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Unemployment, foreclosures, businesses closing, millions hungry, the sick who cannot afford a doctor--this is what we have now, and for our children. The economic disaster comes from greed and lust for power. All of us are susceptible to those feelings, but those with money and power have almost no restraints. The investment bankers with their fancy ways of making money through lies, the mortgage brokers who lied their way to wealth, none of them are going to jail.

As 2011 gives way to 2012, people’s movements for justice are met with unprecedented global militarization. From Oakland to Egypt, people are demanding democracy and an equitable distribution of wealth while attacked with tear gas and pepper spray, rubber bullets and live ammunition.

Contrary to popular opinion, active-duty members of the military do retain some of their constitutional rights. While there are some military-specific restrictions on these rights, most protest actions are in fact legal.

During this revolutionary moment, we thought it would be wise to keep our nonviolence training resources front and center. Click the link below for a 4-5+ hour sample agenda for a nonviolent action training.

WRL field organizer Ali Issa gets in to the whys and hows of the new South Asia Solidarity Initative/WRL curriculum with Sonali Kolhatkar on her powerful radio show 'Uprising.'

War Resisters League is looking for a New York City-based part-time Fall/Winter intern for a thirteen-week period, October 17, 2011 – January 13, 2012. The intern will work 20 hours a week on a number of organizing projects and administrative tasks. Apply!

On the day before the 10-year commemoration of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, hundreds of activists who have been working to build up nonviolent resistance to U.S.-led war and occupation and U.S. government support for corporate control over our economy will take to the street. On Oct 6, they will begin a massive occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C.

Click below to read the statement issued by the staff and board of WRL ten years ago, on September 11, 2001. Tragically, it is still appropriate today, and we issue it again in memory of the lives lost on that day and the lives lost since across the world.

Want to hone or share your grassroots fundraising skills? Want to work with one of the oldest and most exciting anti-militarism organizations? We are currently taking applications for our Fall 2011 Freeman Internship Program, which runs for 13 weeks starting October 15. Application deadline: September 19.

This August is the 66th Anniversary of the U.S Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima. To commemorate this event the War Resisters League has compiled a list of actions that are taking place around the U.S to remember this day.