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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
◊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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 212.228.0450×17
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…
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, 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 “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,…
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