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…
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…
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,…
“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…
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…
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…
“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….
(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…
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…
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…
+ + + 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…
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! …
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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