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    • Nonviolence

    War Is a Crime Against Humanity: Stop the Violence Immediately in Israel-Palestine

    War Is a Crime Against Humanity: Stop the Violence Immediately in Israel-Palestine
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    • In Memorium
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    • Nonviolence
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    • Nonviolent Activist
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    • Women
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    • WRL History

    Dorie Bunting: Peacemaker in the Desert

    By Craig SimpsonDorelen (Dorie) Feise Bunting passed away August 24, 2023, at 101 years old. From her teenage years until well into her 90s, Dorie was present and active in the peace and justice movement. She touched the lives of many people in New Mexico and around the world. She was my mentor and friend and…
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  • Beyond Border Patrol (brochure)
    • Conscientious Objectors
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    • Counter-Recruitment
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    • Militarism
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    • Nonviolence
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    • War

    Beyond Border Patrol

    WRL has long challenged military and police recruitment. Our newest counter-recruitment resource, Beyond Border Patrol, takes on the lies of Border Patrol recruiters – particularly in the borderlands – and debunks them with the realities of the job and the agency’s legacy of abuse. Like military and police recruiters, Border Patrol recruiters target poor people and young people of color in border communities, and promote careers in law enforcement as a stable way of life and a means to “protect” your community.
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    • Militarism
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    • Nonviolence

    War, Peace, Justice, and the Elections: A WRL Statement

    October 16 2008 Like many—perhaps most—advocates for peace and justice, we at the War Resisters League are of more than one mind about the upcoming elections. We come from diverse political perspectives, including varying shades of socialism, anarchism, and reform-oriented liberalism, and have concomitantly diverse opinions within the organization and our membership about whether and…
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    • Iraq
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    • Nonviolence
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    A Call to Action: March 19, 2008

    March 19, 2008 will mark the beginning of the 6th year of the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. This is the time in which we live. This is our time to respond. WE WILL NOT BE SILENT.    
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    • Nonviolence

    On Gandhi’s Birthday, 2003

    To Declare Independence: A Letter to People Working for Justice and Peace “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they may seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it —…
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    • Counter-Recruitment
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    • Direct Action
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    • Nonviolence
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    • War

    Operation No Recruits, September 8, 2007

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    • WRL History

    WRL’s 80 Years of Resistance: A Legacy and a Future

    By Joanne Sheehan October 19, 2003 Founded in 1923 to support World War I resisters, the War Resisters League turns 80 this week, making it the country’s oldest secular peace group. For 80 years, it has supported those who have refused to participate in war. On this occasion, especially now as the country turns to…
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    • Economy
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    • Nonviolence
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    • War Taxes

    Pie Chart Flyers – Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes

    ORDER NOW!HOW YOUR TAX DOLLARS ARE USEDThe new War Resisters League’s annual “pie chart” flyer, Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes, analyzes the Federal Fiscal Year 2025 Budget (FY 2025 is 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2025).  This FY2025 issue was published in March 2024.Each year War Resisters League analyzes federal funds outlays…
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    • 9/11
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    • Economy
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    • Iraq
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    • Militarism
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    • Nonviolence
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    • Police
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    • Racism
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    • War

    No violence. No exceptions. No exceptionalism.

    As the days that unfold before us mimic a time over a decade ago when the devastating War on Terror began with US occupation of Afghanistan, we mourn because it is makes us human. For those in Raqqa. For those in Tunis. For those in Yola and Kano, in Ankara, in Beirut, in Baghdad, in…
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