Current News

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 to hundreds of Greenwich Village artists and activists and a devoted, loving partner to Dick Hanley.

On Friday, October 24, 2008, at 7:45 PM, please join the New York Catholic Worker and the War Resisters League at NO MORE ‘NEVER AGAIN’S: From Pan African Peacebuilding to New Afrikan Prison Resistance in the USA, with Matt Meyer, Editor, Let Freedom Ring Co-Editor, Seeds of New Hope: Pan-African Peace Studies for the 21st Century at Maryhouse, 55 East Third Street, NYC

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 how to engage elections.

OCTOBER 10-11: Join The Jericho Movement for a 10th Anniversary weekend of action for political prisoners. On Friday, October 10 join the Moving Agitational Picket at the UN and the Evening Concert to Benefit the Prisoners. On Saturday, October 11, join the noon Rally at the Harlem State Office Building, the March through Harlem and the Closing Rally in Morningside Park.

Celebrate Our Radical History at the Publication Party for THE PATH OF MOST RESISTANCE: A US Radical History Tour, with Judith Mahoney Pasternak and Special Guests. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15  at 7:30pm at the Brecht Forum

Join United for Peace and Justice coalition, of which WRL is a member group, in a Million Doors for Peace on Saturday, September 20.

Join the War Resisters League for a Spectacular Celebration of Peace and Justice as we give the Peace Award to to the Grassroots Movement to Save New Orleans.  This year's awardees are SHANA GRIFFIN and KALI AKUNO, representatives of the greater New Orleans grassroots efforts to bring the city back to life.  Special Musical Guests include Steve Earle, Stephanie McKay, Jan Bell and the Cheap Dates and more!

The War Resisters League is seeking a seeking a self-motivated, professional, and skilled half-time Editor/Publisher to produce and manage all phases of our quarterly publication, WIN Magazine.

Bite The Bullet War Profiteering Education and Action Network has a new website! Initiated by the War Resisters League, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Fellowship of Reconciliation and other groups, Bite the Bullet seeks to motivate and empower a broad-based movement to educate, agitate and organize against the military industrial complex through creative, nonviolent and democratic means.

on Saturday, May 17, with Country Joe McDonald and speakers including Bob Meola, Chair, Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission and C.O.s and resisters from World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars