**** 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,…
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…
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…
(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 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
**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…
As members of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, we stand against Gov. Cuomo’s anti-BDS executive order & urge all to take the following action steps laid out by the US Campaign: Governor Cuomo and the opposition are desperate to stifle the growing movement for Palestinian rights. On Sunday, June 5th, on…
+ + + 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…
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…
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…
The War Resisters League stands with Afghans United for Justice as they condemn the Kunduz hospital bombing as a war crime, and call for an independent investigation into the U.S. airstrikes on this Afghanistan hospital. “The human cost of this war crime continues beyond the October 3 airstrike. The whole city of Kunduz is now without…
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…
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