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Ending Police Militarization, One City at a Time

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Ending Police Militarization, One City at a Time Published on Truthout on Tuesday, 29 September 2015 00:00 By Ana Conner and Tara Tabassi Oakland police participate in Urban Shield training in October 2012. (Photo: San Leandro Privacy / Flickr) Urban Shield, the world’s largest SWAT training and war-weapons expo, was held in September in California’s…

Call for submissions // noSWATzone Zine

Call for submissions // noSWATzone Zine

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Call for Submissions for No SWAT Zone: a zine on resisting police militarization   Send Submissions to: tara [at] warresisters.org   Calling all activists and organizers resisting police militarization around the world: -How you are impacted by policing and/or war? -Are you leading a campaign against domestic or international militarization? -Are you building alternatives to…

Sanaa Review: Ray of Light from Yemen

Sanaa Review: Ray of Light from Yemen

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  While Trump escalates long-standing US complicity in the catastrophic war on Yemen through its arming of Saudi Arabia and more, we are deeply inspired by the launch of مجلة صنعاء “Sanaa Review“: an e-zine by Yemenis that cuts through silence and distortion, bringing us the brilliance of independent Yemeni journalism, art and thought now. This media work…

Bayard Rustin’s 1965 WRL Peace Award Acceptance Speech

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– April 27, 1965 –  A.J. Mustei: I present to Bayard Rustin at this 42nd annual dinner of the War Resisters League the 7th Annual Peace Award and the scroll, which I am presenting to him, reads as follows: To Bayard Rustin, pacifist, who has suffered for his convictions and held firmly and courageously to them….

WRL Joins Human Rights Coalition To Blast CIA Torturer as Trump’s Pick for CIA Head

WRL Joins Human Rights Coalition To Blast CIA Torturer as Trump’s Pick for CIA Head

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Human Rights Coalition Blasts CIA Torturer as Trump’s Pick for CIA Head March 15th, 2018 – Washington, D.C.  A coalition of human rights groups working to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and end US torture condemns President Trump’s nomination of Gina Haspel for Director of the CIA.  Haspel’s documented involvement in torture should absolutely disqualify…

Journey of Reconciliation

Journey of Reconciliation

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The Journey of Reconciliation in 1947 was the first major national project organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), co-sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR). An interracial group of 16 rode on buses through the upper South to test the implementation of the 1946 Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation on interstate travel. They…