“Four of us from the same platoon desert[ed] together, which is the ultimate military crime,” shares Ward Reilly, US Army Vietnam era GI resister

“It’s very hard for people to believe that their country would try to kill them,” explains former National Guard member Zels Johnson.

“I told my command officer that I wasn’t going to, I was refusing my orders [to Vietnam] … In his rage, he thought if he court-martialed me, he’d have to stay in the Army past his discharge date.”

Berkeley, California: Report and photos from the 13th Annual “Berkeley C.O. and War Resisters’ Day” and Peace Flag raising.

Air Force vet, intel analyst turned anti-war activist arrested and charged with violating the Espionage Act.

Emergency support needed at the Venezuela Embassy in DC – “Their coups failed in Venezuela so they are trying one here.”

Michael Uhl led a combat intelligence team with the 11th Infantry Brigade in Vietnam during 1968-69. Afterwards, he helped expose the Phoenix Program.

“Nothing that will convince me to testify before this or any other grand jury for that matter.” – Chelsea Manning

The Boys Who Said NO! is an upcoming documentary profiling the young people who actively opposed conscription in order to end the draft and the Vietnam War.

“Speaking out against [the war], as an active-duty GI, would incur some risks. I might have to pay a price, but I had to do it because business as usual was not an option.”