Resist Militarism: Lessons from Mexico & Cross Border Solidarity
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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…
For almost 40 years, War Resisters League has researched and produced an annual pie chart flyer to call attention to the vast amount of our income tax dollars spent on the military and war. This year the pie percentages look different than previous years: the red slices add up to 37% — but the military budget…
On Wednesday, November 30th, 2011, War Resisters League joined with Occupy Wall Street activists and United for Peace and Justice for a protest at the Aerospace and Defense Finance Conference, a meeting in which Department of Defense officials met with the CEOs of 30 military contractors, including reps from three of the top five defense…
Dear Community, I graduated high school in the summer of 1966 in Central New York during the tail ends of the Civil Rights Movement and during the height of the U.S.-led wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. That summer, almost 400,000 men were drafted. Having lived and been raised in two orphanages and a foster…
History professor, pacifist and WRL member (since 1940) jailed during World War II, prison abolitionist, jazz aficionado, birder, vegetarian. Gara died at age 97 on November 23, 2019, in his hometown of Wilmington, Ohio. He was a professor of history at Wilmington College from 1962 to 2002, when he retired from teaching. Larry called himself…
At Ninety-Five, the War Resisters League Tries New Tactics “We’re acknowledging the many ways militarization shows up in our lives and neighborhoods.” by Eleanor J. Bader | October 24, 2018 Read on The Progressive When educator Jesse Wallace Hughan founded the War Resisters League in 1923 in the wake of WWI, her focus was on ending armed conflict. Ninety-five years…