Past Events

  • Cultivating Stories through the Practice of Listening: Conducting Oral History Interviews

    Thursday, November 10, 2022

    Do you know someone with a WRL story that you would like to share with other war resisters? Is there an activitst in your area who you’d like to record? Do you have stories you want to share? War Resisters League will turn 100 in 2023, marking a century of anti-militarist organizing, collective protest, and...

  • Celebrating Linda Thurston

    Saturday, August 20, 2022

    Saturday, August 20, 2022 – 2:30pm And announcing the Linda Thurston Archival Internship  Celebrating Linda Thurston Linda Marie Thurston, our Sister and Friend, passed away in May of 2021. Linda spent a lifetime forging connections among people, organizations and communities in the movements for abolition, liberation and peace & justice. She is deeply missed. Over...

  • 2016 WRL Peace Award to Jannat Alghezzi!

    Tuesday, October 4, 2016

    On October 4th 2016, Baghdad-based Jannat Alghezzi of Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) accepted WRL’s 2016 Peace Award in New York City, honored with an acoustic performance by the fabulous Alsarah & Sonny Singh Brooklynwala! Check out this video of the event program (Note: Audio fixed at 1:30). Click here to donate and support...

  • Hiroshima/Nagasaki 70th Anniversary Events

    Wednesday, August 5, 2015

    Hiroshima/Nagasaki 70th Anniversary Events Protest nuclear weapons and mark the 70th anniversary of the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the following events . . . NYC // Peace Gathering to Commemorate 70th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Date: Wednesday, Aug. 5 Time: Noon Place: Japanese Consulate entrance, 299 Park Ave. (at 48th St.), Manhattan Sponsored by...

  • A Night Celebrating Iraq: Book Release and Performance

    Thursday, June 25, 2015

    Please join WRL and our partners at the Center for Constitutional Rights Thursday, June 25 for an evening of music, art, and activism as we jointly launch Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq, a new book bringing the unique voices of progressive Iraqis organizing on the ground to New York! The event...

  • WRL Honors Joanne Sheehan with the Ralph DiGia Award

    Saturday, December 13, 2014

    On Friday December 13th, 2014 War Resisters League was happy to gather friends and allies across generations at the Sixth Street Community Center in NYC to honor Joanne Sheehan with our first-ever Ralph DiGia Award. On this cold winter evening, warm company and memories were shared in celebration of Joanne’s vital contributions to building bridges...

  • 26th Annual Raffle for Resistance

    Saturday, December 13, 2014

    ENTER TODAY TO WIN ON DECEMBER 13th! The December 13th deadline is fast approaching! WRL’s Raffle for Resistance is an easy way to get a start on holiday giving, while supporting grassroots organizing against war and militarism. Every year, members and friends carefully search within their communities and across the globe – some even within their personal...

  • Cultural Resistance to Militarism

    Saturday, November 22, 2014

    Featuring: Hip-Hop Artist Invincible Discussion with Colombian conscientious objector Paula Galeano Activist and artist Katie Yamasaki Saturday November 22 4:00 – 7:00 pm at the Yippie Museum 9 Bleecker Street Between Bowery and Elizabeth 212-677-518 A collaboration of the War Resisters League and the Not Your Soldier Project, Cultural Resistance to Militarism brings together young...

  • Training for Trainers: Training for Nonviolent Campaigns November 14 – 16, 2014, Voluntown, CT

    Friday, November 14, 2014

    NEW DATES! Apply Now! The War Resisters League is organizing a Training for Trainers for people who want to develop training skills especially focusing on strategy development. This Training for Trainers* will be an opportunity to: learn training techniques to help groups develop strategy for nonviolent campaigns. It will include exploring the power of nonviolent actions, methods...

  • The Iraq War: A People’s Hearing

    Saturday, March 22, 2014

    Eleven years ago today, the United States military invaded Iraq. On March 26, 2014, Iraqi human rights advocates and labor leaders will join US military veterans in Washington D.C. to testify to the lasting impact of the war and to make the case that the US government must be held to account for the serious damage it...

  • 25th Annual Raffle for Resistance

    Friday, December 6, 2013

    Suggested contribution: $3 per ticket, $25 for a sheet of 12 PLEASE NOTE: RAFFLE TICKET DONATIONS ARE NOT TAX DEDUCTIBLE Raffle Drawing: December 6, 2013 IF YOU BUY YOUR RAFFLE TICKETS ONLINE, WE’LL FILL THEM OUT FOR YOU Surprise a friend or two by sending in a few tickets with their names as well! You can...

