By Brett Wilkins From Common Dreams | Original Article “I believe that slaughter cannot solve slaughter,” said 18-year-old Tal Mitnick, who was sentenced to 30 days behind bars for refusing to participate in what a fellow draft resister called a “genocide” in Gaza. A young Israeli man was sentenced Tuesday to 30 days behind bars […]

Formed in 2008, We Are Not Your Soldiers continues to bring veterans into classrooms to share their experiences in the U.S. military while engaging in dialogue with students, exposing imperial wars to a generation – actually, a society – largely unaware of the crimes being carried out throughout the world in their names. In 2023 […]

A panel of filmmakers discusses their role in producing films on the scale and impact of the GI movement during the Vietnam War, the role of artists in supporting antiwar soldiers, and honoring helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson who tried to halt the killing and rescue civilians in the midst of the My Lai massacre. For […]

November was a month of travels – taking us to Georgia, Ohio and North Carolina as well as Brooklyn, Manhattan and Long Island in New York. We began the month with two exceptional visits. We usually go to classrooms where the educators have invited us to enrich their curricula by addressing their students. These visits […]