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Out & Outraged: Direct Action During the AIDS Crisis

War Resisters League - One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance

In the late 1980s it seemed there was no end to the AIDS crisis and increasing homophobia across Reagan-era America. The Supreme Court’s 1986 decision in Bowers v. Harwick upholding Georgia’s sodomy law led more than half a million LGBTQIA+ folks and allies to converge on Washington, DC from October 8-13, 1987 for what would become a series of historic events.....

Wind in its Sails: the Voyage of the Golden Rule

War Resisters League - One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance

As the Golden Rule continues its voyage up the East Coast, it is sailing into cities with historic connections. It is now in Philadelphia, home of crew member George Willoughby, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and so many Quaker supporters. Onto New York, home of the War Resisters League office which provided staffing and organizing.

War Resisters League - Southwest Campaigns: Kirtland AFB, Sandia and Los Alamos Laboratories

War Resisters League - One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance

WRL Southwest formed as a chapter and then as a regional office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the Vietnam War. We wanted to be a voice for peace, pacifism and nonviolence in the area, which hosted the Kirtland Air Force Base and the two atomic weapons laboratories: Sandia in Albuquerque and Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico, where the first nuclear weapons were researched and designed....

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