This year marks the 10th anniversary of the
War Resisters League, Iraq Veterans Against the War and the Civilian-Soldier Alliance announce the launch of a new organizing tool — Civilian Ally: A Guide to Organizing with Veterans and Servicemembers to Build a GI Resistance Movement.
Civilian Ally is a manual for peace activists who are organizing alongside veterans, servicemembers and conscientious objectors to end war or organizers who want to build those working relationships. Written by veteran and civilian organizers, it offers an orientation to working with servicemembers and veterans within the context of the growing GI Resistance movement.
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Poster Art & Politics
War Resisters League 2010 Peace Calendar
A collection of some of the world’s most evocative socio-political posters. 52-plus thought-provoking images that speak volumes and are not afraid to tackle the pressing issues of our time. Edited by Luba Lukova
This time out, WIN asks its readers to look at law enforcement in the United States and the military abroad as two sides of the same coin—coin being the operative word. In this issue, renowned journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal exposes the military- and prison-industrial complexes as necessitated by a global economy in which crime and terror are the excuses for spending billions of tax dollars repressing dissidents. In a similar vein, Lorenzo Jones illustrates how capitalism and the prison-industrial complex (PIC) are locked in a cycle of dependence, the PIC creating jobs in every major industry while sucking down tax dollars like a bank bailout.
Bill Sutherland, unofficial ambassador between the peoples of Africa and the Americas for over fifty years, died peacefully on the evening of January 2, 2010. He was 91. A life-long pacifist and liberation advocate, Sutherland became involved in civil rights and anti-war activities as a youthful member of the Student Christian Movement in the 1930s. Sutherland was raised in New Jersey, the son of a prominent dentist and youngest brother to Reiter Sutherland and to Muriel Sutherland Snowden of Boston, who founded Freedom House in 1949 and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship “genius” grant. He spent four years at Lewisburg Federal Correctional Facility in the 1940s as a conscientious objector to World War Two, striking up what became life-long friendships with fellow C.O.s Ralph DiGia, Bayard Rustin, George Houser, Dave Dellinger, and others. In 1951, in the early days of the Cold War, Sutherland, DiGia, Dellinger, and Quaker pacifist Art Emory constituted the Peacemaker bicycle project, which took the message of nuclear disarmament to both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Ed Hedemann and Carl Lindskoog of WRL's NYC local dropping banners in Grand Central Station on October 7, 2009. Photograph by Tom Martinez.
As the war in Afghanistan has entered into its ninth year and as President Obama has issued orders for a swift deployment over the next six months of 30,000 additional US troops, WRL calls on its members and supporters in a moment of national urgency.
The War Resisters League's famous "pie chart" flyer, which analyzes the Federal Fiscal Year 2009 Budget (released in February 2009)!
Each year War Resisters League analyzes federal funds outlays as presented in detailed tables in “Analytical Perspectives” of the Budget of the United States Government. Our analysis is based on federal funds, which do not include trust funds — such as Social Security — that are raised separately from income taxes for specific purposes. What you pay (or don’t pay) by April 15, 2009, goes to the federal funds portion of the budget.
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Special Issue of WIN magazine features interviews from a cross section of grassroots organizers from across the country.
Ralph, a lifelong war resister and pacifist, died February 1 in New York City. Ralph had been the heart and soul of WRL since he came on staff shortly after the end of World War II.
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Please join the War Resisters League in calling for a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal in Haiti, an end to the militarization of aid, and a focus on the self-determination of the Haitian people.
Eight years ago the Guantanamo prison opened for “war on terror” detainees. Activists and detainee lawyers will mark the anniversary, Monday, January 11, gathering in Washington D.C. to demand that President Obama make good on his pledge to close the prison and declaring their opposition to any plan for holding prisoners without charge or trial in the U.S.
UPDATE: ELLEN BARFIELD HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM JAIL AS OF MONDAY, JANUARY 4. WELCOME BACK, ELLEN!
Three capital-area peace proponents interrupted a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on U.S. Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy last May 21, calling out “No more blood money for wars!” and “End the wars now.” Ellen Barfield of the War Resisters League, Peter Perry, and Eve Tetaz dropped blood-stained dollar bills on the hearing room floor until they were removed by guards.
Join us in resistance to President Obama's wrong decision about
Afghanistan!
President Obama has decided to escalate the war, sending between 30,000 and 35,000 more troops (on top of the 68,000 already there) to fight a battle that is costing us the lives of hundreds of American military personnel and tens of thousands of Afghan civilians, while domestic programs to benefit the poor and marginalized in the United States are defunded and deprioritized.
