As the autumn semester begins, We Are Not Your Soldiers is ready to set up a time with teachers and professors to visit classes and engage in dialog with students during this 2023-24 school year. Our speakers, all veterans of the U.S. armed forces are prepared to share their experiences and knowledge and answer questions from […]
We received this message via the Refusers Solidarity Network. This is Yeheli, the coordinator for Mesarvot network (Israeli network supporting Israeli youth refusers)… We have exciting news. In the past few months we have been supporting a group of Israeli youth, obligated by law to enlist in the near future, in the process of writing […]
At a recent Zoom discussion hosted by World Can’t Wait on “The film Oppenheimer & Lessons for NOW,” Joe Urgo, We Are Not Your Soldiers presenter, was invited to speak. Joe, Vietnam veteran and organizer of the 1971 Winter Soldiers Investigation, talked about his experiences guarding nuclear weapons as well as a subsequent visit to Hiroshima where […]
This week on Talk World Radio we’re talking about counter-recruitment, or discouraging people from joining a military. We have two guests. Debra Sweet is Director of World Can’t Wait (parent organization for We Are Not Your Soldiers) who has been working to stop U.S. war on the world for almost 60 years. Hip-Hop Artivist and […]
By C.J. Chivers From The New York Times | Original Article Ian Fishback, who left the Army with the rank of major, was a dissident-in-uniform who died at the age of 42 after entering a dizzying mental health spiral. On a gentle knoll within plain view of the Pentagon he once labored to hold to […]
By Richard Luscombe From The Guardian | Original Article Veterans resign from force established as civilian disaster relief, citing concerns over ‘militaristic’ training and ‘abuse’ A Florida state guard established by the rightwing governor, Ron DeSantis, under the guise of a civilian disaster relief force is instead being trained as an armed, combat-ready militia under his […]
By Debra Sweet On Memorial Day in Okinawa, June 23, I’ve been asked to speak in NYC at an event marking the terrible 1945 battle between the U.S. military and Japan at the end of WW II (in front of NY Public Library, 42nd St. & 5th Ave., 1:30-2:30 pm). There were hundreds of thousands […]
By Debra Sweet We’ve been following the difficulties of the US military in reaching recruitment goals, without sympathy. Those problems are not something to passively applaud, but to actively foster and learn from. The comments by Christine Wormuth, the Secretary of the Army, in a June 11 NPR interview on this “serious situation,” are outrageous. […]
By Lyle Jeremy Rubin From The Forum | Original Article Jordan Neely’s killer and the racist violence at the heart of the American imperial project The man who spent minutes choking Jordan Neely to death on a New York City subway was a United States marine. He enlisted as a private in 2017 and was […]
By Oren Ziv From +972 Magazine | Original Article Left-wing high schoolers describe how the anti-government protests have provided a window for the mainstreaming of views long deemed illegitimate. On April 1, in the midst of one of the weekly mass demonstrations in Tel Aviv against the Israeli government’s judicial overhaul plans, a group of […]
This important full-page letter was published as an advertisement in the print edition of The New York Times on Tuesday May 16, 2023 and is signed primarily by high-ranking U.S. military veterans. It opens by saying, “The Russia-Ukraine War has been an unmitigated disaster. Hundreds of thousands have been killed or wounded. Millions have been […]
Lyle Rubin, a Marines veteran who was stationed in Afghanistan and is one of the We Are Not Your Soldiers presenters, was a panelist in this conversation sponsored by Scholars Strategy Network and Brooklyn for Peace about U.S. imperialism and the recruitment of immigrants into the U.S. military. Watch the video here.
