses on prisoners involving tear-gas weapons nationwide! What can you do? Sign this petition, and join us in demanding that Sally Q. Yates, deputy attorney
- [Facing Tear Gas in Prison](https://www.warresisters.org/facing-tear-gas-prison/) - STAND WITH THOSE FACING TEAR GAS IN PRISON In 2013, the War Resisters League put out a call in Critical Resistance’s The Abolitionist—a newspaper that reaches thousands of people in prisons and jails—for stories of having had tear gas or pepper spray used against them. Soon we received over a hundred responses and got permission
- [Action Alert! 3 Things You Can Do To End Tear Gas in Prisons!](https://www.warresisters.org/action-alert-3-things-you-can-do-end-tear-gas-prisons/) - ASK THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO STOP TEAR GAS IN PRISONS NOW! Tear gas is used brutally in U.S. prisons: testimony we gathered from 21 states from those being gassed while locked up signals a growing epidemic. Let's fight it now! Though commonly used to repress protest around the world, the use of teargas
- [About Us](https://www.warresisters.org/about-us/) - The United States’ oldest secular pacifist organization, the War Resisters League has been resisting war at home and war abroad since 1923. Our work for nonviolent revolution has spanned decades and been shaped by the new visions and strategies of each generation’s peacemakers. Members of WRL agree with our pledge: The War Resisters League affirms
- [About Us from import](https://www.warresisters.org/about-us-old/) - The United States’ oldest secular pacifist organization, the War Resisters League has been resisting war at home and war abroad since 1923. Our work for nonviolent revolution has spanned decades and been shaped by the new visions and strategies of each generation’s peacemakers. Members of WRL agree with our pledge: The War Resisters League affirms
- [Updates about our Strategic Visioning, projects for WRL’s coming 100th Anniversary & resources!](https://www.warresisters.org/updates-about-our-strategic-visioning-projects-wrls-coming-100th-anniversary-resources/) - Greetings Members, Friends and Allies: In this time of internal reflection, strategic visioning and international solidarity, we write to you, our members and friends. We write to provide you with updates about our work, our goals for the coming 100th Anniversary, and with opportunities to act, both locally and internationally, to work toward ending war
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- [War Resisters League - Our Story](https://www.warresisters.org/war-resisters-league-our-story/) - 100 YEARS YOUNG, A HISTORY For a century, the War Resisters League community has found affinity not through race, class, or religion, but through the collective desire to live in a world free from the violence of war and oppression. From refusing to participate in civil defense drills as early as 1955, to providing educational resources that counter the
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- [NVA Magazine](https://www.warresisters.org/magazines/nva/) - The Nonviolent Activist was published by War Resisters League from 1983 to 2006. It was succeeded by the new WIN magazine, which published from 2006 to 2015. We are in the process of putting all the issues up in this archive.
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- [WRL Magazines from import](https://www.warresisters.org/magazines-import/) - WIN magazine WIN magazine, formerly the Nonviolent Activist, was the quarterly magazine of the War Resisters League, an organization founded in 1923 with a basic pledge: The War Resisters League affirms that war is a crime against humanity. We therefore are determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive
- [AJ, Office Cat 1989-2001](https://www.warresisters.org/ajthecat/) - Always helpful with office chores. Above photos by David McReynolds Awaiting the returns with David, election night 2000. Photo by Ruth Benn. AJ loved meetings because people sat still. Photo by David McReynolds. AJ helps with a WRL mailing. Photo by David McReynolds.
- [Get Involved](https://www.warresisters.org/get-involved/) - There are many ways to plug into the work of the War Resisters League: Get on our national mailing list to receive news and updates. Become a member by signing on to our statement. The War Resisters League affirms that all war is a crime against humanity. We therefore are determined not to support any
- [WRL Peace Awards](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-peace-awards/) - WRL Peace Award, Grace Paley Lifetime Achievement Award and Ralph DiGia Award Recipients and Annual Dinner Speakers Since 1958, WRL has awarded almost annually its War Resisters League Peace Award to a person or organization whose work represents the League's commitment to radical nonviolent action. In 2007, WRL posthumously granted a Lifetime Achievement award to
- [Celebrating Sustained Activism: 1991 WRL Peace Calendar: Preface, Intro & List of Activists Profiles](https://www.warresisters.org/celebrating-sustained-activism-1991-wrl-peace-calendar-preface-intro-list-activists-profiles/) - A Way of Life: Celebrating Sustained Activism 1991 WRL Peace Calendar Preface, Intro & List of Activists Profiles Preface Wars and rumors of war have plagued the world since the beginning of time. War Resisters have opposed war and all forms of violence, and worked without ceasing as advocates and activists for social justice to
- [Police Militarization Conferences, Trainings & Expos](https://www.warresisters.org/policetrainings/) - War Resister's League's police militarization campaign #NoSWATzone has been campaigning against SWAT-training and weapons expo Urban Shield for four years. But Urban Shield is just one police training amongst hundreds. We focus on police conferences, trainings and expos because we believe they are the engine of police militarization and repression. Find research below on a handful
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- [National Tactical Officers Association](https://www.warresisters.org/national-tactical-officers-association/) - National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) WHAT: National Tactical Officers Association Conference including “general session, vendor show, a variety of seminars and practical tracks” WHERE: Milwaukee, WI. Last year was in Phoenix, AZ (Sheraton Grand Pheonix) WHEN: Annually in Fall. In 2018: September 16-21 WHO: Police officers with “specialties that include patrol, TEMS, crisis negotiations, canine, corrections,
- [New York Tactical Officers Association Conference](https://www.warresisters.org/new-york-tactical-officers-association-conference/) - WHAT: New York Tactical Officers Association Conference (NYTOAC) WHERE: Verona, New York (Turning Stone Resort & Casino) WHEN: Spring - 2018, April 24th to 27th WHO: Agencies across NY state, and the country from Albany to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Las Vegas to Los Angeles and beyond. WHAT THEY SAY IT IS: “We are working to
- [International Association of the Chiefs of Police Conference (IACPC)](https://www.warresisters.org/international-association-chiefs-police-conference-iacpc/) - WHAT: International Association of the Chiefs of Police Conference (IACPC) WHERE: 2018’s IACPC will be in Orlando, Florida. Last year's was in Philadelphia - Pennsylvania Convention Center, 2016's was in San Diego, and the year before that was in Chicago WHEN: Oct. 6-9, 2018 WHO: In their 2015 conference 15,335 individuals attended, from 83 different
- [Central American Regional Security Initiative](https://www.warresisters.org/central-american-regional-security-initiative/) - WHAT: Central American Regional Security Initiative (CARSI) (formerly Meridia Initiative to counter Narcos from Mexico & Colombia) WHERE & WHEN: Regular often-US-based gatherings. Converge with Summit of the Americas for example. The next CARSI-wide gathering is scheduled for Peru in 2018. WHO: Prioritizes the Central American countries of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,
- [California Association of Tactical Officers Conference](https://www.warresisters.org/california-association-tactical-officers-conference-0/) - WHAT: California Association of Tactical Officers Conference (CATO) WHERE: Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, Reno, NV WHEN: November 5-8, 2018 WHO: “Membership in CATO is open to current and honorably retired sworn police personnel, active or reserve duty US military, and support services personnel for law enforcement agencies.” “A tactical team members by and for tactical
- [Facing Tear Gas](https://www.warresisters.org/facing-tear-gas/) - Facing Tear Gas was a WRL storying-telling project and campaign which began in early 2012 and lasted into late 2014. That campaign was an essential step in us developing an opposition to the SWAT training/weapons expo Urban Shield, expanding from that to attack its funder the Urban Areas Security Initiative as Demilitarize Health and Security, to finally our present, nationally
- [Midwest Tactical Officers Association](https://www.warresisters.org/midwest-tactical-officers-association-0/) - WHAT: Midwest Tactical Officers Association's 2018 Tactical Training Expo WHERE: Appleton, WI WHEN: May 9-11, 2018 WHO: “We invite you to join hundreds of other Tactical Officers from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan by becoming a member of our distinctive association. We welcome individual law enforcement officers, tactical teams, corrections(CERT), tactical EMS and our
- [Midwest Tactical Officers Association](https://www.warresisters.org/midwest-tactical-officers-association/) - WHAT: Midwest Tactical Officers Association's 2016 Tactical Training Expo WHERE: Northcentral Technical College with lodging at Stoney Creek Hotel & Conference Center 1100 Imperial Ave Rothschild, WI WHEN: May 13-16, 2016. WHO: “We invite you to join hundreds of other Tactical Officers from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan by becoming a member of
- [Movement Profiles](https://www.warresisters.org/movement-profiles/) - The following are brief summaries of social movements around the world which have been repressed using tear gas. They represent only a small snapshot of some of the work that is happening on the ground, and they represent only those countries in which War Resisters League has been in contact with activists through the Global
- [Global Network](https://www.warresisters.org/global-network/) - As an outgrowth of the story gathering process WRL began in Facing Tear Gas - a collection of experiences of repression and collective defiance - we began convening conference calls with those that contributed stories so they could start talking to one another. After all, so many of these movements are facing the same weapon, sometimes coming
- [About Tear Gas](https://www.warresisters.org/about-tear-gas/) - CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION The Ban Against Chemical Weapons in War The struggle to eradicate the use of chemical weapons in international warfare has spanned centuries. International agreements to prohibit the use of chemical weapons have shaped the “rules of warfare” that are still in practice today. These efforts were escalated after the horrors of large-scale
- [Combined Systems Inc. (CSI)](https://www.warresisters.org/combined-systems-inc-csi/) - Combined Systems Inc. (CSI) calls Jamestown, Pennsylvania home. Often marketed and produced under the brand name Combined Tactical Systems (CTS) – they provide tear gas to the governments of Israel and Egypt as well as many others, as well as numerous police departments across the US. In fact, until recently, Combined Systems used to fly the Israeli flag
- [Tear Gas Companies](https://www.warresisters.org/tear-gas-companies/) - Combined Systems Inc. (CSI) AMTEC Less-Lethal Systems Inc. (ALS) Condor Non-Lethal Technologies Defense Technology/ Safariland/ Federal Laboratories Nonlethal Technologies Sage Ordnance Systems Group
- [What is UASI?](https://www.warresisters.org/what-uasi/) - UASI, or the Urban Areas Security Initiative, is a grant program of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). UASI is an almost $600 million grant program from DHS, which is administered through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to grant funding to agencies across the United States. UASI strengthens and unifies state repression, though
- [Sage Ordnance Systems Group](https://www.warresisters.org/sage-ordnance-systems-group/) - Sage Ordnance Systems Group (Sage International, Ltd. and Sage Control Ordnance) is headquartered in Oscoda, Michigan. It runs "under the skilled leadership of John Klein." Used in: United States
- [Nonlethal Technologies](https://www.warresisters.org/nonlethal-technologies/) - Nonlethal Technologies is based in Homer City, Pennsylvania. Its tear gas canisters were a regularly used weapon against the uprising in Bahrain until they were forced to stop direct sales or export by an international campaign. Used in: Bahrain Greece Also sells to: Turkey
- [Defense Technology/ Safariland/ Federal Laboratories](https://www.warresisters.org/defense-technology-safariland-federal-laboratories/) - Defense Technology and Federal Laboratories merged in 2001. They are owned by umbrella company Safariland. Safariland was owned by UK weapons conglomerate BAE systems, a large conglomerate which owns some 400 other companies, before it was bought by war profiteer Warren B. Kanders, (though the sale was held up by the sentencing of a former Safariland executive for bribing government officials in
- [Condor Non-Lethal Technologies](https://www.warresisters.org/condor-non-lethal-technologies/) - Condor Non-Lethal Technologies is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Used in: Bahrain Also sells to: Turkey
- [AMTEC Less-Lethal Systems Inc. (ALS)](https://www.warresisters.org/amtec-less-lethal-systems-inc-als/) - AMTEC Less-Lethal Systems Inc. (ALS) (Formerly ALS Technologies Inc.) is based in Bull Shoals, Arkansas (to be moving to Taylor County, Florida in early 2013.) It is a subsidiary of National Presto Industries, which produces kitchen appliances and is especially known for its pressure cooker. Evidence of tear gas canisters it makes have been found
- [Resist Police Militarization!](https://www.warresisters.org/resist-police-militarization/) - War Resisters League works to strengthen the antiwar movement by connecting voices of resistance confronting the root causes of violence across the globe. Since 2011, we have seede seven coalitional efforts to build cross-community resistance across the country against police militarization, from teargas, to SWAT trainings, to the militarized mentalities of aggressive beat-cops to resist the
- [#SWATstories](https://www.warresisters.org/swatstories/) - #SWATstories = Power SWAT trainings and expos have skyrocketed in recent years. Funded largely by grants from the Department of Homeland Security through massive police militarism programs like the Urban Areas Security Initiative, SWAT trainings perpetuate violence against our communities by equipping police forces with militarized minds and weapons. More than 100 SWAT raids happen each day
- [What is SWAT?](https://www.warresisters.org/what-swat/) - S.W.A.T = Special Weapons And Tactics SWAT, or Special Weapons and Tactics (previously know as Special Weapons Attack Teams) was masterminded by LAPD Inspector Daryl Gates in 1967, based on his experience policing Black uprisings such as the Watts Riots. An ACLU study estimates that “nearly 80% of the SWAT raids the ACLU studied were conducted to
- [Letter to Senate Committee on Appropriations: Cut UASI funding!](https://www.warresisters.org/letter-senate-committee-appropriations-cut-uasi-funding/) - * MEDIA ADVISORY HERE * Senator Thad Cochran, Chairman Senator Barbara Mikulski, Vice Chairwoman Subcommittee on Homeland Security Senate Committee on Appropriations Dear Senators: We represent civil liberties, humanitarian and religious organizations concerned about federal funding of militarized and sometimes racially prejudicial policing. Proposed funding for Fiscal Year 2017 includes significant spending cuts
- [In Loving Memory...](https://www.warresisters.org/loving-memory/) - In Loving Memory: James Haughton Bob Fitch Liz Proefreidt Dan Berrigan Michael Ratner Presente! Dear Friends, During our transition from our home of almost five decades to new quarters at 168 Canal Street, we've also gone through a sadder series of changes of another kind. This spring we lost, one after another, six dear friends
- [What is Police Militarization?](https://www.warresisters.org/what-police-militarization/) - Crudely, police militarization is where the police and military intersect in weaponry, funding and tactics. It is most obvious where the use-of-force industry is creating material specifically for police which arms dealers sell at expos. However, it’s easy to get caught up in the flashy: armored personnel carriers, assault rifles, grenade launchers, and sniper rifles,
- [Stop NTOA: Don't make Louisville a warzone!](https://www.warresisters.org/stop-ntoa-dont-make-louisville-warzone/) - Grassroots and community groups from across Louisville, KY and around the country demand an end to the militarization of our communities and police “warrior mentality” regenerated by 2016 National Tactical Officers Association Conference. As part of the growing movement against militarization and policing in cities everywhere, War Resisters League, Louisville Showing up for Racial Justice,
- [The War Resisters League stands with Chelsea Manning!](https://www.warresisters.org/war-resisters-league-stands-chelsea-manning/) - The War Resisters League stands with Chelsea Manning! From the WRL National Committee with love & respect to our comrade: For an update from Chelsea, check her blog here. For more information on the #‎FreeChelsea‬ campaign, check out: https://www.chelseamanning.org/
- [Raffle for Resistance 2016](https://www.warresisters.org/raffle-resistance-2016/) - Thank you for participating in the 2016 Raffle for Resistance. Winners and prizes are listed below. Your raffle contribution directly supports WRL's programs and campaigns in our efforts to end war and militarism at its roots. We chose prizes that hold special meaning from people and organizations who are members and friends in the struggle
- [The Fall of Police Militarization](https://www.warresisters.org/fall-police-militarization/) - -- placeholder -- -- placeholder -- This Fall, we targeted the engines of police militarization, mobilizing against 5 SWAT trainings across the US. National Tactical Officers Association Conference California Assocation of Tactical Officers Urban Shield Illinois Tactical Officers Association Conference International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference
- [Stop Urban Shield 2016](https://www.warresisters.org/stop-urban-shield-2016/) - Since 2007, Urban Shield has brought police agencies and weapons giants from around the world together in CA. This year, on September 9th, they were at it again. After a decade, we've had enough! Two years ago, the Stop Urban Shield Coalition demanded that the City of Oakland stop hosting the weapons expo and won!
- [Stop ITOA 2016 Campaign](https://www.warresisters.org/stop-itoa-2016-campaign/) - A notorious Islamophobe teamed up with arms dealers at ITOA, a Chicago-area SWAT gathering. We told its host, Stonegate: "Don't Host Hate!" From October 9–13th, the Illinois Tactical Officers Association Conference (ITOA) profited off a growing culture of fear. ITOA's keynote speaker was anti-Muslim bigot and Fox News regular Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a self-proclaimed counterterrorism
- [Stop Urban Shield 2014](https://www.warresisters.org/stop-urban-shield-2014/) - Coalition Pushes Urban Shield Out of Oakland, Commits to Continue Fighting September 8, 2014: Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Marriott in Downtown Oakland this past Friday to condemn Urban Shield and declare two major victories. Protesters made it loud and clear that Urban Shield is not welcome in Oakland; and that they refuse to see the
- [Statements on Tear Gas](https://www.warresisters.org/statements-tear-gas/) - Whether it be members of the Facing Tear Gas network, or news of protesters facing tear gas, or cross-border campaign victories, here is a collection of statements from during the Facing Tear Gas campaign era. But to start, here is the statement that pulled together the Facing Tear Gas networks, a statement of transnational points
- [Facing Urban Shield 2013](https://www.warresisters.org/facing-urban-shield-2013/) - On Friday, October 25th, more than 100 police and military agencies from California and across the US were joined by their counterparts from Israel, Guam, Bahrain, and Brazil for a massive SWAT team training and weapons expo called Urban Shield. The Facing Urban Shield Action Network, with more than 30 endorsers in the Bay Area,
- [From the Frontlines of Chicago: We Need Your Support!](https://www.warresisters.org/frontlines-chicago-we-need-your-support/) - Hello War Resisters League! My name is Monica Trinidad and I'm a queer, latinx artist and organizer in Chicago. I was one of 15 people arrested during a direct action disrupting business as usual by blockading one of Chicago's busiest downtown streets in early October. The action happened on day 1 of the Illinois Tactical
- [Resisting the IACP 2016](https://www.warresisters.org/resisting-iacp-2016/) - On Monday, October 15th, 2016, San Diego activists sent a strong message outside the San Diego Convention Center where the 123rd annual confernce of the International Assocation of the Chiefs of Police was taking place. This action was directly inspired by the great work of organizers in Chicago, when the IACP was held there last year. See Chicago
- [Rejecting U.S. Tear Gas in Egypt: Honoring Asma Mohammed in 2012](https://www.warresisters.org/rejecting-us-tear-gas-egypt-honoring-asma-mohammed-2012/) - In 2012, when the world was still in the heady days following the first wave of Arab uprisings, WRL awarded its Peace Award to Asma Mohamed who refused to process a shipment of U.S. made tear gas at Egypt's Port Suez, that protestors were continuing to face down, and whose brave act inspired one of
- [Dismantle Bratton's Army](https://www.warresisters.org/dismantle-brattons-army/) - Whether it's a counterterrorism-unit build up or mobile units for neighborhood “safety” and disorder control, New Yorkers say NO to Department of Homeland Security-funded NYPD militarization! The War Resisters League's campaign, "Demilitarize Health and Security," condemns the unveiling of a DHS-funded 900-officer counterterrorism and special operations overhaul by New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton. According
- [Welcome (Back) to the Resistance!](https://www.warresisters.org/welcome-back-resistance/) - Since the election of Donald Trump, three words have been on our minds at WRL: Disrupt. Resist. Build. And though the pace of attacks on every single one of our core values by this new administration is breathtaking, we take heart in recent collaborations and signposts to build resistance for the long term. DISRUPT
- [Unity Statement of the Women's Pentagon Action, November 1980](https://www.warresisters.org/unity-statement-womens-pentagon-action-november-1980/) - The Women's Pentagon Action: "No more amazing inventions for death" [For statement in Spanish, click here] November 17, 1980: "We are gathering at the Pentagon on November 17 because we fear for our lives. We fear for the life of this planet, our Earth, and the life of our children who are our human future...
- [Trainings for Nonviolent Action](https://www.warresisters.org/trainings-nonviolent-action/) - TRAININGS There is an increased demand for nonviolence trainings since the latest presidential election. Exactly what is needed depends on the goal and experience of the participants. Possibilities include: Introductions to nonviolent social change/nonviolent action How to organizing strategic nonviolent campaigns Nonviolent direct action preparation. Training may include learning from the history of nonviolent social
- [Declaración de Unidad de la Acción de Mujeres al Pentágono, noviembre de 1980](https://www.warresisters.org/declaración-de-unidad-de-la-acción-de-mujeres-al-pentágono-noviembre-de-1980/) - La Acción de Mujeres al Pentágono, 1980 "No más invenciones increíbles para la muerte" Nos reunimos en el Pentágono el 17 de noviembre porque tememos por nuestras vidas. Tememos por la vida de nuestro planeta, y la vida de los niños y las niñas, que son nuestro futuro humano. Hemos venido de luto y con
- [Be a War Resister!](https://www.warresisters.org/be-war-resister/) - The War Resisters League affirms that all war is a crime against humanity. We are determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive nonviolently for the removal of all causes of war, including racism, sexism and all forms of exploitation. What is WRL Membership?
- [Con Siria y contra la "solidaridad selectiva"](https://www.warresisters.org/con-siria-y-contra-la-solidaridad-selectiva/) - WRL, 6 de abril de 2017 Declaración inglés aquí Anoche, el Presidente Trump autorizó un ataque de EEUU con 59 misiles contra el aeropuerto de Shayrat en Homs, Siria, como reacción contra el ataque con armas químicas que tuvo lugar esta semana en Jan Shaijun, provincia de Idlib. El terrible ataque químico de esta semana
- [With Syria; Against Selective Solidarity](https://www.warresisters.org/syria-against-selective-solidarity/) - April 6th, 2017 Declaración española aquí Last night, President Trump authorized 59 U.S. military missiles to strike Shayrat Airfield in Homs governorate, Syria in reaction to this week’s chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib province. Met with condemnation from the international community, this week’s terrifying chemical attacks and last night’s U.S. strikes not only violate
- [Join the Diasporas in Greece Webinar!](https://www.warresisters.org/join-diasporas-greece-webinar/) - Refugee Solidarity Reportback from a Diaspora Delegation to Greece WRL hosted a webinar report back from members of the Iraqi Transnational Collective, recently returned from working with refugees in Athens, Greece. Watch the video below, to learn about the remarkable groups ITC collaborated with, the ways refugee communities are supporting each other in the face of
- [ISDEF: Say NO to US arm dealers profiting from Israeli occupation of Palestine!](https://www.warresisters.org/isdef-say-no-us-arm-dealers-profiting-israeli-occupation-palestine/) - The International Defense & HLS Expo, the largest defense and security arms fair in Israel, is being held in Tel Aviv June 6-8. While over a hundred arms dealers are exhibiting their newest technology at ISDEF this year, many specializing SWAT team and police militarization weaponry and technology, over 30% are U.S. companies with headquarters and
- [WRL Webinars](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-webinars/) - Check out WRL staff and members on these past webinars! REFUGEE SOLIDARITY: REPORTBACK FROM DIASPORA DELEGATION WRL hosted a webinar report back from members of the Iraqi Transnational Collective, recently returned from working with refugees in Athens, Greece. Watch the video below, to learn about the remarkable groups ITC collaborated with, the ways refugee communities are
- [Stand With Berkeley Against Urban Shield!](https://www.warresisters.org/stand-berkeley-against-urban-shield/) - UPDATE ON THE VOTE FROM THE STOP URBAN SHIELD COALITION! Special Berkeley Hearing on Urban Shield Scheduled for June 20th! When: June 20th, 6pm Where: Longfellow Middle School (1500 Derby St, Berkeley) After postponing the vote several times, Berkeley City Council will be holding a special hearing on Tuesday, June 20th focused specifically on
- [Stop Urban Shield 2017 Campaign](https://www.warresisters.org/stop-urban-shield-2017-campaign/) - Since 2013, we've been resisting Urban Shield, the largest SWAT training in the the world. Today, more and more people have come to see this "preparedness exercise" for what it really is: a racist carnival of repression that has no place in the future we deserve. That’s why, after four year of constant organizing from
- [Applications closed: Diaspora Delegation](https://www.warresisters.org/applications-closed-diaspora-delegation/) - War Resisters League is accepting applications for our 2017 Diaspora Delegation to Greece to work with refugee communities in Athens. The delegation is an opportunity for politicized service: exploring what solidarity with communities impacted by war/conflict looks like when bringing together political education and direct service. The delegation will also focus on building networks and
- [WRL's Cross-Diaspora Delegation is Departing!](https://www.warresisters.org/wrls-cross-diaspora-delegation-departing/) - For the month of August, War Resisters League is funding a crew of cross-diaspora activists in the US and Canada to fly to Athens, Greece this week to work on the ground with refugees self-organizing in squats, centers and projects across the city. Updates to come next week, but for now, hear from one of
- [SWAT Round-Up International Competition and Vendor Trade Show](https://www.warresisters.org/swat-round-international-competition-and-vendor-trade-show/) - WHAT: SWAT Round-Up International Competition and Vendor Trade Show WHERE: Orlando, Florida WHEN: November 11-16th, 2018 WHO: The Florida SWAT Association is dedicated to those professionals operating in the tactical communities of law enforcement and the military. Although members are predominately Florida based law enforcement officers, the Florida SWAT Association is open to all officers
- [Update from Athens: "We want family reunification"](https://www.warresisters.org/update-athens-we-want-family-reunification/) - A letter from cross-diaspora delegation member, Farah Erzouki, with updates on who the group is working with in Athens, including reflections on the trip so far... Dear Friends, I’m sitting at a coffee shop in Athens, Greece processing an intense yet transformative first week of the War Resisters League diaspora
- [Antiwar Visions from Athens](https://www.warresisters.org/antiwar-visions-athens/) - Dear Friends, This past summer the War Resisters League gave me an opportunity I will always cherish: along with seven others, I traveled to Greece as part of WRL’s Diaspora Delegation to work with different refugee communities there. This delegation was unique in many ways. We were a group representing six diasporas, allowing us to
- [#NoCopAcademy](https://www.warresisters.org/nocopacademy/) - One month ago, the #NoCopAcademy campaign launched in Chicago-- a cross-community coalition of 40 organizations led by Black youth organizers of Assata's Daughters. As Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel proposes the city build a controversial $95 million dollar police academy, #NoCopAcademy is united around a rallying cry to invest resources in community programs, schools and mental health resources,
- [War is Scary](https://www.warresisters.org/war-scary/) - The monsters that frighten us are scarier than any ghost or ghoul, and they haunt us beyond October 31st. Militarism’s clutch on our world is maintained by the culture of fear that works to distract, divide, and conquer us. We’re subdued and taught to believe that politicians have absolute, total power over us, that our voices don’t
- [#GivingTuesday! for Demilitarized Futures](https://www.warresisters.org/givingtuesday-demilitarized-futures/) - Over the weekend, and on Giving Tuesday, you gave just over $3,200 for antimilitarist futures! Thank you. You can still give to sustain our work building an international, intersectional, and intergenerational antiwar movement organizing to end all systems of exploitation. Here's some of the work you help make possible: We connect diasporas
- [December of Dissent: Dare to Demilitarize!](https://www.warresisters.org/december-dissent-dare-demilitarize-0/) - -- placeholder -- -- placeholder -- For 94 years, War Resisters League has been leading the antiwar movement in intersectional, international, and intergenerational, nonviolent struggle against the war machine. This December, we need your help raising $25,000 to continue organizing for the end of all exploitative systems and working to build a demilitarized future that serves
- [A Message from Dennise](https://www.warresisters.org/message-dennise/) - As a queer, formerly undocumented woman of color and Mexican immigrant, last year’s election shook me to my core. The millions of Americans who voted for Trump’s obscenely xenophobic platform left me feeling helpless. As I finished out my time in school, grappling to reclaim my power and that of my community, I pledged to
- [A (Sort of) Farewell from WRL Organizer, Ali Issa](https://www.warresisters.org/sort-farewell-wrl-organizer-ali-issa-0/) - After more than 7 years as WRL’s National Field Organizer, it’s with bittersweet feelings I share with you news of my departure from staff. All the lessons I take with me after working with this unique and powerful community are far too many to list. Let’s suffice it to say that these past 85 months
- [A (Sort of) Farewell from WRL Organizer, Ali Issa](https://www.warresisters.org/sort-farewell-wrl-organizer-ali-issa/) - I fondly hold memories of precious downtime hours (sometimes days) with the most inspiring movement builders from the frontlines: Afghanistan's Malalai Joya, Iraq's Jannat Alghezzi, Columbia's Patricia Obando, and Yemen’s Afrah Nasser, just to name a few. Then there were the glittery, late-night banner painting and brainstorming sessions, especially one in 2017 where I witnessed
- [Help us find 2 New Organizers!](https://www.warresisters.org/help-us-find-2-new-organizers/) - Ali and Tara here. We wanted to let you know about a season of change for War Resisters League, as we’ve transitioned out of our staff roles as National Organizers and into non-staff WRL members like you! We’re writing today to ask for your support as we search for a new Organizing Team to carry
- [Marking 50 Years...](https://www.warresisters.org/marking-50-years/) - Fifty years ago, only two months before Dr. Martin Luther King was gunned down by an assassin’s bullets, he gave a sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in which he condemned racism, economic exploitation, and militarism as the interrelated triple evils that face all contemporary seekers of justice. Dr. King knew that in order to eliminate
- [31st Annual Raffle for Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/31st-annual-raffle-resistance/) - Thank you for participating in and supporting WRL's 31st Annual Raffle for Resistance. Winners announced below! By entering our raffle, you’re directly supporting our work to end war and militarism at home and abroad through our nonviolent direct action campaigns and programs. Prize artwork below may not represent actual prizes, but we did our best
- [Rustie Remembered](https://www.warresisters.org/rustie-remembered/) - Rustie was our beloved Office Cat. He passed away in October 2018. We miss him enormously. Rustie spent many years in our office at 339 Lafayette, basking in the sun, interrupting us if we were working too long, insisting that we take breaks to eat and play and rest. He reminded us that as we
- [Let's Raise $20,000!](https://www.warresisters.org/lets-raise-20000/) - For 95 years, War Resisters League has built a radical nonviolent movement against war and militarism across the world. From our humble beginnings in 1923 to now, we've been able to truly stay radical in our politics, organizing, and actions through the generosity of folks like you. Give as generously as you can today to keep
- [Some reading for the weekend ahead](https://www.warresisters.org/some-reading-weekend-ahead/) - Dear Friends, This past weekend, WRL joined hundreds at the Mexican-American border for this year's School of the America's Watch (SOAW) Border Encuentro 2018, a convergence at the borderlands of what is now called Arizona and Mexico. The weekend was a moment to grieve, heal, and organize against border militarism, connecting the crises of human
- [October 7, 2001 Flyer - "Myths of a Military Solution / A Nonviolent Response"](https://www.warresisters.org/october-7-2001-flyer-myths-military-solution-nonviolent-response/) - In light of the horrific September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., many feel the only option is to support the U.S.-led attacks against Afghanistan. We address some of these concerns and propose alternatives MYTH: A MILITARY RESPONSE IS QUICK AND EFFECTIVE Terrorism is not led by a simple collection of misguidedor insane individuals.
- [Stop the War on Ukraine: News & Analysis](https://www.warresisters.org/stop-war-ukraine-news-analysis/) - Waging Nonviolence - People powered news and analysis. Articles posted regularly The Guardian’s live coverage in Ukraine Beyond Nuclear’s reporting on nukes Democracy Now!’s ongoing coverage of the unfolding situation in Ukraine Interview with Yurii Sheliazhenko of Український Рух Пацифістів / Ukrainian Pacifist Movement (3/22/2022) Can we have Christmas Truce at least online, regardless that Putin and
- [Stop the War on Ukraine](https://www.warresisters.org/stop-war-ukraine-0/) - International Calls to Action Stop Deporting Russian War Resisters April, 2023 - The Center on Conscience & War Peace Agenda for Ukraine and the World September 21, 2022 - Український Рух Пацифістів / Ukrainian Pacifist Movement Creating a Culture of Peace July 4, 2022 - National Council of Elders Statement on the War in Ukraine February
- [Stop the War on Ukraine: Resources](https://www.warresisters.org/stop-war-ukraine-resources/) - “Ukrainian Nonviolent Civil Resistance in the Face of War” (PDF download)analysis of the trends, impacts and challenges of nonviolence in Ukraine during the period of 2/24/2022 until 6/30/2022. by International Institute for Nonviolent Action (Novact), the Catalan Institute for Peace (ICIP) and Corridors - Dialogue through Cooperation Map of Ukrainian Nonviolent Civil Resistance by Novact, ICIP and
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- [100 Years!](https://www.warresisters.org/100-years/) - 100th Anniversary History Projects We have an active WRL 100th History Committee working on a number of projects and we invite your participation. • Oral History interviews – We are inviting members and friends to record your WRL stories through the practice of oral histories. We are organizing a number of oral history training opportunities,
- [100th Anniversary](https://www.warresisters.org/100th-anniversary/)
- [Can we have Christmas Truce at least online, regardless that Putin and Zelensky are stubbornly militant?](https://www.warresisters.org/can-we-have-christmas-truce-least-online-regardless-putin-and-zelensky-are-stubbornly-militant/) - Kyiv, Ukraine - Friday, December 23, 2022 Dear friends, Since it seems that Presidents Putin [1] and Zelensky [2] are determined to ignore calls [3] for a Christmas Truce, I wonder whether it is possible to create a platform, safe space for online fraternization between Ukrainian and Russian people (with option for anonymity, with strong
- [How to acquire the Nobel Peace Prize? A lesson from U.S.-sponsored Ukrainian NGO](https://www.warresisters.org/how-acquire-nobel-peace-prize-lesson-us-sponsored-ukrainian-ngo/) - Hi people, NGO Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine) recently was co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Russian and Belarussian human rights defenders. What is the Ukrainian secret of success? Here are some tips. - don't rely on support of local citizens, embrace international donors with their agendas, like the U.S. Department of State and NED;
- [Celebration of Linda Marie Thurston](https://www.warresisters.org/celebration-linda-marie-thurston/) - Family, Friends, Comrades & Colleagues gathered at Judson Memorial Church in New York City (and virtually) to honor our dear Ancestor Linda Linda Marie Thurston, our Sister and Friend, passed away in May of 2021. Linda spent a lifetime forging connections among people, organizations and communities in the movements for abolition, liberation and peace & justice.
- [The Ban and the Bomb: Trans Anti-Militarism in 2019](https://www.warresisters.org/ban-and-bomb-trans-anti-militarism-2019/) - Come join War Resisters League and People’s Forum for a teach-in and community discussion on the Trans Ban. We’re hoping that this will be a place to deepen the shallow and often binary conversation around the Trans Ban since 45 took office. QTPOC globally have been calling out the impact that US invasion and bombing
- [WRL Endorses the Poor People's Campaign's 40 Days of Moral Action](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-endorses-poor-peoples-campaigns-40-days-moral-action/) - WASHINGTON —The Revs. William Barber II and Liz Theoharis, co-chairs of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, led a march of poor people, clergy and advocates on Capitol Hill Monday, demanding a massive overhaul of the nation's voting rights laws, new programs to lift up the 140 million Americans living in poverty, immediate attention to
- [Resources for the world, not war](https://www.warresisters.org/resources-world-not-war/) - This morning, warmongers awoke to some great news: Raytheon stock shares surged to an all-time high following Friday night’s tomahawk missile strikes on Syria. This shouldn’t come as a shock. As the U.S. leads the world in military spending - $727 billion or 67% of our federal budget - with rich countries like Australia, France, the UK,
- [No Arms, No Armies: Addressing the Roots of Militarism and Gun Violence in the US](https://www.warresisters.org/no-arms-no-armies-addressing-roots-militarism-and-gun-violence-us/) - How do we understand the terrifying and tragic reality of mass shootings in the United States as organizers and activists committed to ending war and militarism by confronting its root causes? That's the question we're asking at War Resisters League as headlines are once again ensnared in the debate around gun control -- this time
- [From Hollywood to Farmworkers, We're with Women!](https://www.warresisters.org/hollywood-farmworkers-were-women/) - As we celebrate International Women’s Day and reflect on what a truly internationalist antimilitarist movement looks like, WRL lifts up the demands from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, calling for an end to sexual and labor exploitation in the fields. To struggle for the end of war and militarism is to struggle for the end of
- [Happy 94th Birthday to Us~!](https://www.warresisters.org/happy-94th-birthday-us/) - ~✨ Happy Birthday ✨~ For 94 years, we've dreamed a demilitarized world by building an intergenerational, intersectional, and international anti-war movement to end all forms of militarism across the world. From our humble beginnings as a group of secular pacifists founded by Jesse Wallace Hughan in 1923, WRL and its membership have transformed radically throughout time. We're
- [TacOps East](https://www.warresisters.org/tacops-east/) - WHAT: TacOps East - Tactical Training Conference WHERE: Arlington, Virginia - (Marriott Crystal Gateway) WHEN: September 5-7, 2018 WHO: "Two day trade show with over 100 industry vendors showcasing the latest technologies and products." (Including Combined Systems, and Progressive Force Concepts.) WHAT THEY SAY IT IS: "3 Days of training, trade show, and networking events."
- [NYers Say: Dismantle Bratton's Army!](https://www.warresisters.org/nyers-say-dismantle-brattons-army/) - 'We have, for the first time in a number of years, become a “wartime” police department. We will act accordingly.' - Patrolman's Benevolent Association of NYC (December 20, 2014) Our communities are safer and stronger when we have access to stable and supportive housing, quality healthcare and food, empowering education and employment, and freedom.
- [#ResistWar: Join War Resisters League Today!](https://www.warresisters.org/resistwar-join-war-resisters-league-today/)
- [Letter to Department of Justice: End Tear Gas in Prisons](https://www.warresisters.org/letter-department-justice-end-tear-gas-prisons/) - Sent twice to the Department of Justice in December & January via email & email & telephone Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates Associate Deputy Attorney General Heather Childs U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 Dear Deputy Attorney General Yates, We write you on behalf of 13,000
- [noSWATzone Statements](https://www.warresisters.org/noswatzone-statements/) - The NoSWATzone campaign and community condemns police violence in all its manifestations, whether it be beat cops harrassing people in everyday life, SWAT officers violating people in their homes, or riot police supressing protest. We stand with communities and peoples resisting policing and domestic militarism all over the world. Here are
- [News on Facing Tear Gas Campaign](https://www.warresisters.org/news-facing-tear-gas-campaign/) - Casper Star Tribune's Casper tear gas grenade maker takes heat over Turkey protests by Leah Todd IPS News Agency's U.N. Urges Turkish Police to Exercise “Restraint” by Roger Hamilton-Martin Jadaliyya's Resisting Tear Gas Together by Ian Alan Paul The Guardian's Teargas: a booming market in repressing dissent by Anna Feigenbaum Waging Nonviolence's What Turkey reminds
- ["You Can't Tear Us Apart" - A Workshop on Militarism and Tear Gas](https://www.warresisters.org/you-cant-tear-us-apart-workshop-militarism-and-tear-gas/) - WRL has created an interactive workshop that explores how communities are impacted by militarism as well as what they might do about it - locally and around the world. You Can't Tear Us Apart: Tear Gas, Militarism and Local/Global Solidarity is specially designed for US-based community groups that want to connect their ongoing organizing -
- [Ilinois Tactical Officers Conference](https://www.warresisters.org/ilinois-tactical-officers-conference/) - WHAT: ITOA, the Illinois Tactical Officers Association Conference is (according the the 2016 description) a "dynamic 5-day training event [...] with multiple critical incident debriefs and educational seminars. Sunday Night the action continues with our fantastic vendor show and pig roast”. 2017 will be the 30th ITOA conference. WHERE: Hoffman, Illinois (about 1 hour drive
- [Membership Handbook](https://www.warresisters.org/membership-handbook/) - Thanks for being a War Resisters League member! Read the Membership Handbook below to learn more about WRL history, our program areas, and ways you can get involved!
- [Campaign History](https://www.warresisters.org/campaign-history-0/) - Responding to calls to end US-made tear gas exports from movements in Egypt, Bahrain, as well as Oakland, War Resisters League began building a campaign against tear gas in early 2012.
- [Campaign History](https://www.warresisters.org/campaign-history/) - Responding to calls to end US-made tear gas exports from movements in Egypt, Bahrain, as well as Oakland, War Resisters League began building a campaign against tear gas in early 2012.
- [Iraqi Police Education Program](https://www.warresisters.org/iraqi-police-education-program/) - The IACP Center for Police Leadership and Training is looking for State and Mid-Sized City Law Enforcement Agencies to be partners in an exceptional opportunity for the International Law Enforcement Community: Instituting a Democratic Style of Policing in Iraq. The mission of the Iraqi Police Education Program (IPEP) is to expose visiting Iraqi National Police
- [National Training Concepts](https://www.warresisters.org/national-training-concepts/) - National Training Concept WHAT: National Training Concept “Tactical Trainings” WHERE: California and the Southwest, possibly nation wide WHEN: Year-round WHO: One trainer - R. K. Miller, who is the President & Senior Instructor of NTC WHAT THEY SAY IT IS: courses in “courses include Active Shooter Response Instructor, Diversionary Device Instructor, Less Lethal (12ga, 37mm
- [California Association of Tactical Officers Conference](https://www.warresisters.org/california-association-tactical-officers-conference/) - California Association of Tactical Officers Conference (CATO) WHAT: California Association of Tactical Officers Conference WHERE: Anaheim, California WHEN: Fall, 2015 - September 21st to 24th WHO: “Membership in CATO is open to current and honorably retired sworn police personnel, active or reserve duty US military, and support services personnel for law enforcement agencies.” “A tactical
- [Urban Shield](https://www.warresisters.org/urban-shield/) - WHAT: Urban Shield - "Intense training for intense times." WHERE: TBD though last year was held in Pleasanton, California (about 30 miles from Oakland, California), Hosting Hotel: Double Tree at Hilton WHEN: Annually in Fall. For 2018: September 6-10. WHO: Urban Shield is attended by hundreds of local, federal and international agencies each year. It
- [Activist Profile: Uruj Sheikh](https://www.warresisters.org/activist-profile-uruj-sheikh/) - Uruj Sheikh came on board as the Freeman Intern at the War Resisters League’s national office in January. Her term was originally set for three months, but she has been such a huge help that we begged her to stay longer! Much of Uruj's work has focused on WRL’s Listening Process, the new special issue
- [Activist Profile: Brandywine Peace Community](https://www.warresisters.org/activist-profile-brandywine-peace-community/) - Brandywine Peace Community (BPC), a long-time WRL affiliate, has been throwing their support behind the Occupy movement with "Welcome, Occupy Philly" signs and banners that made the connection between the corporate control of U.S. democracy and the corporate militarism of such war profiteers as Lockheed Martin, the world's #1 war profiteer and Pentagon weapons producer. BPC
- [Activist Profile: Socorro Peace Vigil](https://www.warresisters.org/activist-profile-socorro-peace-vigil/) - Socorro Peace Vigil in New Mexico has been active in countering militarism with their weekly vigil against current U.S. wars (which in October commemorated their 8 year anniversary). Socorro Peace Vigil has also been doing counter-recruitment work in local classrooms and at the school board level, working with the local chapter of Iraq Veterans Against
- [Activist Profile: YouthPeace Club](https://www.warresisters.org/activist-profile-youthpeace-club/) - 2009 marked the 10th anniversary of the YouthPeace Club based in a high school in Norwich, CT. “YouthPeace is a group of youth who do not accept war, racism, sexism, homophobia, or exploitation as facts of life. We work for nonviolent resolution of all conflicts from personal to international.” The high school students who started
- [WRL 2014 Annual Report](https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-2014-annual-report/) - We've been busy! To learn more about about our work in the last year, download WRL's 2014 Annual Report, Seeds of Peace and Liberation.
- [Sara Bilezikian Peace Internship Program](https://www.warresisters.org/sara-bilezikian-peace-internship-program/) - Sara Bilezikian Peace Internship Sara Bilezikian was a peace and justice activist who volunteered at War Resisters League in 1997 and worked as a paid Freeman intern at WRL in 1998. Sara had a deep and comprehensive approach to change and had an interest in a number of intersecting issues. Aside from her antimilitarism work
- [Become a WRL Supporter](https://www.warresisters.org/become-wrl-supporter/) - Become a Supporter If for any reason you are not ready to sign our statement of purpose, we encourage you to become a WRL supporter. What we ask of our supporters: • Financial support if possible. $30 per year (or more) will allow us to maintain our totally independent and autonomous funding structure. What we
- [War Resisters International](https://www.warresisters.org/war-resisters-international/) - War Resisters League is an affiliate of War Resisters' International (WRI). Founded in 1921, WRI works for a world without war. They are a global pacifist and antimilitarist network with over 80 affiliated groups in 40 countries. WRI is committed to its 1921 founding declaration that says: 'War is a crime against humanity. I am
- [Freeman Internships](https://www.warresisters.org/freeman-internships/) - The Harrop A. and Ruth S. Freeman Peace Internship Endowment was created in 1996 by a bequest from life-long peace activists Ruth and Harrop Freeman to provide stipends to interns in the War Resisters League’s national office. The Freemans were close personal associates of WRL co-founder A.J. Muste, and Harrop — a radical lawyer
- [Activist Profile: Becca Rast & Nick Martin](https://www.warresisters.org/activist-profile-becca-rast-nick-martin/) - Becca Rast is a senior at J.P. McCaskey High School, in Lancaster, PA. Nick Martin is a recent graduate from Penn Manor High School, also in Lancaster. In February 2007 they co-founded Lancaster Students for a Democratic Society, one of the few SDS chapters that is primarily made up of high school students. They have

