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.

Two essays by Paul Goodman

Two essays by the pacifist, anarchist and activist: The Morality of Scientific Technology and The Psychology of Being Powerless.

“To expect disaster and desert the sinking ship is not a political act, but it is often a profoundly creative one, both personally and socially. To do it, one must have vitality of one’s own that is not entirely structured and warped by the suicidal system. Going it alone may allow for new development.”
    -- Paul Goodman

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Two Essays by Jessie Wallace Hughan

Pacifism and Invasion and On Duelling by Jessie Wallace Hughan -- suffragist, peace activist and founder of the War Resisters League.

“It always irritates me to have people use the adjective `innocent,’ only as applied to women and children! But we have our part in it too: the responsibility of cheering “our boys,” of selling “liberty bonds” as in the Great War, of buying them, of making speeches, of pride in those who “bravely enlist,” poor young lads, of contempt for those who hold back.”
-- Jessie Wallace Hughan, On Duelling

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Some Writings on War Tax Resistance

Thoughts, poems and tales from war tax resisters, including Juanita Nelson, Allen Ginsberg and Pete Seeger.

“When the doors opened, I continued to sit. My thoughts were like buckshot, so scattered they didn’t hit anything or, when they did, made little dent. The robe was a huge question mark placed starkly after some vexing problems.

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