Resources
WRL produces a variety of tools and resources to support grassroots organizing against war and militarism. Many resources are available on our online store, and others are available here for review and download. For updates on our No SWAT Zone campaign, Nonviolent Direct Action trainings and more, check out our organizing areas. Resources on tear gas stories & companies can be found on Facing Tear Gas. We encourage you to use our materials to build and expand your organizing. We’ve also listed resources we’ve found useful and important, available from other sources.
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- War Taxes
- Statements and Commentaries
- Hiroshima
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- Gaza
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- Gaza
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- Militarism
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- Statements and Commentaries
- Police
- WRL History
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- Egypt
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- Militarism
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- Tear Gas
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- Racism
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- Statements and Commentaries
- FBI
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- Militarism
Federal Pie Chart Flyers from Past Years
Each year, WRL analyzes federal funds outlays as presented in detailed tables in “Analytical Perspectives” of the Budget of the United States Government. For the current pie chart flyer, go to www.warresisters.org/federalpiechart. Download PDF Files of past Pie Chart Flyers: Fiscal Year 2026 (Released March 2025) Pie Chart Flyer in English, in color (pdf) in…
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WRL’s statement for nuclear disarmament
As we approach this weekend’s anti-nuclear events and actions which will include a direct action on May 3 to declare Grand Central Station in NYC a nuclear weapons free zone, check out this statement written by members of WRL and South Asia Solidarity Initiative: “No Nukes! Start with U.S.” May 3, 2010 In 1982, the…
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WRL Endorses US Boat to Gaza
May 2011 From the US Boat to Gaza statement: “This is an important moment in history. In the aftermath of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla massacre and increased world-wide scrutiny of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the Israeli government has mounted a huge public relations campaign spreading the lie that by letting a few more items into…
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‘Israel’s Ruthless Criminality’ – WRI statement on attack on Free Gaza Flotilla
War Resisters’ International – an international pacifist network with more than 80 affiliates in more than 40 countries – condemns the murderous Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza and calls for an immediate lifting of the blockade on Gaza. The Israeli state has been responsible for many outrages in its history, especially against…
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WRL Endorses Statement Against Global Militarism
12.2.2011 Stop Militarization of Our Communities in the US and Abroad! [The following statement originated from activists in the San Fransisco Bay Area. For further information, contact: bay2egypt [at] gmail.com ] 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…
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Statement on #Occupy from members of the WRL Organizing Network
Statement on #Occupy from members of the WRL Organizing Network* 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…
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FY2012 WRL PIE CHART FLYER – Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes
The War Resisters League spends a lot of time, energy and money to create this resource. Please credit when using. For permissions to reprint, email us at wrl [at] warresisters.org The War Resisters League’s famous “pie chart” flyer analyzes the Federal Budget. The Fiscal Year 2012 Pie Chart was released in February 2011. FY2012 PIE…
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How the Pie Chart Figures Were Determined – FY2013
How These Figures Were Determined Because the President is late with the Fiscal Year 2014 budget, and Congress has not passed the FY2013 budget (was to begin Oct. 1, 2012), the figures in the large pie chart are projections from tables in Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2013 (published Feb….
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Wall Street = War Street
Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes – FY2013 (Released in Feb 2012) Once again “mission accomplished” was announced, and the Iraq War was declared over in 2011. U.S. troops are scheduled to leave Afghanistan in 2013, yet Pentagon spending continues virtually unabated. More than 200,000 private contractors, hired by corporations with Pentagon money, carry…
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WRL Statement on NYPD Surveillance of Activist Groups
The War Resisters League is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States. Since 1923, WRL has been nonviolently resisting war at home and abroad. Our philosophy of revolutionary nonviolence demands change at the very roots of our society. Our work has never been just about opposing wars when they happen but also…
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From the WRL Archives on the Centennial of the Life of Bayard Rustin
View on Slideshare Building Bridges Through Revolutionary Nonviolence: Bayard Rustin and the future of Peace and Freedom from War Resisters League 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of civil rights icon Bayard Rustin, and many groups—from the Quaker-based American Friends Service Committee and inter-faith Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) to the labor federation AFL-CIO…
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Remembering Bayard Rustin at 100
by Matt Meyer From Waging Nonviolence One hundred years after the birth of human rights icon Bayard Rustin, his complicated legacy pushes us to analyze our own complicated times. Vilified in the 1950s for his open homosexuality and again in the 1960s for “selling out” the radical black liberation movement, Rustin’s own history has been…
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One Year After the Egyptian Revolution: Tear Gas and Police Repression
Tear gas, policing, and the counter-revolution: January 25 marked one year since the beginning of the Egyptian revolution. One year after the fall of the Mubarak regime, the Egyptian people are still in the streets, calling for an end to the rule of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) that took power after…
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You Can’t Take What’s All of Ours! Breaking Down NATO/G8 and Rising Up Against Austerity and Militarism
To mark the NATO summit held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance released a new popular education resource. This participatory workshop explores: The story of NATO and G8: who makes them up, what they do, and…
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Movement Building for Allies
Members and organizations of the traditional peace movement have been increasingly coming to recognize the importance not only of partnering and “joining forces” with groups and organizations led primarily by poor people and people of color, but also of taking leadership from those groups and learning how to be effective allies to them through our…
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World’s #1 Employer Seeks Endless War
From Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes, FY2014 (Released Feb 2013) Millions of workers in the United States live off the Pentagon and its contracts. The 3.2 million DoD employees include active military, civilians, National Guard, and Reserves. But there are another 600,000 contract employees. About 1,600,000 supply the military with food, health insurance,…
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WRL Statement on NYPD Surveillance of Activist Groups
The War Resisters League is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States. Since 1923, WRL has been nonviolently resisting war at home and abroad. Our philosophy of revolutionary nonviolence demands change at the very roots of our society. Our work has never been just about opposing wars when they happen but also…
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Bombs and Budgets: Tools for Reclaiming Communities from Militarism
To mark the now decade-long US-led “Global War on Terror,” The War Resisters League and the South Asia Solidarity Initiative have created an interactive, popular eduction-style workshop that explores how organizing against federal military spending relates to and can forward local campaigns for economic justice, as well as how the past decade of war has…
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A Letter to the President on the Escalation of War in Afghanistan
June 2010 Dear President Obama, With millions of U.S. people feeling the fear and desperation of no longer having a home; with millions feeling the terror and loss of dignity that comes with unemployment; with millions of our children slipping further into poverty and hunger, your decision to deploy thousands more troops and throw hundreds…
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