WIN Summer/Fall 2013

Photographs by David McReynolds Text by Jay Cassano This series of previously unpublished photographs was taken by David McReynolds from1956 – 1971.  They portray the people at the center of vibrant and turbulent times in movements for social justice.  In many cases, these photographs also highlight the ways in which the War Resisters League has…

In her diary on October 19, 1923, the 48-year-old New York City educator Jessie Wallace Hughan (1875-1955) wrote, “Tracy [Mygatt] to dinner—had hair done—organized real War Resisters League …” Hughan was describing the formal founding of WRL as the successor organization to the Anti-Enlistment League, which had opposed armed forces enlistment during World War I….

90th Anniversary Issue There are few organizations, if any, that can claim the history, longevity, and faithfulness to radical social justice of the War Resisters League. An organization founded with the mission to end war and the root causes of war is not going to be a flash in the pan. Still, it’s only been…

    Crossing the Line: Nonviolent Resisters Speak Out for Peace Edited by Rosalie G. Riegle 2013, Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers 402 pages, $44 paperback “I listened to learn from people who have refused to be helpless in the face of a violent world, people who say with their bodies…

    It’s hard not to look at 2013 as a year of political dissonance, where the current political moment is representative of a major rollback against past social justice gains. This year brings us both the 90th anniversary of the War Resisters League (WRL) and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for…

Kimber Heinz (KH): How did the two of you first get involved with WRL? Mandy Carter (MC): It came about for me because of learning about the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, which was started by Joan Baez and Ira Sandperl in 1965. Joan had met Ira and she was interested in studying more…

  This is the first installment of a planned series on George Lakey’s 1976 “A Manifesto for Nonviolent Revolution.” The manifesto, commissioned by the War Resisters International and published as a full issue of the original WIN Magazine, was in many ways groundbreaking. Through the force of its own words and its adoption by Movement…