In the Spotlight
Available Now!
Order online at the WRL Store
The Path of Most Resistance:
A U.S. Radical History Tour
The War Resisters League 2009 Peace Calendar
A desk calendar and state-by-state account of the places where radical history happened, from the civil rights and anti-racist struggles of Alabama and Mississippi to centuries of war tax resistance in Massachusetts, indigenous opposition to oil-drilling in Alaska, and union organizing in Kentucky and California.
“Hold on to some watchwords for today: freedom, justice and peace. … In especially vivid ways the pages of this calendar help us gain a sense of direction by taking us to some of the … battlefields for these ideas. [It] proves that it is possible to resist war and the causes of war—that great power lodged in weapons or ruthless political ambition [can’t] crush either the belief that something better is possible or the struggle to create something better; and that's a reminder …that we need.”
—From the Foreword by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Our radical history is everywhere, and The Path of Most Resistance pinpoints 50-plus episodes from it, with exact locations of places where people resisted, along with historic and contemporary photos and graphics of acts of resistance, history-makers and more.
Edited by Judith Mahoney Pasternak
Foreword by Charles E. Cobb Jr., author of On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
- Weekly date pages listing additional historical events with a small monthly calendar on each page
- Directories of U.S. peace and justice organizations and publications, and international contacts
- Covers in color, black and white text pages with photos and drawings
- 128 pages, 5½" x 8½" format
- Sturdy spiral binding
Cover price: $14.95
TO ORDER YOUR CALENDAR:
Order online at the WRL Store
Order by phone. Call toll free (877) 234-8811
CALL for bulk orders!
Order by mail. Download the brochure/order form here and send us your order and payment to:
War Resisters League
c/o We-Fulfill
218 Round Rock Circle
Grand Junction, CO 81503
What is lacking in today’s peace movement? How can we turn popular antiwar sentiment into broad-based action? What strategies and tactics should we employ, and how should we relate to the elections?
The War Resisters League recently conducted a Listening Process, asking 90 grassroots organizers from across the county to reflect on the state of antiwar organizing in the United States. The new special issue of WIN magazine features their reflections and insights.
Click here for all media inquiries.
(to arrange interviews, publish excerpts or articles, or obtain a review copy)
Click here to order your copy for just $4 (plus postage).
For bulk orders (more than 10) call 212.228.0450.
Read the report online by clicking on the links below.
Listening Process Table of Contents:
Section 1: What is lacking in the peace and antiwar movement?
Section 2: What prevents the emergence of a stronger, more coordinated, more strategic movement?
Section 3: What are the biggest openings and opportunities for organizing today?
Section 4: How do we build a more multiracial and cross-class antiwar movement?
Section 5: What roles can veterans, soldiers and military families play in ending war?
Section 6: What is the relevance of nonviolence today?
Section 7: How do we link peace and justice issues and build alliances?
Section 8: What does base-building look like in antiwar organizing?
Conclusions: Where to From Here?
ARE YOU SERIOUS ABOUT ENDING WAR? Are you an environmentalist; LGBT activist; concerned with immigrant rights; an artist? How do these issues intersect with war? Are you interested in building a nonviolent force in this country strong enough to shake the very foundations of militarism?
Then come to the War Resisters Organizer Training Institute, where folks from around the nation will gather and collectively strategize about how to build leadership, capacity, organization and a mass movement.
You will walk away with a solid grounding in:
- organizing skills
- campaign strategy
- nonviolent direct action
- GI resistance support
- counter-recruitment
- anti-racism & anti-sexism
- revolutionary nonviolence
- and much more
Individual participants $300
Participants sponsored by organizations: $400
This includes housing and meals for the entire week of June 23-29. It does not include travel to Voluntown, Connecticut. Participants must provide for their own travel expenses. There will be transportation from the place of your arrival to the Voluntown Peace Trust where the training is being held.
Scholarships are available to those in need. Please email, along with the application, a letter of explanation indicating your financial need and why you believe you qualify.
We strongly encourage those interested in attending the training to do fundraising in their respective communities. Contact progressive organizations in your communities, universities, student organizations/clubs for help. Do some work on one of their projects in exchange for funding. Or throw a fundraising party and develop new relationships and create spaces for progressive politics while you raise funds to attend the training. If you need further help or have questions do not hesitate to call the WRL national office at 212.228.0450 and speak to our Organizing Coordinator.
Download an application, fill it out and email it back to us at sarah@warresisters.org. Applications are due on May 29th.
Karin DiGia and the Ralph DiGia fund for Peace and Justice
invite you to a
Celebration of Ralph Digia's Life
May 10, 2008 2-5 pm
Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Streets)
New York, New York
Music, film, photos, remembrances, and time to share stories with each other. Childcare available.
