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…
Facing Tear Gas: Chemical Weapons Abuse in US Prisons by YaliniDream Multiple letters from Mount Olive Correctional Complex (MOCC) in West Virginia, report at least 5-7 imprisoned people are sprayed by tear gas, pepper spray or other chemical agents each week. First-hand testimonies refer to the guards’ lax references to the frequent use of these…
25 years ago today a tragedy took place: The U.S. bombing of the Amiriyah Shleter in Baghdad. To mark this day, and look towards a world where such violence is not possible, we join members of the Iraqi Transnational Collective in spreading the following reflection, art, analysis and action. Resisting Amnesia: 25 Years After the Al Amiriyah…
On this MLK day, let us recall Dr. Martin Luther King’s deepest legacy. He understood that denouncing the violent extremism of young, angry men in the ghettos could not be done without hypocrisy unless one also condemned the far greater violence of the U.S. war machine in Vietnam. When governments decide political problems can be…
War Resister’s League’s very own Uruj Ehsan Sheikh just published on www.muslimmatters.org! 9 Tips for Muslims Who Want To Make Social Change We are in a historic moment. Renewed Islamophobia has emerged in the mainstream. GOP candidates’ anti-Muslim rhetoric and an upsurge of hate crimes against Muslims have gone unabated. The Syrian and Iraqi refugee…
Needing some cartoon-style popular education to start the conversation on police militarization, its federal funding and the militarization of emergency services? Check out these two that our friend and cartoonist comrade Ethan Heitner drew for War Resisters League, as part of the Stop Urban Shield work! Check out Ethan Heitner’s blog Freedom Funnies…
Ending Police Militarization, One City at a Time Published on Truthout on Tuesday, 29 September 2015 00:00 By Ana Conner and Tara Tabassi Oakland police participate in Urban Shield training in October 2012. (Photo: San Leandro Privacy / Flickr) Urban Shield, the world’s largest SWAT training and war-weapons expo, was held in September in California’s…
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Praise for Against All Odds: “The thesis of Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq, should be obvious. But in fact it is revolutionary, at least for people like me, who came up in the U.S. anti-war movement in 2003 and continue to be inundated with media and political images of Iraq as solely a…
After two years of repairs the Intrepid aircraft carrier and war museum returned to its NYC dock. We greeted it with a silent vigil of signs, banners, and leaflets.
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…
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