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A Death in the Family: David McReynolds, Pacifist, Socialist, Ailurophile

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…

Resisting Occupation: A Teach-In on Kashmir

Resisting Occupation: A Teach-In on Kashmir

War Resisters League is proud to announce and report back from the first of WRL’s Zone’s of Forgotten Conflict teach-in series. We were honored to partner with the South Asia Solidarity Initiative, to hold up resistance to India’s occupation of Kashmir and to have Kashmiri scholar activists Hafsa Kanjwal and Mohamad Junaid as guest speakers,…

Conscientious Objection is a Human Right!

Conscientious Objection is a Human Right!

As long as there has been war, there’s been those who are willing to fight and those who actively refuse to take part. Today, on International Conscientious Objector Day, we uplift all who refuse military enlistment morally, politically, spiritually, or otherwise. Throughout history conscientious objectors (COs) have been persecuted around the world for their actions, from petty fees to imprisonment, exile…

WRL is Hiring a New Organizing Team!

WRL is Hiring a New Organizing Team!

The War Resisters League seeks to hire two passionate and dedicated individuals to make up its core programmatic team. The National Campaigner and the Field Organizer will work together to coordinate, develop, and implement WRL programmatic work, including building campaigns to fulfill WRL’s mission and strategic priorities. We are seeking two experienced and committed grassroots…

Resist Militarism: Lessons from Mexico & Cross Border Solidarity

Resist Militarism: Lessons from Mexico & Cross Border Solidarity

The People’s Human Rights Observatory is an initiative of grassroots and popular organizations in Latin America, the Caribbean and Palestine that seeks to monitor, document, disseminate, promote and demand the protection of Latin American communities Human Rights, Democracy and Social Justice from a perspective of constructing and deepening of resistance, rebellion, memory and popular power….

WRL supports the “Movement Technologist Statement”

WRL supports the “Movement Technologist Statement”

    Movement Technologist Statement   We work with information technology. Some of us are movement technologists — people who bring their political commmitment to developing technology and tech capacity for social justice organizations and communities. Others are movement activists who use technology in our work. We were among over 50 technologists and organizations of…

JOB OPENING at National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee

JOB OPENING at National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee

JOB OPENING at National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC) is looking for applicants for its Coordinator position, to start May 2018. NWTRCC, founded in 1982, is a national coalition of organizations and individuals who work together to support, coordinate, and publicize war tax resistance efforts. The Coordinator…

Joanne Landy, Presente!

Joanne Landy, Presente!

Joanne Landy, a visionary that inspired so many of us striving for a world free of war and oppression, died October 14 in Manhattan. She was 75.  Joanne – whose imagination rejected the binaries that so often limit our political work – spent a lifetime engaged in a “neither East nor West” critique of Cold War politics. She was a co-founder…

Negotiate, Don’t Escalate!

Negotiate, Don’t Escalate!

Yesterday North Korea fired a ballistic missile at Hokkaido Island– the first missile of its kind to fly over Japan amidst rising global tensions. Meanwhile, US and South Korean military exercises continue while Trump renews threats of escalation, fueling an all too costly arms race.  As the international community calls for diplomatic solutions, today we turn…

Sanctuary Cities Beyond Militarism

Sanctuary Cities Beyond Militarism

This past weekend, thousands across the country mobilized in airports, in defiance of the executive order “Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”, popularly known as the #MuslimBan. From taxi drivers and Yemeni business owners striking to lawyers, translators and protesters flooding arrivals halls, it was exhilarating. At the same time,…

Shared Space, Shared Vision!

Shared Space, Shared Vision!

Dear Friends,   I’m Sky Hall, a member of WRL’s National Committee, sustainer at WRL, and neighbor to WRL as a member of the AJ Muste Institute’s staff union in our new shared office space. In this year of transitions—some exciting and others foreboding on a presidential scale—WRL bid farewell to our beloved home of…

Are You Antiwar?

Are You Antiwar?

Dear Friends, I’d be quick to tell you that I’m queer. HIV positive. Puerto Rican. But antiwar? This past February, yearning for a political home rooted in social justice, I found the War Resisters League. As an intern with WRL I branded the launch to WRL’s No Swat Zone campaign. I spoke at a press…

War in the Age of Trump?

War in the Age of Trump?

Dear Friends, Normally, WRL takes no stance on electoral politics. As we watched the field of candidates narrow to two enthusiastic friends of war-making and militarism over the past year, we are now just beginning to learn how the President-elect will go about unleashing the kind of violence that ruptures the lives of entire countries,…

Thanks to all who gave this #GivingTuesday!

Thanks to all who gave this #GivingTuesday!

Thanks to all who participated in #GivingTuesday, helping WRL to raise $4,455 for nonviolent resistance!   Just days after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, large nonprofit organizations saw an outpour of support. The ACLU reported just over $9 million in donations. Planned Parenthood received 200,000 separate contributions. The Trevor Project collected…

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