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- [Peace Symbol Pin](https://www.warresisters.org/store/peace-symbol-pin/) - A small jewelry pin featuring a peace sign inlaid in metal on a black ceramic background. 5/8" round nickel with clutch-pin backing.
- [On Revolution and Equilibrium by Barbara Deming](https://www.warresisters.org/store/revolution-and-equilibrium-barbara-deming/) - A classic pacifist response to Fanon, Sartre and others who, during the 1960s, were urging the necessity of violence for Third World revolutions. “This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern. It is precisely solicitude for his person in combination with a stubborn interference with his actions that can give us a very special degree of control (precisely in our acting both with love, if you will—in the sense that we respect his human rights—and truthfulness, in the sense that we act out fully our objections to his violating our rights). We put upon him two pressures—the pressure of our defiance of him and the pressure of our respect for his life—and it happens that in combination these two pressures are uniquely effective.” - Barbara Deming
- [War Resisters League: 100 Years of Resistance to War and the Causes of War](https://www.warresisters.org/store/centennial-history-book/) - A full-color, 84-page, 7” x 9” book that reproduces WRL’s entire 100th anniversary traveling exhibit, including 186 images, a timeline of key demonstrations and other events, WRL programs, notable individuals, publications throughout WRL’s history. Also listed are all wars of which the United States was a part during WRL’s history. Relying on dozens of primary sources, the exhibit and book was researched, written, and edited by Ruth Benn and Ed Hedemann; designed by Rick Bickhart; reviewed by the WRL Centennial History Committee — Ellen Barfield, Mandy Carter, Rick Gaumer, Sky Hall, Kimber Heinz and Joanne Sheehan — with the assistance of Jim Haber, Matt Meyer, Vicki Rovere and Wendy Schwartz; research and photographic contributions of Grace Hedemann Hane; research of Laura Melbourne, Anne Yoder, and staff of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection; advice from Interference Archive, Brooklyn, NY.
- [New Worlds in Old Shells: a handbook for constructive programme](https://www.warresisters.org/store/new-worlds-in-old-shells/) - Have you ever felt like you’re not big enough, or powerful enough, to decide what happens to or your community? That your choices are limited and you don’t like any of the options? Compiled War Resisters' International, this book was written because we can make transformative choices about the way our lives are lived. New Worlds in Old Shells sets out to prompt, question, guide, challenge, nurture and provoke anyone who looks at the world and thinks “surely it doesn’t have to be like this?” The eight chapters explore: the crucial role that values play in building a just and nonviolent society strategic planning and analysis, visions, goals, and developing a strategy interacting and relating with the dominant culture and society that we are trying to change different dimensions where our ideas come to life, like housing, food production, transportation, health, or the arts Training and education for social change A series of case studies, stories and experiences from around the world
- [Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes FY 2026](https://www.warresisters.org/store/where-your-income-tax-money-really-goes-fy2026/) - You can also download FY 2026 the flyers and print locally: Fiscal Year 2026 (Released March 2025) Pie Chart Flyer in English, in color (pdf) in English, black & white (pdf) In Spanish, in color (pdf) in Spanish, black & white (pdf) We offer these downloads free of charge, but we really appreciate your donation to support the work of producing this important resource each year. If you can, donate today! For Pie Charts from previous years, check out the Pie Chart Archives ***NOTE ABOUT SHIPPING*** Once we receive them from the printers, pie chart orders are being mailed no later than 48 hours after receiving the order. Orders of 50 and more are sent priority mail, which arrives in 2-3 days. Postage costs more than 20%, an additional donation is appreciated. Minimum Order: 20 Pie Charts (for smaller orders we encourage you to download and print your own!)
- [Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns, revised 2nd Edition](https://www.warresisters.org/store/handbook-for-nonviolent-campaigns-2nd-edition/) - New Edition! Revised in 2025 An important resource for campaigning and activist organisations all over the world. War Resisters' International's "Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns" has been translated into over a dozen languages, and used by grassroots movements globally. The revised second edition (originally published in 2014) has been given a bit of a freshen up - its now available in color, with new photos and a clearer and more accessible design.
- [Beyond Border Patrol](https://www.warresisters.org/store/beyond-border-patrol/) - WRL has long challenged military and police recruitment. Our newest counter-recruitment resource, Beyond Border Patrol, takes on the lies of Border Patrol recruiters - particularly in the borderlands - and debunks them with the realities of the job and the agency's legacy of abuse. Like military and police recruiters, Border Patrol recruiters target poor people and young people of color in border communities, and promote careers in law enforcement as a stable way of life and a means to "protect" your community. Written in 2019, an updated version will be coming in February 2026
- [WRL Perpetual Calendar](https://www.warresisters.org/store/wrl-perpetual-calendar/) - 90 Years of Revolutionary Nonviolence: WRL Perpetual Calendar This beautiful wall calendar can be used year after year since it doesn’t match dates and days. It includes an event related to WRL and nonviolence for each day, with a line to add your own reminders of birthdays, etc. You can fill it in for this year or simply use the calendar for the events, images, and historical information.
- [War Tax Resistance: A Guide To Withholding Your Support from the Military](https://www.warresisters.org/store/war-tax-resistance-a-guide-to-withholding-your-support-from-the-military/) - New Edition! Revised in 2025 Written by Ed Hedemann and Ruth Benn. The most comprehensive book available on war tax resistance, covering everything from legal issues to the history of war tax resistance, to the hows and whys. This 6th edition, published in 2025, is updated and expanded from the 2003 War Tax Resistance: A Guide To Withholding Your Support from the Military. NOW available as an ebook! (Details in the Description below.)
- [Essays by Martin Luther King, Jr.](https://www.warresisters.org/store/essays-martin-luther-king-jr/) - In English or Spanish Three essays by America's leading advocate for human dignity: Loving Your Enemies, Letter From a Birmingham Jail and Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam.
- [Nonviolence 101](https://www.warresisters.org/store/nonviolence-101/) - WRL's updated brochure on nonviolence - what it is and how to use it - and deeper information on its impact, including: Basics of Nonviolence Strengthening Campaigns Why use Nonviolence? What is Nonviolence? WRL's Nonviolent Struggle History
- [Six articles by Sidney Lens](https://www.warresisters.org/store/six-articles-by-sidney-lens/) - Six articles spanning three decades on the state of the U.S. labor movement, by the peace and labor activist, socialist and occasional political candidate: The Radical Heritage The Unfinished Revolution The Coming Revolt in Labor George Meany’s Troubled Legacy Heavy Lifting: Five Not So Easy Pieces for the Unions Hold That Line
- [Remembering Bayard Rustin at 100](https://www.warresisters.org/store/remembering-bayard-rustin-at-100/) - by Matt Meyer Published in 2013 by War Resisters League to mark Bayard's 100th birthday and WRL's 90th Anniversary.
- [Handbook for Nonviolent Action](https://www.warresisters.org/store/handbook-for-nonviolent-action/) - The classic guide to nonviolent direct action, this vintage publication is still used by activists across the country. A great basic guidebook at an affordable price. Published by Donnelly/Colt and WRL. 1989. 34 pp. Also available as a digital download (.pdf and .txt) from Rutgers International Institute for Peace's Digital Library of Nonviolent Resistance
- [Broken Rifle Pin](https://www.warresisters.org/store/broken-rifle-pin/) - A small jewelry pin in antique-finished silver metal featuring WRL's Broken Rifle Logo. 1" long with jeweler's bar attachment backing.
- [RESIST T-Shirt](https://www.warresisters.org/store/resist-t-shirt/) - Adorn your resistance spirit with this classic all-gender black t-shirt with screen-printed white "RESIST" on front, and white War Resisters League broken rifle logo on back! These shirts are made domestically, union-screened and union printed!
- [WRL Baseball Cap](https://www.warresisters.org/store/wrl-baseball-cap/) - Wear messages of resistance in your antimilitarist swag, starting with a black WRL baseball cap with "Broken Rifle" logo embroidered on the front in grey thread. Adjustable size. Hat made in the USA. Play ball, not war.
- ["In Germany first they came for the communists..." (Poster)](https://www.warresisters.org/store/they_came_for-poster/) - Quotation from Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) He survived internment in a Nazi concentration camp. This quotation is widely used to voice the need for unity and supporting one another under authoritarian governments and is a popular quotation to describe the dangers of political apathy in the face of authoritarianism. Repression always begins with specific and targeted fear and hatred which soon escalates to encompass more and more targeted groups.
- [A Philosophy of Nonviolence by David McReynolds](https://www.warresisters.org/store/a-philosophy-of-nonviolence-by-david-mcreynolds/) - "A Philosophy of Nonviolence" by longtime staff member of the War Resisters League. Includes topics such as Inevitability of Conflict, What About Hitler, and Why Our Job Is Much Tougher Than India's.
- [Two Votes Against War and Other Writings on Peace by Jeannette Rankin](https://www.warresisters.org/store/two-votes-against-war-and-other-writings-on-peace-by-jeannette-rankin/) - Two Votes Against War and other writings by the suffragist, lifelong pacifist, and first woman elected to the U.S. Congress (1917).
- [On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau](https://www.warresisters.org/store/on-the-duty-of-civil-disobedience-by-henry-david-thoreau/) - On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, the original architect of resistance.
- [Two essays by Paul Goodman](https://www.warresisters.org/store/two-essays-by-paul-goodman/) - Two essays by the pacifist, anarchist and activist: The Morality of Scientific Technology and The Psychology of Being Powerless.
- [Two Essays by Jessie Wallace Hughan](https://www.warresisters.org/store/two-essays-by-jessie-wallace-hughan/) - Pacifism and Invasion and On Duelling by Jessie Wallace Hughan -- suffragist, peace activist and founder of the War Resisters League.
- [Prison Letters by Rosa Luxemburg](https://www.warresisters.org/store/prison-letters-by-rosa-luxemburg/) - Prison Letters, by the courageous leader of Germany’s democratic socialist movement.
- [So You Wanna Be a Cop?](https://www.warresisters.org/store/so-you-wanna-be-cop/) - Building on decades of counter-military recruitment activism and resource-making, WRL presents this ground-breaking counter-police recruitment resource. Similar to military recruiter lies, police recruiters and branding use strategies to recruit young people, targeting youth of color and poor youth in the promotion of law enforcement careers. Available in English and Spanish. Indicate your preference below.
- [No Blood for Oil Button](https://www.warresisters.org/store/no-blood-for-oil-button/)
- [Martin Luther King, Jr. tags](https://www.warresisters.org/store/martin-luther-king-jr-tags/) - Bundles of 10 for $1 Bundles of 55 for $5
- [Broken Rifle w/ Dove T-Shirt](https://www.warresisters.org/store/broken-rifle-w-dove-t-shirt/) - Start a conversation at your next demo, potluck, or meeting wearing this beautiful new design. This super-soft short-sleeved shirt features original artwork, a new take on our signature broken rifle image, by celebrated illustrator Cristy Road. Your choice of colors including black, brown, and white in a range of women's and men's sizes from Alternative Apparel in 100% light cotton. Please Note: Colors offered are different for women's and men's styles. Limited sizes available in some colors. Sizes run small
- [Some Writings on War Tax Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/store/some-writings-on-war-tax-resistance/) - Thoughts, poems and tales from war tax resisters, including Juanita Nelson, Allen Ginsberg and Pete Seeger.
- [Two Essays by Emma Goldman](https://www.warresisters.org/store/two-essays-by-emma-goldman/) - Two essays by the fiery orator, anarchist, agitator for peace and liberation: Preparedness: The Road to Universal Slaughter and The Individual, Society and the State.
- [Who Has the Spiritual Atom Bomb? by A. J. Muste](https://www.warresisters.org/store/who-has-the-spiritual-atom-bomb-by-a-j-muste/) - The essay Who Has the Spiritual Atom Bomb?, by the foremost twentieth century pacifist theoretician and activist, minister and socialist. “It is said that if the United States were to stop shooting and withdraw its troops from Vietnam, the Viet Cong would then stage a great purge of the people who we have been seeking to protect—have pledged to protect. First of all, so far they have been getting precious little protection from us. The Vietnamese people as human individuals have been shot at by the French, by us, by Communists, by guerrillas for years. Maybe, if only somebody would stop shooting at them that would be something to the good.”
- [Questions to Consider Palmcard](https://www.warresisters.org/store/questions-consider-palmcard/) - Written for high school students who may be considering going into the military or have friends who are. This palmcard is good for mass leafletting and as an eye-catching handout at a counter-recruitment table. Information taken from brochure “The Military's Not Just a Job... it's Eight Years of Your Life”, this full color glossy palmcard includes a link to that leaflet and to information on student's rights to distribute the palmcard in school. For more, check out WRL's counter-recruitment resources! This Questions to Consider palm card is being utilized in a national Call to Action to reinvigorate counter-recruitment activism in public high schools across the country. The palmcard directs students to a mobile version of The Military's Not Just a Job, for an easy way to access information about the true consequences of joining the military. For more information, hit up Winning the Peace & spread the word!
- [What Every Young Woman Should Know About the Military (in English and Spanish)](https://www.warresisters.org/store/what-every-young-woman-should-know-about-the-military/) - And what you can do about it. If you are thinking about joining the military, you should know about the sexism, racism, and white supremacy; about being sex and gender diverse in the military; about what military life is like for women; and how military experiences change people. Includes stories, info on alternatives, and links to more info. Available in English and Spanish. Indicate your preference below.
- [The Military is Not Just a Job, It's 8 Years of Your Life (in Engish and Spanish)](https://www.warresisters.org/store/the-military-is-not-just-a-job-its-8-years-of-your-life/) - Detailed information for youth and family members. Available in English and Spanish. Sections include: What Are Some Things I Should Know About Military Life? Will I Lose Some Basic Rights? Will It Help Me Get A Job Later? What About Promises Of Bonuses? Is College Money Free And Guaranteed? Is There Discrimination In The Military? Can The Military Give Me Citizenship? What Should Women & LGBTQ People Know? War- You Think It Won't Happen To You? Service And Making A Difference If You Already Joined The Delayed Entry Program (DEP) Things You Should ask Yourself Before Enlisting 9 Things To Consider When You Talk To A Recruiter Finding A Non-Military Job ... and links to further resources, including online videos and organizations doing counter-recruitment work. Available in English and Spanish: ¿Solo un empleo? No… ¡Son ocho años de tu vida!
- [WRL Peace Calendar for 2026: 75 Years of Nonviolent Resistance (from 1998)](https://www.warresisters.org/store/wrl-peace-calendar-for-2026-75-years-of-nonviolent-resistance-from-1998/) - *SOLD OUT* Can't get through 2026 without a WRL Peace Calendar? The days and dates on this 1998 calendar mirror the days and dates for 2026. War Resisters League 1923-1998: 75 Years of Nonviolent Resistance. The War Resisters League 1998 Peace Calendar. The first 75 years of War Resisters League, told by the decade, in narrative and pictures. Weekly date pages listing historical events. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 desk calendar, 128 pages; spiral bound. Limited numbers available. Please note: These are the same calendars we sold in 1998 - not reprints. This calendar is also part of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection and a digitized version can be found here.
- [Women Conscientious Objectors](https://www.warresisters.org/store/women-conscientious-objectors/) - Women Conscientious Objectors: An Anthology includes contributions by women conscientious objectors and activists from Britain, Colombia, Eritrea, Israel, Paraguay, South Korea, Turkey, and the USA, plus supporting documents and statements.
- [Death & Taxes](https://www.warresisters.org/store/death-taxes/) - A important film about War Tax Resisters and their motivations. Produced by the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, Death & Taxes asks: Why and how do people refuse to pay for war? Where does the money go? What are the consequences? How does war tax resistance fit into one’s life?
- [No Bombs with Star Button](https://www.warresisters.org/store/no-bombs-with-star-button/) - Classic WRL Button with a design of a Bomb with a Star inside the No symbol (circle with a diagonal line through). 1" round.
- [WIN Spring 2015 - The Final Issue](https://www.warresisters.org/store/win-spring-2015-the-final-issue/) - Volume: 32 Issue Number: 1
- [95th Anniversary Button](https://www.warresisters.org/store/95th-anniversary-button/) - Celebrate WRL's 95th Anniversary with this limited edition, union-made button! Measuring at about 1.5", this button can fit on any jean jacket, backpack, or tote bag!
- [We Have Not Been Moved](https://www.warresisters.org/store/we-have-not-been-moved/) - Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America *TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK* You can also purchase this title from PM PRESS Edited by Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez, Mandy Carter & Matt Meyer Introduction by Cornel West Afterwords/poems by Alice Walker & Sonia Sanchez
- [Centennial Poster](https://www.warresisters.org/store/centennial-poster/) - Resisting War and the Causes of War Celebrate WRL's 100+ years of resisting war + militarism with this beautiful 22" x 22" union-printed poster showcasing the art of Peg Averill!
- [Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns, 2nd Edition](https://www.warresisters.org/store/handbook-nonviolent-campaigns-2nd-edition/) - The War Resisters’ International’s ‘Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns’ is a 232 page toolbox of ideas and resources to support activists to run more effective campaigns. The original edition, published in 2009, was translated into over ten languages, including Spanish, German, Nepalese, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean, and Arabic, and has been used by activists all over the world. The 2014 edition added 50 pages. There is no definitive recipe for successful nonviolent actions and campaigns. This handbook, however, is a series of resources that can inspire and support your own work, especially if you adapt the resources to your own needs and context. For more information on organizing effective actions, check out our Nonviolent Action + Campaigns. Find the handbook online here.
- [WRL Peace Calendar for 2025: Nourishing the Nonviolent Revolution (from 2003)](https://www.warresisters.org/store/2003-peace-calendar-nourishing-the-nonviolent-revolution/) - Can't get through 2025 without a WRL Peace Calendar? The days and dates on this 2003 calendar mirror the days and dates for 2025. WRL 2003 PEACE CALENDAR Nourishing the Nonviolent Revolution Zestful Vegetarian Recipes from members and friends of the War Resisters League. A calendar and a cookbook to nourish you throughout the year while carrying on the nonviolent struggle for peace and justice.
- [“Your tax dollars at work? DON’T pay!” Poster](https://www.warresisters.org/store/your-tax-dollars-at-work-dont-pay-poster/) - “Your tax dollars at work? DON’T pay!”, by Peg Averill
- [No Tanks Button](https://www.warresisters.org/store/no-tanks-button/) - Classic WRL Button with a design of a Tank inside the No symbol (circle with a diagonal line through). 1" round. Please include with orders of $5 or more, or add a donation to cover postage
- [No Bombs Button](https://www.warresisters.org/store/no-bombs-button/) - Classic WRL Button with a design of a Bomb inside the No symbol (circle with a diagonal line through). 1" round.
- [Broken Rifle T-Shirt](https://www.warresisters.org/store/broken-rifle-t-shirt/) - Make a statement by wearing WRL's distinctive broken rifle logo! The words "War Resisters League" surround the logo on this vintage tee. Black lettering/logo on brilliant blue! Short-sleeve. Cotton.
- [Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes FY2025](https://www.warresisters.org/store/where-your-income-tax-money-really-goes-fy2025/) - FY 2025 pie charts are OUT OF STOCK due to high demand. We will be producing a FY 2026 flyer by April. If you need copies before that, you can also download the flyers and print them locally: Fiscal Year 2025 (Released March 2024) Pie Chart Flyer in English, in color (pdf), in English, in color (hi-res pdf) in English, black & white (pdf) in Spanish, in color (pdf) in Spanish, black & white (pdf) We offer these downloads free of charge, but we really appreciate your donation to support the work of producing this important resource each year. If you can, donate today! For Pie Charts from previous years, check out the Pie Chart Archives
- [Seneca Women's Peace Encampment Poster](https://www.warresisters.org/store/seneca-womens-peace-encampment-poster/) - This beautiful poster was produced for the 1983 Seneca Women's Peace Encampment. For more information on Seneca, see peacecampherstory.blogspot.com/ Offset Lithograph 22" x 17"
- [2008 Peace Calendar: Salaam, Shalom, Solh](https://www.warresisters.org/store/salaam-shalom-solh-nonviolence-and-resistance-middle-east-and-beyond/) - SALAAM, SHALOM, SOLH: Nonviolence & Resistance in the Middle East & Beyond WRL’s 2008 Peace Calendar From Near East and North Africa, the Arab and Muslim worlds, Israel and Palestine come stories of nonviolent action and resistance to oppression. The individuals and projects included in this calendar show that people in the Middle East have not given up on each other or on the desire to live in peace with each other and everyone else.
- [Smash War With Peace Poster](https://www.warresisters.org/store/smash-war-with-peace-poster/) - REDUCED PRICE! - this beautiful poster was designed exclusively and in small-run for War Resisters League by our friends at WASP Poster and Print in Brooklyn, NY. Black handset letter press on white thick stock paper, 13" by 20".
- [DMZ: A Guide to Taking Your School Back from the Military](https://www.warresisters.org/store/dmz-a-guide-to-taking-your-school-back-from-the-military/) - DMZ: A Guide to Taking Your School Back from the Military is a comprehensive counter military recruitment organizing manual for youth activists and their allies. This 48 page magazine-style handbook includes everything you need to know about organizing to keep military recruiters out of your school, including detailed legal information, concrete campaign suggestions, and up-to-date statistics. Written and published by the WRL. Now available for just $1.00. Contact us for bulk rates. VERY LIMITED NUMBER AVAILABLE! Download the 2014 DMZ Update Insert.
- [2007 Peace Calendar: Screenpeace: An Antiwar Film Festival](https://www.warresisters.org/store/2007-peace-calendar-screenpeace-an-antiwar-film-festival/) - Miss the old WRL Peace Calendar? We aren't publishing new ones any more, but we are offering vintage calendars. You can still enjoy the great articles, essays and more!
- [A Demilitarized World is Possible Poster](https://www.warresisters.org/store/a-demilitarized-world-is-possible-poster/) - REDUCED PRICE! - this beautiful poster was designed exclusively and in small-run for War Resisters League by our friends at WASP Poster and Print in Brooklyn, NY. Black handset letter press on white thick stock paper, 13" by 20".
- [WIN Winter 2015 - This Means War: The Militarization of the Police](https://www.warresisters.org/store/win-winter-2015-this-means-war-the-militarization-of-the-police/) - Volume: 31 Issue Number: 1 To the extent war has, in fact, “seeped back and flooded” civil spheres, often with military-grade weaponry and mounting body-counts – particularly in black and brown communities—what, then, of an anti-war movement?
- [Member Palmcard](https://www.warresisters.org/store/member-palmcard/) - New Member Palm Card! Learn more about WRL's mission and your place in the movement to end all forms of war and militarism here and everywhere! Want more information on how to become a member? Check out our Member Handbook! Design: Kate Griffin
- [WRL Organizer's Manual](https://www.warresisters.org/store/wrl-organizers-manual/) - - Out of Print - Written in 1986, but still a fountain of commonsense tips, theory, and practice for getting organized. Whether its settling up a literature table, batting through the courts, contacting the media, or staging a sit-down protest, this is a great place to start.
- [Syracuse Cultural Workers 2023 Peace Calendar](https://www.warresisters.org/store/syracuse-cultural-workers-2023-peace-calendar/) - 2023 PEACE CALENDAR Provocative... Inspirational... Visionary... Essential • Over 300 people’s history dates • Holidays for many faiths • Lunar cycles, 13 native moons 14 x 11 • Wall $16.95
- [1989 Peace Calendar: 365 reasons not to have another war](https://www.warresisters.org/store/1989-peace-calendar-365-reasons-not-to-have-another-war/) - Vera Williams and Grace Paley, editors Paintings by Vera Williams Miss the old WRL Peace Calendar? We aren't publishing new ones any more, but we are offering vintage calendars you can use now. The days and dates on this 1989 calendar mirror the days and dates for 2023, and you can enjoy the great artwork, poems, essays and more!
- [95th Anniversary Poster](https://www.warresisters.org/store/95th-anniversary-poster/) - Celebrate WRL's 95 years of resisting war + militarism with this beautiful 11" x 17" union-printed poster showcasing our 95th Anniversary Logo!
- [No Nukes T-Shirt](https://www.warresisters.org/store/no-nukes-t-shirt/) - Created for War Resisters League's "We Declare NYC a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone" May 3rd 2010 action at Grand Central Station, these eggplant Tees were designed by WRL National Committee member Rick Bickhart and printed by the Cant Afford Em Collective in the Bronx on sweatshop free shirts. Limited Quantities remain. Small and Extra Large only.
- [J Is For Jannat Tshirt](https://www.warresisters.org/store/j-is-for-jannat-tshirt/) - Honor WRL's 2016 Peace Award winner Jannat Alghezzi, of OWFI, the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq!
- [90th Anniversary Tote Bags](https://www.warresisters.org/store/90th-anniversary-tote-bags/) - Celebrate WRL's 90 years of activism against war and militarism as you carry your groceries, books, knitting... or whatever! These bags feature our 90th Anniversary logo, designed by artist Luba Lukova. They were printed on eco-friendly fabric by our friends at Occupy Wall Street Screenprinters. 7 oz. 65/35 poly cotton twill fabric, with 100% natural web handles. 12.5" X 13.5"
- [95th Anniversary Tote Bag](https://www.warresisters.org/store/95th-anniversary-tote-bag/) - Celebrate WRL's 95 years of activism against war and militarism with these great canvas tote bags! These bags feature our beautiful 95th Anniversary logo, designed by artist Mike Powers. They were union printed by our friends at EthixMerch. This tote is big, and will serve you well on trips to the farmer's market, the book store, the beach, or the street corner to hand out leaflets! Natural Canvas with Gusset and Handles. 15" X 15" x 5" Limited number available.
- [Drawing The Line: A Pamphlet](https://www.warresisters.org/store/drawing-the-line-a-pamphlet/) - by Paul Goodman Published in 1962, this book combines material from Goodman's 1945 'May Pamphlet' with new essays and poems. Topics include his views on anarchism, war, the cold War, violence, peace and American society.
- [2018 Justseeds/Eberhardt Press Organizer Datebook](https://www.warresisters.org/store/2018-justseeds-eberhardt-press-organizer-datebook/) - 5.25" x 8" (13 x 20 cm) offset printed strong spiral binding cardstock covers Please note: This calendar has a clean, simple page design. It does not include US federal holidays.
- [2017 Justseeds/Eberhardt Press Organizer Datebook](https://www.warresisters.org/store/2017-justseeds-eberhardt-press-organizer-datebook/) - ustseeds Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized network of 30 artists committed to social, environmental, and political engagement. 5.25" x 8" (13 x 20 cm) offset printed strong spiral binding cardstock covers. Please note: This calendar has a clean, simple page design. It does not include US federal holidays.
- [2016 Justseeds/Eberhardt Press Organizer Datebook](https://www.warresisters.org/store/2016-justseeds-eberhardt-press-organizer-datebook/) - Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized network of 24 artists committed to making print and design work that reflects a radical social, environmental, and political stance. 5.25" x 8" (13 x 20 cm) offset print strong spiral binding cardstock covers. Please note: This calendar has a clean, simple page design. It does not include US federal holidays.
- [Fund Peace, Not Police Palmcard](https://www.warresisters.org/store/fund-peace-not-police-palmcard/) - Check out this beautifully designed and engaging palmcard that lays out WRL's campaign against police militarization, and for real safety and community needs. Building with the incredible movement energy around ending police violence, #noSWATzone is helping bring together communities harmed by militarism, racism and policing to fight back! For more, check out #noSWATzone and Police Militarism. Design by Raul X. Ramos
- [Syracuse Cultural Workers 2016 Peace Calendar](https://www.warresisters.org/store/syracuse-cultural-workers-2016-peace-calendar/) - 200 people’s history annotations 45th edition Holidays for many faiths Lunar cycles, 13 native moons
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## Events

