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Stop Urban Shield Coalition Victory: WRL Statement
Congratulations to the Stop Urban Shield Coalition on the recent victory of demilitarizing emergency preparedness in California’s Bay Area! In other words: ending Urban Shield. Since 2013, this cross-community coalition has organized tirelessly against Urban Shield — a SWAT team training and weapons expo, that brought together local, regional, and international police to collaborate on,…
Demilitarist School: Report Back from Chicago
In April, WRL piloted our first Demilitarist School in Chicago! Over three days, 13 young people and a group of Demil School facilitators, including WRL staff and National Committee members, gathered to grapple with the scale of US militarism. Participants delved into discussions about strategies for dismantling militarism and the ways antimilitarist work feeds into struggles for Black…
Update: Resisting Airwars Curriculum
Dear War Resisters Family, My name is YaliniDream and I’m a cultural worker, organizer, and facilitator currently supporting WRL by drafting the Resisting Airwars curriculum for WRL’s new Demilitarist School. I’m writing because this April, young people in Chicago participated in WRL’s first “school” with workshops on what militarism looks like – from police militarization…
On Martin’s 90th, we recommit to the struggle
Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 90 this year. As we mark his birthday on this holiday, we are reminded of his work, his words, his inspiration, and his legacy… and we wonder what work he may have gone on to do if he had lived. We are reminded of all of those in…
From Kashmir to the Philippines, Give to Grassroots Decolonial Education
Dear Resisters, When I joined WRL’s National Committee in 2017, an unprecedented number of members from diasporic and marginalized communities were also joining, and I was thrilled to be working with a group of people ready to build a truly internationalist antiwar movement. As we acknowledged the many ongoing conflicts, occupations, and wars happening around…
A Teach-In on Militarized Disaster Response and Climate Colonialism
A Call to Action on Puerto Rico, International Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines, and War Resisters League present a teach-in on the impacts of climate change and militarism. RSVP: On Facebook or Email us at wrl [at] warresisters.org WRL ORGANIZING TEAM STATEMENT ON MILITARISM & CLIMATE CHANGE As an organization that strives to target…
WRL at 95: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going
This past summer, WRL National Committee member Debbie Southorn took a moment to collect stories about our past, present, and future. Give it a listen above and stay tuned for more awesome opportunities for future podcasts! If you are a lifelong WRL member with a story to be shared, contact Raúl at raul [at] warresisters.org.
Holiday Party and Ralph DiGia Award
WRL Holiday Party & Ralph DiGia Award December 14, 2018 6:30pm 168 Canal St. 6th Floor NYC As we continue to celebrate WRL’s 95th Anniversary year, we are very pleased to announce that longtime WRL activist, Vicki Rovere, will be accepting the Ralph DiGia award at WRL’s annual Holiday Party this December 14th. Join us…
WRL at 95: Redefining our Base, Building our Power
At Ninety-Five, the War Resisters League Tries New Tactics “We’re acknowledging the many ways militarization shows up in our lives and neighborhoods.” by Eleanor J. Bader | October 24, 2018 Read on The Progressive When educator Jesse Wallace Hughan founded the War Resisters League in 1923 in the wake of WWI, her focus was on ending armed conflict. Ninety-five years…
Honduran Migrant March: A Refugee Crisis caused by US Policy and US Partners
WRL endorses the Honduras Solidarity Network’s statement in solidarity with the Honduran Migrant Caravan. Read their statement below and support all asylum seekers. “On October 12, 2018, hundreds of women, men, children, youth and the elderly decided to leave Honduras as a desperate response to survive. The massive exodus that began in the city of…
WRL Endorses Call to Reject War Criminal Kissinger from NYU Event
War Resisters League endorses call by NYU student activists demanding NYU cancel event hosted by war criminal Henry Kissinger. Read the statement and endorsing organizations below. “The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer.” Henry Kissinger, 1975 For over half a century, Henry Kissinger has stood as the morally reprehensible poster…
A Message from Movement Elder, Mandy Carter
Dear Community, I graduated high school in the summer of 1966 in Central New York during the tail ends of the Civil Rights Movement and during the height of the U.S.-led wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. That summer, almost 400,000 men were drafted. Having lived and been raised in two orphanages and a foster…
Building Anti-colonial Power – 1 Year After Hurricane Maria
Dear Primxs, A year ago today, the deadliest U.S.-based natural disaster – Hurricane Maria – devastated the island of Puerto Rico, home to over 3 million people. The hurricane shattered an already unstable infrastructure, crumbling from almost two centuries of parasitic U.S. colonialism. 3,000 people died because of an explicit strategy to keep aid from…
Meet WRL’s new National Organizer, Tory Smith
Dear Troublemakers, On January 19th, 2003, I was a high school student in Washington D.C., huddled against the wind in a massive crowd all holding up signs declaring we were against the illegal war that was about to start. I didn’t have a full understanding of the history that lead our empire up to that…
Meet WRL’s New Field Organizer, Yuni Chang
Dear Community, My parents were born in Seoul in the fresh aftermath of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War. Before the U.S. split the peninsula with the creation of a border at the 38th parallel, my grandmother waded across rivers in secret, with newborns in tow, so that her family in the north would have…
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A Death in the Family: David McReynolds, Pacifist, Socialist, Ailurophile
As WRL reflects on David’s life and legacy, heading into our 95th year of radically resisting war, we’re humbled and grateful for the kind of politic David brought to our movement + organizational spaces. To make a gift to WRL in David’s honor, click here. To write a message of remembrance for David in our 95th Anniversary…
David McReynolds (1929 – 2018)
UPDATE: Hear the presentations from the Memorial for David McReynolds here. The memorial was held on Saturday, December 1 at 12 PM – 3 PM at Judson Memorial Church in New York. Scroll down for links to more articles about David. Early Friday morning, August 17, socialist, photographer, and lifetime War Resisters League member David…
The New Antimilitarism: Our AMC Reportback
Hey community, It’s been a few weeks since you helped us get folks out to Detroit for the Allied Media Conference to attend our workshop Liberate the Skies: The New Antimilitarism – thanks for helping us get folks there! The first of its kind at the AMC, the workshop was an intentional space for us…
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