Media Reports about the IRS Blockade in Washington, DC, on March 19, 2008 Washington Post “Cries Against War Sparse But Fierce” Fewer Than 1,000 Protest, 33 Arrested In Scattered Displays in the District, Michael E. Ruane (March 20) Detailed roundup with reference to RMO in lead; Ed Hedemann quoted “An Antiwar Blockade Amid the Apathy…
by Ruth Benn 3/2/2008 It’s like a double whammy losing Ralph at this time of year. He died on February 1, early on in tax season and just as Ed and I were working on the “Where Your Income Taxes Really Go” flyer. It’s also just when baseball season is starting up. Players are heading…
by David McReynolds 02/05/08 (from EdgeLeft: An occasional column which can be freely used, sent on, etc.) This afternoon, February 1st, I got a call from Ruth Benn that Ralph DiGia, 93, had died at St. Vincent’s here in New York City. I had visited him this past Saturday and sensed he was losing his…
Ralph DiGia, lifelong war resister and pacifist died February 1 in New York City. Ralph had a bad fall a couple of weeks ago, broke his hip, and has had a series of serious health problems following his admission to St. Vincent’s Hospital. Ralph, 93, has been the heart and soul of War Resisters League…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Frida Berrigan, 347-683-4928 War Resisters Block IRS HQ, 31 arrested March 19, 2008 — Thirty-one people were arrested this morning as they staged a nonviolent blockade at the national headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, DC. The protestors had placed yellow police tape saying “WAR CRIME SCENE” across the…
SHUT DOWN THE IRS / SHUT DOWN THE WAR On March 19, 2008, we will set up a nonviolent blockade of the national Internal Revenue Service headquarters in Washington, DC, as part of the day of actions against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just as military recruiters supply the bodies for the war, the…
Becca Rast is a senior at J.P. McCaskey High School, in Lancaster, PA. Nick Martin is a recent graduate from Penn Manor High School, also in Lancaster. In February 2007 they co-founded Lancaster Students for a Democratic Society, one of the few SDS chapters that is primarily made up of high school students. They have…
Operation No Recruits DAILY REPORTS FROM THE TIMES SQUARE RECRUITING STATION September 8, 10, 11 – 15, 2007 Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007 — NYC WRL / Washington Heights Counter-Recruiters / Rude Mechanical Orchestra At 8:30 am the NYC War Resisters League began blocking the front door of the yet-to-be-opened recruiting center. Shortly after, two counter-demonstrators…
Individuals, companies and corporations have always taken advantage of warfare to make enormous economic profit. For centuries, ordinary people, who suffer most from war, have resisted these war profiteers. One of the major factors in Harry S. Truman’s rise to the U.S. presidency was his relentless (“Give ’em Hell, Harry!”) pursuit of war profiteers. But…
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September 15, 2005 Looting By Any Other Name: The Profit-Driven War By Brian J. Foley [Text of speech given at the conference, “The Failure of Global Empire…] More than two years later, many people still ask, “Why did the US invade Iraq?” Some people answer, “For oil.” Others say, “To remove a dangerous dictator,” or,…
Stopping the Merchants of Death A Strategic Conference for Grassroots Activists Sept. 29 – Oct. 2, 2006 University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN According to all attendees, the SMoD National Conference was a success! To download a MS Publisher version of the official program, please click on the image (right) Click here to…
Nonviolent Activist, March-April 2006 Recruiting Latinos: Selling the American Nightmare By Oskar Castro Facing a drop in African American recruitment numbers, yet still hoping to entice poor people of color, military recruiters are currently working overtime to swell the ranks with young Latinos and Latinas. Latinos are 14 percent of the U.S. population aged 18…
Nonviolent Activist, March-April 2006 ACTIVIST NEWS U.S. Troops in Iraq Say End War in 2006 An overwhelming 72 percent of American troops serving in Iraq think the United States should exit the country within the next year, and more than one in four say the troops should leave immediately, a new Le Moyne College/Zogby International…
Nonviolent Activist, March-April 2006 INTERVIEWS: VETS AGAINST THE WAR From Soldier to Objector: Jose Vasquez Interviewed by Francesca Fiorentini and Steve Theberge Born in the Bronx, Jose Vasquez grew up in San Bernadino, Calif. In 1991, a junior in high school, he enlisted in the Army’s Delayed Entry Program. During his four-and-a-half-year tour of duty,…
Nonviolent Activist, March-April 2006 Blacks, Military Recruitment & Antiwar Movement: Not Showing Up By Kenyon Farrow When I was the Southern Region Coordinator for Critical Resistance I once spoke at an event in New Orleans entitled “What Now: War, Occupation, and the Peace Movement.” I was asked specifically to address why more people most adversely…
Nonviolent Activist, January-February 2006 The Mercenary Challenge to Anti-militarism: Privatizing (In)Security By Celine Joiris Mercenaries are nothing new; people outside of national armies have been fighting and dying for pay since the days of ancient Rome. Now in the midst of another empire’s reign, “private security companies”—as they are benignly called—have been on the rise…
Nonviolent Activist, January – February 2006 Carrying outrage, compassion, and tourist visas, 25 U.S. activists began an 80-mile-march from Santiago, Cuba, on December 5, in the hopes reaching the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay and visiting prisoners detained there under horrific conditions. The activists, drawn largely from Catholic Worker communities across the United States,…
Nonviolent Activist, January – February 2006 Lessons from the Global Justice Movement Policing Dissent By Mike McGuire In November 1999, a relatively small number of committed activists took on the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the streets of Seattle and won. In addition to marching, activists devised a tactic of several layers of human blockades—some…
Nonviolent Activist, January – February 2006 ACTIVIST NEWS UFPJ Rejects Future Work With A.N.S.W.E.R. On December 12, the antiwar coalition United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) issued a statement entitled “Ending the War in Iraq, Building a Broad Movement for Peace and Justice, and Our Experience with ANSWER,” in which they announced the steering committee’s…
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