Media Advisory: Civil Liberties, Humanitarian and Religious Organizations Call For Maintaining President's Cut to Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI)

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contacts:
Tara Tabassi cell (917) 971-2498 || tara [at] warresisters.org
Stephen McNeil cell (415) 350-9305 || SMcNeil [at] afsc.org

May 25, 2016

Open Letter to Hillary Clinton on Counter-Terror Funds

War Resister's League's Tara Tabassi just published this letter on citylimits.org!

Open Letter to Hillary Clinton on Counter-Terror Funds

Stop NYTOAC!

Every year in Verona, New York, hundreds of SWAT officers gather at NYTOAC to "talk shop" with major arms dealers and Islamophobic ideologues. Let's block it and shift resources where they belong: our communities' needs!

Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes // WRL Pie Chart Flyer (Black & White)

Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes // WRL Pie Chart Flyer (Color)

25 Years Since: Standing with Amiriyah

25 years ago today a tragedy took place: The U.S. bombing of the Amiriyah Shleter in Baghdad. To mark this day, and look towards a world where such violence is not possible, we join members of the Iraqi Transnational Collective in spreading the following reflection, art, analysis and action.

Resources About Tear Gas

Overviews about the tear gas industry:

“U.S. Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets Suppress Peaceful Uprisings Around the World” // Click here

“Tracking Tear Gas” by OWS Global Justice Working Group // Click here

Images & Comics:

Military Surveillance: We Are Coming For You!

War Resisters League is proud to join our comrades in A.J. Muste Institute, Campaign to Bring Mumia Home, Iraq Veterans Against the War, National Lawyers Guild, Granny Peace Brigade and Time's Up in a legal challenge to the military's spying of antiwar activists in the Pacific Northwest.

For more information, read the National Lawyers Guild's press release!

Support #Justice4Rasmea Today!

Our comrades in the Rasmea Defense Committee are calling for support! Rasmea Odeh, a long time immigrant rights leader and Arab community organizer is currently facing imprisonment and deportation. Join the War Resisters League in circulating this call, and help us amplify Rasmea's fight against politically motivated charges today! Learn more about Rasmea's case here & check out WRL's statement from 2013 below.

9 Tips for Muslims Who Want To Make Social Change

War Resister's League's very own Uruj Ehsan Sheikh just published on www.muslimmatters.org!

9 Tips for Muslims Who Want To Make Social Change

We are in a historic moment. Renewed Islamophobia has emerged in the mainstream. GOP candidates' anti-Muslim rhetoric and an upsurge of hate crimes against Muslims have gone unabated. The Syrian and Iraqi refugee crisis continues to spiral out of control. San Bernardino, Paris, Ankara, Baghdad and many more – the politicization of Islam is polarizing and forcing many to take sides.

This was the context for my trip to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba with 13 others from Witness Against Torture – a group demanding the United States close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, a “War on Terror” prison that has become synonymous with torture, solitary confinement and indefinite detention.

Militarism