Bite the Bullet

Individuals, companies and corporations have always taken advantage of warfare to make enormous economic profit. For centuries, ordinary people, who suffer most from war, have resisted these war profiteers. One of the major factors in Harry S. Truman's rise to the U.S. presidency was his relentless ("Give 'em Hell, Harry!") pursuit of war profiteers.

Unwelcome NATO/G8! WRL in Chicago, May 18-19

WRL is headed to Chicago! Please join us in spreading the word about the counter-summit planned for May 18-19 and the call for videos that WRL is launching as part of the popular education-based organizing of the Network for a NATO-free Future. See below for info or get in touch with the WRL national office at wrl [at] warresisters.org or 212-228-0450.

WRL Endorses Statement Against Global Militarism

12.2.2011

April 8 2011 Pentagon Action

Announcing an April 8 Civil Resistance Action at the Pentagon:

We will come together in solidarity to act in resistance against the activities of the U.S. military and form autonomous affinity groups that will be acting in nonviolent civil resistance at the Pentagon on April 8. We will encourage groups to descend on the Pentagon around noon on April 8, but each group will decide when and where to meet to begin their action.

May 3rd WRL action for nuclear abolition

We Declare NYC a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (starting with Grand Central Station)!

Monday, May 3, 2010 8-10am Grand Central Station

Racism, Repression and Resistance: COINTELPRO Then and Now: 40 Years after the FBI and Chicago Police Assassinated Fred Hampton

December 3 at 6:30 pm at The Community Church of New York. Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the murder of Fred Hampton and the release of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas. Panelists include Jeffrey Haas, Rachel Meeropol, Malik Rahim, Francisco Torres & Laura Whitehorn.

Thursday, September 17 - October Actions Organizing Call

October 9, 2009 Direct Action at the White House

September 3, 2009

Dear Friends,

We will be having an organizing call around the October 5th Actions next Thursday, September 17th
at 12:00 (noon) EST.

The call-in number is 518-825-1300, code 116563.

We invite all those of you who are interested in coming to DC or who would like to plan something in your hometown to join in on the call. We will be discussing details of the national rally and civil disobedience as well as offering some options for those of you who would like to be involved in your own areas.

Please join us!

National Counter-Recruitment and Demilitarization Conference

The National Counter-Recruitment and Demilitarization Conference
will be held July 17 to 19th, 2009 in Chicago

For more information:
Call: 312.427.2533
Email: crconf [at] gmail.com
Website: http://nnomy.org

or write:
AFSC
637 South Dearborn St #3
Chicago Illinois 60605

Cultural Resistance to Militarism

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

War, Peace, Justice, and the Elections: A WRL Statement

October 16 2008

Like many—perhaps most—advocates for peace and justice, we at the War Resisters League are of more than one mind about the upcoming elections. We come from diverse political perspectives, including varying shades of socialism, anarchism, and reform-oriented liberalism, and have concomitantly diverse opinions within the organization and our membership about whether and how to engage elections.

Militarism