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Press Release: Activists Lockdown Chicago Streets to Denounce Islamophobic & Hyper-Militarized SWAT Training

Press Release: Activists Lockdown Chicago Streets to Denounce Islamophobic & Hyper-Militarized SWAT Training

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  #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…

Media Advisory: Community Groups Rally in Chicago to Denounce Islamophobic & Hyper-Militarized SWAT Training

Media Advisory: Community Groups Rally in Chicago to Denounce Islamophobic & Hyper-Militarized SWAT Training

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**** 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,…

SOA Watch Encuentro at the Border

SOA Watch Encuentro at the Border

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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

NC Elections 2016 – Statements of Candidates

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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

“Against the Battalions in Blue” – New Piece by Skanda Kadirgamar

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(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…

Call for submissions // noSWATzone Zine

Call for submissions // noSWATzone Zine

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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…

Applications Open: 95th Anniversary Bilezikian Internship

Applications Open: 95th Anniversary Bilezikian Internship

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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

WRL Supports Black & Palestinian Solidarity

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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…

Opposing CATO’s Fear-Mongering Trainings!

Opposing CATO’s Fear-Mongering Trainings!

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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…

WRL Condemns Baton Rouge Police Department Repression

WRL Condemns Baton Rouge Police Department Repression

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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…

Press Release: UASI Fuels Police Militarization

Press Release: UASI Fuels Police Militarization

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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…

Letter to House Committee on Appropriations: Cut UASI funding!

Letter to House Committee on Appropriations: Cut UASI funding!

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**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…

Media Advisory: Civil Liberties, Humanitarian and Religious Organizations Call For Maintaining President’s Cut to Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI)

Media Advisory: Civil Liberties, Humanitarian and Religious Organizations Call For Maintaining President’s Cut to Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI)

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+                                                             +                                                            + 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…

Bob Fitch, Presente!

Bob Fitch, Presente!

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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…

Michael Ratner, Presente!

Michael Ratner, Presente!

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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!

James Haughton, Presente!

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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…

Open Letter to Hillary Clinton on Counter-Terror Funds

Open Letter to Hillary Clinton on Counter-Terror Funds

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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…

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