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    Dorie Bunting: Peacemaker in the Desert
    September 19, 2023
    By Craig Simpson Dorelen (Dorie) Feise Bunting passed away August 24, 2023, at 101 years old. From her teenage years until well into her 90s, Dorie was present and active in the peace and justice movement. She touched the lives of many people in New Mexico and around the world. She was my mentor and friend…
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    Cultivating Stories through the Practice of Listening: Conducting Oral History Interviews
    June 14, 2023
    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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    Celebrating Linda Thurston
    June 14, 2023
    Saturday, August 20, 2022 – 2:30pm And announcing the Linda Thurston Archival Internship  Celebrating Linda Thurston Linda Marie Thurston, our Sister and Friend, passed away in May of 2021. Linda spent a lifetime forging connections among people, organizations and communities in the movements for abolition, liberation and peace & justice. She is deeply missed. Over…
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    Letter from National Committee, December 2021
    January 14, 2022
    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…
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    Bob Meola, 1952-2021 – ¡Presente!
    January 10, 2022
    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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    Long-time WRL member Dr. Linnea Capps, MD, MPH passes away on April 19th, 2021
    April 21, 2021
    April 21st, 2021 Dear friends, War Resisters League is saddened to learn of the passing of our long-time member, Dr. Linnea Capps, MD, MPH. She will be dearly missed. We will be sharing reflections about her, starting with this one from Matt Meyer:   Dr. Linnea Capps, MD, MPH  June 19, 1950—April 19, 2021 Reflections by…
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    John Lewis, CT Vivian Presente!
    July 28, 2020
    July 20, 2020 We are filled with gratitude for the wisdom and leadership of Rep. John Lewis and Rev. CT Vivian, two people who dedicated their lives to racial justice in the United States and made incredible contributions towards collective freedom, nonviolent struggle, and Black liberation. Both Lewis and Vivian were active in the 1960’s civil rights movement…
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    Larry Gara, Lifelong War Resister 1922 – 2019
    December 6, 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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    Another Death in the Family: Simon Harak, 1948-2019
    November 14, 2019
    Fr. G. Simon Harak SJ, the exuberantly pacifist Jesuit priest and onetime WRL Disarmament Coordinator, died November 3 in Campion Health Center, Weston, Mass. He was 71 and had dealt for some six years with frontotemporal degeneration (also called frontotemporal dementia). Simon was the kind of pacifist who sees peace and justice as inextricably bound…
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    Peter Kiger, 1938 – 2019
    September 5, 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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