We're looking for an energetic, passionate intern to help us relaunch our website, promote our organizing resources, and to be part of the life of our national office. The Freeman Intern will work closely with WRL's Office Coordinator.
The work will include:
- Migrating content from our old website to our new site, due to launch later this fall.
- Promoting our organizing resources and other literature to activists, organizing trainers, students, researchers and others.
- Assisting with fulfilling literature orders, tabling and other administrative and office tasks.
Interns work 20 hours a week. The Freeman Intern works in the War Resisters League National Office in New York City. Internships generally run for about 13 weeks. The start date is flexible, but we'd like the intern to start in mid-September. Interns are not required to be students.
The Freeman Internship is an opportunity for a young person to become involved with a national organization committed to revolutionary nonviolence and to develop computer, communications and outreach skills. Applicants with experience in website design and administration are encouraged to apply. The work does not require coding experience, though some familiarity with content management systems and with HTML would be useful. Excellent writing and communication skills are a plus. There is a stipend provided.
The War Resisters League, founded in 1923, currently runs a major campaign to stop the militarization of the police, and the use of teargas and similar chemical weapons. Our work also includes GI rights and resistance support, development and distribution of organizing materials on nonviolent direct action and counter military recruitment, and trainings on nonviolence direct action and movement building. We have a great staff focused on taking leadership from and supporting those most affected by war at home and abroad, helping foster an intersectional analysis of oppression and war, and developing relationships with and taking cues on solidarity from activists in Iraq, Afghanistan and here at home. Our strong emphasis is on fostering a national movement for revolutionary change using nonviolent direct action and ally work.
The Harrop A. and Ruth S. Freeman Peace Internship Endowment was created in 1996 by a bequest from life-long peace activists Ruth and Harrop Freeman to provide stipends to interns in the War Resisters League's national office. The Freemans were close personal associates of WRL co-founder A.J. Muste, and Harrop — a radical lawyer and World War II conscientious objector — was one of the founding board members of the Muste Institute.
The War Resisters League is actively committed to seeking the full representation and participation of people of color, women, lesbians, bisexuals, gay men, transgender or gender queer people, and people with disabilities as well as people representing various ages, classes, and cultural backgrounds. Such diversity is sought throughout WRL's staff and decision-making bodies.
Unfortunately, the office is not currently wheelchair accessible. There is an office cat.
The War Resisters League affirms that all war is a crime against humanity. We therefore are determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive nonviolently for the removal of the causes of war, including racism, sexism, and all forms of human exploitation.
To Apply: Please submit a resume (which includes all relevant experience, educational background, and volunteer and work history), a cover letter and a brief writing sample. Please send files as attachments - not in the body of your email - as Word files. Application deadline: Monday, September 8. Send applications to Office Coordinator Linda Thurston at linda [at] warresisters.org.
