Resist Militarism: Lessons from Mexico & Cross Border Solidarity
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Dear friends, WRL shares greetings and wants to send you some news. These have been challenging times filled with much transition, loss and grief, and hope for the future. We share some of this below. Our much-loved Operations Coordinator, Linda Thurston passed away suddenly in late May 2021, and it has been a painful and…
Resources for Organizing WRL is in the process of creating a web-based handbook for people organizing for October 5th. That will include tools for organizing to bring people to Washington, and tools for people planning regional actions. Until that is ready, we encourage you to refer to the following resources. The basic scenario for the…
In New York and other cities and towns across the country, peace activists will hold protests, vigils and educational events to observe the 68th anniversary of the US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If you have planned an action you would like posted here, let us know at wrl [at] warresisters.org New York City…
Ellen Chademana and Ignatius Muhambi of the gay rights group Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe, 2009 WRL Peace Awardees, were arrested last week after a raid on their offices. From SWRadio Africa: Gay rights pair finally released on bail By Violet Gonda27 May 2010 The two members of the gay rights group Gays and Lesbians…
Throughout March 2011, in cities all around the globe, Palestine solidarity activists are participating in Israeli Apartheid Week. IAW is a flurry of events which aim to expose the multiple ways the state of Israel commits the crime of Apartheid, as well as call on global civil society to participate in BDS – boycott, divestment…
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…