Food and drink will be served.
RSVP by May 1 to the Ralph DiGia fund:
212.334.2292 or email ralphparty@yahoo.com
To help us to continue Ralph's work and dreams, you can make a contribution to The Ralph DiGia Fund (ralphdigiafund.org), a tax exempt 501(c)3 and mail it to Karin DiGia, 86 Thompson Street, New York, NY 10012
FY 2009 Edition out now!
The War Resisters League's famous "pie chart" flyer, which analyzes Bush's Fiscal Year 2009 Budget is out now!
Download a PDF of the Pie Chart Flyer
El piechart en el español — FY2009
Order print copies via our online store,
or by phone at 212.228.0450
or by email at wrl@warresisters.org
Orders can also be mailed to:
War Resisters League
339 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10012
Copies are available for $.10 each (1-199), $.07 each (200 or more), $.06 each (500+) plus 20% postage. Call for information on very large or rush orders.
Ralph DiGia, lifelong war resister and pacifist died February 1 in New York City. Ralph had a bad fall a couple of weeks ago, broke his hip, and has had a series of serious health problems following his admission to St. Vincent's Hospital.
Ralph, 93, has been the heart and soul of War Resisters League since he came on staff shortly after the end of World War II and his release from federal prison, where he had served a term for refusing service as a conscientious objector.
An associate of A. J. Muste, Bayard Rustin, Dave Dellinger, Barbara Deming, and many others, Ralph held key posts over the years with Liberation magazine as well as being on the staff of the War Resisters League. While Ralph was not a public speaker or a writer, he played a key a role within the radical pacifist movement, and was central to many of the major antiwar actions of the past six decades.
Ralph was deeply loved by the movement, especially by those at his political home, the War Resisters League. He is survived by his wife, Karin DiGia, his children, and his two brothers.
Please view and add a comment to Ralph's Guestbook via the New York Times Web site.
A memorial for Ralph is being held May 10, 2008, 2 to 5 pm, at the Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave. (between 9th & 10th Streets), New York, NY.
Check out the WRL online bookstore at Powell's Books, where a portion of your purchase goes directly towards our work.
For flyers, brochures, buttons, organizing guides, t-shirts and other resources, go to the WRL Store at www.warresisters.org/zen and other re, t-shirts
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In the Spotlight
Available Now!
Order online at the WRL Store
The Path of Most Resistance:
A U.S. Radical History Tour
The War Resisters League 2009 Peace Calendar
A desk calendar and state-by-state account of the places where radical history happened, from the civil rights and anti-racist struggles of Alabama and Mississippi to centuries of war tax resistance in Massachusetts, indigenous opposition to oil-drilling in Alaska, and union organizing in Kentucky and California.
“Hold on to some watchwords for today: freedom, justice and peace. … In especially vivid ways the pages of this calendar help us gain a sense of direction by taking us to some of the … battlefields for these ideas. [It] proves that it is possible to resist war and the causes of war—that great power lodged in weapons or ruthless political ambition [can’t] crush either the belief that something better is possible or the struggle to create something better; and that's a reminder …that we need.”
—From the Foreword by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Our radical history is everywhere, and The Path of Most Resistance pinpoints 50-plus episodes from it, with exact locations of places where people resisted, along with historic and contemporary photos and graphics of acts of resistance, history-makers and more.
Edited by Judith Mahoney Pasternak
Foreword by Charles E. Cobb Jr., author of On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
- Weekly date pages listing additional historical events with a small monthly calendar on each page
- Directories of U.S. peace and justice organizations and publications, and international contacts
- Covers in color, black and white text pages with photos and drawings
- 128 pages, 5½" x 8½" format
- Sturdy spiral binding
Cover price: $14.95
TO ORDER YOUR CALENDAR:
Order online at the WRL Store
Order by phone. Call toll free (877) 234-8811
CALL for bulk orders!
Order by mail. Download the brochure/order form here and send us your order and payment to:
War Resisters League
c/o We-Fulfill
218 Round Rock Circle
Grand Junction, CO 81503
What is lacking in today’s peace movement? How can we turn popular antiwar sentiment into broad-based action? What strategies and tactics should we employ, and how should we relate to the elections?
The War Resisters League recently conducted a Listening Process, asking 90 grassroots organizers from across the county to reflect on the state of antiwar organizing in the United States. The new special issue of WIN magazine features their reflections and insights.
Click here for all media inquiries.
(to arrange interviews, publish excerpts or articles, or obtain a review copy)
Click here to order your copy for just $4 (plus postage).
