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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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