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U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: Don’t impose death sentence on 82-year-old nun and peacemaker
Sixteen years in prison is not enough? Sister Megan Rice and her friends, all peace activists, already face 16 years in prison if convicted for a nonviolent peace action. Sister Megan, Greg Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli went to Oak Ridge, Tennesse, to say NO to nuclear holocaust. Instead of dropping charges, the US Attorney General…
May 3rd WRL action for nuclear abolition
We Declare NYC a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (starting with Grand Central Station)! Monday, May 3, 2010 8-10am Grand Central Station War Resisters League is marking the beginning of the United Nations’ Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference with creative and nonviolent direct action at Grand Central Station. We assert that “Nuclear Disarmament Begins at Home.” Throughout…
Karl Bissinger, 1914-2008
Beloved longtime WRL staff member Karl Bissinger succumbed to a stroke on November 19. Karl was an energetic and creative fund raiser, an enthusiastic civil disobedient, a generous host to countless meetings, and – most important – a loyal and supportive friend to hundreds of Greenwich Village artists and activists and a devoted, loving partner…
Letter from National Committee, December 2021
Dear friends, WRL shares greetings and wants to send you some news. These have been challenging times filled with much transition, loss and grief, and hope for the future. We share some of this below. Our much-loved Operations Coordinator, Linda Thurston passed away suddenly in late May 2021, and it has been a painful and…
Call for Submissions: 2020 Elections + Antiwar Politics
October 3rd, 2020 Friends, I’m excited to share with you the first call for submissions from War Resisters League’s newest committee, the Editorial Committee. We are comprised of writers and organizers based across the Americas with ties to Black, Indigenous, MENA, Latin American, and white communities of resistance. Every month, we meet to discuss pressing issues…
Conscientious Objection is a Human Right!
As long as there has been war, there’s been those who are willing to fight and those who actively refuse to take part. Today, on International Conscientious Objector Day, we uplift all who refuse military enlistment morally, politically, spiritually, or otherwise. Throughout history conscientious objectors (COs) have been persecuted around the world for their actions, from petty fees to imprisonment, exile…