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 […]
We view the work we do as a way of helping people see that it is possible to face hard truths personally and collectively and to use that understanding to help build a better world. Since 2008, We Are Not Your Soldiers,a project of World Can’t Wait, has brought veterans into classrooms to share stories […]
Although we say the Spring Semester, we did our January and February school visits in freezing New York City. Fortunately, all the schools were heated and comfortable and gave us a warm welcome. We started out in January with Joe Urgo discussing both his Vietnam experiences as well as his time guarding nuclear installations (unknown […]
By David Swanson From World Beyond War | Original Article Of course it would take millions of images to convey the full story of the harm done by military bases, foreign and domestic, but a key point is, I think, conveyed by the map above. The countries colored blue or purple have U.S. military bases […]
By Paris Fransway and Emily Van de Riet From 13ABC.com | Original Article TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD/Gray News) — A veterans organization is asking troops to “refuse illegal orders” on a new billboard in Arizona. The billboard can be seen along Interstate 10 in Tucson. Veterans for Peace’s Tucson chapter said the billboard is meant to […]
By Michael “Lefty” Morrill From Substack | Original Article History does not always announce itself with cannon fire. Sometimes it clears its throat in a clerical voice, wrapped in liturgy and law, and says something quietly heretical. When Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the Catholic Archbishop for the Military Services of the United States, suggested this week […]