- [Cultivating Stories through the Practice of Listening: Conducting Oral History Interviews](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/cultivating-stories-through-the-practice-of-listening-conducting-oral-history-interviews/) - Do you know someone with a WRL story that you would like to share with other war resisters? Is there an activitst in your area who you’d like to record? Do you have stories you want to share? War Resisters League will turn 100 in 2023, marking a century of anti-militarist organizing, collective protest, and
- [Celebrating Linda Thurston](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/celebrating-linda-thurston/) - Saturday, August 20, 2022 - 2:30pm And announcing the Linda Thurston Archival Internship  Celebrating Linda Thurston Linda Marie Thurston, our Sister and Friend, passed away in May of 2021. Linda spent a lifetime forging connections among people, organizations and communities in the movements for abolition, liberation and peace & justice. She is deeply missed. Over
- [Stubborn Hope: WRL’s 2009 Dinner and Peace Award](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/stubborn-hope-wrls-2009-dinner-and-peace-award/) - “Gull gliding against/gray-silver autumn sky/sees a vast miasma of greed/slowly encompass our entire planet …” Dennis Brutus, once a prisoner of apartheid and now a voice for (among other causes) the environment, read his poem “Gull” via video to a packed meeting room at New York’s Judson Memorial Church Friday evening, September 18. The event
- [2016 WRL Peace Award to Jannat Alghezzi!](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/2016-wrl-peace-award-to-jannat-alghezzi/) - On October 4th 2016, Baghdad-based Jannat Alghezzi of Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) accepted WRL's 2016 Peace Award in New York City, honored with an acoustic performance by the fabulous Alsarah & Sonny Singh Brooklynwala! Check out this video of the event program (Note: Audio fixed at 1:30). Click here to donate and support
- [War Resisters Organizer Training Institute](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/war-resisters-organizer-training-institute/) - ARE YOU SERIOUS ABOUT ENDING WAR? Are you an environmentalist; LGBT activist; concerned with immigrant rights; an artist? How do these issues intersect with war? Are you interested in building a nonviolent force in this country strong enough to shake the very foundations of militarism? Then come to the War Resisters Organizer Training Institute, where
- [WRL Honors Suez Port Worker and Labor Leader Asma Mohammed](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/wrl-honors-suez-port-worker-and-labor-leader-asma-mohammed/) - 2012 Peace Award: WRL Honors Suez Port Worker and Labor Leader Asma Mohammed Over this past week, Egyptians have poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority
- [A Celebration of Ralph DiGia's Life](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/a-celebration-of-ralph-digias-life/) - Karin DiGia and The Ralph DiGia fund for Peace and Justice invite you to A Celebration of Ralph DiGia's Life at Theater for the New City 155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Streets) New York, New York Music, film, photos, remembrances, and time to share stories with each other. Childcare available. Food and drink
- [Celebrate Ralph!](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/celebrate-ralph/) - Karin DiGia and the Ralph DiGia Fund for Peace and Justice invite you to a Celebration of Ralph Digia's Life May 10, 2008 2-5 pm Theater for the New City 155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Streets) New York, New York Music, film, photos, remembrances, and time to share stories with each other. Childcare
- [WRL BENEFIT! Living Violence/Writing Violence: Muslim Women Respond to War, Faith and Sexuality](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/wrl-benefit-living-violence-writing-violence-muslim-women-respond-to-war-faith-and-sexuality/) - Please join us for a poetry reading and visual art as we articulate these struggles and celebrate International Women's Day for Disarmament. Saturday May 24th, 2008 12:00 - 3:30 pm Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery Street (Between Houston and Bleecker) As "Muslim" women living amidst a global war being waged by the United States and
- [WRL 2009 Peace Calendar Launch Party](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/wrl-2009-peace-calendar-launch-party/) - Celebrate Our Radical History! WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE 2009 CALENDAR LAUNCH A Publication Party for The Path of Most Resistance: A US Radical History Tour Wednesday, October 15 at 7:30 pm at the Brecht Forum 451 West Street, NYC (Between Bank & Bethune in West Village) with Judith Mahoney Pasternak & Special Guests Our radical history
- [NO MORE ‘NEVER AGAIN’S: From Pan African Peacebuilding to New Afrikan Prison Resistance in the USA](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/no-more-never-agains-from-pan-african-peacebuilding-to-new-afrikan-prison-resistance-in-the-usa/) - Please join the New York Catholic Worker and the War Resisters League at NO MORE ‘NEVER AGAIN’S From Pan African Peacebuilding to New Afrikan Prison Resistance in the USA with Matt Meyer Editor, Let Freedom Ring (2008, PM Press/Kersplebedeb) Co-Editor, Seeds of New Hope: Pan-African Peace Studies for the 21st Century (2009, Africa World Press) Friday, October 24, 2008, at
- [2008 Peace Award - Grassroots Movement to Save New Orleans](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/2008-peace-award-grassroots-movement-to-save-new-orleans/) - Join the War Resisters League for a Spectacular Celebration of Peace & Justice 43rd Annual Peace Award to the Grassroots Movement to Save New Orleans Friday, December 12, 2008 7:00 pm Brooklyn Lyceum 227 4th Avenue Brooklyn, New York Recognizing that the post-Katrina tragedy in New Orleans was made immeasurably worse by the diversion of
- [Operation Lysistrata in NYC on March 19](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/operation-lysistrata-in-nyc-on-march-19/) - On the 6th year commemoration of the US invasion of Iraq, Peace Action for Diplomacy,Theaters Against War, NYCUFPJ, War Resisters League and Veterans for Peace invite you to the thought-provoking, award-winning film Operation Lysistrata Join us for a screening of the inspiring film of a theatrical protest that took place on March of 2003, before
- [Stubborn Hope: WRL's 2009 Peace Award](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/stubborn-hope-wrls-2009-peace-award/) - Vinie Burrows, Kassahun Checole, Imani Countess, Jennifer Davis, Kenyon Farrow, Silvia Federici & George Caffentzis, Haymarket Books, Jean & George Houser, Chaz Maviyane, Liz Mestres, Matt Meyer & Meg Starr, Sonia Sanchez, Bill Sutherland & Marilyn Meyer Invite You to Attend the War Resisters League’s 44th Annual Peace Award Stubborn Hope: Celebrating the Ongoing
- [War Resisters League 21st Annual Raffle for Resistance - 2009](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/war-resisters-league-21st-annual-raffle-for-resistance-2009/) - Win a holiday gift for a loved one! Your raffle contribution goes directly to support the campaigns and programs of the War Resisters League in our efforts to end war and eliminate its causes. We try to choose prizes with some special meaning, unique, handcrafted items and/or those from people or companies who are members
- [Racism, Repression and Resistance: COINTELPRO Then and Now: 40 Years after the FBI and Chicago Police Assassinated Fred Hampton](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/racism-repression-and-resistance-cointelpro-then-and-now-40-years-after-the-fbi-and-chicago-police-assassinated-fred-hampton/) - Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the murder of Fred Hampton and the release of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas. Panel discussion will explore the ongoing repression of political dissent in the U.S., from the COINTELPRO program that targeted the Black Panther Party
- [Prophecy Theater Party](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/prophecy-theater-party/) - "How do you produce a pro-peace play in a country that is at war? How do you put positive Arab characters on stage at a time when negative stereotypes abound? How do you speak about the emotional costs, and loss of life, of the current wars to a nation that wants to forget?" (Playwright, Karen
- [Bill Sutherland (1918-2010) : A Pan-African and Pacifist Life](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/bill-sutherland-1918-2010-a-pan-african-and-pacifist-life/) - Bill Sutherland (1918-2010): A Pan-African and Pacifist Life Saturday, November 13th, 2010 6:00 pm at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY 10037 Including video by Rick Tejada-Flores (producer of The Good War & Those who Refused to Fight It) and remarks by Horace Campbell and many other
- [A Forum and Book Party: A SAVING REMNANT](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/a-forum-and-book-party-a-saving-remnant/) - The War Resisters League’s Dellinger Lecture on Nonviolence and The New Press present A Forum and Book Party: A SAVING REMNANT By Martin Duberman The radical lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds and their place in the pacifist, civil rights, gay and lesbian, and feminist movements. With Mandy Carter, Pam McAllister, David McReynolds, and
- [23rd Annual Raffle for Resistance - 2011](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/23rd-annual-raffle-for-resistance-2011/) - Enter and win a holiday gift for a loved one! Your raffle contribution goes directly to support the campaigns and programs of the War Resisters League in our efforts to end war and eliminate its causes. We try to choose prizes with some special meaning, unique, handcrafted items and/or those from people or companies who
- [Book Event in DC with Rosalie Riegle, author of Doing Time for Peace and Crossing the Line](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/book-event-in-dc-with-rosalie-riegle-author-of-doing-time-for-peace-and-crossing-the-line/) - One day before our 90th Anniversary Conference begins in Washington, DC, WRL National Committee member author Rosalie Riegle will sign and discuss her books Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and Community and Crossing the Line: Nonviolent Resisters Speak Out for Peace. Wednesday, July 31 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Busboys & Poets 5th &
- [WRL 90th Anniversary Conference](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/wrl-90th-anniversary-conference/) - CONFERENCE HOME | REGISTRATION SCHEDULE | SPEAKERS | TRAVEL EVENTS | LIVESTREAM REVOLUTIONARY NONVIOLENCE Building Bridges Across Generations and Communities War Resisters League 90th Anniversary National Conference August 1 – 4 · 2013 Georgetown University | Washington, DC. Couldn't make it to the conference? Watch the plenaries online! REGISTERING? Please register on-site at the ICC Building starting at 5 on Thurday, all
- [25th Annual Raffle for Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/25th-annual-raffle-for-resistance/) - Suggested contribution: $3 per ticket, $25 for a sheet of 12 PLEASE NOTE: RAFFLE TICKET DONATIONS ARE NOT TAX DEDUCTIBLE Raffle Drawing: December 6, 2013 IF YOU BUY YOUR RAFFLE TICKETS ONLINE, WE'LL FILL THEM OUT FOR YOU Surprise a friend or two by sending in a few tickets with their names as well! You can
- [Training for Trainers: Training for Nonviolent Campaigns November 14 – 16, 2014, Voluntown, CT](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/training-for-trainers-training-for-nonviolent-campaigns-november-14-16-2014-voluntown-ct-2/) - NEW DATES! Apply Now! The War Resisters League is organizing a Training for Trainers for people who want to develop training skills especially focusing on strategy development. This Training for Trainers* will be an opportunity to: learn training techniques to help groups develop strategy for nonviolent campaigns. It will include exploring the power of nonviolent actions, methods
- [Cultural Resistance to Militarism](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/cultural-resistance-to-militarism/) - Featuring: Hip-Hop Artist Invincible Discussion with Colombian conscientious objector Paula Galeano Activist and artist Katie Yamasaki Saturday November 22 4:00 - 7:00 pm at the Yippie Museum 9 Bleecker Street Between Bowery and Elizabeth 212-677-518 A collaboration of the War Resisters League and the Not Your Soldier Project, Cultural Resistance to Militarism brings together young
- [26th Annual Raffle for Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/26th-annual-raffle-for-resistance/) - ENTER TODAY TO WIN ON DECEMBER 13th! The December 13th deadline is fast approaching! WRL's Raffle for Resistance is an easy way to get a start on holiday giving, while supporting grassroots organizing against war and militarism. Every year, members and friends carefully search within their communities and across the globe - some even within their personal
- [WRL Honors Joanne Sheehan with the Ralph DiGia Award](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/wrl-honors-joanne-sheehan-with-the-ralph-digia-award/) - On Friday December 13th, 2014 War Resisters League was happy to gather friends and allies across generations at the Sixth Street Community Center in NYC to honor Joanne Sheehan with our first-ever Ralph DiGia Award. On this cold winter evening, warm company and memories were shared in celebration of Joanne's vital contributions to building bridges
- [A Night Celebrating Iraq: Book Release and Performance](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/a-night-celebrating-iraq-book-release-and-performance/) - Please join WRL and our partners at the Center for Constitutional Rights Thursday, June 25 for an evening of music, art, and activism as we jointly launch Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq, a new book bringing the unique voices of progressive Iraqis organizing on the ground to New York! The event
- [Hiroshima/Nagasaki 70th Anniversary Events](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/hiroshima-nagasaki-70th-anniversary-events/) - Hiroshima/Nagasaki 70th Anniversary Events Protest nuclear weapons and mark the 70th anniversary of the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the following events . . . NYC // Peace Gathering to Commemorate 70th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Date: Wednesday, Aug. 5 Time: Noon Place: Japanese Consulate entrance, 299 Park Ave. (at 48th St.), Manhattan Sponsored by
- [WRL 80th Anniversary Conference - July 2003](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/wrl-80th-anniversary-conference-july-2003/) - WRL has the distinction of reaching 80 years old this year. Now more than ever, WRL’s belief in nonviolent struggle is needed in a world torn apart by the organized violence that is war. From the “war to end all wars” that spawned our organization through the current “War on Terror,” WRL has been rooted
- [22nd Annual Raffle for Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/22nd-annual-raffle-for-resistance/) - Thank you to everyone who entered this year's raffle! Your raffle contributions go directly to support the campaigns and programs of the War Resisters League in our efforts to end war and eliminate its causes. We try to choose prizes with some special meaning, unique, handcrafted items and/or those from people or companies who are
- [The Iraq War: A People's Hearing](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/the-iraq-war-a-peoples-hearing/) - Eleven years ago today, the United States military invaded Iraq. On March 26, 2014, Iraqi human rights advocates and labor leaders will join US military veterans in Washington D.C. to testify to the lasting impact of the war and to make the case that the US government must be held to account for the serious damage it
- [War Resisters League’s 43rd Annual Peace Award](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/war-resisters-leagues-43rd-annual-peace-award/) - Keep your eye here, on our newly revamped website, warresisters.org, for updated information on War Resisters League’s 43rd Annual Peace Award. This fall we will give the WRL Peace Award to two activists, on behalf of the greater New Orleans social justice movement. Shana Griffin, a representative of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, Black
- [Second Annual David Dellinger Lecture on Nonviolence](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/second-annual-david-dellinger-lecture-on-nonviolence/) - Featuring activist and author Kathy Kelly . . . and others on “Nonviolent Action in the Middle East” Following in the Footsteps of David Dellinger “ I wanted to bring closer the day when the whole country (and the world) would adopt nonviolent force as the only sane and ultimately successful way of securing and
- [44th Annual Peace Award](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/44th-annual-peace-award/) - Stubborn Hope: Celebrating the Ongoing Struggles for Justice and Peace in Southern Africa Honoring the Work of Dennis Brutus, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), and Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) The Evening WRL wishes to honor the work of Dennis Brutus, WOZA, and GALZ both by hearing about their vital campaigns and activities and
- [Dellinger Lecture 2012: Resisting Racism and Militarism: The Legacy of Bayard Rustin](https://www.warresisters.org/events/event/dellinger-lecture-2012-resisting-racism-and-militarism-the-legacy-of-bayard-rustin/) - Resisting Racism and Militarism: The Legacy of Bayard Rustin With Kenyon Farrow Writer and activist, Communications Director of The Praxis Project, former Executive Director of Queers for Economic Justice Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons Professor, Department of Religion, University of Florida; former SNCC activist; National Council of Elders member and Walter Naegle, Reading

## NVA Articles

- [From Soldier to Objector: Jose Vasquez](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/from-soldier-to-objector-jose-vasquez/) - From Soldier to Objector:Jose Vasquez Interviewed by Francesca Fiorentini and Steve Theberge Born in the Bronx, Jose Vasquez grew up in San Bernadino, Calif. In 1991, a junior in high school, he enlisted in the Army’s Delayed Entry Program. During his four-and-a-half-year tour of duty, Vasquez was stationed in Hawaii, Louisiana, Thailand, Florida, and California.
- [Activist News](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/activist-news-2/) - U.S. Troops in Iraq Say End War in 2006 An overwhelming 72 percent of American troops serving in Iraq think the United States should exit the country within the next year, and more than one in four say the troops should leave immediately, a new Le Moyne College/Zogby International survey shows. The poll, conducted in
- [Counter-Recruiting: Alaska](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/counter-recruiting-alaska/) - This January, in the remote fishing community of Homer, AK, three activists handed out counter-recruitment literature during lunch at the local high school. Holding a “Recruiters Lie” sign, Debby Poore, Hope Finkelstein, and Veterans for Peace (VFP) member, Michael LeMay, stood next to two Marine recruiters stationed at the school. They did not protest the
- [Counter-Recruiting: Montana](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/counter-recruiting-montana/) - Set beside the picturesque Clark Fork River in downtown Missoula, MT, is the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, a veritable hub for local activists, fair traders, organizers, and peacemakers. For 25 years, the members of the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center have been leaders in the Missoula and greater Montana peace community. One of the latest additions
- [Recruiting Latinos](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/recruiting-latinos/) - Facing a drop in African American recruitment numbers, yet still hoping to entice poor people of color, military recruiters are currently working overtime to swell the ranks with young Latinos and Latinas. Latinos are 14 percent of the U.S. population aged 18 to 44 and 14 percent of the active duty military population—up from 9.5
- [Not Showing Up](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/not-showing-up/) - When I was the Southern Region Coordinator for Critical Resistance I once spoke at an event in New Orleans entitled “What Now: War, Occupation, and the Peace Movement.” I was asked specifically to address why more people most adversely affected by systems of oppression were not involved in local antiwar work. Many of the white
- [Busting Myths](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/busting-myths/) - War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to DeathBy Norman Solomon2005, John Wiley & Sons; 314 pages; $24.95, hardcoverIn his latest work, Norman Solomon continues his mission of myth-busting. He shows how mainstream media accede to, or actively cooperate in, constructing a noble narrative of the government’s pure intentions, infallible leaders, and
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/wrl-news/) - WRL Organizers Meet in NC Up until a couple of years ago, the structure of the WRL involved twice-yearly meetings of the elected National Committee plus representatives of each local. But the meetings were primarily concerned with business and the structure didn’t meet the locals’ needs to share organizing ideas. So WRL separated the two
- [Activist News](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/activist-news/) - UFPJ Rejects Future Work With A.N.S.W.E.R. On December 12, the antiwar coalition United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) issued a statement entitled “Ending the War in Iraq, Building a Broad Movement for Peace and Justice, and Our Experience with ANSWER,” in which they announced the steering committee’s decision on December 4 to end future work
- [NVA Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/nva-letters/) - Déjà VuI am deeply troubled by the article written by Bill Weinberg in your Nov-Dec 2005 issue: “The Question of International A.N.S.W.E.R.”As a 72-year-old who remembers the intra-left squabbles of the many “Socialist/Socialist Workers/SPF”groups of the 1950s and how those futile conflicts served mainly to fuel the right-wingers and the Joseph McCarthyite movement of the
- [Beyond Vietnam](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/beyond-vietnam/) - Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. At the heart of their
- [YouthPeace Experiment 3](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/youthpeace-experiment-3/) - by Emily Taylor On the weekend of December 1-3, 21 New England YouthPeace members came together for a conference of discussions and workshops at the Equity Trust center in Voluntown, CT. Among the topics we discussed were violence and nonviolence, racism, homophobia, the struggle to oust the U.S. Navy from Vieques, Puerto Rico, and gender
- [International YouthPeace Week 2000](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/international-youthpeace-week-2000/) - The fourth annual International YouthPeace Week, November 24-December 1, 2000, featured mall and shopping center actions that underlined the relationships among the products people buy (consumerism), the sweatshops that make the products (globalization) and the armies that police the sweatshops (militarism). With a growing youth movement against corporate globalization, International YouthPeace Week allowed young activists
- [Witness Against Torture Marches to Guantánamo](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/witness-against-torture-marches-to-guantanamo/) - Carrying outrage, compassion, and tourist visas, 25 U.S. activists began an 80-mile-march from Santiago, Cuba, on December 5, in the hopes reaching the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay and visiting prisoners detained there under horrific conditions. The activists, drawn largely from Catholic Worker communities across the United States, named their journey “Witness Against Torture,”
- [Lessons from the Global Justice Movement: Policing Dissent](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/lessons-from-the-global-justice-movement-policing-dissent/) - In November 1999, a relatively small number of committed activists took on the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the streets of Seattle and won. In addition to marching, activists devised a tactic of several layers of human blockades—some with fancy gear, others with linked arms. WTO delegates trying to arrive to the first day of
- [Merchant of Death of the Month: Science Applications International](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/merchant-of-death-of-the-month-science-applications-international/) - WANTED:SAI, Inc. Aliases/SubsidiariesBechtel SAIC Corporation LLC, a joint venture with Bechtel to “meet the unique challenge of science and engineering for the Yucca Mountain Project;” ANXeBusiness Corp., a computer corporation; Data Systems & Solutions, a joint venture with Rolls Royce. Corporate HeadquartersSan Diego, CA Primary Products/ServicesEngineering and technical solutions, secret military technologies, flashlights, super computers,
- [The Parameters of Nonviolent Action: WHAT MAKES AN ACTION NONVIOLENT](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/the-parameters-of-nonviolent-action-what-makes-an-action-nonviolent/) - The War Stops HereBy Daniel Berrigan I think that over the years, from the Catonsville Nine to Plowshares, I recall the main discussion being twofold: Spiritual preparation: Time was given to spiritual preparation, to the venting of fear and second thoughts and consequences to family, friends, work undertaken. We realized that everything would change with
- [After Seattle: Globalization and Militarism](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/after-seattle-globalization-and-militarism/) - When nonviolence confronted the World Trade Organization in the streets of Seattle on November 30, 1999, nonviolence won. In the year that followed, protests against corporate-dominated globalization spread around the world from Seattle to Washington, DC, and from Vancouver, Canada, to Davos in Switzerland to Prague, focusing attention on a small group of powerful institutions
- [Election 2000: Campaigning for Real Change](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/election-2000-campaigning-for-real-change/) - Twenty years ago, in 1980, I ran for the presidency as the candidate of the Socialist Party USA, sharing the ticket with Sister Diane Drufenbrock. It was the first time an openly gay candidate had run for president, and certainly the first time a Catholic nun had run for vice president. I enjoyed a vigorous
- [Ruth Benn Leaves WRL Staff](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/ruth-benn-leaves-wrl-staff/) - So Long But Not Good-byeby Ruth Benn In March 1987 I began my “dream job”: I joined the staff of War Resisters League to edit this very publication, the Nonviolent Activist. In March 1993 I decided it was time to do something else; that was the first time I left the WRL staff. Ruth (l.)
- [Privatizing (In)Security](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/privatizing-insecurity/) - Mercenaries are nothing new; people outside of national armies have been fighting and dying for pay since the days of ancient Rome. Now in the midst of another empire’s reign, “private security companies”—as they are benignly called—have been on the rise in the United States for several decades. Under the Bush administration however, they have
- [Activist Editorial: The Parameters of Nonviolent Action](https://www.warresisters.org/nva/activist-editorial-the-parameters-of-nonviolent-action/) - What defines an action as nonviolent? Is it nonviolent to go limp when the police come around to break up a demonstration? To “re-face” billboards by changing their message with paint and paste? To break into a draft board office in the middle of the night and burn its files? To slip onto a military

