October 2016 U.N. Security Council United Nations, New York, U.S.A. Open Letter to the U.N. Security Council on the Government of Iraq’s NGO Shelter Policy CC: UNAMI, OHCHR, OCHA, UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women, SGRG-SVC Office (Arabic Version) النسخة العربية (Kurdish Version) دانه يا كوردي Print friendly version (English) Your Excellencies, The undersigned nongovernmental organizations…
MonkeyWrench Books in Austin is hosting War Resisters League organizer Kimber Heinz‘s talk about the Facing Tear Gas’ campaign against Urban Shield. Facing Tear Gas works towards ending the militarization of police and the industry that profits from police repression. It connects the dots between US support for the criminalization of dissent globally to those…
A new coalition of groups against militarization forms in Boston and announces community event. From their facebook page: “STOMP, STop Oppressive Militarized Police, aims to bring together activists and communities struggling against the wars on drugs, immigrants, dissent, and terror to mobilize and build cross-movement dialogue about the militarization and federalization of our local police…
April 1st, 2014 – WRL’s noSWATzone campaign condemns in the strongest terms the Albuquerque Police Department’s heavily militarized response to protests against police brutality this past Sunday night, March 30th. We also share in the protestor’s shock over the APD’s March 16th shooting of James Boyd – the 23rd such killing by the APD since 2012 according to the Associated…
“No violence, just justice.” – Lesley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown. August 13, 2014 War Resisters League condemns the ongoing militarized lockdown and attack against the community of Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. We are saddened and outraged over the murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson Police, this past Saturday, August 9th….
ACTION ALERT: CALL STONEGATE NOW To #StopITOA Charles Baptist, General Manager of the Stonegate Conference & Banquet Centre Ask to speak with Charles Baptist or leave him a voice mail. Sample script: “My name is [name] from [city] and I am appalled that the 2016 “Illinois Tactical Officers Association” will be taking place…
Oct.7-11: Converge on the US/Mexico Border War Resisters League is endorsing the SOA Watch Convergence at the Border and we encourage you to join the October 7-11 vigils, protests and workshops at the Eloy Detention Center, in Tucson, and in Nogales, Arizona/ Sonora at the border wall. Visit the convergence webpage for more information: http://SOAW.org/border…
Statements of Candidates * = incumbents For information on the NC Elections and how to vote, go to our NC Elections 2016 information page. Jerica Arents (Midwest) Jerica Arents teaches in the Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies program at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. Her ongoing interests center on racism and its connection to state…
(originally published in truthout on August 31st, 2016) Police violence is at the heart of a perpetual crisis in the United States. Today military-grade equipment and training is broadly available to officers. Such developments are especially distressing given the impunity American police have always enjoyed when terrorizing or attacking racialized communities. The tendency to wage…
Want to work with one of the oldest and most dynamic antiwar and antimilitarist organizations? Want to build your existing skills and learn to connect organizing with grassroots fundraising? Want to hone your organizing and fundraising skills? Apply to WRL’s 95th Anniversary Bilezikian Internship! WRL works on an array of antimilitarist projects including counter-recruitment work…
As an organization dedicated to peace, justice and nonviolent liberation, the War Resisters League stands firmly in solidarity with the Movement For Black Lives’ newly released Vision for Black Lives Platform. The Vision for Black Lives is an important, comprehensive analysis and policy platform rooted in dozens of organizations’ work across the country. The Black…
June 9, 2016 Lawrence Deems Egbert, Jr. Husband, Father, Friend Presente! Lawrence Deems Egbert, Jr., M.D., M.P.H., a resident of the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore, died of a heart attack Thursday evening, June 9th. He was the oldest and the longest-surviving of the three sons of Lawrence D. Egbert, Sr. and Lyn Forsyth Egbert. He is…
**MEDIA ADVISORY HERE** Below is a letter to the House Committee on Appropriations as they debate the new budget– including a proposed cut by President Obama. Today, WRL is joined by thirty-three other civil liberties, religious, and peace and social justice groups called on the House Appropriations Committee to maintain the President’s cut to Urban…
As members of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, we stand against Gov. Cuomo’s anti-BDS executive order & urge all to take the following action steps laid out by the US Campaign: Governor Cuomo and the opposition are desperate to stifle the growing movement for Palestinian rights. On Sunday, June 5th, on…
April 29, 2016 Bob Fitch, PRESENTE The activist-photographer whose iconic images of actions and activists helped shape for four decades this country’s, and indeed the world’s, perception of the great social movements of our era, died April 29 at 76. And because he freely shared his work with the social movements he documented—including WRL—his iconic…
May 11, 2016 Michael Ratner, PRESENTE The fight for justice without borders lost a heroic leader when visionary human rights lawyer Michael Ratner died too soon on May 11. He was 72. For more than four decades, Michael led the Center for Constitutional Rights as it expanded the protections of the U.S. Constitution to citizens…
April 17, 2016 James Haughton, PRESENTE Text excerpted from Sam Roberts memoir published May 5, 2016 in the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/nyregion/james-haughton-who-fought-racial-barriers-in-building-trades-dies-at-86.html James Haughton, Who Fought Racial Barriers in Building Trades, Dies at 86 James Haughton, a civil rights advocate who aggressively challenged racial barriers to hiring at construction sites in the 1960s and ’70s…
After five decades, WRL’s national office has a new home! War Resisters League 168 Canal Street, Suite 600 New York, NY 10013 (We hope to move into the new space in late June.) Last month, we celebrated our history at 339 Lafayette… We packed and moved our things… And honored the spirits of…
April 29, 2016 Elizabeth Proefriedt, sister, friend and activist PRESENTE It is with many tears and mourning hearts, that we announce the passing of our dear friend Sister Liz Proefreidt, longtime peace activist. Liz was a dynamo of love, generosity, faith, commitment to peace and justice, music, poetry, and service, a courageous inspiration to all…
April 30, 2016 Daniel Berrigan, Uncle, Brother, Friend, PRESENTE A statement from the Family of Father Dan Berrigan, SJ This afternoon around 2:30, a great soul left this earth. Close family missed the “time of death” by half an hour, but Dan was not alone, held and prayed out of this plane of existence by…
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