For bulk orders (more than 10) call 212.228.0450.
Read the report online by clicking on the links below.
Listening Process Table of Contents:
Section 1: What is lacking in the peace and antiwar movement?
Section 2: What prevents the emergence of a stronger, more coordinated, more strategic movement?
Section 3: What are the biggest openings and opportunities for organizing today?
Section 4: How do we build a more multiracial and cross-class antiwar movement?
Section 5: What roles can veterans, soldiers and military families play in ending war?
Section 6: What is the relevance of nonviolence today?
Section 7: How do we link peace and justice issues and build alliances?
Section 8: What does base-building look like in antiwar organizing?
Conclusions: Where to From Here?
ARE YOU SERIOUS ABOUT ENDING WAR? Are you an environmentalist; LGBT activist; concerned with immigrant rights; an artist? How do these issues intersect with war? Are you interested in building a nonviolent force in this country strong enough to shake the very foundations of militarism?
Then come to the War Resisters Organizer Training Institute, where folks from around the nation will gather and collectively strategize about how to build leadership, capacity, organization and a mass movement.
You will walk away with a solid grounding in:
- organizing skills
- campaign strategy
- nonviolent direct action
- GI resistance support
- counter-recruitment
- anti-racism & anti-sexism
- revolutionary nonviolence
- and much more
Individual participants $300
Participants sponsored by organizations: $400
This includes housing and meals for the entire week of June 23-29. It does not include travel to Voluntown, Connecticut. Participants must provide for their own travel expenses. There will be transportation from the place of your arrival to the Voluntown Peace Trust where the training is being held.
Scholarships are available to those in need. Please email, along with the application, a letter of explanation indicating your financial need and why you believe you qualify.
We strongly encourage those interested in attending the training to do fundraising in their respective communities. Contact progressive organizations in your communities, universities, student organizations/clubs for help. Do some work on one of their projects in exchange for funding. Or throw a fundraising party and develop new relationships and create spaces for progressive politics while you raise funds to attend the training. If you need further help or have questions do not hesitate to call the WRL national office at 212.228.0450 and speak to our Organizing Coordinator.
Download an application, fill it out and email it back to us at sarah@warresisters.org. Applications are due on May 29th.
Karin DiGia and the Ralph DiGia fund for Peace and Justice
May 10, 2008 2-5 pm
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Streets)
New York, New York
Music, film, photos, remembrances, and time to share stories with each other. Childcare available.
Food and drink will be served.
RSVP by May 1 to the Ralph DiGia fund:
212.334.2292 or email ralphparty@yahoo.com
To help us to continue Ralph's work and dreams, you can make a contribution to The Ralph DiGia Fund (ralphdigiafund.org), a tax exempt 501(c)3 and mail it to Karin DiGia, 86 Thompson Street, New York, NY 10012
The War Resisters League's famous "pie chart" flyer, which analyzes Bush's Fiscal Year 2009 Budget is out now!
Download a PDF of the Pie Chart Flyer
El piechart en el español — FY2009
Order print copies via our online store,
or by phone at 212.228.0450
or by email at wrl@warresisters.org
Orders can also be mailed to:
War Resisters League
339 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10012
Copies are available for $.10 each (1-199), $.07 each (200 or more), $.06 each (500+) plus 20% postage. Call for information on very large or rush orders.
Ralph DiGia, lifelong war resister and pacifist died February 1 in New York City. Ralph had a bad fall a couple of weeks ago, broke his hip, and has had a series of serious health problems following his admission to St. Vincent's Hospital.
Ralph, 93, has been the heart and soul of War Resisters League since he came on staff shortly after the end of World War II and his release from federal prison, where he had served a term for refusing service as a conscientious objector.
An associate of A. J. Muste, Bayard Rustin, Dave Dellinger, Barbara Deming, and many others, Ralph held key posts over the years with Liberation magazine as well as being on the staff of the War Resisters League. While Ralph was not a public speaker or a writer, he played a key a role within the radical pacifist movement, and was central to many of the major antiwar actions of the past six decades.
Ralph was deeply loved by the movement, especially by those at his political home, the War Resisters League. He is survived by his wife, Karin DiGia, his children, and his two brothers.
Please view and add a comment to Ralph's Guestbook via the New York Times Web site.
A memorial for Ralph is being held May 10, 2008, 2 to 5 pm, at the Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave. (between 9th & 10th Streets), New York, NY.
Check out the WRL online bookstore at Powell's Books, where a portion of your purchase goes directly towards our work.
For flyers, brochures, buttons, organizing guides, t-shirts and other resources, go to the WRL Store at www.warresisters.org/zen and other re, t-shirts