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Facing Tear Gas website

Facing Tear Gas is a campaign to end the US’s role in the business of tear gas in solidarity with global nonviolent uprisings and those facing US-backed repression everywhere, including within the US.

Check out our new website: facingteargas.org



WIN Spring 2013 coverSpring is here and WIN wants to talk about healthcare. We all know that Obamacare doesn't cut it for the millions without health care, but what's the alternative? This issue of WIN contains stories of the obstacles, struggles, and movements to making health care for all a reality.



War Resisters League is proud to have reached our 90th anniversary and we are doing a number of things in 2013 to celebrate. Keep your eyes and calendars open!

WRL 90th Anniversary LogoPlans include our  90th anniversary conferenceRevolutionary Nonviolence: Building Bridges Across Generations and Communities, at Georgetown University in Washington DC, August 1 - 4. We'll also have a 90th Birthday Bash in NYC this fall, our online video project, I Choose Peace, a Perpetual Peace Calendar, a special history issue of WIN magazine and more.



In collaboration with the Toolbox for Education and Social ActionFY2014 Pie Chart (TESA), WRL recently released exciting new educational resources from role plays to handouts to conversation starters to group activities--designed to help you put the WRL Tax Day Pie Chart flyer into practice, whether on the street as you hand it out, in community groups, or in classrooms. 



News

Around the world, campaigners will be remembering the generations who refused to go to war, and raising awareness of the many who continue to be persecuted and imprisoned for refusing to kill.
Lawyers for former Black Panther political prisoner Russell “Maroon” Shoatz filed a federal lawsuit on May 8, 2013 against Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) officials, demanding an end to almost 30 years of solitary confinement.
WRL encourages you to join now with people across the United States who are planning actions and education programs in the month of April aimed at ending drone warfare and surveillance. Read more to sign up and get involved!