Please join the War Resisters League in supporting our members and allies who are part of this historic international delegation against the Israeli siege on Gaza. Put pressure on the Egyptian government to open up the Gaza-Egypt border and let the Gaza Freedom March proceed!
Please read this letter to the Nobel Committee authored by a coalition of groups against the war in Afghanistan and join us in saying that War is NOT Peace!
WRL Posters are now available online at justseeds.com, the website of Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative. The first of the WRL posters up on the Just Seeds site is the classic, Capital Punishment, by Peg Averill (1949-1993) who created hundreds of political graphics in the 1970s and 80s.
Please read this letter to President Obama authored by a coalition of groups against the war and join us in saying NO to escalation in Afghanistan!
Help President Obama Make the Right Decision about Afghanistan!
More than eight years since the War Resisters League rallied against invading Afghanistan and one month after a coalition of anti-war groups including WRL rallied in Washington DC to say “No to War in Afghanistan, No to Torture and Vengeance,” we are reaching out to you—our members—at a moment of national urgency.
Join members of WRL in Gaza January 2 when we march to end the blockade.
As we approach the April 4 anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s great 1967 “Beyond Vietnam” speech in New York City’s Riverside Church, the War Resisters League reiterates King’s urgent cry for nonviolence—and nonviolent resistance.
Beloved longtime WRL staff member Karl Bissinger succumbed to a stroke on November 19. Karl was an energetic and creative fund raiser, an enthusiastic civil disobedient, a generous host to countless meetings, a loyal and supportive friend
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War Resisters League, Iraq Veterans Against the War and the Civilian-Soldier Alliance announce the launch of a new organizing tool — Civilian Ally: A Guide to Organizing with Veterans and Servicemembers to Build a GI Resistance Movement. ON SALE - MORE THAN 1/2 OFF!
Special Issue of WIN magazine features interviews from a cross section of grassroots organizers from across the country.
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Please join the War Resisters League in calling for a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal in Haiti, an end to the militarization of aid, and a focus on the self-determination of the Haitian people.
Eight years ago the Guantanamo prison opened for “war on terror” detainees. Activists and detainee lawyers will mark the anniversary, Monday, January 11, gathering in Washington D.C. to demand that President Obama make good on his pledge to close the prison and declaring their opposition to any plan for holding prisoners without charge or trial in the U.S.
UPDATE: ELLEN BARFIELD HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM JAIL AS OF MONDAY, JANUARY 4. WELCOME BACK, ELLEN!
Three capital-area peace proponents interrupted a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on U.S. Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy last May 21, calling out “No more blood money for wars!” and “End the wars now.” Ellen Barfield of the War Resisters League, Peter Perry, and Eve Tetaz dropped blood-stained dollar bills on the hearing room floor until they were removed by guards.
Join us in resistance to President Obama's wrong decision about
Afghanistan!
President Obama has decided to escalate the war, sending between 30,000 and 35,000 more troops (on top of the 68,000 already there) to fight a battle that is costing us the lives of hundreds of American military personnel and tens of thousands of Afghan civilians, while domestic programs to benefit the poor and marginalized in the United States are defunded and deprioritized.
Please join the War Resisters League in supporting our members and allies who are part of this historic international delegation against the Israeli siege on Gaza. Put pressure on the Egyptian government to open up the Gaza-Egypt border and let the Gaza Freedom March proceed!
Please read this letter to the Nobel Committee authored by a coalition of groups against the war in Afghanistan and join us in saying that War is NOT Peace!
WRL Posters are now available online at justseeds.com, the website of Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative. The first of the WRL posters up on the Just Seeds site is the classic, Capital Punishment, by Peg Averill (1949-1993) who created hundreds of political graphics in the 1970s and 80s.
Please read this letter to President Obama authored by a coalition of groups against the war and join us in saying NO to escalation in Afghanistan!
Help President Obama Make the Right Decision about Afghanistan!
More than eight years since the War Resisters League rallied against invading Afghanistan and one month after a coalition of anti-war groups including WRL rallied in Washington DC to say “No to War in Afghanistan, No to Torture and Vengeance,” we are reaching out to you—our members—at a moment of national urgency.
Join members of WRL in Gaza January 2 when we march to end the blockade.
As we approach the April 4 anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s great 1967 “Beyond Vietnam” speech in New York City’s Riverside Church, the War Resisters League reiterates King’s urgent cry for nonviolence—and nonviolent resistance.
Beloved longtime WRL staff member Karl Bissinger succumbed to a stroke on November 19. Karl was an energetic and creative fund raiser, an enthusiastic civil disobedient, a generous host to countless meetings, a loyal and supportive friend
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