## Resources

- [Pie Chart Flyers - Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/pie-chart-flyers-where-your-income-tax-money-really-goes/) - The New FY 2026 pie charts are available for order! Order yours now! Or download and print your own Fiscal Year 2026 (Released March 2025) Pie Chart Flyerin English, in color (pdf)in English, black & white (pdf) Dónde Se Realmente Invierten Tus Impuestos: Presupuesto Federal De EE.UU. – Año Fiscal 2026in Spanish, in color (pdf)in
- [Beyond Border Patrol](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/beyond-border-patrol/) - What CBP Recruiters Won't Tell You (the brochure can be included here as an image, with a link to the product on the store) Citations 1 SBCC, Fatal Encounters with CBP since 2010 (Updated Nov. 20, 2025), https://www.southernborder.org/deaths_by_border_patrol 2 Flores v. Garland, Case No. 2:85-cv-04544-DMG-AGR, Doc. 1352 at 41 (“Paul H. Wise Juvenile Care Monitor
- [September 11, 2001 Flyer - "War Is Not The Answer: An Eye for An Eye Makes the Whole World Blind"](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/sept11_antiwar_flyer/) - The policies of militarism pursued by the United States have resulted in millions of deaths, from the historic tragedy of the Indochina war, through the funding of death squads in Central America and Colombia, to the sanctions and air strikes against Iraq. This nation is the largest supplier of “conventional weapons” in the world—and those
- [Learning from the Nashville Campaign Workshop](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/learning-nashville-campaign-worksheet/)
- [Federal Pie Chart Flyers from Past Years](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/federal-pie-chart-flyers-past-years/) - Each year, WRL analyzes federal funds outlays as presented in detailed tables in "Analytical Perspectives" of the Budget of the United States Government. For the current pie chart flyer, go to www.warresisters.org/federalpiechart. Download PDF Files of past Pie Chart Flyers: Fiscal Year 2025 (Released March 2024) Pie Chart Flyer in English, in color (pdf) in
- [Solidarity Banners for Gaza](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/solidarity-banners-for-gaza/) - If you are requesting a banner, please be sure to fill out our online request form here The War Resisters League (WRL) is proud to offer two powerful banner designs to support activism and advocacy efforts concerning the disastrous situation in Gaza. WRL is subsidizing the production of these banners, making them available at a greatly
- ["Notes for a More Coherent Article" by David McReynolds; from WIN - November, 1969](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/notes-more-coherent-article-david-mcreynolds-win-november-1969/) - “I had mixed reactions when I was informed that WIN was coming out with a special issue on the homosexual and his oppressed state in society. I wondered if the time was right for such a step with the Movement. I feared that such an issue might prove divisive and hurt more than it helped.
- [WRL Hiroshima-Nagasaki Exhibit](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/wrl-hiroshima-nagasaki-exhibit/) - This slideshow contains images from an exhibit originally produced in 1995 by the Enola Gay Action Coalition and sponsored by War Resisters League. The exhibit was updated in 2024 by the New York City local of the War Resisters League. Coordinators: Tom Keough and Michael SprongEditorial Committee (1995): Norma Becker, Ruth Benn, Jerry Coffin, Nicole
- [Cultivating Stories through the Practice of Listening: Conducting Oral History Interviews](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/cultivating-stories-through-practice-listening-conducting-oral-history-interviews/)
- [Operation No Recruits, September 8, 2007](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/operation-no-recruits-september-8-2007/) - Excerpt can be added on each resource so that if no content is on the page to create an automatic excerpt, this will show. Also add a featured image if you want that to be on the listing.
- [Hold Up! So You Wanna Be A Cop Workshop](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/hold-so-you-wanna-be-cop-workshop/) - Geared towards young people considering joining the police force and looking for a well-paying job, this workshop breaks down police recruiter lies, as well as the reasons why a young person wants to be a cop in the first place.
- [Hold Up! So You Wanna Be A Cop Workshop](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/hold-so-you-wanna-be-cop-workshop-0/) - so_you_wanna_be_a_cop_workshop1.pdfDownload
- [WRL Endorses Gaza Freedom March](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/wrl-endorses-gaza-freedom-march/) - Join members of WRL in Gaza January 2, 2010 when we march to end the blockade. For more information, see: Gaza Freedom March Register for the march now!
- [Beyond Afghanistan: Choosing Nonviolence](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/beyond-afghanistan-choosing-nonviolence-2/) - WRL released the following statement on April 1. As we approach the April 4 anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s great 1967 “Beyond Vietnam” speech in New York City’s Riverside Church, the War Resisters League reiterates King’s urgent cry for nonviolence and nonviolent resistance. The parallels between the war in Afghanistan and the U.S.
- [Weeping for Gaza: WRL Condemns the Latest Middle East Conflict](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/weeping-gaza-wrl-condemns-latest-middle-east-conflict/) - January 2009 The War Resisters League decries the horror of Gaza with a broken heart and a grief that only strengthens our commitment to the broken rifle, the icon of our 85-year-old organization. The rhetoric justifying violence—for Israel, for Israel’s backers in Washington, for Hamas—is deep and layered and rooted in real grievance and pain.
- [How the Pie Chart Figures Were Determined - FY2012](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/how-pie-chart-figures-were-determined-fy2012/) - How These Figures Were Determined "Current military" includes Dept. of Defense ($707 billion) and the military portion from other departments as noted in current military box above ($162 billion). "Past military" represents veterans' benefits plus 80% of the interest on the debt.* For further explanation, please go to www.warresisters.org. These figures are from an analysis
- [Thoughts on Elections - Matt Meyer](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/thoughts-elections-matt-meyer/) - For those of us working for radical and lasting change, as opposed to just a change in Washington, the significance of the Barak Obama campaign has already occurred. Whatever the outcome on November 4 (and there are many of us doing more than simply hoping that a Black man will soon occupy the White House),
- [Thoughts on Elections - Clare Moen](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/thoughts-elections-clare-moen/) - Any time there is an election, I am reminded that voting is a privilege and not a right. The very folks whose votes many believe would be for the greatest change are the ones who are disenfranchised through incarceration, intimidation, unfair legislation (e.g., requiring citizenship documentation), and more. Some risk losing badly needed jobs if
- [Thoughts on Elections - Liz Roberts](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/thoughts-elections-liz-roberts/) - I think between the elections and the crumbling of the major institutions of capitalism, I can't remember a period when I was as perpetually starved for news all day every day for weeks on end, as I am now. It feels like things are so intense and there are drastic and surprising developments each day.
- [War, Peace, Justice, and the Elections: A WRL Statement](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/war-peace-justice-and-elections-wrl-statement/) - October 16 2008 Like many—perhaps most—advocates for peace and justice, we at the War Resisters League are of more than one mind about the upcoming elections. We come from diverse political perspectives, including varying shades of socialism, anarchism, and reform-oriented liberalism, and have concomitantly diverse opinions within the organization and our membership about whether and
- [A Call to Action: March 19, 2008](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/call-action-march-19-2008/) - March 19, 2008 will mark the beginning of the 6th year of the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. This is the time in which we live. This is our time to respond. WE WILL NOT BE SILENT.
- [On Gandhi's Birthday, 2003](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/gandhis-birthday-2003/) - To Declare Independence: A Letter to People Working for Justice and Peace “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they may seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it —
- [WRL Statement On the Capture of Saddam Hussein](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/wrl-statement-capture-saddam-hussein/) - The media emphasis on the capture of Saddam Hussein repeats one of the fundamental mistakes made by successive U.S. administrations: that Hussein is Iraq. Iraq — as the peace movement has been saying, and as the U.S. occupiers and media are only beginning to discover — is a vast and complex country, and Hussein's capture
- [WRL's 80 Years of Resistance: A Legacy and a Future](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/wrls-80-years-resistance-legacy-and-future/) - By Joanne Sheehan October 19, 2003 Founded in 1923 to support World War I resisters, the War Resisters League turns 80 this week, making it the country's oldest secular peace group. For 80 years, it has supported those who have refused to participate in war. On this occasion, especially now as the country turns to
- [WRL's statement on 9/11](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/wrls-statement-911/) - Statement on September 11 Attack David McReynolds, WRL September 11, 2001 As we write, Manhattan feels under siege, with all bridges, tunnels, and subways closed, and tens of thousands of people walking slowly north from Lower Manhattan. As we sit in our offices here at War Resisters League, our most immediate thoughts are of
- [WRL Endorses Statement Against Global Militarism](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/wrl-endorses-statement-against-global-militarism/) - 12.2.2011 Stop Militarization of Our Communities in the US and Abroad! [The following statement originated from activists in the San Fransisco Bay Area. For further information, contact: bay2egypt [at] gmail.com ] As 2011 gives way to 2012, people’s movements for justice are met with unprecedented global militarization. From Oakland to Egypt, people are demanding democracy and an
- ['Israel's Ruthless Criminality' - WRI statement on attack on Free Gaza Flotilla](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/israels-ruthless-criminality-wri-statement-attack-free-gaza-flotilla/) - War Resisters' International - an international pacifist network with more than 80 affiliates in more than 40 countries - condemns the murderous Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza and calls for an immediate lifting of the blockade on Gaza. The Israeli state has been responsible for many outrages in its history, especially against
- [Movement Building for Allies](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/movement-building-allies/) - Members and organizations of the traditional peace movement have been increasingly coming to recognize the importance not only of partnering and “joining forces” with groups and organizations led primarily by poor people and people of color, but also of taking leadership from those groups and learning how to be effective allies to them through our
- [You Can't Take What's All of Ours! Breaking Down NATO/G8 and Rising Up Against Austerity and Militarism](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/you-cant-take-whats-all-ours-breaking-down-natog8-and-rising-against-austerity-and/) - To mark the NATO summit held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance released a new popular education resource. This participatory workshop explores: The story of NATO and G8: who makes them up, what they do, and
- [One Year After the Egyptian Revolution: Tear Gas and Police Repression](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/one-year-after-egyptian-revolution-tear-gas-and-police-repression/) - Tear gas, policing, and the counter-revolution: January 25 marked one year since the beginning of the Egyptian revolution. One year after the fall of the Mubarak regime, the Egyptian people are still in the streets, calling for an end to the rule of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) that took power after
- [Remembering Bayard Rustin at 100](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/remembering-bayard-rustin-100/) - by Matt Meyer From Waging Nonviolence One hundred years after the birth of human rights icon Bayard Rustin, his complicated legacy pushes us to analyze our own complicated times. Vilified in the 1950s for his open homosexuality and again in the 1960s for “selling out” the radical black liberation movement, Rustin’s own history has been
- [From the WRL Archives on the Centennial of the Life of Bayard Rustin](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/wrl-archives-centennial-life-bayard-rustin/) - View on Slideshare Building Bridges Through Revolutionary Nonviolence: Bayard Rustin and the future of Peace and Freedom from War Resisters League 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of civil rights icon Bayard Rustin, and many groups—from the Quaker-based American Friends Service Committee and inter-faith Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) to the labor federation AFL-CIO
- [WRL Statement on NYPD Surveillance of Activist Groups](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/wrl-statement-nypd-surveillance-activist-groups/) - The War Resisters League is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States. Since 1923, WRL has been nonviolently resisting war at home and abroad. Our philosophy of revolutionary nonviolence demands change at the very roots of our society. Our work has never been just about opposing wars when they happen but also
- [Wall Street = War Street](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/wall-street-war-street/) - Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes - FY2013 (Released in Feb 2012) Once again "mission accomplished" was announced, and the Iraq War was declared over in 2011. U.S. troops are scheduled to leave Afghanistan in 2013, yet Pentagon spending continues virtually unabated. More than 200,000 private contractors, hired by corporations with Pentagon money, carry
- [How the Pie Chart Figures Were Determined - FY2013](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/how-pie-chart-figures-were-determined-fy2013/) - How These Figures Were Determined Because the President is late with the Fiscal Year 2014 budget, and Congress has not passed the FY2013 budget (was to begin Oct. 1, 2012), the figures in the large pie chart are projections from tables in Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2013 (published Feb.
- [FY2012 WRL PIE CHART FLYER - Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/fy2012-wrl-pie-chart-flyer-where-your-income-tax-money-really-goes/) - The War Resisters League spends a lot of time, energy and money to create this resource. Please credit when using. For permissions to reprint, email us at wrl [at] warresisters.org The War Resisters League's famous "pie chart" flyer analyzes the Federal Budget. The Fiscal Year 2012 Pie Chart was released in February 2011. FY2012 PIE
- [Statement on #Occupy from members of the WRL Organizing Network](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/statement-occupy-members-wrl-organizing-network/) - Statement on #Occupy from members of the WRL Organizing Network* Unemployment, foreclosures, businesses closing, millions hungry, the sick who cannot afford a doctor--this is what we have now, and for our children. The economic disaster comes from greed and lust for power. All of us are susceptible to those feelings, but those with money and
- [WRL Endorses US Boat to Gaza](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/wrl-endorses-us-boat-gaza/) - May 2011 From the US Boat to Gaza statement: "This is an important moment in history. In the aftermath of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla massacre and increased world-wide scrutiny of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the Israeli government has mounted a huge public relations campaign spreading the lie that by letting a few more items into
- [Video from April 26 Forum and Book Party for A Saving  Remnant](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/video-april-26-forum-and-book-party-saving-remnant/) - Watch the video from WRL's 2011 Dellinger Lecture on Nonviolence, the Forum and Book Party for Martin Duberman's book A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds
- [WRL's statement for nuclear disarmament](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/wrls-statement-nuclear-disarmament/) - As we approach this weekend's anti-nuclear events and actions which will include a direct action on May 3 to declare Grand Central Station in NYC a nuclear weapons free zone, check out this statement written by members of WRL and South Asia Solidarity Initiative: “No Nukes! Start with U.S.” May 3, 2010 In 1982, the
- [A Letter to the President on the Escalation of War in Afghanistan](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/letter-president-escalation-war-afghanistan/) - June 2010 Dear President Obama, With millions of U.S. people feeling the fear and desperation of no longer having a home; with millions feeling the terror and loss of dignity that comes with unemployment; with millions of our children slipping further into poverty and hunger, your decision to deploy thousands more troops and throw hundreds
- [Act Now to Oppose Obama's Escalation in Afghanistan!](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/act-now-oppose-obamas-escalation-afghanistan/) - NOVEMBER 2009 Help President Obama Make the Right Decision about Afghanistan! More than eight years since the War Resisters League rallied against invading Afghanistan and one month after a coalition of anti-war groups including WRL rallied in Washington DC to say “No to War in Afghanistan, No to Torture and Vengeance,” we are reaching out
- [Beyond Afghanistan: Choosing Nonviolence](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/beyond-afghanistan-choosing-nonviolence/) - As we approach the April 4 anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s great 1967 “Beyond Vietnam” speech in New York City’s Riverside Church, the War Resisters League reiterates King’s urgent cry for nonviolence—and nonviolent resistance. The parallels between the war in Afghanistan and the U.S. war against Vietnam fill us with foreboding. While we
- [Afghanistan](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/afghanistan/) - Letter to the President on the Escalation of War in Afghanistan Act Now to Oppose Obama's Escalation in Afghanistan! Afghanistan Escalation 2009Help President Obama Make the Right Decision about Afghanistan!Beyond Afghanistan: Choosing Nonviolence
- [WRL Pie Chart Resources for Educators and Activists!](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/wrl-pie-chart-resources-educators-and-activists/) - Below are educational resources--from role plays to handouts to conversation starters to group activities--designed to help you put the WRL Tax Day flyer into practice, whether on the street as you hand it out, in community groups, or in classrooms. These were created in partnership with the Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA). Role
- [Bombs and Budgets: Tools for Reclaiming Communities from Militarism](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/bombs-and-budgets-tools-reclaiming-communities-militarism/) - To mark the now decade-long US-led “Global War on Terror,” The War Resisters League and the South Asia Solidarity Initiative have created an interactive, popular eduction-style workshop that explores how organizing against federal military spending relates to and can forward local campaigns for economic justice, as well as how the past decade of war has
- [New Workshop! "Buy 10 Guns, Get 2 Tanks Free"](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/new-workshop-buy-10-guns-get-2-tanks-free/) - Want to stop police militarization in your community? We can’t build a movement without building consciousness. Our new participatory workshop Buy 10 Guns, Get 2 Tanks Free: A Workshop on Resisting Police Militarization is one such building tool. The workshop, co-created with the Ya-Ya Network, highlights the successful cross-community organizing initiated by Oakland, CA’s Stop
- [War Resisters International statement on the situation in Honduras](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/war-resisters-international-statement-situation-honduras/) - 30 June 2009 Latin American antimilitarists reject the coup in Honduras and demand disarmament and reduced military spending We - antimilitarists from different Latin American countries, with the support of the worldwide network War Resisters' International (WRI-IRG) - reject and condemn the coup d'état carried out by the Honduran armed. We oppose the use of
- [Police Militarization: BINGO!](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/police-militarization-bingo/) - Welcome to Police Militarization Bingo! On one side you'll find ideologies and politics that support systems of police militarization. On the other side you'll find counter-points. The numbered box on one side connects to the corresponding box on the other! Download here. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) gave NYC $178 million in 2014 for militarity
- [On U.S. Escalation Against Iraq and Syria](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/us-escalation-against-iraq-and-syria/) - Military Intervention is Not the Solution! In recent months IS has spread a wave of oppression and violence that goes well beyond the headline-catching executions and massacres to affecting millions of Iraqis and Syrians through fear, exploitation and gender-based violence. Now 12 years into the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, we witness how militarism
- [Solidarity with Occupied Ferguson](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/solidarity-occupied-ferguson/) - "No violence, just justice." - Lesley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown. War Resisters League condemns the ongoing militarized lockdown and attack against the community of Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. We are saddened and outraged over the murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson Police, this past Saturday, August 9th. We stand in
- [The Time to Stand with Gaza is Now](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/time-stand-gaza-now/) - On July 8th, Israel unleashed a brutal and sustained military offensive on the people of Gaza, who have already been confined to an open-air prison by the decade-old Israeli blockade and sealing of Gaza's borders. Bombardment from air, land and sea is killing hundreds, displacing tens of thousands more and targeting hospitals as well as
- [FTG Condemns Albuquerque Police Repression](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/ftg-condemns-albuquerque-police-repression/) - WRL's Facing Tear Gas campaign condemns in the strongest terms the Albuquerque Police Department's heavily militarized response to protests against police brutality this past Sunday night, March 30th. We also share in the protestor's shock over the APD's March 16th shooting of James Boyd - the 23rd such killing by the APD since 2012 according
- [WRL's Facing Tear Gas Campaign Condemns Recent Police Violence in Durham, North Carolina](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/wrls-facing-tear-gas-campaign-condemns-recent-police-violence-durham-north-carolina/) - WRL's Facing Tear Gas campaign condemns in the strongest terms the Durham Police Department's use of tear gas against a vigil/march the night of December 19th, 2013 in downtown Durham. The vigil and march were led by family members of Jesus Huerta, 17, who died in police custody this past November 19th - with the
- [WRL Statement  on NYPD Surveillance of Activist Groups](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/wrl-statement-nypd-surveillance-activist-groups-0/) - The War Resisters League is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States. Since 1923, WRL has been nonviolently resisting war at home and abroad. Our philosophy of revolutionary nonviolence demands change at the very roots of our society. Our work has never been just about opposing wars when they happen but also
- [World's #1 Employer Seeks Endless War](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/worlds-1-employer-seeks-endless-war/) - From Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes, FY2014 (Released Feb 2013) Millions of workers in the United States live off the Pentagon and its contracts. The 3.2 million DoD employees include active military, civilians, National Guard, and Reserves. But there are another 600,000 contract employees. About 1,600,000 supply the military with food, health insurance,
- [Reagan, Raids & Robocops](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/reagan-raids-robocops/) - Check out our organizing and training resource, the infographic Reagan, Raids & Robocops: How our communiites became militarized zones designed by designed by ToTheWolves.com Download it here. For more information on this and other infographics, contact Tara at warresisters[dot]org.
- [What is Urban Shield?! Infosheet](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/what-urban-shield-infosheet/) - Urban Shield is on September 11th to 14th: Let's kick Urban Shield out of Pleasanton, CA! Need popular education material to break down what Urban Shield is? Print out this flyer & pass around to your community! [Link to download Infosheet below: Spanish & English available]
- [When Black Life Matters: One Month, One Year](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/when-black-life-matters-one-month-one-year/) - For The Long Struggle Ahead... One month since Charleston massacre; One year since Eric Garner’s murder "An old world is dying, and a new one, kicking in the belly of its mother, time, announces that it is ready to be born. This birth will not be easy, and many of us are doomed to
- [Noncooperation for Liberation](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/noncooperation-liberation/) - From Ferguson and Oakland to New York City and beyond, WRL stands with all political prisoners from this wave of resistance and all those currently targeted by political repression. We are inspired by, in support of, and active in the growing anti-racist and Black liberation movement against the violence of policing. The police and media
- [Stop Urban Shield Rally!](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/stop-urban-shield-rally/) - Urban Shield is the largest SWAT training & war-weapons expo in the world. We will gather on September 11th, across communities, to end it & resist police militarization around the world! Join the Stop Urban Shield Coalition on Sept 11th to say NO to policing, militarization & state violence! WHEN// 4PM on September 11th 2015
- [Police Militarization Chart](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/police-militarization-chart/) - Need a worksheet breaking down what makes up police militarization? Check our resource out here! If you need a police militarization workshop, check this one out!
- [Against All Odds: Organizing & Study Guide](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/against-all-odds-organizing-study-guide/) - Download the Against All Odds: Organizing & Study Guide here. War Resisters League is excited to announce a popular education resource for connecting with Iraqi organizing across borders for activists, organizers and students around the world! We hope this guide supports you in better understanding Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq, as
- [#RefugeesWelcome Chant & Song Sheet](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/refugeeswelcome-chant-song-sheet/) - On December 10th 2015, WRL organized a protest with 50 community organizations in NYC, called Human Rights Trump Oppression, where we stood against growing facisism and in solidarity with Iraqi and Syrian refugees! The Peace Poets led us in songs so our voices would transcend borders. Please use these chant and song sheets to raise
- [NVDA Training Agenda](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/nvda-training-agenda/) - Nonviolence Training: Nonviolent Direct Action Preparation Agenda An annotated agenda for trainers to prepare people who are considering engaging in nonviolent direct action and for people who want to participate in nonviolent actions but not risk arrest. Includes links to handouts and resources. The agenda includes: Exploring what is meant by nonviolent direct action (NVDA)
- [Matrix Exercise: Handout](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/matrix-exercise-handout/) - Need help matching specific tacticswith your objectives to meet your campaign goals? Check out this worksheet, giving a quick & dirty on how to do that when a group hasn't fully decided action plans!
- [Left on Purpose: A Movie on Life & Death, Movements and Mayer](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/left-purpose-movie-life-death-movements-and-mayer/) - Somber tonight, coming home from the truly unusual and important new film Left on Purpose, directed by Justin Schein, which premiered at NYC DOC – the world’s largest festival of documentary cinema. The movie chronicles the life of an acquaintance, Mayer Vishner, whose behind-the-scenes work in the US peace movement was essential to groups such
- [No violence. No exceptions. No exceptionalism.](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/no-violence-no-exceptions-no-exceptionalism/) - As the days that unfold before us mimic a time over a decade ago when the devastating War on Terror began with US occupation of Afghanistan, we mourn because it is makes us human. For those in Raqqa. For those in Tunis. For those in Yola and Kano, in Ankara, in Beirut, in Baghdad, in
- [Non Violent Direct Action Preparation Agenda](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/non-violent-direct-action-preparation-agenda/)
- [Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes // WRL Pie Chart Flyer (Black & White)](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/where-your-income-tax-money-really-goes-wrl-pie-chart-flyer-black-white/)
- [Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes // WRL Pie Chart Flyer (Color)](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/where-your-income-tax-money-really-goes-wrl-pie-chart-flyer-color/)
- [Resources About Tear Gas](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/resources-about-tear-gas/) - Overviews about the tear gas industry: “U.S. Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets Suppress Peaceful Uprisings Around the World” // Click here “Tracking Tear Gas” by OWS Global Justice Working Group // Click here Images & Comics: Click here for a comic in English on Tear Gas Economics and more by Ethan Heitner and the Global
- [Government Targets](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/government-targets/) - U.S. Police Departments & Police Chiefs Police chiefs are the head of police departments that are responsible for abuses involving tear gas or pepper spray across the U.S., from the use of tear gas and pepper spray against Occupy protesters in Oakland, Portland, and Seattle to its use as a routine element of police intimidation
- [Stop NTOA Factsheet Page 1](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/stop-ntoa-factsheet-page-1/)
- [Letter to House Committee on Appropriations: Cut UASI funding! PDF](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/letter-house-committee-appropriations-cut-uasi-funding-pdf/)
- [PDF: Letter to Senate Committee on Appropriations: Cut UASI funding!](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/pdf-letter-senate-committee-appropriations-cut-uasi-funding/)
- [Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes // WRL Pie Chart Flyer FY2017 in Spanish, color](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/where-your-income-tax-money-really-goes-wrl-pie-chart-flyer-fy2017-spanish-color/)
- [Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes // WRL Pie Chart Flyer FY2017 in Spanish, black and white](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/where-your-income-tax-money-really-goes-wrl-pie-chart-flyer-fy2017-spanish-black-and-white/)
- [Stop NTOA Factsheet Page 2](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/stop-ntoa-factsheet-page-2/)
- [Steps in a Campaign](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/steps-campaign/) - “Steps in a Campaign” is a resource that can be used in many ways, depending on the needs of the group. It is intended to help people move together in a non-hierarchicial, inclussive process to a deeper understanding of how to develop effective campaign strategies. A facilitator should assist them through the process, using the
- [#noSWATzone Stands with #NoDAPL Water Protectors](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/noswatzone-stands-nodapl-water-protectors/) - #noSWATzone Stands with #NoDAPL Water Protectors WRL’s #noSWATzone campaign celebrates the Water Protectors of the #NoDAPL movement in their continued struggle against settler colonial violence. We condemn in the strongest terms the ongoing and escalating militarized repression from private security forces and police, converging on Standing Rock from Wisconsin, Indiana, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming
- [Shipment: Halted! Congrats to Bahrain](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/shipment-halted-congrats-bahrain/) - Victory! After hundreds of calls and over 390,000 emails sent by people in Bahrain and around the world about the dangers of tear gas and the ongoing brutal policing of pro-democracy protesters, the government of South Korea has decided to deny export licenses for a shipment of 3 million tear gas canisters to Bahrain. This
- [From Egypt: "Neccessary Clothing & Accessories"](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/egypt-neccessary-clothing-accessories/) - From Egypt: "Neccessary Clothing & Accessories"
- [Witness: "10 Tips for Filming Protests, Demonstrations & Police Conduct"](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/witness-10-tips-filming-protests-demonstrations-police-conduct/) - Witness: "10 Tips for Filming Protests, Demonstrations & Police Conduct"
- [Hong Kong "Safety Guide to Tear Gas Exposure"](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/hong-kong-safety-guide-tear-gas-exposure/) - Hong Kong "Safety Guide to Tear Gas Exposure"
- [Stefan Verstappen "Police State: Protester's Emergency Kit"](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/stefan-verstappen-police-state-protesters-emergency-kit/) - Stefan Verstappen "Police State: Protester's Emergency Kit" from The Art of Urban Survival
- ["Self-Care for Trauma, Grief + Depression" Flyer](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/self-care-trauma-grief-depression-flyer/) - #BlackLivesMatter Flyer "Self-Care for Trauma, Grief + Depression"
- [From US Occupy Wall Street: "Defending Against Tear Gas"](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/us-occupy-wall-street-defending-against-tear-gas/) - From US Occupy Wall Street: "Defending Against Tear Gas"
- [Tear gas is NOT nonlethal: ways to resist US tear gas shipments](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/tear-gas-not-nonlethal-ways-resist-us-tear-gas-shipments/) - March 14th, 2014 - "Tear gas is NOT nonlethal: ways to resist US tear gas shipments" Five years ago this week, Tristan Anderson, from Oakland, California was critically wounded in the Palestinian village of Ni’lin after Israeli forces shot him in the head with a high-powered tear-gas canister as Israeli forces attacked a demonstration
- [Solidarity with #direngeziparki and the people of Turkey](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/solidarity-direngeziparki-and-people-turkey/) - June 4th, 2013 - Solidarity with #direngeziparki and the people of Turkey Over the past several days, Turkey has seen some of its largest mass mobilizations in years. Protesters are pouring into Taksim Square, Gezi Park, and other public spaces throughout the country in the thousands to reject neoliberalism and government-backed urban gentrification. As they
- [United States of Emergency: from Ferguson to Jalalabad](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/united-states-emergency-ferguson-jalalabad/) - For over 100 days, Black community members in Ferguson, Missouri, have led a movement for justice--coming out every single night in response to the murder of Michael Brown. Today, 400 National Guard troop members stand ready—under the “state of emergency” banner— as a militarized force ready to repress and intimidate a nonviolent resistance movement. This “state
- [Make the Road New York's Factsheet on Executive Orders “Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/make-road-new-yorks-factsheet-executive-orders-protecting-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry/)
- [Consensus Decision Making Handout](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/consensus-decision-making-handout/)
- [Legal Support](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/legal-support/)
- [Affinity Group Handout](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/affinity-group-handout/)
- [Introduction to NVDA Agenda](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/introduction-nvda-agenda/)
- [Do's + Don't's Handout](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/dos-donts-handout/)
- [The Intersections of MLK's Triple Threats Exercise](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/intersections-mlks-triple-threats-exercise/)
- [Make The Road New York's Factsheet on Executive Orders “Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements” and “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States.”](https://www.warresisters.org/resources/make-road-new-yorks-factsheet-executive-orders-border-security-and-immigration/)

