By Andrea Mazzarino From TomDispatch | Original Article A Military Spouse’s Perspective on Racism and Armed Violence in the United States Recently, in this Black Lives Matter protest moment, my five-year-old son looked at me and asked, “Mommy, where did all the brown people go? Did the police here shoot them?” We’d just moved to […]

By Jonah Walters From The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) Military recruiters understand that widespread joblessness is good for enlistment. They celebrate the arrival of “Sergeant Hard Times,” recognizing that misery is the best motivator. The coronavirus crisis has been a double-edged sword for military recruitment in the United States. On the […]

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies From Common Dreams | Original Article For too long, we have let cynical politicians and business leaders divide and rule us, funding police and the Pentagon over real human needs, pitting us against each other at home and leading us off to wars against our neighbors abroad. On […]

New video just out by Miles Megaciph. Written by: Miles Megaciph Produced by: Steve Wallace All Rights Reserved 2020 Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/megaciph/no-fe… The disregard of Black, Brown, Indigenous and poor lives must stop now. The world has risen up to see the plight of the Black American, the struggle of the stolen Africans still living, […]

From Courage to Resist | Original Article Courage to Resist is currently assisting members of the National Guard who resisted Trump’s orders to violently attack people on the streets of Washington DC peacefully and lawfully protesting racial injustice. Now that Trump is threatening to use the 1807 Insurrection Act to send active-duty troops in cities […]

From About Face An Open Letter from Veterans to Recently Activated National Guard Troops Attention Members of the National Guard, We write you as fellow veterans and service members with full knowledge of what’s at stake as many of you are being asked to mobilize against civilians in your own country. As your neighbors fill […]

From Veterans for Peace Veterans For Peace calls for the immediate withdrawal of the Minnesota National Guard. We are appalled to see military weapons, vehicles and equipment once again deployed in U.S. cities to control community members who are reacting to a long history of state-sanctioned violence. When an already embattled community is subjected to […]