  • WRL 90th Anniversary Conference

    Thursday, August 1, 2013

    CONFERENCE HOME   |   REGISTRATION SCHEDULE |  SPEAKERS | TRAVEL EVENTS | LIVESTREAM REVOLUTIONARY NONVIOLENCE Building Bridges Across Generations and Communities War Resisters League 90th Anniversary National Conference August 1 – 4 · 2013 Georgetown University | Washington, DC. Couldn’t make it to the conference? Watch the plenaries online! REGISTERING? Please register on-site at the ICC Building starting at 5 on Thurday, all...

  • Book Event in DC with Rosalie Riegle, author of Doing Time for Peace and Crossing the Line

    Wednesday, July 31, 2013

    One day before our 90th Anniversary Conference begins in Washington, DC, WRL National Committee member author Rosalie Riegle will sign and discuss her books Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and Community and Crossing the Line: Nonviolent Resisters Speak Out for Peace. Wednesday, July 31 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Busboys & Poets 5th &...

  • Dellinger Lecture 2012: Resisting Racism and Militarism: The Legacy of Bayard Rustin

    Friday, October 12, 2012

    Resisting Racism and Militarism: The Legacy of Bayard Rustin With Kenyon Farrow Writer and activist, Communications Director of The Praxis Project, former Executive Director of Queers for Economic Justice     Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons Professor, Department of Religion, University of Florida; former SNCC activist; National Council of Elders member     and Walter Naegle, Reading...

  • WRL Honors Suez Port Worker and Labor Leader Asma Mohammed

    Thursday, April 12, 2012

    2012 Peace Award: WRL Honors Suez Port Worker and Labor Leader Asma Mohammed Over this past week, Egyptians have poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority...

  • 23rd Annual Raffle for Resistance – 2011

    Tuesday, November 22, 2011

    Enter and win a holiday gift for a loved one! Your raffle contribution goes directly to support the campaigns and programs of the War Resisters League in our efforts to end war and eliminate its causes.  We try to choose prizes with some special meaning, unique, handcrafted items and/or those from people or companies who...

  • A Forum and Book Party: A SAVING REMNANT

    Tuesday, April 26, 2011

    The War Resisters League’s Dellinger Lecture on Nonviolence and The New Press present A Forum and Book Party: A SAVING REMNANT By Martin Duberman The radical lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds and their place in the pacifist, civil rights, gay and lesbian, and feminist movements. With Mandy Carter, Pam McAllister, David McReynolds, and...

  • Bill Sutherland (1918-2010) : A Pan-African and Pacifist Life

    Saturday, November 13, 2010

    Bill Sutherland (1918-2010): A Pan-African and Pacifist Life Saturday, November 13th, 2010 6:00 pm at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY 10037 Including video by Rick Tejada-Flores (producer of The Good War & Those who Refused to Fight It) and remarks by Horace Campbell and many other...

  • 22nd Annual Raffle for Resistance

    Friday, November 12, 2010

    Thank you to everyone who entered this year’s raffle! Your raffle contributions go directly to support the campaigns and programs of the War Resisters League in our efforts to end war and eliminate its causes.  We try to choose prizes with some special meaning, unique, handcrafted items and/or those from people or companies who are...

  • Prophecy Theater Party

    Friday, June 4, 2010

    “How do you produce a pro-peace play in a country that is at war? How do you put positive Arab characters on stage at a time when negative stereotypes abound? How do you speak about the emotional costs, and loss of life, of the current wars to a nation that wants to forget?” (Playwright, Karen...

  • Racism, Repression and Resistance: COINTELPRO Then and Now: 40 Years after the FBI and Chicago Police Assassinated Fred Hampton

    Thursday, December 3, 2009

    Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the murder of Fred Hampton and the release of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas. Panel discussion will explore the ongoing repression of political dissent in the U.S., from the COINTELPRO program that targeted the Black Panther Party...

  • War Resisters League 21st Annual Raffle for Resistance – 2009

    Friday, November 20, 2009

    Win a holiday gift for a loved one! Your raffle contribution goes directly to support the campaigns and programs of the War Resisters League in our efforts to end war and eliminate its causes. We try to choose prizes with some special meaning, unique, handcrafted items and/or those from people or companies who are members...

  • Stubborn Hope: WRL’s 2009 Dinner and Peace Award

    Friday, September 18, 2009

    “Gull gliding against/gray-silver autumn sky/sees a vast miasma of greed/slowly encompass our entire planet …” Dennis Brutus, once a prisoner of apartheid and now a voice for (among other causes) the environment, read his poem “Gull” via video to a packed meeting room at New York’s Judson Memorial Church Friday evening, September 18. The event...