## WIN Articles

- [People’s Poetry: Rap Music in Social Justice Curriculum](https://www.warresisters.org/win/peoples-poetry-rap-music-social-justice-curriculum/) - “The revolution’s here, the revolution is personal.” —Talib Kweli, “Beautiful Struggle” I have a wonderful, multidimensional trade. As a Vermont English teacher, I am accountable to the State of Vermont for designing curriculum and assessing students using state standards. For example, a lesson plan might be guided by an objective like “5.11 Literary Elements and
- [The Other Lebanon: Grassroots and Civil Society Thrive](https://www.warresisters.org/win/other-lebanon-grassroots-and-civil-society-thrive/) - Lebanon is currently facing one of the most difficult periods of its history. A country known for its instability and civil wars, Lebanon has yet to overcome the postcolonial legacy of a country divided between 18 religious sects and ethnic groups, which include Christian, Sunni and Shia Muslim, Druze, and Armenian. In addition, the
- [Karl Bissinger: A Retrospective](https://www.warresisters.org/win/karl-bissinger-retrospective/) - Karl Bissinger: Hope, No Matter What A shorter version of this article was printed in the winter issue of WIN as a memorial to Karl, who died on November 19, 2008, shortly after his 94th birthday. For Karl Bissinger, the road to the War Resisters League and the Peace Pentagon was a long and winding
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-6/) - WRL: 90 Years to No More Warby Matt Meyer, Photos by Ed Hedemann WRL started calling it a Gala, but the more we worked on it, the more it became a BASH! To conclude our 90th anniversary celebrations, we rented out the penthouse of progressive trade union 1199/SEIU—with a spectacular view of the Manhattan skyline
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-4/) - Defending ‘Grace’ In response to the persnickety review of our documentary Grace by Judith Mahoney Pasternak (WIN, fall 2010), I leave her to her opinions, but want to correct some of her inaccuracies. First, a documentary can certainly be a tribute to someone—many, many have been. And, in turn, a tribute can be in the
- [Editorial](https://www.warresisters.org/win/editorial/) - “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” This claim, borrowed from German political theorist Carl von Clausewitz, is arguably repeated with the same frequency at which it is misunderstood. In the opening chapter of Multitude, the second collaborative work by literary theorist Michael Hardt and political philosopher Antonio Negri, one finds an
- [On the Militarization of the Police: An Interview with Kristian Williams](https://www.warresisters.org/win/militarization-police-interview-kristian-williams/) - Kristian Williams is an anarchist activist, public intellectual and has been a supporter of the struggles of oppressed peoples for decades. He wrote Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America and American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination and co-edited Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency. He has dedicated the last two decades
- [Exporting Repression: From Occupied Palestine to Brazil](https://www.warresisters.org/win/exporting-repression-occupied-palestine-brazil/) - Photos by Mídia Ninja On 12 April, Rio police invaded the Engenho Novo favela to enforce a court order evicting 5,000 squatters occupying the abandoned Telerj industrial complex near the legendary Maracanã football stadium. Some of the evictees resisted fiercely, confronting the invading force with sticks, stones and Molotov cocktails, setting numerous vehicles alight including
- [Austerity, Policing, and Profit: Is Greece a Glimpse at Europe’s Future?](https://www.warresisters.org/win/austerity-policing-and-profit-greece-glimpse-europes-future/) - Photos by Georgios Giannopoulos “If I saw you sitting there a few years ago, I’d be afraid of you. Maybe more than you would be of me. We’re told you all carry knives and will throw molotovs at us. It’s all changed since I moved out here, the brainwash has worn off”. These words were
- [No One Is Disposable: An Organizer from Boston Black and Pink Speaks](https://www.warresisters.org/win/no-one-disposable-organizer-boston-black-and-pink-speaks/) - On May 4th, 2014, a new cross-movement formation called STOMP (Stop Oppressive Militarized Policing) held a community speak-out in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. That same weekend, Boston was host to “Urban Shield” - a massive, annual SWAT training that brings to together police agencies from across Massachusetts to try out the latest militarized tactics and
- [#BlackLivesMatter: A Quiet Renaissance for Nonviolent Resistance?](https://www.warresisters.org/win/blacklivesmatter-quiet-renaissance-nonviolent-resistance/) - On August 9th of 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot dead by white police officer Darren Wilson, in the majority-black suburb of St. Louis, MO, Ferguson. Brown was unarmed, and according to multiple witnesses had his hands raised when Wilson fired the final shot. The salient features were emblematic of a longstanding, simmering crisis in
- [BOOK REVIEW: The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI Knopf](https://www.warresisters.org/win/book-review-burglary-discovery-j-edgar-hoovers-secret-fbi-knopf/) - Ordinary People The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI Knopf Doubleday, 2014 by Betty Medsger Reviewed by Rosalie G. Riegle Read this book! Nothing any review can say will substitute for the stunning accumulation of evidence of our government’s surveillance presented in Betty Medsger’s The Burglary. Read and then ask the questions
- [BOOK REVIEW: One Game at a Time: Why Sports Matter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/book-review-one-game-time-why-sports-matter/) - A World in Which Many Worlds Collide One Game at a Time: Why Sports Matter AK Press, 2014 by Matt Hern Reviewed by Joshua Stephens What with the ongoing, growing challenges to the Washington NFL team’s racist name and iconography, alongside scandals around everything from epidemic traumatic brain injuries within the sport, to the
- [The Burning of Paper Instead of Children](https://www.warresisters.org/win/burning-paper-instead-children/) - Even as a kid, Shawn Peters was fascinated by the story of the Catonsville Nine, the first group of resisters to burn draft files during the Vietnam War. Growing up in Catonsville and schooled by conservative nuns who denounced the group, he learned how they awaited arrest for their action and used their trial
- [Reporting Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/win/reporting-resistance/) - This collection of short pieces is like an extravagant smorgasbord: a large number of disparate items, many of them fabulous and leaving readers hungry for more similar morsels but others well past their prime and too many of them insufficiently described for the novice grazer. The pieces seem to be three years' worth of
- [Arab America: Moving Forward and Going Back](https://www.warresisters.org/win/arab-america-moving-forward-and-going-back/) - The concept of organization is central to any study of the contemporary history of Arab organizing in the Bay Area. Nadine Naber’s Arab America surveys the various forms of organization associated with immigration patterns, social rup- tures, reactions to state repression, identity, and religious-based liberatory politics within Arab and Muslim organizing from the 1970s
- [The Housing Monster](https://www.warresisters.org/win/housing-monster/) - Every Town is a Company Town The Housing Monster By prole.info 2012, Pm Press, 165 pages, $14.95 This small book is crammed full of powerful critiques of the financing, production, and consumption of housing under capitalism. Similar to other publications authored by prole.info, the text is accompanied on every page with striking black-and-white drawings that
- [Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left](https://www.warresisters.org/win/howard-zinn-life-left/) - A Man of Hope Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left By Martin Duberman 2012, New Press, 400 pages, $26.95 Howard Zinn (1922–2010) lived through and participated in two of the most important social movements of the 20th century: the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement. Born into poverty, Zinn was thrown into
- [Witness to Guantánamo](https://www.warresisters.org/win/witness-guantanamo/) - Guantánamo Witnesses Speak Witness to Guantánamo Project Years of challenges to the offshore torture facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have failed to overcome U.S. government intransigence, and no shutdown of the detention camp as promised by President Barack Obama appears likely. Established in 2002 by the administration of George W. Bush and maintained under Obama,
- [Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia-Abu Jamal](https://www.warresisters.org/win/long-distance-revolutionary-journey-mumia-abu-jamal/) - Mumia’s Journey Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia-Abu Jamal Directed by Stephen Vittoria Opens February 1, 2013 First Run Features, 120 minutes Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal is a compelling documentary about a riveting historical figure — a passionate, partisan, and persuasive intervention in the not-at-all “free marketplace of ideas.” Abu-Jamal
- [Review: Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and Community](https://www.warresisters.org/win/review-doing-time-peace-resistance-family-and-community/) - Doing Time for Peace:Resistance, Family, and CommunityEdited by Rosalie G. Riegle2012, Vanderbilt University Press,408 pages, $29.95 paperback This is oral history at its most inspiring, stories of people who have willingly gone to prison for declaring war on war, told in their own words and in the words of their partners, their children, and the
- [Responsibility Is the New Justice?](https://www.warresisters.org/win/responsibility-new-justice/) - Student Activists Say “No!” This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to
- [Teaching Against War, for Humanity](https://www.warresisters.org/win/teaching-against-war-humanity/) - Wars? What wars? On the eve of the U.S. midterm elections, WikiLeaks released the largest cache of classified war documents in history, covering years of U.S. conduct in Iraq. And, as Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman pointed out, “It barely warranted a mention on the agenda-setting Sunday talk shows.” As columnist Gary Younge commented in
- [The End of Public Education](https://www.warresisters.org/win/end-public-education/) - And the New American Revolution Though we may not like to admit it, the U.S. commitment to publicly supported teachers and students is coming to an abrupt end. The global corporate penchant for privatization, commoditization, and enclosure is having chilling effects on policies that scholar Henry Giroux suggests “seek nothing less than the total destruction
- [Beyond Protest: Rethinking Solutions](https://www.warresisters.org/win/beyond-protest-rethinking-solutions/) - Photos by Colin M. Lenton Singing during a different era, Gil Scott-Heron claimed that “the revolution will not be televised,” but in the case of Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools, or the Rethinkers, the revolution is being televised. The Rethinkers, a group of motivated middle-school students from New Orleans, are creating their own revolution within
- [No Transportation, No Education](https://www.warresisters.org/win/no-transportation-no-education/) - Photos by Jason Masten When budget cuts threatened the program that provides transportation for New York City schoolchildren, Urban Youth Collaborative organized students to fight back. Without the student MetroCard program, which provides free public transportation to and from school, New York City K–12 students living in zones where the schools are severely overcrowded and
- [BOOK REVIEW: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara](https://www.warresisters.org/win/book-review-midnight-mavi-marmara/) - What the Massacre Means Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict Edited by Moustafa Bayoumi OR Books, 2010, 256 pages, $16 On May 31, 2010, Israeli commandos boarded ships that were attempting to break Israel’s crippling blockade of Gaza. On
- [BOOK REVIEW: To Everything There Is a Season](https://www.warresisters.org/win/book-review-everything-there-season/) - Singing Solo, But Not Alone ‘To Everything There Is a Season’: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song By Allan M. Winkler Oxford University Press, 2009, 256 pages, $23.95 From a gangly 20-year-old to a still-skinny nonagenarian, Pete Seeger has always been a phenomenon. Allan Winkler’s detailed yet accessible book places Seeger’s long life and
- [WRL Local Report](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-local-report/) - Peace activists in Oklahoma don’t often expect to find themselves in the middle of an international story, much less one involving war crimes, global diplomacy, and a GI suspected of leaking a record number of classified documents. But that’s what happened when Oklahoma native Bradley Manning was arrested on suspicion of leaking the “Collateral
- [WIN News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-news-11/) - The Gaza Freedom March in Cairo More than 1,000 people from 40-plus countries gathered in Cairo just after Christmas, headed for a December 31 march in Gaza to commemorate Israel’s attack on Gaza in December of 2008 and to demand an end to the blockade of the besieged territory. Only a handful—80-odd—reached Gaza. The rest,
- [Talkin’ Union: 3,000 Years of Nonviolent Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/win/talkin-union-3000-years-nonviolent-resistance/) - "We are dying,” wrote a group of 12th-century B.C.E. workers to their bosses, in a collective plea for their overdue pay. When they got no response, they committed history’s first known act of nonviolent resistance. At the time, the pharaohs of ancient Egypt were having the great tombs built for themselves near their capital at
- [One Year Later: The Republic Windows Story](https://www.warresisters.org/win/one-year-later-republic-windows-story/) - A year has passed since what Illinois Congressmember Luis Gutierrez described as “a Chicago Christmas Carol”: the factory occupation by 250 workers at Republic Windows and Doors on Goose Island in the Chicago River, an action that captured international attention and provided a stirring victory for workers during a season otherwise characterized by economic pain,
- [The UK’s Red and Green Revolt](https://www.warresisters.org/win/uks-red-and-green-revolt/) - After 18 days of barricading themselves inside Vestas Windsystems on the Isle of Wight, six wind turbine workers protesting the factory’s closure were finally forced to end their occupation. Hundreds of supporters stood outside the factory gates on August 7, watching as the court-ordered bailiffs arrived with a warrant to repossess the property. Refusing to
- [Workplace Resistance & Self-Management: Strategic Lessons from Latin America](https://www.warresisters.org/win/workplace-resistance-self-management-strategic-lessons-latin-america/) - As unemployment figures creep up past 10 percent in the United States and Europe, workers are scrambling to find solutions to joblessness. Around the world, the phenomenon of worker occupations and boss-napping has spread as desperate workers resort to direct action at the workplace to prevent companies from firing them and liquidating assets. Workers
- [Young People Take Charge](https://www.warresisters.org/win/young-people-take-charge/) - "When I was in high school, recruiters seemed to be everywhere: at the school, calling at home, at the mall. I was raised by a single mom and had a twin sister looking at college, too, and I didn’t know what my options were to pay for college and to find work,” says Terri
- [US Labor Against the War: Building International Solidarity for Peace](https://www.warresisters.org/win/us-labor-against-war-building-international-solidarity-peace/) - In October 2003, prior to its founding assembly, a delegation from U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) went to Baghdad to meet with Iraqi trade unionists and tour union workplaces—the first postwar international labor delegation to go to Iraq. Delegates learned that unions have had an important history in 20th-century Iraq, starting with the
- [The Triple Bottom Line: Green-Collar Jobs](https://www.warresisters.org/win/triple-bottom-line-green-collar-jobs/) - Over the past few decades, the decline of industry has meant lower wages and uncertain employment for a growing number of U.S. workers. Yet communities across the country are being revived by a growing job market in clean energy and energy efficiency. These green-collar jobs offer simultaneous solutions to several of the nation’s most
- [Death and Taxes](https://www.warresisters.org/win/death-and-taxes/) - NOT SO CERTAIN By Calvin Rey Moen Death and Taxes Produced by the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee 2010, 30 minutes, $10–$20 sliding scale What if we all stopped paying taxes? That’s the question Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings pose in the first few minutes of this engaging short film by the National War
- [A Legislative Agenda for the First 100 Days](https://www.warresisters.org/win/legislative-agenda-first-100-days/) - A Legislative Agenda for the First 100 Days Let’s imagine that, after several months of drafting, the final touches are being placed on what has come to be known as The First 100 Days: A Working People’s Agenda for the First 100 Days of the Incoming Democratic Administration. This project has identified several key
- [Actually, It’s the System, Stupid](https://www.warresisters.org/win/actually-its-system-stupid/) - At the capitalist system’s core lies its central conflict. On one side, corporate boards of directors pursue ever more surplus extracted from productive workers. On the other side, workers seek ever more wages and benefits and better working conditions that reduce the surplus available to employers. Perpetual class conflict results between capitalists and workers
- [Crisis of Contradiction](https://www.warresisters.org/win/crisis-contradiction/) - Banking should be rather like an old-style utility—something so essential to all of us that it should be regulated like electricity used to be before the preposterous experiment with utility deregulation. And if the government is bailing out and nationalizing banks and other financial intermediaries, why not keep some of them in the public
- [A People’s Economic Recovery](https://www.warresisters.org/win/peoples-economic-recovery/) - The current economic crisis people are facing in this country—especially the millions of workers losing their jobs, the unemployed and underemployed who can’t find work, and the millions of families facing eviction from their home—offers plenty of opportunities for the change President-elect Obama has promised the nation. Given that one of the root causes
- [Breaking the Economic Race Barrier](https://www.warresisters.org/win/breaking-economic-race-barrier/) - One danger in a time of disaster is to lose sight of recent lessons. For example, the growth of economic inequality during the last 30 years has completely disproved the myth that a rising economic tide lifts all boats. Instead, we learned that some boats can be lifted spectacularly high, while others sink deeper
- [Beyond War: A New Economy is Possible!](https://www.warresisters.org/win/beyond-war-new-economy-possible/) - We celebrate a moment when hope is replacing cynicism about political change because of the transition from an administration with a policy of endless war to one that promises a foreign policy based on diplomacy. People are hopeful about new possibilities in domestic and foreign policy under the Obama administration, but they also worry
- [Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan](https://www.warresisters.org/win/winter-soldier-iraq-and-afghanistan/) - A Call to Conscience Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations by Iraq Veterans Against the War and Aaron Glantz Haymarket Books, 2008, 240 pages, $16.00 Heart-rending, shocking and awful, tear-jerking, infuriating, and guilt-inducing, Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan is difficult, even painful, to read. This compilation of some of the testimonies
- [Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System](https://www.warresisters.org/win/stuffed-starved-hidden-battle-world-food-system/) - Food Chained Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System By Raj Patel Melville House Publishing 2007, 398 pages, $19.95 In an absurdist Monty Python skit, Graham Chapman asks to have “eggs, bacon, Spam, and sausage without the Spam.” To which Terry Jones replies, “You can’t have eggs, bacon, Spam, and sausage
- [Witness Against Torture: The Campaign to Shut Down Guantánamo](https://www.warresisters.org/win/witness-against-torture-campaign-shut-down-guantánamo/) - Shut it Down Witness Against Torture: The Campaign to Shut Down Guantánamo Edited by Anna Brown, Matthew Daloisio, Michael Foley, Patrick Stanley, and Matthew Vogel Yellow Bike Press, 2008, 164 pages, $15–$25 As the history books are written, few words or places will symbolize the Bush years more than “torture” or Guantánamo. While much of
- [Come Together: Imagine Peace](https://www.warresisters.org/win/come-together-imagine-peace/) - Flower, Peace Come Together: Imagine Peace Edited by Philip Metres, Ann Smith, and Larry Smith Bottom Dog Press, 2008 205 pages, $18 (paperback) Some say a fleet of ships is the loveliest vision on this dark earth, but I say it’s The one you love most. —Sappho (625–570 B.C.E.) So sang Sappho, Greece’s “Tenth Muse,”
- [Make Levees, Not War!](https://www.warresisters.org/win/make-levees-not-war/) - Make Levees, Not War! "I like the War Resisters League,” proclaimed Grammy Award-winning folk-country icon Steve Earle at the WRL’s 2008 annual peace award event, “because you’re about constant vigilance against any war, for any reason … anywhere in the world!” Earle headlined an all-star concert at Brooklyn’s Lyceum on December 12, 2008, in an
- [Capitalism’s Burning House: An Interview with John Bellamy Foster](https://www.warresisters.org/win/capitalisms-burning-house-interview-john-bellamy-foster/) - According to a quotation by Jim Reid that you and Fred Magdoff included in your article entitled “Financial Implosion and Stagnation” (Monthly Review, December 2008), the U.S. financial sector has made around $1.2 trillion of “excess” profits in the last decade relative to nominal GDP. How has the structure of the capital economy contributed
- [Debt Cancellation and Economic Justice for the World’s Poor](https://www.warresisters.org/win/debt-cancellation-and-economic-justice-worlds-poor/) - This winter, many in the United States are struggling harder to put food on the table, to hold on to a job, to secure a warm home month-to-month. For many, debts have become harder to pay, and some are faced with a wrenching choice between paying the mortgage and paying for food or heat. In
- [Grace Paley: An Appreciation](https://www.warresisters.org/win/grace-paley-appreciation/) - Grace Paley’s place in the history books is hers alone, and unlikely ever to be matched. In the canon of U.S. literature, no writer has ever risen so high while compiling such a long and honorable arrest record in the cause of peace; in the history of U.S. resistance, no activist has reaped nearly as
- [Negating Nonviolence: A Review Essay](https://www.warresisters.org/win/negating-nonviolence-review-essay/) - How Nonviolence Protects the State By Peter Gelderloos South End Press, 2007, 182 pages, $10 The Logic of Political Violence: Lessons in Reform and Revolution By Craig Rosebraugh Arissa Media Group, 2003, 288 pages, $17.95 Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America By Ward Churchill Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 1998,
- [In the Valley of Elah](https://www.warresisters.org/win/valley-elah/) - The Casualties at Home In the Valley of Elah Directed by Paul Haggis 2007, Warner Independent Pictures, 120 minutes Based on actual events during the first year of this Iraq war, In the Valley of Elah is the gripping story of Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones), a retired military police officer living in Tennessee, who
- [We’ll Never Turn Back](https://www.warresisters.org/win/well-never-turn-back/) - Mavis Staples Sings Her Own Time Mavis Staples We’ll Never Turn Back 2007, Anti Records, $18.98 Smart enough to reject a Bob Dylan marriage proposal back in the day, Mavis Staples endures. With her latest record, featuring selections from the Black Freedom Movement songbook, she cosmically plays with time—while transporting us to a bygone cultural
- [Field Report](https://www.warresisters.org/win/field-report/) - SUPPORT THE TROOPS Since coming on board with the League in April, I’ve been meeting with peace and justice organizers across the country (including WRL locals), hearing about what’s working, what’s not, and what’s needed at the local level. One of the assessment questions I’ve been asking folks is about the role of antiwar
- [Last Will and Testament](https://www.warresisters.org/win/last-will-and-testament/) - When they tell you I’m not a prisoner don’t believe them. They’ll have to admit it someday. When they tell you they released me don’t believe them. They’ll have to admit it’s a lie someday. When they tell you I betrayed the party don’t believe them. They’ll have to admit I was loyal someday.
- [Outcast](https://www.warresisters.org/win/outcast/) - A Life Disappointed Outcast By Shimon Ballas Translation by Ammiel Alcalay and Oz Shelach City Lights, 2007 308 pages, $13.95 “Relations with Iran are getting complicated.” Just one of many resonant lines in Shimon Ballas’ latest novel that brings to mind contemporary events. Written in Hebrew and recently translated into English, Outcast is the
- [Guernica and Total War](https://www.warresisters.org/win/guernica-and-total-war/) - Before Shock and Awe Guernica and Total War By Ian Patterson Harvard University Press, 2007 208 pages, $22.95 The bombing of cities large and small, the murder and terrorization of women, children and noncombatant men did not begin on April 26, 1937, when the German Luftwaffe and subordinate Italian forces, supporting Franco in the Spanish
- [The Camden 28](https://www.warresisters.org/win/camden-28/) - Tribulation on Trial The Camden 28 Directed by Anthony Giacchino 2007, First Running Features, 83 minutes On the night of August 21, 1971, a group of antiwar activists broke into the federal draft board office in Camden, N.J., armed with ladders, drills, and 12 canvas bags. Their intent was to remove and destroy Selective Service
- [Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrakhzad](https://www.warresisters.org/win/sin-selected-poems-forugh-farrakhzad/) - Come with me to that star… where no one is afraid of the light Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrakhzad Translation by Sholeh Wolpe University of Arkansas Press, 2007 160 pages, $22.95 And here I am, a lonely woman on the threshold of a cold season at the dawn of realizing earth’s sullied existence and
- [The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America](https://www.warresisters.org/win/terror-dream-fear-and-fantasy-post-911-america/) - Empire’s Damsels The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi Metropolitan Books, 2007 368 pages, $26 With her latest offering Susan Faludi, author of Backlash and Stiffed, draws upon her previous insights into the causes and consequences of the antifeminist backlash of the last three decades, applying them to the era
- [Poems from Guantanamo](https://www.warresisters.org/win/poems-guantanamo/) - Humiliated Bodies, Resilient Voices by Gloria Williams Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak Edited by Marc Falkoff University of Iowa Press, 2007 84 pages, $13.95 Imagine being 14 years old when you arrive in Pakistan to learn English and study informational technology. Then imagine being arrested, tortured and taken to Guantanamo Bay as an “enemy
- [Revival](https://www.warresisters.org/win/revival/) - His band ain’t playing Hail to the Chief Revival John Fogerty 2007, Fantasy Records, $17.98 John Fogerty’s material has always drawn on the mythology of the common men and women in this fair country. Whether writing about the bullfrog down by the Green River or expressing a workingman’s scorn for the rich who send the
- [Cion](https://www.warresisters.org/win/cion/) - Life Among the (not-Quite) Native Ohioans Cion by Zakes Mda Picador, 2007, 320 pages, $14 In his first novel Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda introduced readers to Toloki, a poor man living in an unnamed South African city who decides to take up mourning professionally. In exchange for coins, Toloki wanders from one funeral to
- [Strategies to Stop the Merchants of Death](https://www.warresisters.org/win/strategies-stop-merchants-death/) - Reflections on the Stopping the Merchants of Death Strategic Conference Gathered in the lobby at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, the participants arriving for the Stopping Merchants of Death (SMoD) Strategic Conference looked pretty innocuous. Except for the telltale signs of stacks of WIN Magazine and various other pamphlets and literature, one
- [Toward Nuclear Abolition: North Korea Puts Non-Proliferation to the Test](https://www.warresisters.org/win/toward-nuclear-abolition-north-korea-puts-non-proliferation-test/) - Shortly after North Korea’s October 9 nuclear weapons test, Condoleeza Rice issued a thinly veiled threat of nuclear assault against the latest member of the Mushroom Club. “The United States has the will and the capability,” she declared during an October 18 visit to Tokyo, “to meet the full range — and I underscore
- [Nuclear Disarmament, Not Non-Proliferation](https://www.warresisters.org/win/nuclear-disarmament-not-non-proliferation/) - In recent years, the nuclear crises — both real and imagined — in Iran, Iraq, and North Korea have underscored the ongoing threat posed by nuclear weapons, which remains undiminished despite the end of the Cold War more than a decade and a half ago. Mainstream discourse on this issue is often couched in
- [Unarmed but Dangerous: Violence and Self-Defense in the Oaxaca Uprising](https://www.warresisters.org/win/unarmed-dangerous-violence-and-self-defense-oaxaca-uprising/) - On May 22, the Oaxaca state Section 22 of the National Union of Education Workers went on strike, calling its 70,000 teachers to set up a protest camp in Oaxaca City’s town square, or Zócalo. Section 22 has been striking annually for 26 years, demanding better pay and a higher education budget for school
- [Beyond Oaxaca: Popular Resistance in Mexico](https://www.warresisters.org/win/beyond-oaxaca-popular-resistance-mexico/) - Originally published in the January/February issue of Left Turn magazine. 2005 June - The Zapatistas, an indigenous movement based in Chiapas, release the “Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle,” proposing the building of a national and worldwide non-electoral, anti-capitalist movement “from below and to the left.” September 16 - One hundred sixty-two social organizations;
- [Merchant of Death: Textron](https://www.warresisters.org/win/merchant-death-textron/) - Landmines ‘R’ Us Textron started in 1923 as a small textile company. During World War II it supplied the military with parachutes and landing boats. After the war, the company became known for its bed linens and lingerie. Decades later, Textron has grown to encompass everything from EZ-Go golf carts and boats to recreational Cessna
- [Enemy Combatant](https://www.warresisters.org/win/enemy-combatant/) - Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantánamo, Bagram and Kandahar by Moazaam Begg The New Press, 2006 397 pages. $26.95, hardcover Everyone who is concerned about human rights, indefinite imprisonment, the U.S. policy of torture at off-shore prisons, and the now defunct right to a writ of habeas corpus, will want to read this book. Inside
- [Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid](https://www.warresisters.org/win/palestine-peace-not-apartheid/) - Moving the Middle Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter Simon & Schuster, 2006. 264 pages; $27, hardcover Despite anything you may have read to the contrary, former President Jimmy Carter’s latest book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, continues his own and the 20th-century tradition of Christian support for Israel. (Carter, for those who have forgotten,
- [Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight](https://www.warresisters.org/win/conspiracy-streets-extraordinary-trial-chicago-eight/) - Judgement Day Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight Edited by Jon Wiener New Press, 2006 304 pages; $16.95, paperback Memory fades, so it’s back to the historical record to explain the great Chicago Conspiracy trial of 1969-70. Eight antiwar activists were charged by the federal government with conspiracy to organize
- [Time is Tight: Urgent Tasks for Educational Transformation in Eritrea, South Africa, and the United States](https://www.warresisters.org/win/time-tight-urgent-tasks-educational-transformation-eritrea-south-africa-and/) - Transformations Time is Tight: Urgent Tasks for Educational Transformation in Eritrea, South Africa, and the United States By Matt Meyer Africa World Press, 2006 $24.95; 222 pages, paperback We all know many problems with education in the United States - police and violence in the schools, drop-out rates, the standardized test score gap between students
- [Revisiting the Manifesto for Nonviolent Revolution](https://www.warresisters.org/win/revisiting-manifesto-nonviolent-revolution/) - This is the first installment of a planned series on George Lakey’s 1976 “A Manifesto for Nonviolent Revolution.” The manifesto, commissioned by the War Resisters International and published as a full issue of the original WIN Magazine, was in many ways groundbreaking. Through the force of its own words and its adoption by Movement
- [Mandy Carter and Joanne Sheehan: A Conversation Between Women Leaders in the War Resisters League](https://www.warresisters.org/win/mandy-carter-and-joanne-sheehan-conversation-between-women-leaders-war/) - Kimber Heinz (KH): How did the two of you first get involved with WRL? Mandy Carter (MC): It came about for me because of learning about the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, which was started by Joan Baez and Ira Sandperl in 1965. Joan had met Ira and she was interested in studying more
- [A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds](https://www.warresisters.org/win/saving-remnant-radical-lives-barbara-deming-and-david-mcreynolds/) - It’s hard not to look at 2013 as a year of political dissonance, where the current political moment is representative of a major rollback against past social justice gains. This year brings us both the 90th anniversary of the War Resisters League (WRL) and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for
- [Crossing the Line: Nonviolent Resisters Speak Out for Peace](https://www.warresisters.org/win/crossing-line-nonviolent-resisters-speak-out-peace/) - Crossing the Line: Nonviolent Resisters Speak Out for Peace Edited by Rosalie G. Riegle 2013, Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers 402 pages, $44 paperback “I listened to learn from people who have refused to be helpless in the face of a violent world, people who say with their bodies
- [90 Years of Resisting War](https://www.warresisters.org/win/90-years-resisting-war/) - In her diary on October 19, 1923, the 48-year-old New York City educator Jessie Wallace Hughan (1875-1955) wrote, “Tracy [Mygatt] to dinner—had hair done—organized real War Resisters League ...” Hughan was describing the formal founding of WRL as the successor organization to the Anti-Enlistment League, which had opposed armed forces enlistment during World War I.
- [Picturing Our History](https://www.warresisters.org/win/picturing-our-history/) - Photographs by David McReynolds Text by Jay Cassano This series of previously unpublished photographs was taken by David McReynolds from1956 - 1971. They portray the people at the center of vibrant and turbulent times in movements for social justice. In many cases, these photographs also highlight the ways in which the War Resisters League has
- [Claiming Chelsea](https://www.warresisters.org/win/claiming-chelsea/) - Everybody wants a piece of a hero. As we saw recently with the passing of South African revolutionary Nelson Mandela, whenever a great leader dies, interest groups tend to frame that life in terms of their own agendas and talking points. We are not exempt. Those of us working to end war will share an
- [Covering Up for Walmart: The Mexico Scandal](https://www.warresisters.org/win/covering-walmart-mexico-scandal/) - by David L. Wilson Early in 2004 a lawyer at Walmart de México, Sergio Cicero Zapata, was passed over for a promotion. Upset by the slight and concerned that he might be held liable for some of the company’s activities, he resigned that September. One year later, he decided to come clean. He sent an
- [Shedding Light on Torture](https://www.warresisters.org/win/shedding-light-torture/) - On October 13, 2007, Matt Diaz left prison penniless with no source of income. His law license was suspended, preventing him from finding work in the only profession he knew, and he had a felony-level federal conviction. He lost his military pension (over $40,000 per year) and was disbarred. His home was foreclosed, car
- [The Leak that Almost Stopped the Iraq War](https://www.warresisters.org/win/leak-almost-stopped-iraq-war/) - “I felt it was explosive, it really made me angry when I read it. ... I genuinely hoped that the information would strengthen the people’s voice. ... It could derail the entire process for war.” So said Katharine Gun recently when asked about information she leaked shortly before the invasion of Iraq. It wasn’t
- [The True Secret of Whistleblowers](https://www.warresisters.org/win/true-secret-whistleblowers/) - photo: Christopher Lucka Chelsea Manning never revealed any secrets, and the same must be said of Edward Snowden. How can massive NSA programs and footage of “Collateral Murder” be called “secrets” when hundreds, or likely thousands, of individuals possessed knowledge of them? The oxymoronic term “open secret” can hardly be applied here; “quasi-secret” seems more
- [Transform Now Plowshares](https://www.warresisters.org/win/transform-now-plowshares/) - Outside the courthouse in Knoxville, TN, where three antinuclear activists were severely sentenced on February 18, Michelle Boertje-Obed, the wife of one of the three Transform Now Plowshares members, encouraged everyone to see Judge Amul Thapar’s ruling in a positive light. Despite her husband Greg having just received over 5 years in prison for
- [Stop the F-35 in Burlington, Vermont](https://www.warresisters.org/win/stop-f-35-burlington-vermont/) - Even small liberal states like Vermont do not escape the influence of war dollars. So when the Air Force proposed stationing their boondoggle F-35 warplanes at Burlington International Airport (BIA), the community became deeply divided with politicians and the Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce lined up in favor, and many residents under the flight path
- [Shining a Light on the NSA](https://www.warresisters.org/win/shining-light-nsa/) - For decades, the National Security Agency has sought to remain an elusive operation, working in the shadows of the nation’s growing surveillance apparatus. But recent revelations by whistleblowers are destabilizing its reign as one of the country’s most secretive agencies. For years, whistleblowers from within the American surveillance apparatus have exposed some of the most
- [Towards Collective Liberation (Chris Crass)](https://www.warresisters.org/win/towards-collective-liberation-chris-crass/) - With Towards Collective Liberation, veteran activist and writer Chris Crass has filled a number of conspicuous voids in radical literature, seeking to render the aspirations of feminist and antiracist struggle plain, practicable, and their realization imminently possible. Through autobiographical reflections on his early years as an anarchist organizer in San Francisco, a few brief
- [Out of Control (Nancy Kurshan)](https://www.warresisters.org/win/out-control-nancy-kurshan/) - How does one connect the struggles of the American Indian Movement, the Puerto Rican Independentistas and the Black Panthers in an anti-imperialist, pro-worker, environmentally-friendly framework? For Nancy Kurshan and her peers at the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML), the answer —in 1985—was clear: launch a massive attack on control unit prisons. Out
- [Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency](https://www.warresisters.org/win/life-during-wartime-resisting-counterinsurgency/) - When Martin Luther King, Jr. included the above sentence in his groundbreaking 1967 anti-Vietnam War speech, he provided radical critics of U.S. foreign policy was an eloquent and pithy condemnation of a society that practiced, and continues to practice, a predatory militarism abroad while simultaneously waging a war on the poor and
- [Revolutionary Gandhi for Our Times](https://www.warresisters.org/win/revolutionary-gandhi-our-times/) - What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage by Normal Finkelstein Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action by Dennis Dalton Ambedkar: Towards An Enlightened Indiaby Gail Omveldt Revolutionary Gandhi by Pannalal Dasgupta Reviewed by Matt Meyer It’s as simple as making social change more effective. Growing global movements are looking beyond their own borders and
- [Artist-Activist Partnerships: Five Tips for Booking Your Benefit](https://www.warresisters.org/win/artist-activist-partnerships-five-tips-booking-your-benefit/) - There has always been an important relationship between social movements and the arts. Artists frame political ideas in concrete and engaging ways. They use their networks to publicize and strengthen campaigns. When artists and activists work together in an organic, intentional, mutually beneficial way, they have the power to turn social movements into social/cultural movements—to
- [On the Ground in Basra](https://www.warresisters.org/win/ground-basra/) - An Interview with Hashmeya Muhsin al-Saadawi Electrical Utility Workers Union in Iraq Banners at 2012 May Day march in Basra, Iraq. Iraqi unions demonstrated on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s growing police/military powers,
- [The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill](https://www.warresisters.org/win/man-who-never-died-life-times-and-legacy-joe-hill/) - WIN REVIEW Don’t Cry for Joe -- Organize! The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon By William m. Adler New York: Bloomsbury, USA; 2011; $30, hardcover I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night Alive as you and me, Says I, “But Joe, you’re ten years
- [Against Equality: Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars](https://www.warresisters.org/win/against-equality-dont-ask-fight-their-wars/) - Beyond Single Issues by Sky Hall Against Equality: Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars Edited by Ryan Conrad 2011, Against Equality Publishing Collective, 85 pages, $10 On September 20, 2011, the ban on gay soldiers serving openly in the military ended, and over 100 celebrations were planned in cities across the U.S. and around the
- [Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control](https://www.warresisters.org/win/drone-warfare-killing-remote-control/) - Death Technology 101 Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control By Medea Benjamin Foreword by Barbara ehrenreich OR Books, 2012; 241 pages, paperback, $16 Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control is an easy-to-read introduction to the issue of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA, a.k.a. unmanned aerial vehicles/systems—UAV/UAS, or, more popularly, drones), focusing on their use for warfare,
- [WRL Field Report](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-field-report-2/) - NATO-Free Future On May 20th, as the NATO Summit began at the McCormick Place Convention Center in downtown Chicago, we marched with the Palestinian/Puerto Rican/Filipino contingent, members of the Network for a NATO-free Future, and the members of the Swedish anti-militarist network, Ofog. Highlights of the march included us helping to carry a 40-foot
- [Took My Land, Now My Food](https://www.warresisters.org/win/took-my-land-now-my-food/) - “This Straw which I hold in my hands, Wild Rice is what we call this. These I do not sell. That you may not destroy the Rice in working the Timber, Also the Rapids and Falls in the Streams I will lend you to saw your timber.... I do not make you a present of
- [Food vs. Forests, Profits vs. People](https://www.warresisters.org/win/food-vs-forests-profits-vs-people/) - The town of Merauke in West Papua, Indonesia, holds a special place in Indonesian national history. The Dutch sent the first generation of Indonesian nationalists to the Tanah Merah prison camp in Merauke, where some of them died and were buried during the colonial period. Merauke’s mythic stature will make the Indonesian government all the
- [Put the Movement Where Your Mouth Is](https://www.warresisters.org/win/put-movement-where-your-mouth/) - The YouthPeace Club put on its 13th annual YouthPeace Experiment April 29 through May 1 in Norwich, CT. YouthPeace is a Norwich Free Academy after-school group of youth who don’t accept war, racism, sexism, homophobia, or exploitation as facts of life. We work for nonviolent resolution of all conflicts from personal to international. A
- [While the Irish Starved](https://www.warresisters.org/win/while-irish-starved/) - Gulliver’s Travels and “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift The rich man enjoyed the fruit of the poor man’s labor, and the latter were a thousand to one in proportion to the former; … the bulk of our people were forced to live miserably, by laboring every day for small wages, to make a few
- [BOOK REVIEW: Oppose and Propose!](https://www.warresisters.org/win/book-review-oppose-and-propose/) - Resistance Community Oppose and Propose! Lessons from Movement for a New Society By Andrew Cornell AK Press, 2011, 200 pages, $12 In the early 1990s, my comrade Melissa and I visited our first War Resisters League National Committee meeting. As young pacifists and anarchist communists, we felt isolated in the wider anarchist movement. WRL drew
- [BOOK REVIEW: Day of Honey](https://www.warresisters.org/win/book-review-day-honey/) - The Flavor of Freedom…and War Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love and War By Annia Ciezadlo Free Press, 2011, 400 pages, $26 Annia Ciezadlo is a self-described “Polish-Greek-Scotch- Irish mutt from working-class Chicago…who curses like a sailor.” She says she will “eat anything, from tongue to tripe to grilled lamb testicles...a delicacy in
- [The 2012 WRL Peace Calendar](https://www.warresisters.org/win/2012-wrl-peace-calendar/) - A Chapter Ends…the Story Goes On “My relationship with the WRL Peace Calendar began over the 1968 Thanksgiving weekend when volunteers sat around a table stuffing the just-off-the-presses spiral-bound datebooks into envelopes,” writes former staffer Wendy Schwartz in her afterword for WRL’s 2012 Peace Calendar, Organize This! “Ralph DiGia, the most effective motivator of volunteers
- [Field Report](https://www.warresisters.org/win/field-report-4/) - On May 5, Field Organizer Ali Issa gave a brief presentation to about 50 people at the American Friends Service Committee Friend’s Center in Philadelphia entitled “Iraq’s Tahrir Square” about the pro-democracy movement there. Ali also got the chance to connect with delegates that had recently visited Afghanistan with Voices for Creative Nonviolence and
- [Talking About the Draft](https://www.warresisters.org/win/talking-about-draft/) - But that’s not what I came to tell you about,” Arlo Guthrie famously sang in “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” in 1967. “I came to talk about the draft.” Then, the draft loomed large, and antiwar activists had all they could do to counsel resisters. These days it’s the other way around. Activists go to youth
- [Reclaiming Conscience: The Truth Commission on Conscience in War](https://www.warresisters.org/win/reclaiming-conscience-truth-commission-conscience-war/) - Conscientious objection is a peril to power and treated accordingly by the military brass. If conscience were allowed to dictate opposition to military service, the U.S. Armed Forces could lose control of the war machine. The Truth Commission on Conscience in War was launched last March in New York City with the goal of
- [From Girl to Soldier: Life Before the Military](https://www.warresisters.org/win/girl-soldier-life-military/) - When Mickiela was 15, her mother was evicted for not paying rent, and the family was out on the street. [Mickiela and her sister] returned to Nana [their grandmother] once again, but this time they only found more trouble. Nana had developed gallbladder cancer, which had metastasized. Soon she began losing weight and her
- [Maryland Opts Out of ASVAB](https://www.warresisters.org/win/maryland-opts-out-asvab/) - Standardized tests have long been the scourge of high school students’ academic careers. New York State students take the dreaded Regents exams, California students take the CSTs, and Texas students take the TAKS. Those preparing to apply to college ready themselves for the PSATs and SATs. Yet, some high school students, voluntarily or not, take
- [U.S. Military Recruitment by the Numbers](https://www.warresisters.org/win/us-military-recruitment-numbers/) - 21.7 Average age of new active-duty Army recruit, 2008 (5) $7.7 billion Amount spent by the federal government on military recruiting and retention programs in 2008, more than double that of the $3.4 billion budget in 2004 (4) 66% Percentage of active-duty service members who thought seriously about leaving the military, 2006 (1) 20%
- [Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the Liberal Militarist Diversion](https://www.warresisters.org/win/dont-ask-dont-tell-and-liberal-militarist-diversion/) - On May 27, the House of Representatives approved an amendment to the latest military spending bill that would lift the ban on gays in the U.S. military and effectively end the policy of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT), which stipulates that a soldier must be discharged if he or she admits to participating in homosexual
- [Contesting Patriotism: Culture, Power, and Strategy in the Peace Movement](https://www.warresisters.org/win/contesting-patriotism-culture-power-and-strategy-peace-movement/) - Study War No More: Peace Sociology and Our Messages Contesting Patriotism: Culture, Power, and Strategy in the Peace Movement Lynne M. Woerle, Patrick G. Coy, and Gregory M. Maney Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009, 244 pages, $24.95 Contesting Patriotism is a bombproof, peer-reviewed academic study on the ways the peace movement has responded to
- [The Border Wall: A Photo Essay](https://www.warresisters.org/win/border-wall-photo-essay/)
- [Inside Immigrant Prisons](https://www.warresisters.org/win/inside-immigrant-prisons/) - Recently, the Donald Wyatt Center in Rhode Island lost its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house 153 immigrant prisoners after the horrific death of a detainee. Center representatives publicly bemoaned the loss of $100,000 per week and quickly began looking for a way to get more prisoners. The chairman of the
- [Roberto Martinez: The Struggle to Overcome the U.S.-Mexico Divide](https://www.warresisters.org/win/roberto-martinez-struggle-overcome-us-mexico-divide/) - At 6:30 a.m. on May 20, agents from the U.S. Border Patrol and the Transportation Safety Administration descended on a trolley station near downtown San Diego. After questioning commuters about their U.S. residency status—allegedly because they were behaving suspiciously—agents detained 21 individuals, three of whom were teenagers on their way to their high school. Later
- [The Red Juvenil of Medellín, Colombia](https://www.warresisters.org/win/red-juvenil-medelln-colombia/) - In one of the improvised poor neighborhoods that cling to the bare mountain slopes on the edge of Medellín, Colombia’s second largest city, the paramilitary was preparing to forcibly recruit a local youth named Alberto. Most people can’t imagine resisting such a demand. But Alberto said no, he was not interested, so the paramilitary threatened
- [G.I. Joe: Lessons for the Coffeehouse Movement](https://www.warresisters.org/win/gi-joe-lessons-coffeehouse-movement/) - During the Vietnam War, the 20 or so G.I. projects, which operated outside every important Army and Marine base, played an essential role in fomenting antiwar opposition among rank-and-file soldiers. This movement, along with the heroic resistance of the Vietnamese, arguably forced the United States to withdraw from Vietnam. As the recent military invasions of
- [Visitors and Hosts in Pakistan](https://www.warresisters.org/win/visitors-and-hosts-pakistan/) - In Jayne Anne Phillips’ Lark and Termite, the skies over Korea in 1950 are described in this way: “The planes always come … like planets on rotation. A timed bloodletting, with different excuses.” The most recent plane to attack the Pakistani village of Khaisor (according to a Waziristan resident who asked me to withhold his
- [Lillian Willoughby: A Tribute (1915–2009)](https://www.warresisters.org/win/lillian-willoughby-tribute-1915-2009/) - In 1972, a ship loaded with military supplies was bound for South Vietnam. But first it would stop at Leonardo, New Jersey, to take on more supplies. At Leonardo, canoes were tied together and temporarily prevented the ship from coming into port. When it did dock, people sat down on the train tracks that
- [Teaching Rebellion](https://www.warresisters.org/win/teaching-rebellion/) - Voices from Oaxaca Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca Edited by Diana Denham and the C.A.S.A. Collective PM Press, 2008, 384 pages, $21.99 Women take to the streets with pots and pans to occupy the state-run radio station, men throw rocks in defense against police gunshots, and youth create their own community
- [Conscientious Objection](https://www.warresisters.org/win/conscientious-objection/) - Global Resistance Conscientious Objection: Resisting Militarized Society Edited by Özgür Heval Çınar and Coşkun Üsterci Zed Books, 2009, 268 pages, $35.95 In January 2007, an international conference on conscientious objection was held at Istanbul Bilgi University. More than 300 people participated during the two days of the conference, and special attention was paid to the
- [Constructive Program: Creating a New Society in the Shell of the Old](https://www.warresisters.org/win/constructive-program-creating-new-society-shell-old/) - Gandhi called for “complete Independence by truthful and nonviolent means.” He counseled that social change requires building the new society in the shell of the old, which he termed constructive program. The nonviolence movement in the West has not emphasized this goal for the most part. In the United States, we mostly focus on
- [Community Land Trusts](https://www.warresisters.org/win/community-land-trusts/) - Local, Equitable, Spiritual Community-based groups across the country are working to create sustainable solutions to economic problems such as lack of affordable housing and the loss of local food systems. Within this grassroots movement, people are re-examining their relationships to each other and to their resources and experimenting with new models of development that
- [Native Food Producers Signal the Way into the Future](https://www.warresisters.org/win/native-food-producers-signal-way-future/) - Indeed, we live in strange times. For the first time in the history of humankind, most of our citizens could not raise, catch, hunt, gather, nor prepare a nutritious diet if their lives depended on it. Which they do. As if that alone were not a perilous enough prospect, observation suggests many couldn’t care
- [WIN Reviews](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-reviews/) - Violence and Women of Color Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology by INCITE! Women of Color against Violence South End Press, 2007. 260 pages; $18, paperback The radical feminist activist group INCITE! was born out of the “Color of Violence” conference in April 2000. The conference sought to address the failures of racial justice and
- [My Favorite Issue: WIN’S First Year, 1966](https://www.warresisters.org/win/my-favorite-issue-wins-first-year-1966/) - WIN first appeared January 15, 1966. It was published by the New York Workshop in Nonviolence, sponsored by both Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA) and War Resisters League. The timing was fortuitous. WIN appeared as the United States was entering years of tumult. This rapidly changing world gave WIN a variety of opportunities and challenges,
- [Editorial: My Favorite Issue](https://www.warresisters.org/win/editorial-my-favorite-issue/) - Advocating revolutionary nonviolence is never easy. It’s adaunting task just to communicate the why and the how of turning the world upside down, of achieving profound social justice and peace using no weapons but our bodies and our faith in the rightness of the goal. The hours are long, the pay—when there is any—is low,
- [My Favorite Issue: The One on Gay Liberation, 1969](https://www.warresisters.org/win/my-favorite-issue-one-gay-liberation-1969/) - I was asked for this final issue of WIN to comment on the Gay Liberation issue of 1969, which had an article by Paul Goodman and a long one by me (“Notes for a more coherent article”). The irony is that I cannot claim to have been an activist in the Gay Liberation movement, yet
- [My Favorite Issue: WIN No. 200, 1974](https://www.warresisters.org/win/my-favorite-issue-win-no-200-1974/) - Here’s what I think when I remember the 200th issue of WIN magazine: We were right. It is the conventional wisdom of many in today’s popular culture that the antiwar hippie movement was a monumental failure. It was, they say, the precursor to the selfishness of the “Me Decade” that followed. They are wrong. I
- [My Favorite Issue: WIN’S Tenth Anniversary, 1976](https://www.warresisters.org/win/my-favorite-issue-wins-tenth-anniversary-1976/) - To celebrate its tenth anniversary in 1976, WIN re-published a range of articles from its earliest years. Editor Mark (now Markley) Morris chose to focus mostly on the first two years both for space considerations and to represent the beginnings of both the magazine itself and the peace movement it represented. Included are many reviews
- [My Favorite Issue: Poetry and Nonviolence, 1979](https://www.warresisters.org/win/my-favorite-issue-poetry-and-nonviolence-1979/) - Here we are in the 21st century where social relations are compromised. We live in states of exclusions from one another and refrain from attesting to states of ignorance that lead to violence. It is complicity that leaves wounds one can barely count. How do we come to know intellect, language skills, skin color, sexual
- [My Favorite Issue: The Essence of Nonviolence: NVA’s Inaugural Editorial, 1984](https://www.warresisters.org/win/my-favorite-issue-essence-nonviolence-nvas-inaugural-editorial-1984/) - In 1984, WRL hired me to be the founding editor of The Nonviolent Activist. In retrospect, the inaugural issue that appeared in December was a reflection of the state of WRL at the time — and its publication was an important moment in my own life. “Founding editor” sounds much more significant than it actually
- [My Favorite Issue: NVA Looks at the Middle East, 1994](https://www.warresisters.org/win/my-favorite-issue-nva-looks-middle-east-1994/) - How can I choose one issue to call a favorite? Easy. Select one on a subject that continues to obsess me. It happens that I still have a copy of the January-February 1994 Nonviolent Activist (edited by Sharon Seidenstein and designed by Rick Bickhart) stuck in an old folder on the bottom shelf of my
- [My Favorite Issue: NVA on Solidarity  & Self Reflection, 1999](https://www.warresisters.org/win/my-favorite-issue-nva-solidarity-self-reflection-1999/) - I started reading WIN in 1976. A roommate subscribed while I was living in Washington, DC, and I was captivated by the then weekly magazine as it chronicled the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice and the beginnings of nonviolent direct action against nuclear power. I soon had my own subscription and a WRL
- [Still Relevant: What Makes an Action Nonviolent? My Favorite Issue: July-August 2001](https://www.warresisters.org/win/still-relevant-what-makes-action-nonviolent-my-favorite-issue-july-august-2001/) - The July-August 2001 Nonviolent Activist asked "What makes an action nonviolent?" The question had acquired urgency among peace and justice activists in the wake of the November 1999 massive protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organization. I picked this issue to review because Iíd wished that discussion had gone on longer and gotten deeper,
- [Continuities: Prison Abolition and Critical Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/win/continuities-prison-abolition-and-critical-resistance/) - AN INTERVIEW WITH LINDA THURSTON You have a long history of working not just for political prisoners, but for the rights and freedom of prisoners in general, as well as for prison abolition. What motivated you to get involved in this work? Linda Thurston: In the very beginning it was extremely personal. My first memory
- [My Favorite Issue: The (Brand-)New WIN, 2006](https://www.warresisters.org/win/my-favorite-issue-brand-new-win-2006/) - 2015 needs WIN. Not just this year, not just the very magazine you hold in your hands (or are reading online). Our overall moment in history, in the adolescence of the 21st century, needs the politics of revolutionary nonviolence. That politics is proclaimed on the cover of this unique publication, often described within its pages,
- [My Favorite Issue: WIN on WRL’S 90th Anniversary, 2013](https://www.warresisters.org/win/my-favorite-issue-win-wrls-90th-anniversary-2013/) - Conversations are a crucial component of WRL work, conversations about specific nonviolent strategies, about how racism and sexism affect our decisions (sometimes when we don’t realize it), even lively discussions about brewing beer or whether the anarchists or the socialists will win a WRL softball game. So it seemed singularly appropriate for the WRL anniversary
- [Continuities: Closing Guantanamo](https://www.warresisters.org/win/continuities-closing-guantanamo/) - Excerpted from "It Runs in the Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood" (O/R Books, 2014) In 2005, I helped to establish Witness Against Torture when 25 of us flew to Cuba with the hope of gaining access to Guantánamo Bay, the U.S. naval base where more than 700 men, called
- [POSTSCRIPT: How One WIN Moment Changed Three Lives: Anne McVey Upshure’s 94 Years of War Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/win/postscript-how-one-win-moment-changed-three-lives-anne-mcvey-upshures-94-years/) - The year was 1978. Connie Blitt had come to New York after college, looking to find others with a passion for social change. She joined the staff of WIN, where she became immersed in the issues of the day. Her life changed forever when a call came in to the WIN office: Ninety-year-old peace activist
- [Uranium Leaves Legacy of Illness in New Mexico](https://www.warresisters.org/win/uranium-leaves-legacy-illness-new-mexico/) - 2010 Think Outside the Bomb march to Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory/Gloria Williams The natural landscape of what is now New Mexico is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Being from the U.S. South via the Midwest, I had never before been to the desert. The vastness of undeveloped space on
- [Patents Restrict Access to Medicine](https://www.warresisters.org/win/patents-restrict-access-medicine/) - Doctors Without Borders, HealthGAP, Oxfam, and the National Legislative Association on Prescription Drug Prices are just a few of the many public health advocates sounding the alarm about how a proposed new trade and investment pact for the Pacific Rim threatens access to medicine in the United States and throughout the globe. If approved, the
- [Medical Marijuana: The Struggle for Herbal Healing](https://www.warresisters.org/win/medical-marijuana-struggle-herbal-healing/) - Product on display at Oakland’s Harborside Health Center.Courtesy of Bill Weinberg Over the past generation, an informal alliance of activists, cultivators, entrepreneurs, and medical professionals have struggled to redefine how the United States views the cannabis plant. Victories at state and municipal levels have created a new field of medicinal treatment for a wide
- [Devi Prasad: Making of a Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman](https://www.warresisters.org/win/devi-prasad-making-modern-indian-artist-craftsman/) - Pottery, Pacifism and Global Politics By John E. Cort Devi Prasad: Making of a Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman By Naman P. Ahuja Routledge India, 2012, 320 pages, 392 illustrations, $100 Devi Prasad (1921-2011) served as Joint Secretary and then General Secretary of War Resisters’ International from 1962 until 1972, and was subsequently Chairperson of WRI until
- [Censored 2013: The Top Censored Stories](https://www.warresisters.org/win/censored-2013-top-censored-stories/) - Censorship without the Censors Censored 2013: Dispatches from the Media Revolution by Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth with Project Censored Seven Stories Press, 2012, 464 pp. $14.96 Censored 2013: Dispatches from the Media Revolution is a crucial book on the top censored news stories of 2011-2012 that were ignored or underreported by the
- [Health Injustice Continues](https://www.warresisters.org/win/health-injustice-continues/) - Healthcare for all protest in front of Supreme Court Courtesy Margaret Flowers The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in March, 2010 was hailed as an historic victory for health care reform in the United States. But those of us who advocate for a single payer health system saw through the media hype.
- [Liberation Medicine: Healthcare and Solidarity](https://www.warresisters.org/win/liberation-medicine-healthcare-and-solidarity/) - Worsening economic injustice has become a fact of life in our current world and has a profound effect on health and health care in many countries. Dysfunctional health systems exist in most areas of the world. Many impoverished countries, especially those in Sub-Saharan Africa, spend so little on health care that it is impossible to
- [Why I Occupy: An Open Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/why-i-occupy-open-letter/) - October 7, 2011 Dear Extended Families, As many of you may know, I’ve been getting super excited about all this “We Are the 99%” and “Occupy Wall Street” stuff. Coincidentally, as these protests have been spreading we’re covering the American, French, and Haitian revolutions in the community college history classes I teach. Examining past
- [Occupation: Liberation](https://www.warresisters.org/win/occupation-liberation/) - Resistance in Brooklyn (RnB), a 20-year-old anti-racist, anti-imperialist collective rooted in the 1970s/80s movements in solidarity with struggles of communities and nations of color, is awed by the creativity, tenacity, and commitment of the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. RnB has been working with Occupy since early October, focusing most of our energies
- [The Resistance Is Global](https://www.warresisters.org/win/resistance-global/) - Since the brutal eviction of Occupy Wall Street’s (OWS) enscampment at Liberty Plaza, questions about the future of the Occupy movement have loomed large. Its rapid development comprised two months of near-constant actions, arrests, and activity. What we built from September 17 to November 17 is transitioning into a long-term movement with coordination among the
- [Welcome Home: Building an Inclusive Movement for the 99 Percent](https://www.warresisters.org/win/welcome-home-building-inclusive-movement-99-percent/) - I’m on a number of email lists across the activist spectrum, and have noticed an increasing tendency toward what might be termed “ideological opportunism” on the part of some sectors that ostensibly stand in support of the Occupy Movement. The idea that certain segments—most viscerally the derogatory and divisive tropes of the “freeloading homeless”
- [Street Heat: Chicago Protesters Prepare for NATO](https://www.warresisters.org/win/street-heat-chicago-protesters-prepare-nato/) - “The protesters are coming! Watch out for ‘outside agitators!'” One reads it almost daily here in the Windy City. For months, everyone thought both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the G8 would convene in Chicago’s cavernous McCormick Place in May, bringing heads of state and thousands of other world leaders and their
- [BOOK REVIEWS: Revolution and Beyond](https://www.warresisters.org/win/book-reviews-revolution-and-beyond/) - Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond By David Gilbert 2011, PM Press, 384 pages, $22 Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times By Amy Sonnie and James Tracy 2011, Melville House, 256 pages, $16.95 Diary of a Heartland Radical By Harry Targ
- [BOOK REVIEW: Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson](https://www.warresisters.org/win/book-review-blood-tracks-life-and-times-s-brian-willson/) - Rejecting “AWOL” Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson By S. Brian Willson PM Press, 2011, 536 pages, $20 On the evening of September 1, 1987, I walked into the living room of the home I shared with my then-husband, glanced at the television, and was horrified to see
- [BOOK REVIEW: Jeux Interdits (Forbidden Games)](https://www.warresisters.org/win/book-review-jeux-interdits-forbidden-games/) - Classics Revisited: A Child’s-Eye View of Wartime Jeux Interdits (Forbidden Games) Directed by René Clément 1952; in French; available (with English subtitles) from Netflix There are no battlefield scenes in Forbidden Games and only one explicit war scene; most of the movie takes place in the bucolic French countryside, at some remove from the fighting.
- [BOOK REVIEW: Letters of Insurgents](https://www.warresisters.org/win/book-review-letters-insurgents/) - Letters of Insurgents By Yarostan Vochek and Sophie Nachalo (Fredy Perlman) Black and Red, 1976, 831 pages, out of print Politics: That’s the religion of today, that’s the cancer that annihilates every possibility of community and puts an end to every period of ferment. —Fredy Perlman, Letters of Insurgents Arab Spring! The occupation of
- [BOOK REVIEW: To End All Wars](https://www.warresisters.org/win/book-review-end-all-wars/) - WWI, the Picture of Futility To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 By Adam Hochschild Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011, 448 pages, $28 Although non-pacifists might attempt to justify some wars because their intent is to save lives or protect freedoms, no reasonable person could justify the carnage produced by World War
- [BOOK REVIEW: Debt: The First 5,000 Years](https://www.warresisters.org/win/book-review-debt-first-5000-years/) - Between Credit, Bullion, and Rebellion Debt: The First 5,000 Years By David Graeber 2011, Melville House Publishing, 544 pages, $32 Right now, everyday people are feeling increasing stress from all directions. Pressure from the faltering economy, violence and warfare, debt/deficit worries, and austerity measures are approaching a breaking point. Human-scale economic considerations are being crushed
- [Another Light Shines: Arab Spring in Yemen](https://www.warresisters.org/win/another-light-shines-arab-spring-yemen/) - In the wee hours of March 18, I was glued to Al Jazeera Arabic, transfixed as bloodied body after bloodied body was carried into a masjid, or small mosque, set up as a hospital near Sana’a University in Yemen. The footage was harrowing—images of demonstrators with bullet wounds to the head from snipers surrounding the
- [Defending Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/win/defending-resistance/) - The theory and practice of nonviolent direct action—disrupting the system enough to risk arrest, to challenge war and warmaking—are living, evolving entities. Some frequent arrest-riskers have experienced a growing frustration with the inaccuracy of the still widely used term “civil disobedience” and are using the term “civil resistance” instead. Disobedience means breaking a specific
- [Obamistan! Land Without Racism](https://www.warresisters.org/win/obamistan-land-without-racism/) - Satirizing Our "Post-Racial" Society Obamistan! Land Without Racism: Your Guide to the New America By damali ayo Lawrence Hill Books, 2010, 208 pages, $14.95 "Racism is over!” was the only cry echoed on November 4, 2008, when the first black president was elected, in damali ayo’s new provocative satire. ayo, author of the infamous book How
- [On, Wisconsin!](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wisconsin/) - From the Grassroots to the Capitol The first time I walked into the occupied Wisconsin State Capitol building, I was moved to tears. People, noise, and positive energy were everywhere. In the center of the rotunda, several drummers pounded on everything from bass drums to plastic buckets. Every so often the crowd would break into
- [‘For the Greater Good’](https://www.warresisters.org/win/greater-good/) - The TIAA-CREF Divestment Campaign In the early 1790s, English abolitionists began to boycott “slave sugar,” sugar that had been produced by African slaves. Sales of slave sugar were cut in half, and sales of sugar that had been produced by “freemen” increased 10 times. This and many other tactics eventually ended the English slave trade.
- [Today We Celebrate, Tomorrow the Work Begins](https://www.warresisters.org/win/today-we-celebrate-tomorrow-work-begins/) - Following Egypt’s historic uprising and the people’s successful removal of President Hosni Mubarak, WagingNonViolence.org conducted interviews with several peacemakers around the world. Following is a sample of their comments. WNV: What first came into your mind when you saw the announcement that Mubarak had stepped down? Egypt’s public squares were filled by people who faced
- [Concrete and From Below](https://www.warresisters.org/win/concrete-and-below/) - U.S. Solidarity with Iran As members of a feminist collective founded in part to support the massive post-election protests in Iran in 2009 while opposing all forms of U.S. intervention, we take this opportunity to reflect on the meaning and practice of transnational solidarity between U.S.-based activists and sections of Iranian society. Both protests
- [WRL Affiliate Report](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-affiliate-report-2/) - Norfolk OffBase is located in central Norfolk, Va. It is surrounded by a virtual alphabet soup of military bases: USN, USAF, USMC, CIA, USA, NASA, and the USCG. All told, there are 14 major military installations within a 50-mile radius, along with several major military contractors and numerous smaller support facilities. With nearly a quarter-million
- [Self-Determination in the South: A SONG Interview](https://www.warresisters.org/win/self-determination-south-song-interview/) - Southerners on New Ground (SONG) is a 16-year-old gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender organization that focuses its resources and energy in the South both as a political and geographic region. On January 29, 2010, Caitlin Breedlove and Paulina Hernandez, co-directors of SONG, recorded an interview for StoryCorps, a nationwide oral history project. The following is
- [Neither Victims Nor Voiceless: Sex Workers Speaking for Themselves](https://www.warresisters.org/win/neither-victims-nor-voiceless-sex-workers-speaking-themselves/) - Sex workers who work with SANGRAM distribute condoms in Sangli’s red light district. Photo courtesy of International Women’s Health Coalition. Since I became a part of the U.S. sex worker rights movement five years ago, talking about contentious issues concerning bodies, labor, money, and rights has very much become my calling. In the past year
- [Sex, Revolution, and the Sexual Revolution](https://www.warresisters.org/win/sex-revolution-and-sexual-revolution/) - About a century and a half ago, medicine and technology began to reduce the high price of sex in the United States and Western Europe. It became possible to imagine, at least, both an end to unwanted pregnancies and a cure for the known sexually transmitted diseases. (Of course, no one could guess at
- [The Cruel Boredom of Pornography](https://www.warresisters.org/win/cruel-boredom-pornography/) - There is a finite number of ways that human bodies can be placed together sexually, and as one pornography industry veteran lamented to me at the annual trade show, “they’ve all been shot.” He sighed, pondering the challenge of creating a sexually explicit film that is unique, and mused, “After all, how many dicks
- [Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: How to Be a Radical Parent Ally](https://www.warresisters.org/win/dont-leave-your-friends-behind-how-be-radical-parent-ally/) - In 2006, at the anarcha-feminist conference La Rivolta in Boston, Vikki Law and I gave our first “Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind” workshop. We wanted to share our experiences as a radical 40-year-old mother of an 18-year-old and a 29-year-old anarchist mother of a 5-year-old with the predominantly young, childfree audience of radicals. We both
- [Activism Under Obama: Repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”](https://www.warresisters.org/win/activism-under-obama-repealing-dont-ask-dont-tell/) - A well-timed photo project by Jeff Sheng has received quite a bit of attention in the last several months. In each photo, a figure appears in a nondescript room, his or her face obscured in shadow, wearing a military uniform. Sheng reached out to lesbian and gay service members of all branches of the
- [The Male Cult of Martyrdom: Saying Adios to Che](https://www.warresisters.org/win/male-cult-martyrdom-saying-adios-che/) - For almost a decade of my life, I was a member of the cult of Che Guevara. I worshipped the man as the embodiment of true revolutionary spirit and consciousness. I tried to internalize his thinking. What motivated him? How had he learned to live (and die) for the worldwide revolution? How could I become
- [Opposing Recruiting in High School: Grannies Rage—and Sing!](https://www.warresisters.org/win/opposing-recruiting-high-school-grannies-rage-and-sing/) - The campaign to confront military recruitment in Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) has shifted from direct confrontation to quiet negotiations with school board members, according to Mitzi Kraft of Military Families Speak Out. “We’ve had private meetings with a couple of the school board members who are working with us,” Kraft wrote in a recent email.
- [Yes Means Yes!](https://www.warresisters.org/win/yes-means-yes/) - The Politics of Positivity Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape Edited by Jacklyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti Seal Press, 2009, 361 pages, $16.95 Four decades ago, when I was pretty young, a WRL member for whom I worked attempted to rape me. There was a good possibility that
- [The Voice of Hope](https://www.warresisters.org/win/voice-hope/) - The Voice of Hope By Alan Clements Seven Stories Press, 2003, 304 pages, $14.50 U Tin U, deputy leader of Burma’s National League for Democracy (NLD), once said that “Burma is a prison within a prison.” His words highlight the tragic political, social, and economic circumstances that Burma is faced with today because of the
- [Green Camo: Seeing Through the Military’s New Environmentalism](https://www.warresisters.org/win/green-camo-seeing-through-militarys-new-environmentalism/) - As the single largest consumer of energy in the world, the U.S. military is poised at the center of two of the most life-altering issues of our time: climate change and the height of oil production (“peak oil”). Surprisingly, the Pentagon began taking both matters seriously much sooner than the rest of government, which still
- [Vets Waging Green Peace](https://www.warresisters.org/win/vets-waging-green-peace/) - Since I returned from combat in Iraq, the concepts of war, justice, and human rights have weighed heavily on my consciousness. I’ve dedicated myself to the antiwar movement and debated tactics and strategies for the most effective way to end armed conflict. The more I delved, the more I saw societies around the world
- [Invisible Legacy: Western Shoshone & the Nuclear Era](https://www.warresisters.org/win/invisible-legacy-western-shoshone-nuclear-era/) - In the 1980s, I traveled to Nevada several times to protest nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. A friend of mine was a “nuclear veteran,” one of the 6,000 soldiers positioned within a mile of one of the above-ground explosions in the 1950s to
- [Robot Wars](https://www.warresisters.org/win/robot-wars/) - Science fiction is becoming science reality With virtually no public scrutiny, robotics is quickly revolutionizing not only how war is fought, but who fights in war. When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, the military had no robots on the ground and only a handful of unstaffed drones in the air. Today, according to
- [End the War, Build the Alternative](https://www.warresisters.org/win/end-war-build-alternative/) - A new perspective and action on militarism and environmental justice March 2, 2009, was a turning point in U.S. history. On that snowy Monday morning in Washington DC, more than 10,000 student and youth attendees of the Power Shift 09 (PS09) conference engaged in the largest and most effectively coordinated demonstration of power by youth
- [Private Property vs. the People of the Earth](https://www.warresisters.org/win/private-property-vs-people-earth/) - We want simple things,” Atilio Curiñanco of the Santa Rosa community says to me through a crackling connection. “Most people don’t understand that.” It is February 11, and in three days the families of the community of Santa Rosa will mark the two-year anniversary of their nonviolent reclamation of their ancestral territory. In the early
- [Trouble](https://www.warresisters.org/win/trouble/)
- [Making Change: Activism Under Obama](https://www.warresisters.org/win/making-change-activism-under-obama/) - Housing Welcome to the first in a series of columns devoted to nonviolent activism under the new administration. The candidate who promised change is now in the White House, but as always, real change must come from us. Throughout Obama’s presidency, we will explore various key organizing issues and how things have changed … or
- [Disarm](https://www.warresisters.org/win/disarm/) - Uprooting Violence Disarm Directed by Mary Wareham and Brian Liu Next Step Productions/Toolbox P.C. Available on DVD from www.Indiepixfilms.com When peace comes, there are going to be massive casualties,” says Yeshua Moser-Pangsuwan of Nonviolence International, speaking from the troubled border between Thailand and Myanmar. So many landmines contaminate the border area, he explains, that residents
- [Witness to Hiroshima](https://www.warresisters.org/win/witness-hiroshima/) - Sudden Fire Witness to Hiroshima Directed by Kathy Sloane Available on DVD from www.witnesstohiroshima.com By David McReynolds Hiroshima/Nagasaki: Perhaps darkness and total silence is the best documentary. Perhaps there is no way to grasp this. Most of you reading this review were not alive when that sudden, unexpected fire disintegrated Hiroshima. I was a kid
- [The Green-Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems](https://www.warresisters.org/win/green-collar-economy-how-one-solution-can-fix-our-two-biggest-problems/) - The Van with the Plan The Green-Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems By Van Jones with Ariane Conrad HarperOne, 2008, 256 pages, $25.99 By Ellen Barfield Van Jones knows how the United States can go from a fossil fuel-guzzling, faltering to failing economy, with incredible numbers of incarcerated and impoverished
- [Listening Process (Conclusions) - Where to From Here?](https://www.warresisters.org/win/listening-process-conclusions-where-here/) - It was a real privilege to hear from so many smart and dedicated people from across the country who are working for peace and justice. It’s difficult to know how to even begin trying to summarize such a wealth of insights. For all the antiwar movement may be lacking, we found no shortage of brilliant
