PDF: Letter to Senate Committee on Appropriations: Cut UASI funding!

James Haughton, Presente!

April 17, 2016

James Haughton, PRESENTE

Text excerpted from Sam Roberts memoir published May 5, 2016 in the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/nyregion/james-haughton-who-fought-racial-barriers-in-building-trades-dies-at-86.html

James Haughton, Who Fought Racial Barriers in Building Trades, Dies at 86

Facing Tear Gas: Chemical Weapons Abuse in US Prisons

Facing Tear Gas: Chemical Weapons Abuse in US Prisons

by YaliniDream

Multiple letters from Mount Olive Correctional Complex (MOCC) in West Virginia, report at least 5-7 imprisoned people are sprayed by tear gas, pepper spray or other chemical agents each week. First-hand testimonies refer to the guards' lax references to the frequent use of these chemicals as “bug spray.”

Stop NYTOAC!

Every year in Verona, New York, hundreds of SWAT officers gather at NYTOAC to "talk shop" with major arms dealers and Islamophobic ideologues. Let's block it and shift resources where they belong: our communities' needs!

Support #Justice4Rasmea Today!

Our comrades in the Rasmea Defense Committee are calling for support! Rasmea Odeh, a long time immigrant rights leader and Arab community organizer is currently facing imprisonment and deportation. Join the War Resisters League in circulating this call, and help us amplify Rasmea's fight against politically motivated charges today! Learn more about Rasmea's case here & check out WRL's statement from 2013 below.

9 Tips for Muslims Who Want To Make Social Change

War Resister's League's very own Uruj Ehsan Sheikh just published on www.muslimmatters.org!

9 Tips for Muslims Who Want To Make Social Change

We are in a historic moment. Renewed Islamophobia has emerged in the mainstream. GOP candidates' anti-Muslim rhetoric and an upsurge of hate crimes against Muslims have gone unabated. The Syrian and Iraqi refugee crisis continues to spiral out of control. San Bernardino, Paris, Ankara, Baghdad and many more – the politicization of Islam is polarizing and forcing many to take sides.

This was the context for my trip to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba with 13 others from Witness Against Torture – a group demanding the United States close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, a “War on Terror” prison that has become synonymous with torture, solitary confinement and indefinite detention.

Police Militarization Comics

Needing some cartoon-style popular education to start the conversation on police militarization, its federal funding and the militarization of emergency services? Check out these two that our friend and cartoonist comrade Ethan Heitner drew for War Resisters League, as part of the Stop Urban Shield work!

Press Release // International Solidarity Action with Syrian & Iraqi Refugees & Muslims

Over 800 New Yorkers Rally for HUMAN RIGHTS TRUMP OPPRESSION, International Solidarity Action for Syrian and Iraqi Refugees, and Muslims!

Sojourn to Justice: Action Report from Guantanamo

From November 22nd through December 1st, a delegation of 14 members of Witness Against Torture--WRLs sibiling organization including three members of WRL--returned to Cuba and brought their demand to shutdown Guantanamo Bay straight to the U.S. naval base and detention center.

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 Zabul, in Paris, and beyond. But our grief cannot be exceptional. The lives of those living under systemic and perpetual invasion, war and occupation are not disposable and must be mourned and fought for.

Racism