WRI exec statement: on the Israel-Hamas ceasefire January 20, 2025 – As a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel comes into force, we can only begin to imagine the relief of all those who were being bombed yesterday, but are not being bombed today. All wars are crimes against humanity. The last fifteen months of relentless, genocidal…
War Is a Crime Against Humanity: Stop the Violence Immediately in Israel-Palestine
The War Resisters League (WRL) and New York Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (NYCHRP) urge an end to the indiscriminate bombings of Filipino villagers by the Philippine government and an end to U.S. security assistance to the Philippine government. Even as the Philippine government has re-engaged in peace talks with the National Democratic…
The War Resisters’ International is holding its conference and assembly – Antimilitarist Roots: nonviolent resistance for a world in crisis – from Friday June 16 to Monday June 19, 2023 in London. The event will bring activists together to discuss the future of our grassroots movements, build allyship internationally, and respond to the challenge we…
The War Resisters League was founded in the aftermath of a horrendous European war by those who resisted conscription and their supporters. They united around a powerful affirmation: war is a crime against humanity. Over the course of almost 100 years since that time, our commitment to this principle has been tested by many political struggles…
Living Peace 3: Letters of Wars and Peace January 8, 2025 Letter by Yurii from Ukraine READ MORE Ukraine: About 300 criminal cases against conscientious objectors from War Resisters’ International The number of new criminal cases against conscientious objectors has surged since summer 2024 after the General Prosecutor’s Office wrote to local prosecutors. About 300…
Protesters delay weapons shipment to Iraq More than three dozen antiwar activists in Olympia, WA were arrested during a weeklong protest over the shipment of military equipment to Iraq through the port of Olympia. The military cargo shipped out on June 1 as close to 100 protesters staged a “die-in” and chanted, “Stop that boat!”…
Advocating revolutionary nonviolence is never easy. It’s adaunting task just to communicate the why and the how of turning the world upside down, of achieving profound social justice and peace using no weapons but our bodies and our faith in the rightness of the goal. The hours are long, the pay—when there is any—is low,…
Can We Globalize Nonviolence? The 24th Triennial Conference of War Resisters International started two weeks after Israel began the bombardment of Lebanon, highlighting the urgent need for a stronger, more coherent global movement of nonviolent resistance. The new war cast its shadow over the entire conference: 200 people from across the globe gathered in Geseke,…
Defending ‘Grace’ In response to the persnickety review of our documentary Grace by Judith Mahoney Pasternak (WIN, fall 2010), I leave her to her opinions, but want to correct some of her inaccuracies. First, a documentary can certainly be a tribute to someone—many, many have been. And, in turn, a tribute can be in the…
WRL: 90 Years to No More Warby Matt Meyer, Photos by Ed Hedemann WRL started calling it a Gala, but the more we worked on it, the more it became a BASH! To conclude our 90th anniversary celebrations, we rented out the penthouse of progressive trade union 1199/SEIU—with a spectacular view of the Manhattan skyline…
U.S. Jews Call for Justice On August 22, Jewish groups in New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Francisco organized direct actions to demand a cessation of Israeli military aggression in Lebanon and Palestine. Actions included a “die-in” at Penn Station in New York, banner drops over major highways in Philadelphia, and a lock-down…
I can’t tell you how pleased I am that you’ve retired NVA and replaced it with WIN. That you’ve decided to recycle the name WIN is a nice bonus. The old WIN Magazine, as you’ve written, was lively. It acknowledged the negative energy in the world, but powerfully generated positive energy. It focused on the…
Welcome to the second edition of WIN, and thank you for your overwhelmingly supportive response to the first. Your letters, subscriptions, donations, and word-of-mouth promotion help fuel not only this project, but all of the War Resisters League’s important work. In this issue, Eric Laursen looks at Lebanon, Israel, and an unsteady ceasefire, Wendy Schwartz…
International COs Build Lasting Alliances A room full of international conscientious objectors and antiwar activists listened intently at the Church of Brethen in Washington, DC, as Xavier León Vega told his story of conscientious objection to military service in Ecuador. Since 1999, when he declared himself a CO, León Vega has been engaged a legal…
Interviews with activists Joanne Sheehan, Hannah El-Silimy, Ashanti Alston, Ije Ude, and Ralph DiGia With the United States’ rich histories of struggle and the volumes of analysis written on them from multiple perspectives of politics and identity, there is an alarming lack of writing and dialogue around ageism in the movement, particularly as it relates…
WIN Through Revolutionary Nonviolence Welcome to WIN. This is the first issue of the War Resisters League’s newest expression of our oldest practice: nonviolence. Although this latest incarnation is new, WIN magazine is not. The Workshop in Nonviolence (WIN), a direct action group in New York City and an affiliate of the Committee for Nonviolent…
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