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    NVDA Training Agenda

    Nonviolence Training: Nonviolent Direct Action Preparation Agenda An annotated agenda for trainers to prepare people who are considering engaging in nonviolent direct action and for people who want to participate in nonviolent actions but not risk arrest. Includes links to handouts and resources. The agenda includes: Exploring what is meant by nonviolent direct action (NVDA)…
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    • 9/11
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    • War Taxes

    Police Militarization Chart

    Need a worksheet breaking down what makes up police militarization? Check our resource out here! If you need a police militarization workshop, check this one out!
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    Against All Odds: Organizing & Study Guide

    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…
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    • In Memorium
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    • NATO

    Cultivating Stories through the Practice of Listening: Conducting Oral History Interviews

    Do you know someone with a WRL story that you would like to share with other war resisters? Is there an activitst in your area who you’d like to record? Do you have stories you want to share? War Resisters League will turn 100 in 2023, marking a century of anti-militarist organizing, collective protest, and…
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    2016 WRL Peace Award to Jannat Alghezzi!

    On October 4th 2016, Baghdad-based Jannat Alghezzi of Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) accepted WRL’s 2016 Peace Award in New York City, honored with an acoustic performance by the fabulous Alsarah & Sonny Singh Brooklynwala! Check out this video of the event program (Note: Audio fixed at 1:30). Click here to donate and support…
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    Reproductive Freedom – WRL Statement

    In 1981, shortly after Ronald Reagan became President, the right to choose to have an abortion and sexual freedom was increasingly under attack. The Feminist and Lesbian and Gay Task Forces of the Mobilization for Survival (MfS), a national network that included WRL, with goals to: abolish nuclear weapons and power, stop military intervention, meet…
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    A Message from Movement Elder, Mandy Carter

    Dear Community, I graduated high school in the summer of 1966 in Central New York during the tail ends of the Civil Rights Movement and during the height of the U.S.-led wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. That summer, almost 400,000 men were drafted. Having lived and been raised in two orphanages and a foster…
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    A Death in the Family: David McReynolds, Pacifist, Socialist, Ailurophile

    As WRL reflects on David’s life and legacy, heading into our 95th year of radically resisting war, we’re humbled and grateful for the kind of politic David brought to our movement + organizational spaces. To make a gift to WRL in David’s honor, click here. To write a message of remembrance for David in our 95th Anniversary…
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    Just out! Article by WRL Organizers Ali Issa & Tara Tabassi

    Published July 6th 2017 on The New Inquiry No SWAT Zone: Resisting Police Militarization Under Trump By Tara Tabassi and Ali Issa     A volunteer screams in pain as Hollywood-grade prosthetics litter a football field strewn with body parts and gore. A “Muslim man” just fired from his job returns to his office as…
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    Thanks to all who gave this #GivingTuesday!

    Thanks to all who participated in #GivingTuesday, helping WRL to raise $4,455 for nonviolent resistance!   Just days after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, large nonprofit organizations saw an outpour of support. The ACLU reported just over $9 million in donations. Planned Parenthood received 200,000 separate contributions. The Trevor Project collected…
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