- [Resisting the Pipeline in Texas](https://www.warresisters.org/win/resisting-pipeline-texas/) - On February 15, 2003, I joined an estimated 15 million people worldwide in protests against the impending U.S. invasion of Iraq. The message that rang through the streets of the world couldn’t have been more clear — the war was immoral, unjust, and illegal. I remember the currents that tore through the crowds that day
- [Andean Campesinos Stand Up To the Mining Companies](https://www.warresisters.org/win/andean-campesinos-stand-mining-companies/) - In what has become an emblematic struggle against government plans to open peasant lands to mineral interests throughout the sierras of Peru, local campesinos continue to hold strikes and protests in the northern region of Cajamarca in defiance of a state of emergency and a heavy presence of army and National Police troops. The months-long
- [No al carbón: Environmental Racism in Chicago](https://www.warresisters.org/win/no-al-carbon-environmental-racism-chicago/) - The Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) was recently victorious in a decade-long campaign to shut down two coal-fired power plants in Little Village, a Latino neighborhood in Chicago’s South Side. LVEJO has a variety of programs, such as its now-notorious “toxic tours” of the worst polluters in the community. The organization and staff, almost
- [In Defense of Land and Heritage](https://www.warresisters.org/win/defense-land-and-heritage/) - Since I was a young girl my summers have been spent in the presence of my grandmother and her olive grove in our small village near the West Bank city of Nablus. My grandmother would take me and my brothers to the olive grove and show us the olive trees that she planted with her
- [We Have Not Been Moved](https://www.warresisters.org/win/we-have-not-been-moved/) - WIN REVIEW A Stronger Movement Against War We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America Edited by Elizabeth Betita Martínez, Mandy Carter & Matt Meyer with an Introduction by Cornel West PM Press/War Resisters League; 608 pp; 2012 $19.95 from WRL This impressive collection of essays, edited by Elizabeth
- [The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine](https://www.warresisters.org/win/generals-son-journey-israeli-palestine/) - WIN REVIEW Israeli General’s Son Becomes One-State Advocate The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine By Miko Peled Just World Books;, 2012; 223 pp. $20 An ex-commando with a sixth-degree black belt in karate would seem the least likely person to doubt his physical safety. Yet Miko Peled once feared for his
- [The Empowerment Manual](https://www.warresisters.org/win/empowerment-manual/) - WIN REVIEW Tools for Organizing The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups By Starhawk New Society Publishers, Canada, 2011; 304 pp. $24.95 paperback Starhawk is a rare breed of organizer, able to facilitate large and small meetings, in person or not. Over the years, this reviewer has personally seen her notice and share
- [“Making Folk a Threat Again” To The Militarist Powers That Be](https://www.warresisters.org/win/making-folk-threat-again-militarist-powers-be/) - An Interview with Musician and Activist Ryan Harvey In the tradition of Woody Guthrie, acoustic guitars are still being used as machines to kill fascists. The nearly dozen musicians of Riot Folk describe their group and mission as “an anti-profit mutual-aid collective of radical artists and musicians…[who] make music to provoke, educate, heal and inspire.”
- [Still Amazing: Grace Paley on Film](https://www.warresisters.org/win/still-amazing-grace-paley-film/) - Grace Paley: Collected Shorts Directed by Lilly Rivlin 2010, The National Center for Jewish Film, 74 minutes Grace Directed by Herman J. Engels, Linda Leehman, and Sonya Friedman 2010, Four Corners Productions, 51 minutes "It is the responsibility of the poet to be a woman … to cry out like Cassandra … ” Grace Paley
- [Dennis Brutus’ Passionate Peace](https://www.warresisters.org/win/dennis-brutus-passionate-peace/) - Poetry and Human Rights: Poems by Dennis Brutus from the Dennis Brutus Collection (Third edition) Edited by Ken Gibbs and Wayne Kamin Worcester State College Press, 2010, 100 pages, Free download at www.worcester.edu/dbrutus When the War Resisters League decided to honor South African poet Dennis Brutus, among others, with our annual peace award at the
- [“Flashes of Light”: Howard Zinn’s Last Call for Peace](https://www.warresisters.org/win/flashes-light-howard-zinns-last-call-peace/) - The Bomb By Howard Zinn City Lights Publishers, 2010, 91 pages, $8.95 Bombing from the air makes war seem easy, effective, and bloodless—at least to those of us far from the ground zeroes. “To this day,” Howard Zinn writes, “the victims’ realities of aerial bombings [are] lost to most people in the United States, a
- [The Medium Is the Message: The News Is Propaganda](https://www.warresisters.org/win/medium-message-news-propaganda/) - When Media Goes to War: Hegemonic Discourse, Public Opinion, and the Limits of Dissent By Anthony Dimaggio Monthly Review Press, 2009, 376 pages, $18.95 The media blitz following the Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara, one of the ships in the aid flotilla attempting to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza this summer, showed us
- [Radical Thoughts for the Time Between](https://www.warresisters.org/win/radical-thoughts-time-between/) - Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States Edited by Team Colors Collective AK Press, 2010, 420 pages, $19.95 You can call the Team Colors Collective’s new book Uses of a Whirlwind a compendium of the interregnum, the time between large movements where activists and intellectuals search for a
- [Reviewing the Obama Presidency](https://www.warresisters.org/win/reviewing-obama-presidency/) - The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama By David Remnick Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, 656 pages, $29.95 hardcover The Promise: President Obama, Year One By Jonathan Alter Simon & Schuster, 2010, 458 pages, $28.00 hardcover By the People: The Election of Barack Obama Directed by Amy Rice and Alicia Sams 2009, Class 5
- [Another Army Officer for Peace](https://www.warresisters.org/win/another-army-officer-peace/) - Will War Ever End?: A Soldier’s Vision of Peace for the 21st Century By Paul K. Chappell Rvive Books, 2009, 84 pages, $14.95 The End of War: How Waging Peace Can Save Humanity, Our Planet and Our Future By Paul K. Chappell Easton Studio Press, 2010, 176 pages, $12.95 Two short books by West Point
- [Classic Revisited: The China Syndrome](https://www.warresisters.org/win/classic-revisited-china-syndrome/) - The China Syndrome Directed by James Bridges 1979, IPC Films, 122 minutes March 11, 1979: The “fallout from ‘[The] China Syndrome’ has already begun,” declared the New York Times. The phrase “China syndrome” wasn’t yet part of the national vocabulary; the Times article had to explain that the phrase had “nothing to do with China.”
- [WRL Affiliate Report](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-affiliate-report/) - Westchester People’s Action Coalition (WESPAC), a Westchester County-based peace and justice organization, has been a force for progressive social change since 1974, starting with the courageous and dynamic leadership of Connie Hogarth and the many dedicated activists who surrounded her and built up the organization. I started working for WESPAC as the sole paid staff
- [From Bases to Bars](https://www.warresisters.org/win/bases-bars/) - The Military & Prison Industrial Complexes Go ‘Boom’ Looking back to the halcyon days of the movement against the Vietnam War, one sees the birth of what seemed to be a new world. Every day, one could almost see and touch giant boulders crumbling off the edifice of repression: students protesting from coast to coast—even
- [Women Resist Behind Bars](https://www.warresisters.org/win/women-resist-behind-bars/) - Illustrations by Rachel Galindo Women have resisted and protested their conditions of confinement since the start of separate female prisons in the 1800s. However, despite the growing body of literature examining female incarceration, little attention has been paid to what women do to change or protest their conditions, thus reinforcing prevailing stereotypes of women as
- [Transforming Power](https://www.warresisters.org/win/transforming-power/) - Teaching Nonviolence in Prisons High incarceration rates were supposed to make the United States safer for its law-abiding citizens. The best evidence indicates, however, that our increased rate of incarceration has not made society any safer. Nonviolent offenders are packed together with violent offenders into dangerous, crowded prisons, where violence is the rule. Upon release,
- [Justice, Not Jails](https://www.warresisters.org/win/justice-not-jails/) - A new, unjust, and gruesome “mental health institution” has been slowly and quietly growing across the nation: our jails and prisons. Over the past several decades, the number of incarcerated individuals with a diagnosed mental illness has continually risen. In fact, Rikers Island and the Los Angeles County Jail are the two largest providers of
- [Control Units](https://www.warresisters.org/win/control-units/) - In the mid-1980s, the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) Prison Watch Project received a letter from Ojore Lutalo at Trenton State Prison. He wrote that he had been placed in a management control unit, which he described as a “prison within a prison.” Although he had been in and out of prison for years,
- [Prison Abolition, Political Prisoners, and the Building of Critical Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/win/prison-abolition-political-prisoners-and-building-critical-resistance/) - Linda Thurston is a founding member of International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, coordinated the New England and National Criminal Justice Programs of the American Friends Service Committee, and has worked with Boston and New York Jericho and with Critical Resistance. Linda is the office coordinator at the War Resisters League national office.
- [Preserving a Radical Past](https://www.warresisters.org/win/preserving-radical-past/) - Tucked in San Francisco’s Mission District lies a treasure trove of social movement history and culture. The Freedom Archives is home to more than 8,000 hours of audio and video, as well as countless papers and publications from the last 50 years of people’s struggles. The materials housed at the Freedom Archives cover topics ranging
- [Peace and Prisons](https://www.warresisters.org/win/peace-and-prisons/) - The Not-So-Hidden Connection "We must work together to set free those who are bound, to turn our swords and spears into plowshares.” When Argentine Nobel Peace prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel lent his words to the foreword of my recently published Let Freedom Ring: Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners, he did
- [Opposing the Death Penalty](https://www.warresisters.org/win/opposing-death-penalty/) - Making Change: Activism Under Obama Our series of columns devoted to nonviolent activism under the Obama administration continues. Has change come to the White House, or is there merely a new face on the same old policies? For anti-death penalty activists, the election of Barack Obama represented an unprecedented opportunity. It was a candidacy built
- [From the Bottom of the Heap](https://www.warresisters.org/win/bottom-heap/) - A Hard-Won Freedom From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King PM Press, 2009 217 pages, $24.95 I had the honor of spending some time with the only freed member of the Angola 3 in April 2009 when he swung through Vermont on his book tour. Starting softly, in
- [The Real Cost of Prisons Comix](https://www.warresisters.org/win/real-cost-prisons-comix/) - Organizing with a Graphic Edge The Real Cost of Prisons Comix Edited by Lois Ahrens PM Press, 2008, 104 pages, $12.95 Last year marked the tenth anniversary of both the founding of the prison abolitionist Critical Resistance group and the National Jericho Movement’s march in Washington, D.C., demanding the release of all U.S. political prisoners
- [Resistance Behind Bars](https://www.warresisters.org/win/resistance-behind-bars/) - Tearing Down the Walls Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women By Victoria Law PM Press, 2009 258 pages, $20.00 In the summer of 1974, women incarcerated at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York held seven guards hostage in protest of the brutal treatment of activist prisoner Carol Crooks, who had successfully sued
- [Mexico Unconquered and Wobblies and Zapatistas](https://www.warresisters.org/win/mexico-unconquered-and-wobblies-and-zapatistas/) - Power from Below Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt By John Gibler City Lights Books, 2009 356 pages, $16.95 Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History By Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic PM Press, 2008, 300 pages, $20.00 It is welcome to see two new entries
- [Building Solidarity with Burma's Nonviolent Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/win/building-solidarity-burmas-nonviolent-resistance/) - For over two decades, campaigners around the world worked for the freedom of a man who has come to symbolize human rights. At many times the struggle to free Nelson Mandela and all the people of South Africa seemed bleak. South Africans faced an unyielding apartheid government, while international campaigners dealt with intransigent governments that
- [It’s My Life!: A Guide to Alternatives After High School](https://www.warresisters.org/win/its-my-life-guide-alternatives-after-high-school/) - Life After Graduation It’s My Life!: A Guide to Alternatives After High School Edited by Janine Schwab American Friends Service Committee, 2008, 89 pages, $9.95 This book delivers post-high school jobs and internships you wished you knew about before you graduated, dropped out, or got kicked out of high school. Compiled and written by the
- [We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now](https://www.warresisters.org/win/we-who-dared-say-no-war-american-antiwar-writing-1812-now/) - Voices from All Sides We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now Edited by Murray Polner and Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Basic Books, 1008, 368 pages. $16.95 In this compilation, the two editors have crossed the left-right chasm in our political and cultural landscape to compile voices from
- [Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners](https://www.warresisters.org/win/let-freedom-ring-collection-documents-movements-free-us-political-prisoners/) - A Radical Reference Manual Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners Edited by Matt Meyer PM Press, 2008, 912 pages, $37.95 In October, activist and (disbarred) attorney Lynne Stewart, who writes the afterword in Let Freedom Ring, spoke at the National Lawyers Guild's annual convention in Detroit.
- [Radical Passions: A Memoir of Revolution and Healing](https://www.warresisters.org/win/radical-passions-memoir-revolution-and-healing/) - Destination: Revolution Radical Passions: A Memoir of Revolution and Healing By Kendall Hale iUniverse, Inc., 2008, 229 pages, $18.95 In 1968, Kendall Hale watched the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on TV from her family's living room in Indiana. Her reaction was one of anger as she paced the floor, railing against a government that
- [Red Letter Year](https://www.warresisters.org/win/red-letter-year/) - with help from Melodie Younce Growing Up With Ani Ani DiFranco Red Letter Year Righteous Babe Records 2008, $16.98 One of the effects of having an enormous influence on a culture is that people will forever associate you with that moment in time. For those who came of age during the radical feminism of the
- [Protest the War](https://www.warresisters.org/win/protest-war/) - What Does a Protester Look Like? Protest the War By Judith Joy Ross Steidl/Pace/MacGill Gallery 2007, 52 pages, $5.00 That’s the question that a new book by photographer Judith Joy Ross seeks to answer. Protest the War offers a series of portraits of nonviolent activists in eastern Pennsylvania, primarily in the Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton
- [WRL Field Report](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-field-report/) - Pilgrimage for Truth and Justice in North Carolina In late July, Jason Hurd of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and I had been on the road together for meetings with IVAW members and supporters in Fayetteville, N.C., and at Camp Lejeune, trying to do a little legwork for the IVAW Base Tour that was
- [La'Onf Nonviolence Group: A Force for Peace in Iraq](https://www.warresisters.org/win/laonf-nonviolence-group-force-peace-iraq/) - by Terry Rockefeller and Valerie Lucznikowska Please, spread the message: there is not only violence in Iraq, there is something more; people are building peace and seeking real change. .. Today La'Onf exists within the polarized and dangerous political environment of Iraq where if you speak about resistance you are accused of supporting terrorists
- [WRL Field Report](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-field-report-3/) - WRL Field Report A Pilgrimage for Truth and Justice in North Carolina Tweet All photos this page: Matt Smucker In late July, Jason Hurd of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and I had been on the road together for meetings with IVAW members and supporters in Fayetteville, N.C., and at Camp Lejeune, trying to
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-16/) - Protesters Crash USS Intrepid Homecoming Tweet War Resisters League member Mike Levinson holds a sign at the demonstration in New York City on Oct. 2. Photo: Thomas Good / NLN While hundreds gathered to welcome the return of the USS Intrepid to its Manhattan pier on October 2, more than a dozen
- [Arte y Resistencia en el Magdalena Medio](https://www.warresisters.org/win/arte-y-resistencia-en-el-magdalena-medio/) - Quinto Mandamiento, es organización de jóvenes objetores y objetoras de conciencia, no violentos y antimilitaristas; que trabaja en los temas Objeción por Conciencia, Antimilitarismo, Derechos Humanos y el empoderamiento de los y las jóvenes como actores de transformación por medio de la No violencia activa como forma de lucha en pro de una sociedad más
- [Art and Resistance in the Magdalena Medio](https://www.warresisters.org/win/art-and-resistance-magdalena-medio/) - Translated by Christian Peacemaker Teams Colombia The Magdalena Medio is a region in northwest Colombia that contains the city of Barrancabermeja. The Fifth Commandment Youth Collective is an organization of young conscientious objectors, nonviolent activists, and antimilitarists in Barrancabermeja. It struggles for a more inclusive, just, and equal society. Its seeks alternatives to forced recruitment
- [WIN News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-news-1/) - Why They Refuse What drove ten young Israeli Jews to defy the law, their society—even their families—by publicly refusing to obey Israel’s mandatory conscription because “we cannot be moral and serve the occupation”? For 19-year-old Maya Wind and Netta Mishly, reasons included a bus explosion, a young Palestinian’s account of her father’s death at the
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-14/) - WRL Track Club Runs in Hartford The War Resisters League Track Club relaunched in October with the Hartford Marathon. Three WRL members participated: Patrick Sheehan-Gaumer ran the full 26-plus miles, and Mike Levinson and Frida Berrigan participated in the half marathon (Mike walking, Frida running). The Run for Peace raised more than $2,500 for WRL
- [WRL Affiliate Report](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-affiliate-report-3/) - Socorro has about 9,000 people and is the market town for about 20,000. There’s a science-oriented university, New Mexico Tech, with a cosmopolitan faculty and students so focused on their studies that many of them are politically inert. There are old Hispanic families from long before the United States was here. There are old “Anglo”
- [The Rebirth of Environmentalism](https://www.warresisters.org/win/rebirth-environmentalism/) - Outsiders Save the Earth The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar Bear By Douglas Bevington Island Press, 2009, 244 pages, $35.00 A hat is passed around at a meeting of local activists in eastern Tennessee; $29 is raised to fund their environmental campaign. A disgusted Fish and Game employee
- [Listening Process - Introduction](https://www.warresisters.org/win/listening-process-introduction/) - We are at a critical turning point in our struggle for peace and justice. In the past six years, public opinion has shifted dramatically on key issues, not least U.S. foreign policy. While there is now overwhelming popular support for an end to the occupation of Iraq, an antiwar movement with the kind of people-power
- [Listening Process (Section 5) - What roles can veterans, soldiers and military families play in ending war?](https://www.warresisters.org/win/listening-process-section-5-what-roles-can-veterans-soldiers-and-military/) - We interviewed members of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace, Service Women’s Action Network, and other organizers who are military veterans or military family members. We also asked all of our interviewees about the role of soldiers, veterans, and their families in ending war, and how others can best support their efforts. Most
- [Listening Process (Section 4) - How do we build a more multiracial and cross-class antiwar movement?](https://www.warresisters.org/win/listening-process-section-4-how-do-we-build-more-multiracial-and-cross/) - In the first round of interviews we asked, “How do we build a more multiracial, antiracist antiwar movement, and what inhibits us from doing so?” As a lot of folks also discussed class as an interlocking system of oppression, we added it explicitly to the question. Many organizers discussed how working-class people and communities of
- [Listening Process (Section 3) - What are the biggest openings and opportunities for organizing today?](https://www.warresisters.org/win/listening-process-section-3-what-are-biggest-openings-and-opportunities/) - This is the brighter side of assessing our organizing context. These are the factors that are potentially in our favor. Overwhelmingly, our interviewees pointed first and foremost to popular disillusionment with the current administration and the neoconservative agenda. From Iraq to Katrina to the economy and the environment, opinions and political consciousness have shifted dramatically
- [Listening Process (Section 7) - How do we link peace and justice issues and build alliances?](https://www.warresisters.org/win/listening-process-section-7-how-do-we-link-peace-and-justice-issues-and/) - We asked folks about how they connect issues of foreign policy, military invasions and occupations, and global climate change: with domestic issues like healthcare, education, immigration, detention, civil liberties, policing and prisons. Some organizers talked about the economic links between the military budget and social spending cutbacks. Some talked about a culture of violence that
- [Listening Process (Section 6) - What is the relevance of nonviolence today?](https://www.warresisters.org/win/listening-process-section-6-what-relevance-nonviolence-today/) - As an organization that frequently uses the term revolutionary nonviolence to describe our vision and work, we wanted to hear organizers’ thoughts on nonviolence. We asked our interviewees what nonviolence means to them, and also how useful and relevant nonviolence—both the concept and the word itself—is to their work. The concept was important to many
- [Listening Process (Section 8) - What does base-building look like in antiwar organizing?](https://www.warresisters.org/win/listening-process-section-8-what-does-base-building-look-antiwar/) - As the term implies, base-building means building a social base of support that helps an organization accomplish its goals. A classic base-building model involves identifying a key constituency, bringing people from the constituency into a base that identifies with the organization’s goals, and then facilitating the base’s participation, supporting members to invest themselves and step
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-13/) - National Committee Makes Program Plans The winter meeting of the National Committee (NC), the governing body of WRL, was held over President’s Day weekend, February 12–15. Amazingly, the meeting managed to dodge the many snowstorms the East has seen this winter, and fortunately illness waylaid fewer than some past winter NC meetings. The weekend kicked
- [Mixed Signals](https://www.warresisters.org/win/mixed-signals/) - By Sabrina Jones This is an updated page from Sabrina Jones' comic "Mixed Signals," available at Jones' website. Download the pdf.
- [Obituaries](https://www.warresisters.org/win/obituaries/) - Bob Witkowski, 1953–2010 Robert C. “Bob” Witkowski, 57, of Ashley, PA (formally of Wilkes-Barre), passed away on March 20, 2010, unexpectedly at his home. Bob worked passionately over the last four decades for peace and justice issues and was a long-time member and Steering Club member of the Interfaith Resource Center for Peace and Justice
- [From Brooklyn to Palestine](https://www.warresisters.org/win/brooklyn-palestine/) - Teaching Culture & Resistance By the Palestine Education Project The same ground you walk on, we do too… These words, excerpted from a poem by Tyeema translated into Arabic for a mural now hanging in Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus, speak to a journey students and teachers have been making in Brooklyn for the past three
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-10/) - Summer 2011 WRL Celebrates Release of Two Antimilitarist Resources On June 28, WRL and the Ya-Ya Network, a youth-led antimilitarist organization based in New York City, launched a new counter-recruitment leaflet, “Know Before You Go: ‘Cause There’s No Reset Button.” Written by youth organizers for people doing counter- military recruitment work, “Know Before You Go”
- [Rising Up Without Burning Out](https://www.warresisters.org/win/rising-without-burning-out/) - By Mindful Occupation Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In September 2011, the Occupy Wall Street protests erupted in response to the growing social and economic injustice that becomes more visible each day. Many of us with backgrounds in mental health and disability organizing have been
- [WIN News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-news-10/) - According to the New York Civil Liberties Union, in the first three months of 2012, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 203,500 times: 181,457 were totally innocent (89 percent), 108,097 were black (54 percent), 69,043 were Latino (33 percent), 18,387 were white (9 percent). MINNESOTA OCCUPIERS PREVENT EVICTION Platoons of sheriffs descended on the
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-9/) - It was a kick to read a recent issue of WIN. I remember reading it back in the heyday of Vietnam protests. Now the Occupy movement has reenergized many people. For me, the peace movement was and is the best thing about America. After Vietam, I wrote letters to editors and went to demos protesting
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-1/) - Sara Bilezikian Internship Inaugurated On January 16, Sophie and John Bilezikian, WRl, and the AJ Muste Memorial Institute (AJMMI) hosted a well-attended reception at Alwan Center for the Arts in new York City to inaugurate the Sara Ann Bilezikian Peace Internship Program. Sara Bilezikian was a peace and justice activist who worked with WRL as
- [Top 10 Heavy Metal Songs... You Forgot Were Antiwar](https://www.warresisters.org/win/top-10-heavy-metal-songs-you-forgot-were-antiwar/) - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Woodie Guthrie … Megadeth? When we talk about the music of resistance, many of us picture bell-bottoms, tambourines, and daisy chains — not leather pants, flying Vs, and pentagrams. But for all its machismo, pale skin, and goat-skull imagery, heavy metal—like all musical genres—has been a medium for social justice messaging.
- [“On the Side of Revolutionary Democracy”](https://www.warresisters.org/win/side-revolutionary-democracy/) - A Speech by Bayard Rustin Speakers at a historic 1965 Madison Square Garden rally against the war in Vietnam included U.S. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-OR), Coretta Scott King, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the great Bayard Rustin, then on the WRL staff. Held on June 8, 1965, and sponsored by the Committee for a Sane Nuclear
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-9/) - Saying ‘No” to Tear Gas My eyes began to water, and shut, and I felt as if I were being choked. I was nearly totally incapacitated,” says Brad, of Chicago. Samah was gassed in Tahrir Square. “Blindness, skin on fire, utter panic,” were her words. These are just two of more than a dozen stories
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-8/) - Bayard With regard to the introduction to Bayard Rustin’s speech in the most recent issue of WIN, Vol. 29, No. 2: I remember that Madison Square Garden Rally very well. It was almost a painful cry from Bayard that the movement needed to go into the streets and not be co-opted (as he was already
- [Tear Gas Not Welcome Here](https://www.warresisters.org/win/tear-gas-not-welcome-here/) - The War Resisters League is proud to have chosen Asma Mohammed and the Suez Port Workers as the 47th recipient of our annual Peace Award. On November 26, 2011 Asma and her coworkers courageously refused to handle a shipment of 7.5 tons of tear gas exported from the U.S. to Egypt during the days of
- [Chicago Local Report](https://www.warresisters.org/win/chicago-local-report/) - WRL in Chicago War always lands hardest on the working class. So WRL’s Chicago local is known for its alliance with labor. When it became a local ten years ago, under the leadership of Charles Paid- ock, it worked closely with Chicago Labor Against the War. “We shared meeting space on Sheffield and collaborated on
- [Field Report](https://www.warresisters.org/win/field-report-3/) - The WRL organizing team has been working with the new WRL Tear Gas working group to build the campaign that will launch late this fall. We have continued to add to the Facing Tear Gas site, including stories we collected recently at the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. We talked to many people
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-7/) - ASTRO-NOT When I was a young lad, I had dreams of being a fire fighter, an astronaut, and a soldier. One of these dreams came true but it turned out to be a nightmare. Looking back on it, I could have accomplished and gotten so much more out of the other options. Oh, how honorable
- [WIN News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-news-9/) - 1000S GATHER IN GEORGIA TO PROTEST SCHOOL Of THE AMERICAS School of the Americas (SOA) Watch is an independent organization that for the past 22 years has struggled to close the US Army School of the Americas through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work. From November 16-18
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-8/) - SUPERSTORM SANDY The War Resisters League has endorsed the Hurricane Sandy statement written by Movement Generation and reproduced in part below. The full statement can be found online at MovementGeneration.org We, community-based organizations and movements across the U.S. who are working for a Just Transition out of the climate crisis, stand in solidarity with the
- [WIN News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-news-8/) - 140,000 reasons to protest in Egypt (and the U.S.) On February 22, Egypt Independent leaked a shipping document and memo that revealed the Jamestown, PA-based tear gas manufacturer CSI plans to send a massive amount of canisters — 140,000 for around $2.5 million — to the Egyptian police. On Monday, Patrick Ventrell, deputy spokesman for
- [After Capitalism: Economic Democracy in Action](https://www.warresisters.org/win/after-capitalism-economic-democracy-action/) - Vision in Search of a Strategy After Capitalism: Economic Democracy in Action by Dada Maheshvaranda Innerworld Publications, 2012, 390 pp., $19.95 After Capitalism: Economic Democracy in Action, a significantly updated version to author Dada Maheshvarananda’s earlier text with a similar name, is a well-researched and written account covering the perils of capitalism and the
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-7/) - Taking a Pulse of the Movement: A Way to Listen to Our Allies WRL’s internal processes of self-evaluation and visioning forward have made us aware of a new imperative. Today’s peace and justice movement faces unique challenges and opportunities. The growing unpopularity of the war in Iraq and other Bush administration policies has opened space
- [WIN News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-news-5/) - Shut It All Down The last six months or so has seen much of what might’ve otherwise been "movement news" beamed straight into households across the US. From Ferguson, to New York City, to Los Angeles, and all the mass mobilizations against police violence and racist impunity that have resulted - even mainstream conversations appear
- [WIN News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-news-6/) - CALIFORNIA PRISONERS MAKE HISTORIC CALL FOR PEACE BETWEEN RACIAL GROUPS Oakland—Prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) have announced a push to end all hostilities between racial groups within California’s prisons and jails. The handwritten announcement was sent to prison advocacy organizations. It is signed by several prisoners, identifying themselves as the
- [BOOK REVIEW: Crisis and Control](https://www.warresisters.org/win/book-review-crisis-and-control/) - Six Theses on Movement-Building and the Militarization of Policing Crisis and Control by Lesley Wood Pluto Press, 2014 Reviewed by Irina Ceric Having had front row seats during its rise, long-time activists and organizers will immediately recognize the core preoccupation of Lesley Wood’s new book: the militarization of protest policing. Wood seeks to explain the
- [BOOK REVIEW: Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements](https://www.warresisters.org/win/book-review-another-politics-talking-across-todays-transformative-movements/) - Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements by Chris Dixon University of California Press, 2014 Reviewed by Carwil Bjork-James Over the past two decades, a certain kind of radical politics has surfaced and resurfaced, most recently within the whirlwind of activism that made up the Occupy movement. As the movement spread and encampments grew, occupiers
- [BOOK REVIEW: The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States](https://www.warresisters.org/win/book-review-struggle-within-prisons-political-prisoners-and-mass-movements/) - The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States By Dan Berger PM Press/Kersplebedeb, 2014 Reviewed by Josh Cerretti Dan Berger argues, in his new book The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States, that “Working to free political prisoners goes hand in hand with exposing
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-5/) - Protesters Crash USS Intrepid Homecoming While hundreds gathered to welcome the return of the USS Intrepid to its Manhattan pier on October 2, more than a dozen peace activists carried banners and leafleted along the waterfront to protest what one demonstrator called “an obscene monument to war.” The Intrepid, which deployed during World War II
- [Field Report](https://www.warresisters.org/win/field-report-2/) - WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast Reprinted from WRL Blog, Posted on March 12, 2011 From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance,
- [Bill Sutherland, 1918-2010](https://www.warresisters.org/win/bill-sutherland-1918-2010/) - Bill Sutherland, unofficial ambassador between the peoples of Africa and the Americas for over fifty years, died peacefully on the evening of January 2, 2010. He was 91. A life-long pacifist and liberation advocate, Sutherland became involved in civil rights and anti-war activities as a youthful member of the Student Christian Movement in the 1930s.
- [WIN News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-news-4/) - AIDS ACTIVISTS RALLY FOR PREVENTION JUSTICE Showing the “missing pieces” of the HIV prevention puzzle in the United States, hundreds of activists poured into downtown streets for the Prevention Justice Mobilization (PJM) Unity Rally and March on December 4 in Atlanta, where the National HIV Prevention Conference was occurring. People from across various communities called
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-3/) - NATIONAL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS The National Committee (NC), WRL’s highest decision-making body, is charged with shaping the league’s policy and direction and setting its budget. It consists of 28 members, all signatories to WRL pledge to resist all war: 20 appointed by various WRL committees and task forces and eight elected by the WRL membership as
- [Continuities: Pushing for Radical Transformation](https://www.warresisters.org/win/continuities-pushing-radical-transformation/) - As War Resisters League organizers, and as people committing our lives to challenging militarism, we don’t often see moments when our work comes together and people power is stronger than people in power. But a lot came together last September 5, when for once we could truly feel that people power strength. It was a
- [Caterpillar’s Head Still in the Sand!](https://www.warresisters.org/win/caterpillars-head-still-sand/) - The use of weaponized bulldozers manufactured by the Illinois-ased Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT), to demolish Palestinian homes and uproot Palestinian trees and orchards has killed dozens of Palestinians, mainly by the demolition of their homes while they are still in them. Nabila sl-Shu’bi was seven months pregnant when she, her three young children and four
- [Building a Just Peace: Boycotting Israeli Apartheid, Promoting Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/win/building-just-peace-boycotting-israeli-apartheid-promoting-palestinian-nonviolent/) - Ever since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through the ethnic cleansing of more than 750,000 indigenous Palestinians from their homeland and the destruction of Palestinian society, many “peace plans” have been put forth to resolve the “conflict.” But virtually all these plans have had one factor in common: They have
- [The Disease of Occupation](https://www.warresisters.org/win/disease-occupation/) - On Christmas Eve 2006, an off-duty Blackwater mercenary, freshly drunk from a party in Baghdad’s Green Zone, got into an argument with a security guard for one of Iraq’s vice presidents. Apparently, the Blackwater guard was trying to force his way into an area where senior Iraqi officials live when he was confronted. It’s
- [More than the Pundits Will Ever Know](https://www.warresisters.org/win/more-pundits-will-ever-know/) - Iran: A People Interrupted By Hamid Dabashi The New Press, 2007 311 pages: $26.95, hardcover In his introduction, Hamid Dabashi promises that by the end of his book the reader “will know more about Iran than the U.S. Department of State, the C.I.A., the Pentagon, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
- [Refusing War, Reinforcing the Movement](https://www.warresisters.org/win/refusing-war-reinforcing-movement/) - Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World By Aimee Allison and David Solnit Seven Stories Press, 2007 224 pages, $14.95, paperback How can a movement rooted in the community on a local or regional level have a large enough impact that it could end up transforming the
- [The Rebellion of One Soldier](https://www.warresisters.org/win/rebellion-one-soldier/) - Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejia By Camilo Mejia The New Press, 2007 320 pages, $24.95, hardcover Camilo Mejia was the first of the now numerous and growing list of soldier resisters to the Iraq War to go public. Mejia had served all but four months of an eight-year-term in
- [Western Sahara’s Struggle for Freedom](https://www.warresisters.org/win/western-saharas-struggle-freedom/) - In a desert nation in northwestern Africa, an Arab Muslim people have been engaged in a nonviolent struggle against a repressive U.S.-backed foreign military occupation that has largely been ignored by the peace and human rights community here in the United States. Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated territory about the size of Colorado, located on
- [Iran: Another Oil War in the Making](https://www.warresisters.org/win/iran-another-oil-war-making/) - As preparations for war against Iraq intensified in the fall of 2002, neo-conservatives in Washington were fond of remarking that "the road to Tehran runs through Baghdad." The toppling of Saddam Hussein was to be the first step in remaking the map of the Middle East through military force. Syria and Iran were on
- [Impressions of Iran](https://www.warresisters.org/win/impressions-iran/) - You may wonder why 16 Americans, one German and a Puerto Rican set off for ten days in Iran at a time of increasing international hostility toward the country. Rather than a deterrent, this mounting aggression was the impetus for a delegation to the country last December, organized by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR).
- [Letters from Young Activists](https://www.warresisters.org/win/letters-young-activists/) - The Future Is Now Letters from Young Activists: Today's Rebels Speak Out Edited by Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin, and Kenyon Farrow. 2005, Nation Books; 256 pages. $14.95, paperback You'd better listen up. And quick,” write Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin, and Kenyon Farrow in their editors' introduction to Letters from Young Activists. Many readers-especially those
- [David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary](https://www.warresisters.org/win/david-dellinger-life-and-times-nonviolent-revolutionary/) - Revolutionary Nonviolence and the Critiquing of David Dellinger David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary By Andrew E. Hunt 2006, New York University Press; 346 pages. $34.95, hardcover As catchphrases go, "revolutionary nonviolence" has not exactly caught the imagination of many activists. Full of rhetoric and apparently contradictory meanings, those two words
- [Philosophical Nonviolence](https://www.warresisters.org/win/philosophical-nonviolence/) - American Nonviolence: The History of an Idea By Ira Chernus 2004, Orbis Books; 234 pages. $20.00, paperback Ira Chernus, a professor of religious studies, has written American Nonviolence primarily from the religious perspective. While he includes material on the secular basis for nonviolence, most of his study involves individuals and groups who based their
- [Dorothy Day: Don't Call Me a Saint](https://www.warresisters.org/win/dorothy-day-dont-call-me-saint/) - Not To Be Dismissed Dorothy Day: Don't Call Me a Saint Directed by Claudia Larson 2006, One Lucky Dog Productions Running Time: 57 minutes his thoughtful labor of love was written, directed, and produced by Claudia Larson (a first-time filmmaker) and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City in April. Running at
- [Sir! No Sir!](https://www.warresisters.org/win/sir-no-sir/) - GIs Just Say No Sir! No Sir! Directed by David Zeiger 2006, Displaced Films Running time: 84 minutes. One of the greatest achievements of the anti-Vietnam War movement was the creation of a GI coffeehouse and counseling network. The first coffeehouse opened outside Ft. Jackson, SC, in late 1967, two-and-a-half years after U.S. troops were
- [Winning the Vote](https://www.warresisters.org/win/winning-vote/) - Remembering the Ladies Who Got Women the Vote Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement Robert P.J. Cooney Jr. 2005, American Graphic Press in collaboration with the American Women's History Project; 479 pages, 960 illus.; $85, hardcover Remember the ladies," wrote Abigail Adams in 1776 to her husband, the revolutionary leader
- [Merchant of Death - Alliant Techsystems](https://www.warresisters.org/win/merchant-death-alliant-techsystems/) - WANTED: Name: Alliant Techsystems Corporate Headquarters: Edina, Minnesota Primary Products/Services: Bullets, artillery, cluster and depleted uranium munitions, mine systems CEO: Dan Murphy Total 2006 Sales: $3.1 Billion Campaign Contributions: $175,360 (2002 - 2006) BULLETS: A CONSUMABLE PRODUCT The “Long War” needs lots of bullets. With the United States fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and training
- [WRL News Summer 2006](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-summer-2006/) - International COs Build Lasting Alliances A room full of international conscientious objectors and antiwar activists listened intently at the Church of Brethen in Washington, DC, as Xavier León Vega told his story of conscientious objection to military service in Ecuador. Since 1999, when he declared himself a CO, León Vega has been engaged a legal
- [Building an Intergenerational Movement](https://www.warresisters.org/win/building-intergenerational-movement/) - Interviews with activists Joanne Sheehan, Hannah El-Silimy, Ashanti Alston, Ije Ude, and Ralph DiGia With the United States’ rich histories of struggle and the volumes of analysis written on them from multiple perspectives of politics and identity, there is an alarming lack of writing and dialogue around ageism in the movement, particularly as it relates
- [Welcome to WIN](https://www.warresisters.org/win/welcome-win/) - WIN Through Revolutionary Nonviolence Welcome to WIN. This is the first issue of the War Resisters League’s newest expression of our oldest practice: nonviolence. Although this latest incarnation is new, WIN magazine is not. The Workshop in Nonviolence (WIN), a direct action group in New York City and an affiliate of the Committee for Nonviolent
- [WIN News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-news/) - Protesters delay weapons shipment to Iraq More than three dozen antiwar activists in Olympia, WA were arrested during a weeklong protest over the shipment of military equipment to Iraq through the port of Olympia. The military cargo shipped out on June 1 as close to 100 protesters staged a “die-in” and chanted, “Stop that boat!”
- [Lebanon: After the Whirlwind](https://www.warresisters.org/win/lebanon-after-whirlwind/) - This summer's Israeli invasion of Lebanon was merely the latest and biggest of a long series of invasions. Eric Laursen takes a look at the causes of this violence and what U.S. peace activists can do to end it. In parts of Lebanon, life today is a lot like it was 30 years ago-and,
- [Merchant of Death of the Month: Halliburton](https://www.warresisters.org/win/merchant-death-month-halliburton/) - WANTED: Halliburton Aliases/Subsidiaries Kellogg Brown and Root Cheney’s side gig Corporate Headquarters 5 Houston Center 1401 McKinney Houston, TX 77010-4008 Primary Products/Services Oil, energy, construction and military servicing CEO David J. Lesar Pentagon Contracts 2005 $ 5.8 billion Campaign contributions 2001-2006 $ 826,702 94% to Republicans Halliburton is the poster child for waste, fraud, and
- [Insumisión/Insubmission: CO Movements in Latin America](https://www.warresisters.org/win/insumisoninsubmission-co-movements-latin-america/) - Article 18 of Colombia's 1991 constitution clearly states: "No one shall be obligated to act against their conscience." Yet this same constitution includes a 1993 law that mandates military service to all those over 18 years of age. Service may be avoided for those who pay a fine, which is ultimately used to finance
- [Mother of the Mobe](https://www.warresisters.org/win/mother-mobe/) - Norma Becker 1930-2006 Born in 1930, Norma Lee Pliskin Becker, the woman who grew up to be the peace movement’s organizer-in-chief, first wanted to be a ballet dancer. As a girl, traveling from her home in the Bronx to ballet classes in Manhattan, she expected to have a future in toe shoes. But she
- [Mission Rejected](https://www.warresisters.org/win/mission-rejected/) - Busting Out by Tej Nagaraja Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq by Peter Laufer 2006, Chelsea Green Publishing Company; 212 pages, $14, paperback Here are some troops we should all support. Peter Laufer’s Mission Rejected features individual portraits of the most admirable U.S. military resister-activists, as well as a picture of the
- [Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity](https://www.warresisters.org/win/outlaws-america-weather-underground-and-politics-solidarity/) - Revolutionary Violence and Romanticizing the Sixties Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity By Dan Berger 2006, AK Press, 450 pages $20.00, paperback Almost as pervasive as the denial, ignoring, or misinterpretation of the concept of revolutionary nonviolence is the rhetorical and romantic notion ascribed to armed struggle by much of
- [Supplying Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/win/supplying-resistance/) - In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq Nir Rosen Free Press, 2006 $26.00, 288 pages Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq Thoomas E. Ricks The Penguin Press, 1006 $27.09; 496 pages When history looks back on the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, the greatest tragedy (beyond
- [Letter from WIN - Fall 2006](https://www.warresisters.org/win/letter-win-fall-2006/) - Welcome to the second edition of WIN, and thank you for your overwhelmingly supportive response to the first. Your letters, subscriptions, donations, and word-of-mouth promotion help fuel not only this project, but all of the War Resisters League's important work. In this issue, Eric Laursen looks at Lebanon, Israel, and an unsteady ceasefire, Wendy Schwartz
- [Your Letters - Fall 2006](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-fall-2006/) - I can't tell you how pleased I am that you've retired NVA and replaced it with WIN. That you've decided to recycle the name WIN is a nice bonus. The old WIN Magazine, as you've written, was lively. It acknowledged the negative energy in the world, but powerfully generated positive energy. It focused on the
- [WIN News - Fall 2006](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-news-fall-2006/) - U.S. Jews Call for Justice On August 22, Jewish groups in New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Francisco organized direct actions to demand a cessation of Israeli military aggression in Lebanon and Palestine. Actions included a "die-in" at Penn Station in New York, banner drops over major highways in Philadelphia, and a lock-down
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news/) - Can We Globalize Nonviolence? The 24th Triennial Conference of War Resisters International started two weeks after Israel began the bombardment of Lebanon, highlighting the urgent need for a stronger, more coherent global movement of nonviolent resistance. The new war cast its shadow over the entire conference: 200 people from across the globe gathered in Geseke,
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-2/) - Flow Charts and Food The War Resisters League’s National Committee came together for a hot weekend of structure assessment and decision making around program in mid-July. Against the backdrop of the recent U.S. Social Forum - where War Resisters League had a robust presence amid more than 12,000 activists - these seemingly routine organizational exercises
- [Israel/Palestine 101](https://www.warresisters.org/win/israelpalestine-101/) - by Emily Winkelstein Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer by Phyllis Bennis Olive Branch PRess, 2007 208 pages, $10.00, paperback Here’s my confession – even though I have long identified myself as an activist for social justice, the first time I went to Palestine back in 2002, I knew nothing about what was really going
- [WIN News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-news-2/) - Dissent in the Heartland Seventeen peace activists, arrested while occupying the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, offices of Sen. Charles Grassley, (R-IA) and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), will go to trial on charges of criminal tresspass on October 29. On July 6, 75 activists traveled from across Iowa to take part in the nonviolent sit-in, organized by
- [Letter from WIN](https://www.warresisters.org/win/letter-win-0/) - The human capacity for injustice can be a breathtaking thing. Iraqis living under U.S. occupation face a regime “far more cruel, deadly and venal than anything that existed under Hussein,” writes A.K. Gupta in his analysis of the Iraq war. Iraqis must deal with daily bomb attacks mass killings by death squads, impunity of the
- [Decentralizing Money](https://www.warresisters.org/win/decentralizing-money/) - In today’s global economy, national currencies have the effect of centralizing ownership of wealth, and of widening the gap between the rich and poor. They undermine local communities, devastate indigenous peoples, and pollute the environment. Decentralized regional currencies, in counterpoint, work to redistribute wealth more broadly, while supporting unique regional identities, cultures and communities.
- [Unions and Worker Co-ops Hook Up](https://www.warresisters.org/win/unions-and-worker-co-ops-hook/) - Unions and Worker Co-ops Hook Up The decades-long spread of plant closures has changed the ground rules for labor. In response, the trend of worker buyouts of abandoned businesses has become a movement earning recognition from unions. A Saskatoon meeting brought twenty regional leaders of the Canadian trade union and worker co-op movements together to
- [Harm Free Zones](https://www.warresisters.org/win/harm-free-zones/) - Rethinking Restorative Justice by NYC Harm Free Zone Collective In our communities, we face harm in our everyday lives in many forms. State institutions such as the police, the courts, ICE (the former INS), and the prison system are a major source of physical and psychological injury. The Restorative Justice movement in the US is
- [Letter from WIN](https://www.warresisters.org/win/letter-win/) - The Other World That’s Taking Root Call it constructive program. Call it building a new society. Call it survival. Organizers around the country (and the world!), re-envisioning political struggle, are constructing alternative systems to meet the basic needs of their communities. The tidal wave of privatization and the slashing of social services deny more and
- [Editor’s Roundtable: How We Worked: Five Decades of Movement Journalism](https://www.warresisters.org/win/editors-roundtable-how-we-worked-five-decades-movement-journalism/) - For this final issue of WIN, we thought it would be useful to take a look at the processes of putting out activist news and analysis and the thinking that went on around that task. So we asked five experts to discuss the subject as they experienced it—five former editors of the three magazines
- [Continuities: A Call for “Climate Satyagraha!”](https://www.warresisters.org/win/continuities-call-climate-satyagraha/) - The Crisis, the Calling, the Strategy, and the Horizon By Ecosocialist Horizons This document emerged from an invitation to discussion put forward by Ecosocialist Horizons at the first Pan-African conference on nonviolence in Cape Town, South Africa in July 2014, where delegates and representatives from 34 African countries and over 50 countries from every continent
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-0/) - Taking Counter-Recruitment to the Next Level The counter-recruitment movement has been hard at work trying to stop the poverty draft by educating youth about militarism, the realities of enlisting, and alternatives to military service. We have a vibrant movement made up of seasoned and skilled activists, but unfortunately there are very few young people
- [WIN News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-news-3/) - Thousands Protest School of the Americas Crowds estimated at 22,000 protested outside Fort Benning, GA, on November 20, calling for the closure of the School of the Americas program that trains military personnel from Latin America in "counterinsurgency techniques" including torture and other human rights abuses. Participants in the action, organized annually by SOA
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters/) - Upon reading Eric Laursen's "Lebanon After the Whirlwind" in your fall issue, I was disturbed to find the American left's paradoxical flirtation with Islamic fundamentalism infecting your pages. Laursen writes that "leftists are just as prone as Bushites to apply ideological litmus tests to Islamic culture A clear case of cultural chauvinism is in play
- [Affiliate Report: Lancaster SDS](https://www.warresisters.org/win/affiliate-report-lancaster-sds/) - Lancaster Students for a Democratic Society began in February of 2007 and has quickly grown to be a political force in conservative Lancaster County, PA. It is one of the few SDS chapters primarily made up of high school students. The chapter has focused most of its attention on ending the current occupations of Iraq
- [WRL Peace Awardees Challenge Torture](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-peace-awardees-challenge-torture/) - Nearly 400 people joined the War Resisters League in honoring the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International at the 42nd Annual WRL Peace Awards on September 28. Held at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, the program featured music by Emma’s Revolution and the Welfare Poets, readings
- [Letter from WIN](https://www.warresisters.org/win/letter-win-2/) - The great Iraqi poet Nazik al-Mala’ika, who died in 2007, wrote in her “Love Song for Words”: “Why do we fear words/when among them are words like unseen bells,/whose echo announces in our troubled lives/the coming of a period of enchanted dawn,/drenched in love, and life?… so pour us two full glasses of worlds! Tomorrow
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter/) - Worker Justice Is Global Justice With the recent devastation in Haiti, unions have mobilized their members to provide rescue and relief. Labor blog Working In These Times reports that the International Association of Fire Fighters sent rescue teams with high-tech scanners and that National Nurses United sent more than 1,500 volunteer nurses. Unfortunately, the U.S.
- [WIN Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letters/) - THANK YOU Dear Friends, February 1 marks one year since Ralph died. It does not seem possible that he has been gone so long, as the pain is still so fresh. I would like to thank all of you for your outpouring of love and help. Your visits, calls, letters, articles, and wonderful remembrances on
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-2/) - Learning from Soldiers It was good to read in Mark Rudd’s article (“The Male Cult of Martyrdom: Saying Adios to Che,” WIN spring 2010) that he no longer believes in the violence and adventurism that many of us have associated with the Weatherman faction. But I disagreed with the dichotomy that he set up between
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-3/) - Same Page Is it possible that together, the commentary by Mr. McReynolds (WIN spring 2009) coupled with Leslie Winston’s interpretation of that commentary, “Missed Connection” (summer 2009 letters), are evidence of how easy it is for any of us to (initially) not quite understand one another, myself included? As I understand it, Mr. McReynolds was
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-4/) - YOUTHPEACE X For the last ten years, WRL-New England has organized a YouthPeace Experiment, an annual weekend training for high school students in Voluntown, Conn. The name, chosen by the YouthPeace Club at Norwich Free Academy, comes from a quote by Gandhi: “Those who are attracted to nonviolence should, according to their ability and opportunity,
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-2/) - It’s been quite a spring. Some say it started in December 2010 with the self-sacrifice of Tunisian street vendor Muhammad Bouazzizi. Many have said it started long before that, with the years of multigenerational organizing, grassroots movement building, and worker strikes. But if we are to understand the sweep of pro-democracy demonstrations from Tunisia to
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-5/) - Not MLK’s Morality I find Obama’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan reprehensible and at odds with the praise given in the article "Reviewing the Obama Presidency" (WIN, Fall 2010). How does one account for his "routine expression of personal nonviolence"? Does an expression of nonviolence stop at the U.S. borders? Or as Remick and
- [Staff Changes](https://www.warresisters.org/win/staff-changes/) - Cal Moen moves on, Jay Cassano Joins WIN After four years in WRL’s national office in new York City as Editor/Publisher of WIN, Cal Moen moved to Vermont last January, to try to edit the magazine as a telecommuter. It didn’t work out that way, and Cal has switched hats, giving up the editorship and
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-3/) - This is the third of recent issues of WIN to take a “back to basics” approach. After Grow Food (Vol. 28, Number 3) and The Value of Land (Volume 29, Number 3), WIN now tackles another fundamental topic: health. If we tried to come up with a list of the most basic building blocks of
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-4/) - Most WIN readers probably believe that true change happens through collective action. As part of the vague grouping we call “the Left,” we place our faith in movements, not leaders – actions, not symbols. Nonetheless, there are on occasion some individuals who so capture the spirit of revolution that they become luminaries for entire
- [Editor's Desk](https://www.warresisters.org/win/editors-desk/) - 90th Anniversary Issue There are few organizations, if any, that can claim the history, longevity, and faithfulness to radical social justice of the War Resisters League. An organization founded with the mission to end war and the root causes of war is not going to be a flash in the pan. Still, it’s only been
- [Editorial](https://www.warresisters.org/win/editorial-2/) - It’s been awhile. Many of you have been asking after us. We are as deeply apologetic about the delays as we are appreciative of your patience. That said, we are back and incredibly excited. Far from being dated, the issue you’re holding tackles a theme still dominating headlines everywhere: Whisteblowers, what they’ve exposed, and their
- [WIN News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-news-7/) - Oakland longshore union honors antiwar picket, shuts down port International Longshore and Warehouse Union locals stopped work at the Stevedoring Services of America (SSA) gates at the Port of Oakland on May 19. Union workers honored a community picket line demanding an end to military shipments to occupied Iraq. Three ships sat at the SSA
- [Letter from WIN](https://www.warresisters.org/win/letter-win-3/) - As another calendar year turns, those active in the 1970s and 1980s will have duly noted the recent deaths of Jeane Kirkpatrick and Gerald Ford—prime supervisors of U.S. imperialist terror—and their Third World counterparts, the butchers of Baghdad (Saddam) and Santiago (Pinochet). Whatever the symbolic or practical value of prosecuting various politicians might be, we
- [Pictures from Palestine](https://www.warresisters.org/win/pictures-palestine/) - We spent August 1-12 traveling the length and breadth of Israel/Palestine on a delegation with the California-based Middle East Children’s Alliance. We stayed at the Ibda’a Cultural Center guest house in the Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem in Palestine; we talked with Palestinian and Israeli NGOs and grassroots groups; we visited Palestinian homes, a
- [Another Iran Is Possible!](https://www.warresisters.org/win/another-iran-possible/) - Though all recent media attention on Iran has focused on the Islamic Republic’s quest for nuclear power, another type of power has been slowly and steadily incubating in Iran, receiving very little to no coverage: people’s power. Over the past few years, a surging tide of activists, ranging from labor organizers, women, students, and
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-6/) - ZINN Thank you so much for the selections from your latest issue (Vol. 29, No. 4), “Radical Lives,” including Vijay Prashad’s fine review of the Howard Zinn biography. A long-time admirer of Martin Duberman’s work, I have to admit to a certain disappointment in his overall treatment of Howard Zinn, and wonder if other readers
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-8/) - This is the third of recent issues of WIN to take a “back to basics” approach. After Grow Food (Vol. 28, Number 3) and The Value of Land (Volume 29, Number 3), WIN now tackles another fundamental topic: health.If we tried to come up with a list of the most basic building blocks of society,
- [WRL Field Report](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-field-report-1/) - Field organizer Ali issa visited the “People’s University” — a project of Occupy Hartford in Connecticut — to lead a discussion on the ongoing Egyptian Revolution and how it relates to local struggles. That day was especially fitting to focus on Egypt since it was in the midst of one of the largest doctors’ strikes
- [Review: Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album](https://www.warresisters.org/win/review-food-liquor-ii-great-american-rap-album/) - Lupe against the World By Alexander Billet Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album By Lupe Fiasco 2012, Atlantic Records There’s been a lot of controversy, debate, and straight-up drama surrounding Lupe Fiasco around the release of his most recent album, Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1. This
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-0/) - Most WIN readers probably believe that true change happens through collective action. As part of the vague grouping we call “the Left,” we place our faith in movements, not leaders – actions, not symbols. Nonetheless, there are on occasion some individuals who so capture the spirit of revolution that they become luminaries for entire generations
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-5/) - This issue of WIN, “The Value of Land,” serves as a reminder of the different ways we understand our relationship to and appreciation for land. For corporations, the land only represents potential profit, a physical obstacle to resources that can be exploited. For us, land is a source of food, the site of our homes,
- [You Can’t Take What’s All of Ours!](https://www.warresisters.org/win/you-cant-take-whats-all-ours/) - Breaking Down NATO/G8 and Rising Up Against Austerity and Militarism To mark the NATO summit held in May in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit held in Camp David, Maryland, the War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance released a new popular education resource. This participatory workshop explores: The story of NATO and
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-6/) - What Does Resistance Sound Like? Each generation creates its own sounds, vocabularies, and rhythms to express its individuality and to create belonging. Without constant renewal, culture stagnates, and new growth is inhibited. If you’ve ever noticed that you see the same faces, hear the same chants, and walk the same routes at your local marches,
- [Picturing Occupy Wall Street](https://www.warresisters.org/win/picturing-occupy-wall-street/) - By Felicity Palma Occupy Wall Street protesters gather in Lower Manhattan to resist the corporate greed and banking practices that caused the current economic crisis. The encampment in Zuccotti Park started September 17, 2011. Since then, hundreds of similar encampments have sprung up all over the country and world. nearly 7,000 people have been arrested
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-10/) - SUSTAINABLE MEAT, UNSALTED I was taken aback when reading in the summer WIN (2011) editorial that avoidance of meat in the diet seems to be a foundational tenet of WRL’s nonviolence and that you had to issue what amounted to an apology or disclaimer about including a meat-based recipe from our indigenous cousins in Minnesota.
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-7/) - A Fierce Hope Carries Us Suddenly, there’s optimism. The rising movements have seen setbacks: the betrayal of much of Egypt’s spring, evictions of occupiers everywhere. Yet the movements appear to be continuing and, on the whole, to react to those setbacks as challenges, not defeats. If the risings circled the globe like a virus, the
- [Local Report: WRL Portland](https://www.warresisters.org/win/local-report-wrl-portland/) - When job and educational opportunities are limited or financially out of reach, how can truth-in-recruiting activists sensitively guide youth to those alternatives to military enlistment that will be fulfilling to them and contribute to a better world? Endless wars drain economic resources that could provide education, jobs, health care, housing, and other services. Antiwar activists
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-4-2/) - Matt Jones WIN’s notice (WIN, Spring 2011) about the death (and life) of Matt Jones prompts me to pass along a story he told me. I interviewed Matt in 1964 in Los Angeles while he was traveling for SNCC and the Council of Federated Organizations (conducting the Mississippi project of that year). Among the stories
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-3-2/) - Hungry? Let’s eat! Yet for much of the world, it’s not that simple. Many people across the globe—and not a few in these United States—live with unsatisfied hunger on a daily basis. A surprising number of them live in countries that are, like our own, rich in resources and even arable land, but in which
- [Letter of Solidarity to the U.S. Labor Movement](https://www.warresisters.org/win/letter-solidarity-us-labor-movement/) - From the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions By Hassan Jum'a Awad al-Asadi To: The US Labor Movement Subject: Solidarity In the name of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions representing 26,000 workers and 10 unions in the oil sector . . . It is with great sadness that we learn that workers in Education (teachers)
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-11/) - McReynolds, Deming Biography Celebrated It was standing room only at the annual Dellinger Lecture on Nonviolence April 26. Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village was packed at the forum and book party for A Saving Remnant, Martin Duberman’s new dual biography of two important pacifist (and WRL) figures, David McReynolds and the late Barbara Deming.
- [The DREAM Act as Military Draft](https://www.warresisters.org/win/dream-act-military-draft/) - By VAMOS Unidos Youth This past year saw immigrant youth mobilize in the United States with new strength and boldness, as undocumented young people led actions against deportations and “came out” publicly about their status. Much of this work centered on passing the DREAM Act, which would have paved the way for immigrant youth to
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-4-2/) - As we go to press with this issue, student protesters at the University of Puerto Rico are standing their ground despite excessive force and abuse by police riot squads. The administration claims to be "keeping order" following a creative and peaceful action by students challenging a burdensome new fee, in addition to already climbing tuition.
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-12/) - National Committee Renews Direction This summer’s National Committee (NC) meeting was held in August rather than July to accommodate a strategic planning session with consultant Suzanne Pharr. Together with Mandy Carter, Suzanne founded Southerners on New Ground (SONG), a Southern regional organization made up of working class, people of color, immigrants, and rural LGBTQ
- [Nephtali (Tuli) Kupferberg, 1923–2010](https://www.warresisters.org/win/nephtali-tuli-kupferberg-1923-2010/) - Many titles and labels have been ascribed to Tuli: artist, poet, rock star, counterculture guru, beat, yippie, bohemian, anarchist, and pacifist. It is difficult to write about a man born the same year as WRL whose gentle heart and keen political insight produced over 60 years of art. Tuli was the quintessential non-dualist: he lived
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-11/) - Brutus Tribute I was very happy with the spring (2010) issue of WIN magazine, and I was not familiar with Dennis Brutus. Because of the fine tribute that was written I went out and purchased his book Poetry and Protest. Enclosed are my dues and signed statement of support. Can we hope that George W.
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-10/) - Independent Information = Informed Action "If those in charge of our society—politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television—can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power,” Howard Zinn wrote in Declarations of Independence. “They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.” This was in 1991, during the
- [WRL Affiliate Report: Washington Truth in Recruiting (WaTiR)](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-affiliate-report-washington-truth-recruiting-watir/) - Washington Truth in Recruiting (WaTiR) began as a small group meeting in the greater Seattle area to organize counter-recruitment actions in 2003. The group included members of Veterans for Peace and other organizations opposed to the Iraq war. Four had teenage children or grandchildren at risk for recruiter contact and intrusion of privacy rights. An
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-12/) - The War Resisters League recently conducted a Listening Process, asking 90 grassroots organizers from across the county to reflect on the state of antiwar organizing in the United States. The spring/summer issue of WIN was a special issue featuring their reflections and insights. Readers reacted via mail, email and on weblogs. Here’s what some
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-6-2/) - Refuse, Resolve, Resist There is a “multidimensional continuum,” as Edward Hasbrouck puts it, of resistance to fighting in war. From young people opposing military recruitment in their high schools to veterans counseling GIs around military bases to conscientious objectors serving time in military prisons for refusing to deploy, those who work for a just and
- [George Willoughby, 1914–2010](https://www.warresisters.org/win/george-willoughby-1914-2010/) - A committed Quaker activist known globally for his engagement in nonviolent action campaigns and antiwar activities, George Willoughby of Deptford, N.J., died at home on January 5 at age 95. George earned a PhD in political science from the University of Iowa in 1939. He then met Lillian Pemberton, and they married a year later. They
- [Howard Zinn: ‘Fugitive Moments of Compassion’](https://www.warresisters.org/win/howard-zinn-fugitive-moments-compassion/) - The Uruguayan historian Eduardo Galeano’s invaluable website of social movement activism, upsidedownworld.org, has a slogan: “If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn’t we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?” With Howard Zinn’s death on January 27, we lost the best historical populizer working to
- [Dennis Brutus, 1924–2009](https://www.warresisters.org/win/dennis-brutus-1924-2009/) - World-renowned political organizer and one of Africa’s most celebrated poets Dennis Brutus died early on December 26 in Cape Town, in his sleep, at age 85. Even in his last days, Brutus was fully engaged, advocating social protest against those responsible for climate change and promoting reparations to black South Africans from corporations that benefited
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-5-2/) - News Worthy These days I’m cutting back on “news” subscriptions in order to donate more to action organizations. But winter 2010 WIN reports on what I want to know about: issues, but also current recipients of my donations, like Center for Constitutional Rights, AFSC, Center for Biological Diversity, and NWTRCC (I keep my income
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-9/) - Let’s Talk About (Radical) Sex Everybody thinks my head’s full of nothin’ Wants to put his special stuff in Fill the space with candy wrappers Keep out sex and revolution But there’s no hole in my head Too bad —Malvina Reynolds Our visions begin with our desires. —Audre Lorde Sex is a hot topic. We
- [Listening Process - Interviewees and Organizations](https://www.warresisters.org/win/listening-process-interviewees-and-organizations/) - Patty Adams, Steve Borla, Harold Burns, Kate Foran, Danny Malec Voluntown Peace Trust Pam Allee, Kima Garrison, John Grueschow, Paul Maresh Portland WRL Aimee Allison Army of None project Service Women’s Action Network Mark Anderson We are Family Ruckus Society, Indigenous Peoples’ Power project Shane Bastien, Michael Bayly, Joe Cling, Marv Davidov, Bob Kolstad, Lauren
- [Listening Process (Section 2) - What prevents the emergence of a stronger, more coordinated, more strategic movement?](https://www.warresisters.org/win/listening-process-section-2-what-prevents-emergence-stronger-more/) - While our interviewees were quick to name what they saw as lacking, some stressed to not get too down on the movement, arguing that specific historical and cultural circumstances limit what organizers can accomplish or at least set barriers that we have to get past. They discussed what they saw as the most significant constraints
- [Listening Process (Section 1) - What is lacking in the peace and antiwar movement?](https://www.warresisters.org/win/listening-process-section-1-what-lacking-peace-and-antiwar-movement/) - Nobody drew a blank on this question. Our interviewees had plenty of ideas about what the movement lacks. Some organizers first reacted to the question by distinguishing between a pro-peace movement and an antiwar movement, and a few disputed the use of the term movement at all, questioning whether we have a solid enough base
- [Labor Experiments with Truth](https://www.warresisters.org/win/labor-experiments-truth/) - From WagingNonviolence.org WagingNonviolence.org runs a list of underreported stories every day called “experiments with truth,” after the phrase by Gandhi. The following are some of the best experiments from the last few months having to do with the labor movement. Dozens of children from a Jewish Sunday school marched from Boston Common to the Hyatt
- [Sparking Change: Spotlight on WRL’s 2010 Peace Calendar](https://www.warresisters.org/win/sparking-change-spotlight-wrls-2010-peace-calendar/) - Bold, bright images with a clear message and a clean design are the hallmark of artist and illustrator Luba Lukova, who edited this year’s WRL Peace Calendar. She chose the 53 posters that appear in the calendar from about 300 posters from all over the world. She looked for images that were “easily accessible, had
- [Mission](https://www.warresisters.org/win/mission/) - By Chris Brandt This poem’s job is to stop war. There. Go and do it, little poem. Now that it’s gone, dear reader, heading for hot spots and capitals around the world, we can agree I’ve given the poem an impossible job. Ridiculous. A poem – all the world’s poems – stop war? Which of
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-2-2/) - PM Press It would take a particularly savvy “insider" to connect the PM Press ad on page 16 of the fall 2009 issue (which lists book titles but no authors) with the article on page 8 (by Vikki Law, author of one of those advertised books), or the interview on page 24 (of Linda Thurston,
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-11/) - Worker JusticeIs Global Justice Tweet With the recent devastation in Haiti, unions have mobilized their members to provide rescue and relief. Labor blog Working In These Times reports that the International Association of Fire Fighters sent rescue teams with high-tech scanners and that National Nurses United sent more than 1,500 volunteer nurses. Unfortunately, the U.S.
- [WRL News](https://www.warresisters.org/win/wrl-news-15/) - Warming Up to Possibilities: WRL National Committee The WRL National Committee (NC) met this summer against a backdrop of turmoil being felt around the world almost a year since the financial meltdown brought about by the bursting of the sub-prime mortgage bubble. Although we didn’t do any budgeting (this is the task of the February
- [U.S. Prisons: Too Big to Fail?](https://www.warresisters.org/win/us-prisons-too-big-fail/) - In August, while many families were planning vacations to Florida or the Caribbean, the Carey family was headed south to Ashland, Ky. They saw relatives and caught up on old times, took pictures, and exchanged new contact information. The family’s yearly vacation was spent visiting Willie Wright, an inmate at Ashland Federal Prison. Wright is
- [Six Ways for People on the Outside to Support Women’s Resistance on the Inside](https://www.warresisters.org/win/six-ways-people-outside-support-womens-resistance-inside/) - Suggestions from women incarcerated throughout the country: Make contact with women in prison. “Visits, phone calls, and letter writing are essential. Only with a firm foundation, a strong foundation, can we together be able to build a greater movement,” says a woman incarcerated in Florida. Speak out about these issues, especially when they intersect
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-9-2/) - Resisting Fear, Resisting State Violence On October 5, members of the War Resisters League and other organizations and communities participated in a direct action at the White House to oppose the war in Afghanistan. Sixty-one protesters were arrested, and one group attempted to deliver a letter to President Barack Obama demanding an end to
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-7-2/) - Building Bridges Across Borders Fences mark private property—backyards, farms, and gated communities. Fences inhibit freedom of movement. They encircle prisons, concentration camps, and military compounds. They separate people into “us” and “them,” forcing distinctions and emphasizing differences. There is a fence on the cover of this issue. People have died crossing this fence, memorialized with
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-13/) - ARMY ANTIDOTE Bryan Farrell’s article makes good points in the debate on the War Department’s bogus claim to being green. Our community has five military bases divided among the Army and Air Force. The Pentagon’s local green campaign has been in high gear for at least five years. It has had great success in “green
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- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-0/) - Tweet MATT SHEPHERD Thank you so much for your great Peace Calendar, which I get every year. I gave a copy of this year’s calendar to my friends, a transgender person and their partner, married for 35 years. They were really impressed by the inclusion of the killing of Matthew Shepherd in the Peace Calendar.
- [Your Letters](https://www.warresisters.org/win/your-letters-14/) - Thank You Tweet Dear Friends,February 1 marks one year since Ralph died. It does not seem possible that he has been gone so long, as the pain is still so fresh.I would like to thank all of you for your outpouring of love and help. Your visits, calls, letters, articles, and wonderful remembrances on the
- ["Never Again!": Women in Black Remember the Srebrenica Genocide](https://www.warresisters.org/win/never-again-women-black-remember-srebrenica-genocide/) - On July 11, 1995, the Republika Srpska Army, or Bosnian Serb Army, massacred several thousand Bosnian men and boys in Bosnia and Herzegovina in an act that was later ruled to be genocide. Each year since then, members of Women in Black-Belgrade travel to Srebrenica on July 10 to commemorate the massacre and call for
- [WIN Letter](https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-letter-12/) - Change is Gonna Come -- From Us During his early October visit to the War Resisters League office, former War Resisters' International chair Narayan Desai commented on the campaigns of then-presidential candidates. Both were advocating change, he said, but change was not what either wanted. Certainly, when it comes to the current wars in Iraq

