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.

Left on Purpose: A Movie on Life & Death, Movements and Mayer

Somber tonight, coming home from the truly unusual and important new film Left on Purpose, directed by Justin Schein, which premiered at NYC DOC – the world’s largest festival of documentary cinema. The movie chronicles the life of an acquaintance, Mayer Vishner, whose behind-the-scenes work in the US peace movement was essential to groups such as the Resistance and the Yippies.

No violence. No exceptions. No exceptionalism.

As the days that unfold before us mimic a time over a decade ago when the devastating War on Terror began with US occupation of Afghanistan, we mourn because it is makes us human. For those in Raqqa. For those in Tunis. For those in Yola and Kano, in Ankara, in Beirut, in Baghdad, in Zabul, in Paris, and beyond. But our grief cannot be exceptional. The lives of those living under systemic and perpetual invasion, war and occupation are not disposable and must be mourned and fought for.

1989 Peace Calendar: 365 reasons not to have another war

  • 1989 Peace Calendar: 365 reasons not to have another war
  • 1989 Peace Calendar interior pages

Vera Williams and Grace Paley, editors
Paintings by Vera Williams

Miss the old WRL Peace Calendar?  We aren't publishing new ones any more, but we are offering vintage calendars you can use now.  The days and dates on this 1989 calendar mirror the days and dates for 2023, and you can enjoy the great artwork, poems, essays and more!

$10.00

Stop Urban Shield Rally!

Urban Shield is the largest SWAT training & war-weapons expo in the world. We will gather on September 11th, across communities, to end it & resist police militarization around the world!

Join the Stop Urban Shield Coalition on Sept 11th to say NO to policing, militarization & state violence!

WHEN// 4PM on September 11th 2015
WHERE// Alameda Country Sheriff's Office, 1401 Lakeside Dr, Oakland, CA

Against All Odds: Organizing & Study Guide

Against All Odds Organizing & Study Guide Cover

Download the Against All Odds: Organizing & Study Guide here.

War Resisters League is excited to announce a popular education resource for connecting with Iraqi organizing across borders for activists, organizers and students around the world! We hope this guide supports you in better understanding Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq, as well as the work and dreams of Iraqi organizers who are building the Iraq they dare to envision.

WRL Perpetual Calendar

  • WRL Perpetual Calendar cover and page - White House Lawn to Red Square and Beyond
  • WRL Perpetual Calendar page - White House Lawn to Red Square and Beyond
  • WRL Perpetual Calendar page - For Peace in Indochina
  • WRL Perpetual Calendar page - A Philip Randolph & Bayard Rustin
  • WRL Perpetual Calendar page - Out & Outraged
  • WRL Perpetual Calendar page - Women's Encampment
  • 90 Years of Revolutionary Nonviolence: WRL Perpetual Calendar

90 Years of Revolutionary Nonviolence: WRL Perpetual Calendar

This beautiful wall calendar can be used year after year since it doesn’t match dates and days. It includes an event related to WRL and nonviolence for each day, with a line to add your own reminders of birthdays, etc. You can fill it in for this year or simply use the calendar for the events, images, and historical information.

$14.00

WIN Winter 2015 - This Means War: The Militarization of the Police

Volume: 31
Issue Number: 1

To the extent war has, in fact, “seeped back and flooded” civil spheres, often with military-grade weaponry and mounting body-counts – particularly in black and brown communities—what, then, of an anti-war movement?

$5.00

WRL Hiroshima-Nagasaki Exhibit

WRL Hiroshima-Nagasaki Exhibit 2012

This slideshow contains images from an exhibit originally produced in 1995 by the Enola Gay Action Coalition and sponsored by War Resisters League.  The exhibit was updated in 2012 by the New York City local of the War Resisters League.

Coordinators: Tom Keough and Michael Sprong

Editorial Committee (1995): Norma Becker, Ruth Benn, Jerry Coffin, Nicole Hala,
Ed Hedemann, Eric Levine, Mike Levinson, Elmer Maas, David McReynolds, John
Miller, Carmen Trotta

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