We Are Not Your Soldiers looks forward to engaging in dialogue with many students in their classes and organizations during the fall and spring academic semesters of 2026/27. Scheduling is on now for class visits. Where possible we will be there in person but can always speak via remote technology as well. At this moment […]
By Hafiz Rashid From The New Republic | Original Article U.S. troops are reaching their breaking point as they say recent orders challenge their moral beliefs. An increasing number of American service members are becoming uncomfortable with their orders under President Trump, and are trying to leave the military. MS NOW reports that the number of conscientious […]
You may have heard previously about the We Are Not Your Soldiers presentation at the event organized by NYC Veterans for Peace for Fleet Week, held on July 7. Hideko Otake filmed the presentation so we’re sharing that with you now. If you’d like clearer views of the videos shown in the presentation above, click […]
Thomas Gibbons-Neff, center, during the 2010 Marja offensive in Afghanistan while serving as a Marine. He later became a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. Credit: Bryan Denton First as a Marine and then as a journalist, I spent years tied to Afghanistan. I returned one last time to speak to a former enemy […]
By Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright From Popular Resistance | Original Article Save Your Soul, Your Conscience and Your Sanity.Stop the bombings! Nineteen years ago in February 2007 during the Bush administration’s Axis of Evil regime and calls for attacks on Iran from members of Congress including “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran (to the tune of Beachboys […]
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 […]