  • Stubborn Hope: WRL’s 2009 Peace Award

    Friday, September 18, 2009

    Vinie Burrows, Kassahun Checole, Imani Countess, Jennifer Davis, Kenyon Farrow, Silvia Federici & George Caffentzis, Haymarket Books, Jean & George Houser, Chaz Maviyane, Liz Mestres, Matt Meyer & Meg Starr, Sonia Sanchez, Bill Sutherland & Marilyn Meyer Invite You to Attend the War Resisters League’s 44th Annual Peace Award   Stubborn Hope: Celebrating the Ongoing...

  • 44th Annual Peace Award

    Friday, September 18, 2009

    Stubborn Hope: Celebrating the Ongoing Struggles for Justice and Peace in Southern Africa Honoring the Work of Dennis Brutus, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), and Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) The Evening WRL wishes to honor the work of Dennis Brutus, WOZA, and GALZ both by hearing about their vital campaigns and activities and...

  • Operation Lysistrata in NYC on March 19

    Thursday, March 19, 2009

    On the 6th year commemoration of the US invasion of Iraq, Peace Action for Diplomacy,Theaters Against War, NYCUFPJ, War Resisters League and Veterans for Peace invite you to the thought-provoking, award-winning film Operation Lysistrata Join us for a screening of the inspiring film of a theatrical protest that took place on March of 2003, before...

  • 2008 Peace Award – Grassroots Movement to Save New Orleans

    Friday, December 12, 2008

    Join the War Resisters League for a Spectacular Celebration of Peace & Justice 43rd Annual Peace Award to the Grassroots Movement to Save New Orleans Friday, December 12, 2008 7:00 pm Brooklyn Lyceum 227 4th Avenue Brooklyn, New York Recognizing that the post-Katrina tragedy in New Orleans was made immeasurably worse by the diversion of...

  • NO MORE ‘NEVER AGAIN’S: From Pan African Peacebuilding to New Afrikan Prison Resistance in the USA

    Friday, October 24, 2008

    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 (2008, PM Press/Kersplebedeb) Co-Editor, Seeds of New Hope: Pan-African Peace Studies for the 21st Century (2009, Africa World Press) Friday, October 24, 2008, at...

  • WRL 2009 Peace Calendar Launch Party

    Wednesday, October 15, 2008

    Celebrate Our Radical History! WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE 2009 CALENDAR LAUNCH A Publication Party for The Path of Most Resistance: A US Radical History Tour Wednesday, October 15  at 7:30 pm at the Brecht Forum 451 West Street, NYC (Between Bank & Bethune in West Village) with Judith Mahoney Pasternak & Special Guests Our radical history...

  • War Resisters League’s 43rd Annual Peace Award

    Saturday, August 30, 2008

    Keep your eye here, on our newly revamped website, warresisters.org, for updated information on War Resisters League’s 43rd Annual Peace Award. This fall we will give the WRL Peace Award to two activists, on behalf of the greater New Orleans social justice movement. Shana Griffin, a representative of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, Black...

  • War Resisters Organizer Training Institute

    Monday, June 23, 2008

    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...

  • WRL BENEFIT! Living Violence/Writing Violence: Muslim Women Respond to War, Faith and Sexuality

    Saturday, May 24, 2008

    Please join us for a poetry reading and visual art as we articulate these struggles and celebrate International Women’s Day for Disarmament. Saturday May 24th, 2008 12:00 – 3:30 pm Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery Street (Between Houston and Bleecker) As “Muslim” women living amidst a global war being waged by the United States and...

  • Celebrate Ralph!

    Saturday, May 10, 2008

    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...

  • A Celebration of Ralph DiGia’s Life

    Thursday, May 1, 2008

    Karin DiGia and The Ralph DiGia fund for Peace and Justice invite you to A Celebration of Ralph DiGia’s Life at 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...

  • Second Annual David Dellinger Lecture on Nonviolence

    Thursday, October 25, 2007

    Featuring activist and author Kathy Kelly . . . and others on “Nonviolent Action in the Middle East” Following in the Footsteps of David Dellinger “ I wanted to bring closer the day when the whole country (and the world) would adopt nonviolent force as the only sane and ultimately successful way of securing and...

  • WRL 80th Anniversary Conference – July 2003

    Friday, July 18, 2003

    WRL has the distinction of reaching 80 years old this year. Now more than ever, WRL’s belief in nonviolent struggle is needed in a world torn apart by the organized violence that is war. From the “war to end all wars” that spawned our organization through the current “War on Terror,” WRL has been rooted...