ACTIVIST PROFILE
Ralph, a lifelong war resister and pacifist, died February 1 in New York City. Ralph had been the heart and soul of WRL since he came on staff shortly after the end of World War II.
Join in a commemorative tribute celebrating Bill Sutherland's unwavering dedication to justice through his life and achievements. African-American Bill Sutherland left the United States for West Africa in 1953 as an ardent pacifist, becoming an equally committed life-long Pan-Africanist who acted as a human bridge for all African peoples throughout the Diaspora for over fifty years.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
6:00 pm
at the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York, NY 10037
Including video by Rick Tejada-Flores (producer of The Good War & Those who Refused to Fight It)
and remarks by Horace Campbell and many other special guests
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NOT YOUR FODDER!
Organizing Against the Militarization of Youth
War Resisters League
2011 Peace Calendar
A directory of counter-military-recruitment projects around the country, this year’s Peace Calendar serves as colorful documentation of this vibrant grassroots movement as well as an organizing resource. Find out how activists around the country are resisting the militarization of our youth!
Edited by Oskar Castro & Judith Mahoney Pasternak
Enter and win a holiday gift for a loved one!!
Your raffle contribution goes directly to support the campaigns and programs of the War Resisters League in our efforts to end war and eliminate its causes. We try to choose prizes with some special meaning, unique, handcrafted items and/or those from people or companies who are members and friends in the struggle for peace and justice.
It's easy to enter! Order online or download and print out the raffle form, fill out each ticket and send in a donation ($2 per ticket, $20 per sheet of 12)
On October 7th, we enter into the tenth year of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. War Resisters League has joined with a coalition of antiwar groups including Fellowship of Reconciliation and the American Friends Service Committee to organize international days of action against the war in Afghanistan. In NYC, WRL is teaming up with Iraq Veterans Against the War and the South Asia Solidarity Initiative to host a local dinner in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan that will bring together a broad group of community members in support of Afghans and against the rampant Islamophobia taken up by members of the conservative Right in the U.S. In addition, people across the country are planning their own solidarity events and actions.
Upon returning home from Detroit, the word most present in the minds of many of the WRL members who were at the second U.S. Social Forum is “unpack.” Aside from the bags full of notes and posters, books and pins that we carried home with us, we also hold countless stories and conversations and new and budding relationships that are hard to translate into a simple reportback. But keep reading to find out more about what WRL was up to at the second US Social Forum and our next steps from here.
Monday, May 3, 2010 WRL action, "No Nukes! Begin with U.S."
Today in Grand Central, 2,000 flyers were distributed to hundreds of passersby who engaged with members of the War Resisters League and many other organizations, including Peace Action, South Asia Solidarity Initiative, Think Outside the Bomb, and Physicians for Social Responsibility, about nuclear disarmament.
Read this statement written on the day of the May 3rd action and see WRL's anti-nuclear blog for more photos and follow-up from the action and all of this weekend's events.
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October 7, 2010, New York, NY —On Thursday morning on the ninth anniversary of the U.S.-NATO invasion of Afghanistan, a cross-section of veterans, community groups, and global justice organizations held a press conference in support of the united message that the ongoing U.S. military presence in Afghanistan is "bad for Afghan people of all genders, bad for U.S. soldiers, and bad for the people of the U.S."
From the US Boat to Gaza statement: "This is an important moment in history. In the aftermath of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla massacre and increased world-wide scrutiny of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the Israeli government has mounted a huge public relations campaign spreading the lie that by letting a few more items into Gaza the blockade has been lifted. This is not the reality. Gaza is still under siege... US Boat to Gaza is planning to launch a U.S. boat to Gaza, joining a flotilla of ships from Europe, Canada, India, South Africa and parts of the Middle East."
The Bradley Manning Support Network and Courage to Resist have established a legal defense fund for Pfc. Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking intelligence documents to WikiLeaks.If convicted of the charges against him, he faces up to 52 years in prison, dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and benefits and unspecified fines.
YOU CAN HELP by donating to the Bradley Manning Defense Fund
WRL has recently endorsed the response to the TIME Magazine article “What Happens if We Stay in Afghanistan” written by South Asia Solidarity Initiative. The TIME article, featuring a front-page cover of a disfigured Afghani woman, tells the story of a woman’s life under the Taliban, concluding that the US war in Afghanistan is beneficial to the Afghan society, and thus necessary. Please read the necessary response to this disturbing article here to show your support for the end of the US occupation in Afghanistan.
Check out a this piece co-authored by WRL's own Clare Bayard written for the March 19th commemoration of the beginning of the eighth year of the Iraq War.
We did it! Third Place in the Worcester Half
Marathon Corporate Cup! We had 25 runners in all
(although about 5 wore other shirts) and brought
WRL glory to an overcast New England day!
On Monday, June 14, twenty-four activists with Witness Against Torture were acquitted in Washington, D.C. Superior Court of charges of “unlawful entry with disorderly conduct.” The charges stemmed from demonstrations at the US Capitol on January 21,2010 - the date by which President Obama had promised the closure of the Guantanamo detention camp.