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- [Death Penalty Abolition](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/death-penalty-abolition/)
- [PIC](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/pic/)
- [Prison Abolition](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/prison-abolition/)
- [Prison Industrial Complex Abolition](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/prison-industrial-complex-abolition/)
- [Abolition](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/abolition/)
- [Critical Resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/critical-resistance/)
- [Rememberence](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/rememberence/)
- [WRL 50](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/wrl-50/)
- [Larry Gara](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/larry-gara/)
- [9-11](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/9-11/)
- [NYC](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/nyc/)
- [timeline](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/timeline/)
- [WRL Peace Award](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/wrl-peace-award/)
- [Veterans](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/veterans/)
- [VVAW](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/vvaw/)
- [Peace Award](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/peace-award/)
- [Igal Roodenko](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/igal-roodenko/)
- [Annual Dinner](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/annual-dinner/)
- [Boycott](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/boycott/)
- [War Toys](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/war-toys/)
- [WRL New England](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/wrl-new-england/)
- [WAT](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/wat/)
- [Witness Against Torture](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/witness-against-torture/)
- [Guantanamo Bay](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/guantanamo-bay/)
- [War on Terror](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/war-on-terror/)
- [Day of National Shame](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/day-of-national-shame/)
- [Liberation Magazine](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/liberation-magazine/)
- [Vera Williams](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/vera-williams/)
- [Liberation](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/liberation/)
- [Signal](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/signal/)
- [anarchist](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/anarchist/)
- [literary magazine](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/literary-magazine/)
- [art](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/art/)
- [Committee for Nonviolent Action](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/committee-for-nonviolent-action/)
- [peace walk](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/peace-walk/)
- [nuclear disarmament](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/nuclear-disarmament/)
- [Trident Walks](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/trident-walks/)
- [ban-the-bomb](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/ban-the-bomb/)
- [marches](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/marches/)
- [Colonel Ann Wright](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/colonel-ann-wright/)
- [Times Square weekly vigil](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/times-square-weekly-vigil/)
- [peace vigils](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/peace-vigils/)
- [Devi Prasad](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/devi-prasad/)
- [Otto Nathan](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/otto-nathan/)
- [Foley Square](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/foley-square/)
- [Mike Levinson](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/mike-levinson/)
- [Living Theatre](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/living-theatre/)
- [Indochina Peace Campaign](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/indochina-peace-campaign/)
- [die-in](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/die-in/)
- [Washington Square Methodist Church](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/washington-square-methodist-church/)
- [Mandy Carter](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/mandy-carter/)
- [SONG](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/song/)
- [North Carolina](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/north-carolina/)
- [activism](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/activism/)
- [Black](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/black/)
- [lesbian](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/lesbian/)
- [National Black Justice Coalition](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/national-black-justice-coalition/)
- [August 6](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/august-6/)
- [Hiroshima](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/hiroshima/)
- [Smithsonian](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/smithsonian/)
- [Enola Gay](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/enola-gay/)
- [terror](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/terror/)
- [weapons](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/weapons/)
- [August 9](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/august-9/)
- [Nagasaki](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/nagasaki/)
- [Disarmament](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/disarmament/)
- [USSR](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/ussr/)
- [White House](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/white-house/)
- [Van Zwisohn](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/van-zwisohn/)
- [Jerry Coffin](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/jerry-coffin/)
- [Lynne Shatzkin Coffin](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/lynne-shatzkin-coffin/)
- [Gail Bederman](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/gail-bederman/)
- [Karl Bissinger](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/karl-bissinger/)
- [Cathy Carson](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/cathy-carson/)
- [Ed Hedemann](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/ed-hedemann/)
- [Warren Hoskins](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/warren-hoskins/)
- [Karen Malpede](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/karen-malpede/)
- [Vietnam war](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/vietnam-war/)
- [Anti-Draft Week](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/anti-draft-week/)
- [CD](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/cd/)
- [draft resistance](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/draft-resistance/)
- [nonviolent civil disobedience](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/nonviolent-civil-disobedience/)
- [New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/new-mobilization-committee-to-end-the-war-in-vietnam/)
- [Steve Suffitt](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/steve-suffitt/)
- [Max Sandin](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/max-sandin/)
- [Randy Kehler](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/randy-kehler/)
- [conscientious objector](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/conscientious-objector/)
- [World War I](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/world-war-i/)
- [World War II](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/world-war-ii/)
- [WRL Peace Calendar](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/wrl-peace-calendar/)
- [Ruth Benn](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/ruth-benn/)
- [1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/1963-march-on-washington-for-jobs-and-freedom/)
- [CORE](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/core/)
- [war resisters league](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/war-resisters-league/)
- [leap year](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/leap-year/)
- [Quentin Crisp](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/quentin-crisp/)
- [Barbara Garson](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/barbara-garson/)
- [Jeannette Rankin](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/jeannette-rankin/)
- [women in black](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/women-in-black/)
- [Bat Shalom](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/bat-shalom/)
- [Juanita Nelson](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/juanita-nelson/)
- [Bernadette Devlin](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/bernadette-devlin/)
- [Dorothy Day](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/dorothy-day/)
- [Saroljini Naldu](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/saroljini-naldu/)
- [Ngo Ba Thanh](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/ngo-ba-thanh/)
- [pie chart](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/pie-chart/)
- [military spending](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/military-spending/)
- [war taxes](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/war-taxes/)
- [federal income taxes](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/federal-income-taxes/)
- [IRS](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/irs/)
- [protest](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/protest/)
- [U.S. wars](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/u-s-wars/)
- [Wendy Schwartz](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/wendy-schwartz/)
- [Peace Pentagon](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/peace-pentagon/)
- [Prafulla Mukerji](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/prafulla-mukerji/)
- [David Berkinghoff](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/david-berkinghoff/)
- [FBI Informer](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/fbi-informer/)
- [children](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/children/)
- [WRL Peace Calendars](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/wrl-peace-calendars/)
- [Pete Seeger](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/pete-seeger/)
- [Jonathan Kozol](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/jonathan-kozol/)
- [Pete Alsop](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/pete-alsop/)
- [YouthPeace Program](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/youthpeace-program/)
- [Lucile Clifton](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/lucile-clifton/)
- [Dee Michel](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/dee-michel/)
- [March Against Death](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/march-against-death/)
- [Elizabeth Boardman](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/elizabeth-boardman/)
- [ITT Demonstration](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/itt-demonstration/)
- [Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW)](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/vietnam-veterans-against-the-war-vvaw/)
- [smart bombs](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/smart-bombs/)
- [Ed Murphy](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/ed-murphy/)
- [May Day Tribe](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/may-day-tribe/)
- [nonviolent direct action](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/nonviolent-direct-action/)
- [antiwar protest](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/antiwar-protest/)
- [tactical manual](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/tactical-manual/)
- [student demonstrations](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/student-demonstrations/)
- [Palestine](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/palestine/)
- [Gaza](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/gaza/)
- [ceasefire](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/ceasefire/)
- [Kent State University](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/kent-state-university/)
- [Jeremy Brecher](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/jeremy-brecher/)
- [Cambodia](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/cambodia/)
- [International CO Day](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/international-co-day/)
- [War Resisters International](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/war-resisters-international/)
- [WRI](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/wri/)
- [Operation Refuse War](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/operation-refuse-war/)
- [#RefuseWar](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/refusewar/)
- [Middle East](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/middle-east/)
- [Jim Haber](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/jim-haber/)
- [Stephen Zunes](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/stephen-zunes/)
- [1922 Egyptian General Strike](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/1922-egyptian-general-strike/)
- [Mahmoud Mohamed Taha](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/mahmoud-mohamed-taha/)
- [Atham Naisse](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/atham-naisse/)
- [Mohamed Ali El Husseini](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/mohamed-ali-el-husseini/)
- [Jim Loney](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/jim-loney/)
- [women's leadership](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/womens-leadership/)
- [Abrahamic Reunion](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/abrahamic-reunion/)
- [Kathy Kelly](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/kathy-kelly/)
- [conscientious objectors](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/conscientious-objectors/)
- [Polisario Front](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/polisario-front/)
- [Malalai Joya](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/malalai-joya/)
- [Rick Bickhart](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/rick-bickhart/)
- [Arnie Alpert](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/arnie-alpert/)
- [book](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/book/)
- [traveling exhibit](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/traveling-exhibit/)
- [WRL Centennial History](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/wrl-centennial-history/)
- [Joanne Sheehan](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/joanne-sheehan/)
- [nonviolence training](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/nonviolence-training/)
- [Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant Occupation](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/seabrook-nuclear-power-plant-occupation/)
- [WRL Training Program for Organizers](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/wrl-training-program-for-organizers/)
- [gay liberation](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/gay-liberation/)
- [racism](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/racism/)
- [prison system](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/prison-system/)
- [1972](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/1972/)
- [People's Blockade](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/peoples-blockade/)
- [Naval Weapons Station Earle](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/naval-weapons-station-earle/)
- [Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/civil-liberties-union-of-new-jersey/)
- [July 4th Coalition](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/july-4th-coalition/)
- [Philadelphia](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/philadelphia/)
- [Grace Hedemann](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/grace-hedemann/)
- [Bicentennial](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/bicentennial/)
- [Murray Rosenblith](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/murray-rosenblith/)
- [Maureen O'Donnell](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/maureen-odonnell/)
- [Jim Tindall](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/jim-tindall/)
- [WRL National Committee meeting](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/wrl-national-committee-meeting/)
- [softball](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/softball/)
- [anarchism](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/anarchism/)
- [socialism](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/socialism/)
- [WRL national conference](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/wrl-national-conference/)
- [Resource Center for Nonviolence](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/resource-center-for-nonviolence/)
- [Sam Diener](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/sam-diener/)
- [Roy Finch](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/roy-finch/)
- [Fellowship of Reconciliation](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/fellowship-of-reconciliation/)
- [homosexuality](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/homosexuality/)
- [David Dellinger](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/david-dellinger/)
- [1963 March on Washington](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/1963-march-on-washington/)
- [Radical Quiz](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/radical-quiz/)
- [Nonviolent Activist](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/nonviolent-activist/)
- [War Resistance Movement](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/war-resistance-movement/)
- [nonviolent radical history](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/nonviolent-radical-history/)
- [Jesse Wallace Hughan](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/jesse-wallace-hughan/)
- [339 Lafayette Street](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/339-lafayette-street/)
- [2 Stone Street](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/2-stone-street/)
- [5 Beekman Street](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/5-beekman-street/)
- [Maris Cakars](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/maris-cakars/)
- [WRL Office](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/wrl-office/)
- [A.J. Muste Memorial Institute](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/a-j-muste-memorial-institute/)
- [Allen Ginsburg](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/allen-ginsburg/)
- [Abby Hoffman](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/abby-hoffman/)
- [Canal Street](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/canal-street/)
- [FBI](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/fbi/)
- [Laura Melbourne](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/laura-melbourne/)
- [Screenpeace](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/screenpeace/)
- [Bre Reiber](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/bre-reiber/)
- [Tom Martinez](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/tom-martinez/)
- [Ruby Dee](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/ruby-dee/)
- [Ed Asner](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/ed-asner/)
- [John Sayles](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/john-sayles/)
- [Guillermo del Toro](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/guillermo-del-toro/)
- [films](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/films/)
- [movies](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/movies/)
- [Philippines](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/philippines/)
- [Israel](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/israel/)
- [Ukraine](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/ukraine/)
- [Active Military](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/active-military/)
- [GI Rights](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/gi-rights/)
- [Peace Calendar](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/peace-calendar/)
- [Burton LeVitsky](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/burton-levitsky/)
- [Mayer Vishner](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/mayer-vishner/)
- [Ellen Davidson](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/ellen-davidson/)
- [Diane Becker](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/diane-becker/)
- [Dorie Wilsnack](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/dorie-wilsnack/)
- [Josh Brown](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/josh-brown/)
- [Gene Glickman](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/gene-glickman/)
- [Luba Lukova](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/luba-lukova/)
- [music](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/music/)
- [songs](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/songs/)
- [Veterans for Peace](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/veterans-for-peace/)
- [Don Luce](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/don-luce/)
- [Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/vietnam-peace-commemoration-committee/)
- [Central Park](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/central-park/)
- [War is Over Rally](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/war-is-over-rally/)
- [John Lennon](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/john-lennon/)
- [Yoko Ono](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/yoko-ono/)
- [poetry](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/poetry/)
- [Lucia Vernarelli](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/lucia-vernarelli/)
- [Indochina](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/indochina/)
- [Indiana Jones](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/indiana-jones/)
- [Arun Gandhi](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/arun-gandhi/)
- [antinuclear](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/antinuclear/)
- [peace walks](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/peace-walks/)
- [peace](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/peace/)
- [A-bomb](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/a-bomb/)
- [nuclear weapons](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/nuclear-weapons/)
- [manga](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/manga/)
- [Japan](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/japan/)
- [Seth Foldy](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/seth-foldy/)
- [Cesar Chavez](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/cesar-chavez/)
- [United Farmworkers](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/united-farmworkers/)
- [strike](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/strike/)
- [Ira Sandperl](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/ira-sandperl/)
- [Teamsters](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/teamsters/)
- [Bob Fitch](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/bob-fitch/)
- [Daniel Ellsberg](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/daniel-ellsberg/)
- [WRL Conference](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/wrl-conference/)
- [UFW](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/ufw/)
- [El Malcriado](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/el-malcriado/)
- [farmworkers](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/farmworkers/)
- [ICE](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/ice/)
- [border patrol](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/border-patrol/)
- [labor organizing](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/labor-organizing/)
- [WRL poster](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/wrl-poster/)
- [9/11](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/9-11-2/)
- [World Trade Center](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/world-trade-center/)
- [vigils](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/vigils/)
- [Afghanistan](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/afghanistan/)
- [organizing](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/organizing/)
- [protest march](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/protest-march/)
- [LANDBACK](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/landback/)
- [Kimber Heinz](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/kimber-heinz/)
- [Craig Simpson](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/craig-simpson/)
- [New Mexico](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/new-mexico/)
- [NDN Collective](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/ndn-collective/)
- [Winona LaDuke](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/winona-laduke/)
- [John Redhouse](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/john-redhouse/)
- [Deb Preusch](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/deb-preusch/)
- [New Mexico Peace Conversion Project](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/new-mexico-peace-conversion-project/)
- [Mount Taylor Alliance](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/mount-taylor-alliance/)
- [Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/multicultural-alliance-for-a-safe-environment/)
- [Delores McAuliffe](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/delores-mcauliffe/)
- [Bonnie Eberhardt Bobb](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/bonnie-eberhardt-bobb/)
- [Think Outside the Bomb](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/think-outside-the-bomb/)
- [Armistice Day](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/armistice-day/)
- [Veterans Day](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/veterans-day/)
- [Continent Walk](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/continent-walk/)
- [social justice](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/social-justice/)
- [Washington DC](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/washington-dc/)
- [Pentagon](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/pentagon/)
- [Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/continental-walk-for-disarmament-and-social-justice/)
- [Dorie Bunting](https://www.warresisters.org/tag/dorie-bunting/)

