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    • Afghanistan

    A Letter to the President on the Escalation of War in Afghanistan
    July 5, 2023
    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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    Act Now to Oppose Obama’s Escalation in Afghanistan!
    July 5, 2023
    NOVEMBER 2009 Help President Obama Make the Right Decision about Afghanistan! More than eight years since the War Resisters League rallied against invading Afghanistan and one month after a coalition of anti-war groups including WRL rallied in Washington DC to say “No to War in Afghanistan, No to Torture and Vengeance,” we are reaching out…
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    Beyond Afghanistan: Choosing Nonviolence
    July 5, 2023
    As we approach the April 4 anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s great 1967 “Beyond Vietnam” speech in New York City’s Riverside Church, the War Resisters League reiterates King’s urgent cry for nonviolence—and nonviolent resistance. The parallels between the war in Afghanistan and the U.S. war against Vietnam fill us with foreboding. While we…
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    • WRL History

    WRL’s Statement on September 11, 2001
    September 10, 2021
    On September 11, 2001, War Resisters League staff person David McReynolds, wrote this from the WRL National Office which was only a mile and half north of the World Trade Towers. As we write, Manhattan feels under siege, with all bridges, tunnels, and subways closed, and tens of thousands of people walking slowly north from…
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    Join us and Register for an Online Town Hall on 4/6: Racial Justice Has No Borders, Militarization in the time of Pandemic
    March 24, 2020
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    • War

    WRL Endorses Call to Reject War Criminal Kissinger from NYU Event
    October 16, 2018
    War Resisters League endorses call by NYU student activists demanding NYU cancel event hosted by war criminal Henry Kissinger. Read the statement and endorsing organizations below. “The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer.”  Henry Kissinger, 1975     For over half a century, Henry Kissinger has stood as the morally reprehensible poster…
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    • War

    Letter from WIN
    September 20, 2016
    The human capacity for injustice can be a breathtaking thing.  Iraqis living under U.S. occupation face a regime “far more cruel, deadly and venal than anything that existed under Hussein,” writes A.K. Gupta in his analysis of the Iraq war.  Iraqis must deal with daily bomb attacks mass killings by death squads, impunity of the…
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    Kunduz Hospital Bombing = War Crime
    May 5, 2016
    The War Resisters League stands with Afghans United for Justice as they condemn the Kunduz hospital bombing as a war crime, and call for an independent investigation into the U.S. airstrikes on this Afghanistan hospital. “The human cost of this war crime continues beyond the October 3 airstrike. The whole city of Kunduz is now without…
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    • WRL History

    On MLK Day: A Special Message from Arun Kundnani
    January 18, 2016
    On this MLK day, let us recall Dr. Martin Luther King’s deepest legacy. He understood that denouncing the violent extremism of young, angry men in the ghettos could not be done without hypocrisy unless one also condemned the far greater violence of the U.S. war machine in Vietnam. When governments decide political problems can be…
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    WRL endorses October 2011 nonviolent action in D.C.
    May 22, 2012
    Stop the Machine! Create a New World! A Call to Action – Oct. 6, 2011 and onward October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world…
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