OBITUARY WILLIAM W. KOEHNLEIN (1949-2017) ANNOUNCEMENT: Celebrating the Life of Bill Koehnlein Saturday, March 24, 2018 Saint Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery Parish Hall 131 East 10th Street (at Second Avenue) New York, NY 10003 1:00-4:00pm William (Bill) W. Koehnlein, life-long peace and social justice activist, organizer and educator, died in Manhattan on November 19, 2017, after…
MEDIA CONTACT: Isaac Evans-Frantz, Action Corps NYC Organizer, 347-756-1896, actioncorps.nyc [at] gmail.com (actio) #YemenCantWait Rally Draws 28 Organizations and Reps from Schumer, Gillibrand Offices “I long for the day when Yemen is free of war and destruction and where the Yemeni people can live in peace. It is incumbent on the UN and all nations to call…
MEDIA ADVISORY For immediate release 1/6/17 Conect: Ali Issa, Organizer, War Resisters League Cell: (718)310-9968 ali [at] warresisters.org () warresisters.org Activists Call on DOJ to End Widespread Teargas Torture in US Prisons before Trump Inauguration New testimony from 21 states – backed by a petition signed by 13,000 – reveals the breadth of…
Bahrain Watch: Leaked Document Shows Massive New Tear Gas Shipment Planned for Bahrain Bahrain’s police forces have fired “canisters directly at protesters and conducting nighttime bombardments of residential areas. Since 2011, 39 deaths may be attributable to the misuse of tear gas by police. Now, a leaked document, apparently a tender from the Ministry of…
MEDIA ADVISORY For immediate release: April 30, 2014 (Wednesday) Contact: Kimber Heinz, Facing Tear Gas campaign Cell: (919) 666-7535 kimber [at] warresisters.org http://facingteargas.org One year after the police lockdown of Watertown following the Marathon bombing, Bostonians who live and work in neighborhoods and communities facing SWAT raids and surveillance will testify at a “speak out”…
For Immediate Release Contacts: Ali Issa, War Resisters League, ali [at] warresisters.org Rachel Herzing, Critical Resistance, rachel [at] criticalresistance.org BAY AREA COMMUNITY GROUPS CALL ON OAKLAND TO STOP POLICE MILITARIZATION AND URBAN SHIELD AT THE MARRIOTT A new Bay Area coalition has formed to pressure the Marriott to stop an annual international SWAT training and…
For Immediate Release Contact: Ali Issa, War Resisters League, ali [at] warresisters.org, (718)310-9968 BAY AREA COALITION PUSHES URBAN SHIELD OUT OF OAKLAND FOR NEXT YEAR, BUT FIGHT AGAINST POLICE MILITARIZATION EXPO AND TRAINING CONTINUES Bay Area groups rally to call on Alameda County Sheriff’s Office to Stop Urban Shield and all police militarization after successfully organizing…
#StopITOA Coalition disrupts business as usual in downtown Chicago on first day of Illinois Tactical Officers Association Conference More on the 2016 campaign here ************************************************************************************************************* **** Press Release **** For Immediate Release Press contacts: Debbie Southorn: 971.227.3829, dsouthor [at] gmail.com Tara Tabassi 917 971 2498 tara.tabassi [at] gmail.com…
**** Media Advisory **** For Immediate Release Press contact: Debbie Southorn: 971.227.3829, dsouthor [at] gmail.com () Community Groups Rally to Denounce Islamophobic & Hyper-Militarized SWAT Training Coalition calls on Stonegate & Cook County DHS To End Relationship with Illinois Tactical Officers Association in Chicagoland. WHAT: The #StopITOA coalition,…
War Resisters League condemned in the strongest terms Symposium on Islamic Terrorism held on August 24th and 25th in San Diego, hosted by the California Association of Tactical Officers (CATO). The epitome of a growing culture of fear increasingly relied on by policing, this symposium featured infamous anti-Islam conspiracy theorist Ryan Mauro as their top presenter. Ryan…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Tara Tabassi cell (917) 971-2498 || tara [at] warresisters.org Stephen McNeil cell (415) 350-9305 || SMcNeil [at] afsc.org June 13, 2016 CIVIL LIBERTIES, HUMANITARIAN AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS CALL FOR MAINTAINING PRESIDENT’S CUT TO URBAN AREA SECURITY INITIATIVE (UASI) UASI Fuels Police Militarization New York, NY, Chicago, IL, and San…
+ + + FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Tara Tabassi cell (917) 971-2498 || tara [at] warresisters.org Stephen McNeil cell (415) 350-9305 || SMcNeil [at] afsc.org May 25, 2016 CIVIL LIBERTIES, HUMANITARIAN AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS CALL FOR MAINTAINING PRESIDENT’S CUT TO URBAN AREA SECURITY INITIATIVE (UASI) UASI Fuels Police Militarization New York, NY…
+ + + For Immediate Release April 26, 2016 Contact: Ali Issa, War Resisters League, ali32123 [at] gmail.com, (718)310-9968 Ursula Rozum, Syracuse Peace Council ursula [at] peacecouncil.net, (315) 414-7720 COMMUNITY GROUPS FROM ACROSS NY STATE HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE TO OPPOSE MILITARIZATION OF POLICE AND SYRACUSE PD PARTICIPATION IN VERONA SWAT EXPO Groups decry extreme anti-Muslim…
War Resisters League is proud to join our comrades in A.J. Muste Institute, Campaign to Bring Mumia Home, Iraq Veterans Against the War, National Lawyers Guild, Granny Peace Brigade and Time’s Up in a legal challenge to the military’s spying of antiwar activists in the Pacific Northwest. For more information, read the National Lawyers Guild’s…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Over 800 New Yorkers Rally for HUMAN RIGHTS TRUMP OPPRESSION, International Solidarity Action for Syrian and Iraqi Refugees, and Muslims CONTACT: Linda Sarsour: lindasarsour [at] gmail.com (917) 306-3323 Jamila Hammami: jamila [at] qdep.org (347) 496-8490 Over 800 New Yorkers Rally for HUMAN RIGHTS TRUMP OPPRESSION, International Solidarity Action for…
Twenty-Four Anti-Torture Activists Acquitted in Trial for Protest at the US Capitol Calling for Guantanamo’s Closure and the Investigation of Deaths at the Prison For Immediate Release June 15, 2010 Contact: Jeremy Varon: M: 732-979-3119 jvaron [at] aol.com Helen Schietinger: M: 202-344-5762 h.schietinger [at] verizon.net WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, June 14, twenty-four activists with…
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Contact the NYC War Resisters League Phone: 718-768-7306 Email: nycwrl [at] worldnet.att.net Award-Winning Author to Talk About War, Nonviolence and History Nicholson Baker to Give the War Resisters League’s “Dave Dellinger Lecture on Nonviolence” Nicholson Baker, author of the…
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Contact the NYC War Resisters League Phone: 718-768-7306 Email: nycwrl [at] worldnet.att.net Award-Winning Author to Talk About War, Nonviolence and History Nicholson Baker to Give the War Resisters League’s “Dave Dellinger Lecture on Nonviolence” Nicholson Baker, author of the recent controversial book Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II,…
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Daniel Marble: 732-644-5820 Attorney Larry Hildes: 360-715-9788 Chuck Fager, Quaker House: 910-323-3912 MEDIA ADVISORY “Killing People Is Not What I Am”, Says AWOL GI A soldier who went AWOL two years ago rather than take part in combat is enroute to Fort Bragg to face military authorities. PFC Daniel Marble, 25, went…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Frida Berrigan, 347-683-4928 War Resisters Block IRS HQ, 31 arrested March 19, 2008 — Thirty-one people were arrested this morning as they staged a nonviolent blockade at the national headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, DC. The protestors had placed yellow police tape saying “WAR CRIME SCENE” across the…
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