STOMP (STop Oppressive Militarized Police) Coalition forms in Boston

A new coalition of groups against militarization forms in Boston and announces community event. From their facebook page: "STOMP, STop Oppressive Militarized Police, aims to bring together activists and communities struggling against the wars on drugs, immigrants, dissent, and terror to mobilize and build cross-movement dialogue about the militarization and federalization of our local police departments. What happened in Watertown last year wasn't an anomaly.

5/4: Bostonians Host Speak Out Against Militarized Police

MEDIA ADVISORY

For immediate release: April 30, 2014 (Wednesday)

Contact: Kimber Heinz, Facing Tear Gas campaign

Cell: (919) 666-7535

kimber [at] warresisters.org

http://facingteargas.org

Press Release: In the Wake of Ferguson, Bay Area Groups Call for an End to Police Militarization

For Immediate Release

Contacts:
Ali Issa, War Resisters League, ali [at] warresisters.org
Rachel Herzing, Critical Resistance, rachel [at] criticalresistance.org

BAY AREA COMMUNITY GROUPS CALL ON OAKLAND TO STOP POLICE MILITARIZATION AND URBAN SHIELD AT THE MARRIOTT

Press Release: Bay Area Victory and Rally to Stop Urban Shield and Police Militarization

For Immediate Release

United States of Emergency: from Ferguson to Jalalabad

For over 100 days, Black community members in Ferguson, Missouri, have led a movement for justice--coming out every single night in response to the murder of Michael Brown. Today, 400 National Guard troop members stand ready—under the “state of emergency” banner— as a militarized force ready to repress and intimidate a nonviolent resistance movement.

Action Alert: Call to #StopITOA

ACTION ALERT:
CALL STONEGATE NOW

To #StopITOA

Ask to speak with General Manager Charles Baptist or leave him a voice mail!

Press Release: Activists Lockdown Chicago Streets to Denounce Islamophobic & Hyper-Militarized SWAT Training

SOA Watch Encuentro at the Border

Oct.7-11: Converge on the US/Mexico Border

War Resisters League is endorsing the SOA Watch Convergence at the Border and we encourage you to join the October 7-11 vigils, protests and workshops at the Eloy Detention Center, in Tucson, and in Nogales, Arizona/ Sonora at the border wall. Visit the convergence webpage for more information: http://SOAW.org/border

The Disease of Occupation

On Christmas Eve 2006, an off-duty Blackwater mercenary, freshly drunk from a party in Baghdad’s Green Zone, got into an argument with a security guard for one of Iraq’s vice presidents. Apparently, the Blackwater guard was trying to force his way into an area where senior Iraqi officials live when he was confronted.

WIN Fall 2007

Building a Just Peace: Boycotting Israeli Apartheid, Promoting Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance

WIN Fall 2007

Militarism