## Venues

- [Judson Memorial Church](https://www.warresisters.org/events/venues/judson-memorial-church/)
- [Friends Meeting House](https://www.warresisters.org/events/venues/friends-meeting-house/)
- [Theater for the New City](https://www.warresisters.org/events/venues/theater-for-the-new-city/)
- [Bowery Poetry Club](https://www.warresisters.org/events/venues/bowery-poetry-club/)
- [Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture](https://www.warresisters.org/events/venues/schomburg-center-for-research-in-black-culture/)
- [Brecht Forum](https://www.warresisters.org/events/venues/brecht-forum/)
- [Fourth Street Theater](https://www.warresisters.org/events/venues/fourth-street-theater/)
- [The Community Church of New York](https://www.warresisters.org/events/venues/the-community-church-of-new-york/)
- [The International Youth Hostel](https://www.warresisters.org/events/venues/the-international-youth-hostel/)
- [Maryhouse](https://www.warresisters.org/events/venues/maryhouse/)
- [Brooklyn Lyceum](https://www.warresisters.org/events/venues/brooklyn-lyceum/)

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- [Vintage WRL Peace Calendar](https://www.warresisters.org/catalog/vintage-wrl-peace-calendar/) - From 1955 to 2012 War Resisters League published an annual desk calendar, the WRL Peace Calendar (featured in our history blog). While we no longer publish the Peace Calendar, we do have a wall calendar. Our WRL Perpetual Calendar, published for our 90th Anniversary in 2013, provides a wealth of information about the history of WRL and of peace and justice movements. WRL’s permanent archive at Swarthmore College Peace Collection has digitized all of the WRL Peace Calendars and they can be found here. Vintage WRL Peace Calendars available for purchase from our online store appear below:
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## Nva magazine issues

- [NVA January-February 2001](https://www.warresisters.org/nva-magazine-issue/nva-january-february-2001/)
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- [NVA March-April 2006](https://www.warresisters.org/nva-magazine-issue/nva-march-april-2006/)

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## Topics

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- [Economy](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/economy/)
- [Egypt](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/egypt/)
- [FBI](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/fbi/)
- [Gaza](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/gaza/)
- [Gender](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/gender/)
- [GI](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/gi/)
- [Guantanamo](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/guantanamo/)
- [Hiroshima](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/hiroshima/)
- [In Memorium](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/in-memorium/)
- [Iraq](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/iraq/)
- [Militarism](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/militarism/)
- [NATO](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/nato/)
- [Nonviolence](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/nonviolence/)
- [Nonviolent Activist](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/nonviolent-activist/)
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- [Racism](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/racism/)
- [Tear Gas](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/tear-gas/)
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- [War Taxes](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/war-taxes/)
- [Women](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/women/)
- [WRL History](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/wrl-history/)
- [Palestine](https://www.warresisters.org/topic/palestine/)

## WIN Magazine Issues

- [WIN Summer 2006](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-summer-2006/) - Movement Building Across Generations
- [WIN Fall 2006](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-fall-2006/) - Lebanon After the Whirlwind
- [WIN Winter 2007](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-winter-2007/) - Oaxaca Rising
- [WIN Summer 2007](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-summer-2007/) - Another World Taking Root
- [WIN Fall 2007](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-fall-2007/) - Waves of Resistance Engulf the Middle East
- [WIN Winter 2008](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-winter-2008/) - Insights to INCITE! Winter Reviews
- [WIN Fall 2008](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-fall-2008/)
- [WIN Spring 2008](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-spring-2008/) - SPECIAL ISSUE: Where To From Here?
- [WIN Winter 2009](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-winter-2009/) - A Day Late, A Trillion Dollars $hort
- [WIN Spring 2009](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-spring-2009/) - Militarism’s Climate Casualties
- [WIN Summer 2009](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-summer-2009/) - Crossing Borders
- [WIN Fall 2009](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-fall-2009/)
- [WIN Winter 2010](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-winter-2010/) - What’s Working Cover art by Ricardo Levins Morales
- [WIN Spring 2010](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-spring-2010/) - Sex & Revolution
- [WIN Summer 2010](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-summer-2010/) - Cover art by Kate Collins
- [WIN Fall 2010](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-fall-2010/) - Fall Reviews: Inform Your Action
- [WIN Winter 2011](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-winter-2011/) - Living the Lesson
- [WIN Spring 2011](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-spring-2011/) - Rising Up Cover art by Carlos Latuff
- [WIN Summer 2011](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-summer-2011/) - Grow Food
- [WIN Spring 2012](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-spring-2012/) - Occupy Reading Volume 28, Number 4 and Volume 29, Number 1
- [WIN Summer 2012](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-summer-2012/) - Sounds Like Resistance
- [WIN Fall 2012](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-fall-2012/) - The Value of Land
- [WIN Winter 2012](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-winter-2012/) - The Reviews Issue: Radical Lives
- [WIN Spring 2013](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-spring-2013/) - Health Care for All?
- [WIN Summer/Fall 2013](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-summer-fall-2013/)
- [WIN Summer 2014](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-summer-2014/) - Whistle Blower
- [WIN Winter 2015](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-winter-2015/) - This Means War – The Militarization of the Police
- [WIN Spring 2015](https://www.warresisters.org/win-magazine-issue/win-spring-2015/) - The Final Issue

## Template Categories

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- [National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee](https://www.warresisters.org/manufacturers/national-war-tax-resistance-coordinating-committee/)
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