International Day of Action For Military-Free Education and Research

As part of its Countering the Militarisation of Youth work, War Resisters International is coordinating an International Day of Action For Military-Free Education and Research, which will take place on 14 June 2013. The day will be based on the September 2012 week of action in Germany, which was supported by over one hundred groups and organisations, with actions in at least eight cities.

May 15 is International Conscientious Objectors Day

May 15th is International Conscientious Objectors day.

Around the world, peace and justice activists and organizers will be remembering the generations who refused to go to war, and raising awareness of the many who continue to be persecuted and imprisoned for refusing to kill.

For info on actions around the globe, check out War Resisters International.

Bombs and Budgets: Tools for Reclaiming Communities from Militarism

April 15 Global Day of Action on Military Spending

Add your (war) tax day event to this list! This week, Portland, OR, Belfast, ME, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Phoenix, Bristol, RI joined the list of US cities where activities to mark Tax Day and the Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) will occur. On Long Island, NY, 4 Congressional offices will be visited. In the Bay Area over a 20 BART Train stations will be "adopted" for informational leafleting.

You Can't Take What's All of Ours! Breaking Down NATO/G8 and Rising Up Against Austerity and Militarism

To mark the NATO summit held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance released a new popular education resource.

This participatory workshop explores:

Table of Contents - We Have Not Been Moved

We Have Not Been Moved:
Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America

Ultimately, there can be no peace without justice, and no justice without peace. The two great moral issues of our time, peace and human rights, are so closely related that we can say that they are one and the same.
—Coretta Scott King, Madison Square Garden Anti-War Rally, June 8, 1965

Praise for We Have Not Been Moved

Praise for

We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America

When we sang out “We Shall Not Be Moved” in Montgomery and Selma, we were committed to our unshakeable unity against segregation and violence. This important book continues in that struggle—suggesting ways in which we need to do better, and actions we must take against war and continued racism today. If the human race is still here in 2111, the War Resisters League will be one of the reasons why!

We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America

Edited by
Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez,
Mandy Carter &
Matt Meyer

Introduction by
Cornel West

Afterwords/poems by
Alice Walker & Sonia Sanchez

One Year After the Egyptian Revolution: Tear Gas and Police Repression

Tear gas, policing, and the counter-revolution:

War Profiteers are the 1%: November 30th action in NYC

On Wednesday, November 30th, 2011, War Resisters League joined with Occupy Wall Street activists and United for Peace and Justice for a protest at the Aerospace and Defense Finance Conference, a meeting in which Department of Defense officials met with the CEOs of 30 military contractors, including reps from three of the top five defense contractors: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon. As the U.S. government spends roughly $400 billion of U.S.

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