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 — one in rural Oregon, one in Philadelphia and the rest in NYC. One high school was a Catholic parochial school. The others were all public schools.

We had deep discussions in four community colleges — one in North Carolina and the rest in NYC. That kind of probing conversation also took place in the 6 colleges as well — one on Long Island, NY and the rest in NYC. Two of those colleges were private and the rest were public.

Engaging in the visits were Brian, Henri, Joe, John, Joy, Miguel, Rosa, Ross, Shaniyat and Will — sharing their stories, answering questions, finding areas of agreement and questioning important ideas with students, many of whom are facing recruitment and some of whom were veterans themselves.

It is only with your support that we can keep this going and growing in the coming school year. These conversations are more important than ever as the “forever wars” not only continue but spread further and further. Please help us as students question more and more as U.S. society is falling apart and they are beginning to see more clearly the connections between domestic issues and imperialist interventions. Hearing stories directly from those who have U.S. military experiences themselves makes connections to the students that a lecture, article or book or even a movie doesn’t make.

Read more in-depth descriptions at these links, including videos.

• An active autumn
• In December
• Spring semester gets going
• WANYS presenter reflects
• While U.S. war rages
• History and nationalism
• More than lectures

We also suggest you check out these pages to hear from the educators and students themselves: What Educators Are Saying About Us, Students Speak Out and Excerpts from Student Papers.