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Be an Organizing Intern at the WRL National Office!

War Resisters League is looking for a New York City-based part-time intern for a twelve-week period, June 13 – August 31. The intern will work 20 hours a week on a number of organizing projects and administrative tasks, including the following: Working with local WRL chapters and affiliate groups all over the country, contacting them…

Nonviolent Civil Resistance on March 19th at the White House

Nonviolent Civil Resistance on March 19th at the White House

Led by Veterans for Peace on March 19th – the anniversary of the brutal invasion of Iraq, where over a million Iraqis and almost 5,000 US soldiers were killed with thousands more grievously injured – as the occupation of Iraq and the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan continue unabated, Veterans for Peace is calling for…

DON’T BUY WAR TOYS

DON’T BUY WAR TOYS

WAR IS NOT A GAME Playing with war toys and violent videos numbs people to the terrible truth: War means death and suffering, not fun and games. Playing violent video games has been directly linked to increased aggressive behavior.  A Harvard School of Public Health study found significant amounts of violence even in video games…

UPDATE: Results of Nov 18 trial of May 3rd Grand Central NPT Protesters

From Bev Rice: I was delighted to tell my NLG lawyer, Mark  Taylor, that  the MTA policeman who wrote the summons wasn’t my arresting officer.  After being sworn in, this officer said he was called in from Penn Station because “there was a war  protest in Grand Central.”   When Judge Weinberg asked him for details,…

NC Elections 2011 – Statements of Candidates

MAY 1, 2011 Balloting has closed.  Thanks to everyone who voted! Statements of Candidates (* = Incumbent) JASON AHMADI (Southwest) I have found that building real relationships and community is essential to resisting this culture and practice of war. In my anti-nuclear organizing in the rural pueblos of Northern New Mexico, I feel I have…

Take a Stand for Peace – December 16 in Washington, DC

Take a Stand for Peace – December 16 in Washington, DC

Join activist veterans marching in solidarity to the White House,  demanding an immediate end to U.S. wars, whether conducted by occupation troops, drones or proxy, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Palestine. We will be nonviolently refusing to leave the White House, willing to be dragged away and arrested for peace. We believe that the…

Shut Down the School of the Americas! November 19-21, 2010

Shut Down the School of the Americas! November 19-21, 2010

November 19-21: Close the school of the Americas Join us to remember the victims and to celebrate the resistance! (para información en español, haga click aquí) Thirty years have passed since Maryknoll missioners Maura Clark, Jean Donovan, Ita Ford, and Dorothy Kazel were brutally killed by graduates of the SOA in El Salvador. They are…

Homecoming in Detroit and on Coming Home from the US Social   Forum

Homecoming in Detroit and on Coming Home from the US Social Forum

It’s been nearly five days since returning home from Detroit and I think that the word most present in the minds of many of the WRL members who were at the second-ever U.S. Social Forum is “unpack.” Aside from the bags full of notes and posters, books and pins that we carried home with us,…

For Allies

◊Links to groups that serve as allies Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (YANO) American Friends Service Committee—Youth and Militarism Program Coalition Against Militarism In Our Schools**   -Great example of students and adult allies working together to evoke change National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) CodePink Leave my Child Alone!   ◊ Resources…

WRL Track Club

WRL Track Club

War, Empire and the Economy Got You Down? We have the Solution! Don’t Just Stand There…. Run! The War Resisters League Track Club is committed to building community and building muscles, and we want to run with you. After a decade long (or so) hiatus, we reformed in 2009, and ran the Hartford Marathon and…

Tax Day Actions 2010

Tax Day Actions 2010

Join in the work of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee including WRL members across the country in organizing against taxpayer dollars spent for war and militarism! The numbers are staggering: Over $1 trillion spent so far on the invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Nearly half of each tax…

May 3rd WRL action for nuclear abolition

May 3rd WRL action for nuclear abolition

We Declare NYC a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (starting with Grand Central Station)! Monday, May 3, 2010 8-10am Grand Central Station War Resisters League is marking the beginning of the United Nations’ Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference with creative and nonviolent direct action at Grand Central Station. We assert that “Nuclear Disarmament Begins at Home.” Throughout…

Prophecy Tickets

Prophecy Tickets

NEARLY SOLD OUT! Call for tickets now: 212.228.0450 x17 Theater Three Collaborative, Inc. presents A fierce and funny new American play about bearing witness and finding family Friday, June 4, 2010 7:30 p.m. A Benefit for the War Resisters League Written & Directed by Karen Malpede Buy your tickets today! Call 212.228.0450×17

WRL Track Club Invitation

WRL Track Club Invitation

War, Empire and the Economy Got You Down? We have the Solution! Don’t Just Stand There…. Run! The War Resisters League Track Club is committed to building community and building muscles, and we want to run with you. After a decade long (or so) hiatus, we reformed in 2009, and ran the Hartford Marathon and…

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