By Mercedez From Common Dreams | Original Article I invite you to sit with me in this feeling of brokenness, and to step outside of the American delusion of war making and “peace through strength”—the normalization of coercion and dominance. Some of the most peaceful moments of my life were spent standing on the deck […]
We Are Not Your Soldiers had a very active year engaging in dialogue with our great crew of presenters with 60 classes and two student clubs! We presented at two middle schools — one private and one public — both in NYC and both with very well-prepared and intelligent students. We visited 8 high schools […]
We finished out the 2025-26 school year with two NYC visits: the first was via Zoom to a community college class while the second was in person to a school that ranged from middle school through high school. Chris “Henri” Henrikson spoke with students, including several veterans, in the college class. See Henri’s presentation in […]
As we’re nearing the end of the school year, especially in the colleges, we went to a community college and a large high school, both in NYC. Will Griffin gave a wide-ranging presentation to the college students which you can watch above. It covered his personal story of growing up in a military family, failing […]
Anti-Vietnam War protesters demonstrate in front of the Pentagon, May 22, 1972. By Edward Hasbrouck From USA Today | Original Article Keeping conscription on a hair trigger, like keeping nuclear weapons on a hair trigger, allows these weapons to be used as part of the arsenal of U.S. military and diplomatic threats. As of December 2026, […]
On an April Monday, Joy Damiani made presentations to four classes at a Manhattan transfer high school. Read Joy’s reflections on that visit here. You can also see some student comments about the visit from our evaluation form here. On another day, Joe Urgo did a presentation to a college class at one of the […]
Joy Metzler, left, at her graduation from the United States Air Force Academy on June 1, 2023 with her now husband, Isaac Hummel. [Provided] By Kimberlie Kranich From Kimberlie’s Substack | Original Article “My turning point was Gaza. Everything I had learned about international law and what we were supposed to be upholding as members […]
By Joy Damiani “How do veterans become homeless?” is a question that should not have to be asked in a healthy society. When addressed to me by a teenager in a school in the heart of Manhattan, it spoke volumes of the world students are about to inherit. Not only are they witnessing and experiencing […]
The memorial honoring victims of the My Lai Massacre stands as both accusation and warning, a place where the violence of the American war is neither abstract nor distant. (Dirck Halstead / Getty Images) By Michael G. Vann From Jacobin | Original Article Last month, Vietnam marked the 58th anniversary of the My Lai massacre, […]
From Bar Crawl Radio | Original Podcast For many of us, our country is walking a tightrope between democracy and autocracy. I am a US American civilian. I avoided serving in the US military during the Vietnam War. My father and son were in the military – one in WWII – the other a never-deployed Marine. Despite […]
From Bar Crawl Radio | Original Podcast This BCR conversation with Carl Dix was recorded at Gebhards Beer Culture Bar on the UWS. Mr. Dix is a leader of the RevCom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity. Our conversation focused on his his experiences with the U.S. military when our country was at war North […]
From Democracy Now | Original Article With thousands more U.S. Marines headed to the Middle East and President Trump reportedly considering a ground invasion of Iran, we speak with Mike Prysner, executive director of the Center on Conscience and War, who says his organization has received a massive increase in inquiries from soldiers seeking to […]
