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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
**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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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