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    Women Conscientious Objectors

    Women Conscientious Objectors: An Anthology includes contributions by women conscientious objectors and activists from Britain, Colombia, Eritrea, Israel, Paraguay, South Korea, Turkey, and the USA, plus supporting documents and statements.
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  • Beyond Border Patrol (brochure)
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    Beyond Border Patrol

    WRL has long challenged military and police recruitment. Our newest counter-recruitment resource, Beyond Border Patrol, takes on the lies of Border Patrol recruiters – particularly in the borderlands – and debunks them with the realities of the job and the agency’s legacy of abuse. Like military and police recruiters, Border Patrol recruiters target poor people and young people of color in border communities, and promote careers in law enforcement as a stable way of life and a means to “protect” your community.
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    Cultural Resistance to Militarism

    Featuring: Hip-Hop Artist Invincible Discussion with Colombian conscientious objector Paula Galeano Activist and artist Katie Yamasaki Saturday November 22 4:00 – 7:00 pm at the Yippie Museum 9 Bleecker Street Between Bowery and Elizabeth 212-677-518 A collaboration of the War Resisters League and the Not Your Soldier Project, Cultural Resistance to Militarism brings together young…
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    ANTIMILITARIST ROOTS: nonviolent resistance for a world in crisis

    The War Resisters’ International is holding its conference and assembly – Antimilitarist Roots: nonviolent resistance for a world in crisis – from Friday June 16 to Monday June 19, 2023 in London. The event will bring activists together to discuss the future of our grassroots movements, build allyship internationally, and respond to the challenge we…
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  • Maria Prymachenko, May that nuclear war be cursed! (1978). © Prymachenko Family Foundation
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    WRL Statement on Ukraine

    The War Resisters League was founded in the aftermath of a horrendous European war by those who resisted conscription and their supporters. They united around a powerful affirmation: war is a crime against humanity. Over the course of almost 100 years since that time, our commitment to this principle has been tested by many political struggles…
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    Bob Meola, 1952-2021 – ¡Presente!

    WRL is saddened by the death of long time WRL organizer and former NC member Bob Meola on November 17, 2021. In the 1980’s Bob was a co-founder of the Southern California War Resisters’ League. After he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, Bob became active with WRL West. He faithfully organized the May…
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    Nonviolence in Action online conference – November 20th-28th

    Join us for Nonviolence in Action: Antimilitarism in the 21st century an online conference bringing together activists from across the international peace movement to learn, strategise and build solidarity. The War Resisters’ International (WRI) network – and the whole international peace movement – finds itself at an important crossroads. Over the last hundred years we have been…
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    Larry Gara, Lifelong War Resister 1922 – 2019

    History professor, pacifist and WRL member (since 1940) jailed during World War II, prison abolitionist, jazz aficionado, birder, vegetarian. Gara died at age 97 on November 23, 2019, in his hometown of Wilmington, Ohio. He was a professor of history at Wilmington College from 1962 to 2002, when he retired from teaching. Larry called himself…
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    Peter Kiger, 1938 – 2019

    Former WRL staff member Peter Kiger died on August 19 in New Castle, Indiana. He was 80 and had Parkinson’s disease. Born and raised in Spiceland, Indiana, Peter became a Quaker whose life mission was peacemaking. But during his freshman year at DePauw University (1956) — before becoming a pacifist — he won a Chicago…
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    The Rebellion of One Soldier

    Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejia By Camilo Mejia The New Press, 2007 320 pages, $24.95, hardcover Camilo Mejia was the first of the now numerous and growing list of soldier resisters to the Iraq War to go public. Mejia had served all but four months of an eight-year-term in…
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