War Resisters' International - an international pacifist network with more than 80 affiliates in more than 40 countries - condemns the murderous Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza and calls for an immediate lifting of the blockade on Gaza.
WRL Posters are now available online at justseeds.com, the website of Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative. The first of the WRL posters up on the Just Seeds site is the classic, Capital Punishment, by Peg Averill (1949-1993) who created hundreds of political graphics in the 1970s and 80s.
As we approach this weekend's anti-nuclear events and actions which will include a direct action on May 3 to declare Grand Central Station in NYC a nuclear weapons free zone, check out this statement written by members of WRL and South Asia Solidarity Initiative.
Please join the War Resisters League in calling for a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal in Haiti, an end to the militarization of aid, and a focus on the self-determination of the Haitian people.
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Enter and win a holiday gift for a loved one!! It's easy to enter! Order online or download and print out the raffle form, fill out each ticket and send in a donation ($2 per ticket, $20 per sheet of 12)
On October 7th, we enter into the tenth year of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. War Resisters League has joined with a coalition of antiwar groups including Fellowship of Reconciliation and the American Friends Service Committee to organize international days of action against the war in Afghanistan. In NYC, WRL is teaming up with Iraq Veterans Against the War and the South Asia Solidarity Initiative to host a local dinner in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan that will bring together a broad group of community members in support of Afghans and against the rampant Islamophobia taken up by members of the conservative Right in the U.S. In addition, people across the country are planning their own solidarity events and actions.
Upon returning home from Detroit, the word most present in the minds of many of the WRL members who were at the second U.S. Social Forum is “unpack.” Aside from the bags full of notes and posters, books and pins that we carried home with us, we also hold countless stories and conversations and new and budding relationships that are hard to translate into a simple reportback. But keep reading to find out more about what WRL was up to at the second US Social Forum and our next steps from here.
Monday, May 3, 2010 WRL action, "No Nukes! Begin with U.S." Today in Grand Central, 2,000 flyers were distributed to hundreds of passersby who engaged with members of the War Resisters League and many other organizations, including Peace Action, South Asia Solidarity Initiative, Think Outside the Bomb, and Physicians for Social Responsibility, about nuclear disarmament. Read this statement written on the day of the May 3rd action and see WRL's anti-nuclear blog for more photos and follow-up from the action and all of this weekend's events. | . |
October 7, 2010, New York, NY —On Thursday morning on the ninth anniversary of the U.S.-NATO invasion of Afghanistan, a cross-section of veterans, community groups, and global justice organizations held a press conference in support of the united message that the ongoing U.S. military presence in Afghanistan is "bad for Afghan people of all genders, bad for U.S. soldiers, and bad for the people of the U.S."
From the US Boat to Gaza statement: "This is an important moment in history. In the aftermath of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla massacre and increased world-wide scrutiny of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the Israeli government has mounted a huge public relations campaign spreading the lie that by letting a few more items into Gaza the blockade has been lifted. This is not the reality. Gaza is still under siege... US Boat to Gaza is planning to launch a U.S. boat to Gaza, joining a flotilla of ships from Europe, Canada, India, South Africa and parts of the Middle East."
The Bradley Manning Support Network and Courage to Resist have established a legal defense fund for Pfc. Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking intelligence documents to WikiLeaks.If convicted of the charges against him, he faces up to 52 years in prison, dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and benefits and unspecified fines.
YOU CAN HELP by donating to the Bradley Manning Defense Fund
WRL has recently endorsed the response to the TIME Magazine article “What Happens if We Stay in Afghanistan” written by South Asia Solidarity Initiative. The TIME article, featuring a front-page cover of a disfigured Afghani woman, tells the story of a woman’s life under the Taliban, concluding that the US war in Afghanistan is beneficial to the Afghan society, and thus necessary. Please read the necessary response to this disturbing article here to show your support for the end of the US occupation in Afghanistan.
Check out a this piece co-authored by WRL's own Clare Bayard written for the March 19th commemoration of the beginning of the eighth year of the Iraq War.
We did it! Third Place in the Worcester Half
Marathon Corporate Cup! We had 25 runners in all
(although about 5 wore other shirts) and brought
WRL glory to an overcast New England day!
On Monday, June 14, twenty-four activists with Witness Against Torture were acquitted in Washington, D.C. Superior Court of charges of “unlawful entry with disorderly conduct.” The charges stemmed from demonstrations at the US Capitol on January 21,2010 - the date by which President Obama had promised the closure of the Guantanamo detention camp.
War Resisters' International - an international pacifist network with more than 80 affiliates in more than 40 countries - condemns the murderous Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza and calls for an immediate lifting of the blockade on Gaza.
WRL Posters are now available online at justseeds.com, the website of Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative. The first of the WRL posters up on the Just Seeds site is the classic, Capital Punishment, by Peg Averill (1949-1993) who created hundreds of political graphics in the 1970s and 80s.
As we approach this weekend's anti-nuclear events and actions which will include a direct action on May 3 to declare Grand Central Station in NYC a nuclear weapons free zone, check out this statement written by members of WRL and South Asia Solidarity Initiative.
Please join the War Resisters League in calling for a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal in Haiti, an end to the militarization of aid, and a focus on the self-determination of the Haitian people.
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