By Rory Fanning From Truthout | Original Article In his “What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July” speech, Black abolitionist Fredrick Douglass highlighted the gross contradictions of a country that claimed to celebrate freedom and independence while embracing slavery. Douglass, however, took solace in America’s age. “There is consolation in the thought that […]

From Refuser Solidarity Network My name is Eran, I’m 19 years old and I live in Tel Aviv. I refuse to be conscripted to the Israeli military becuase I am not willing to take part in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. I already served 14 days in military jail and last Sunday I […]

Dirty South Chronicles is Miles Megaciph’s new album about the global south and those topics most rappers don’t want to touch – like being an LGBTQ ally and talking about safe spaces and food deserts …. all the not so cool stuff made cool. And about the state of our planet. Find out all about […]

By Paul Benedikt Glatz, Jeremy Kuzmarov and Steve Brown From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article Collusion by the White House, the Pentagon, and the mainstream media resulted in disparagement, denial, and suppression of eyewitness testimony confirming that most POWs were actually well-treated by their North Vietnamese captors (in contrast to the brutal torture and […]

By Mike Hastie, Army Medic Viet Nam With all armaments, whether they were U.S. airstrikes, artillery from Navy war ships, or artillery from U.S. firebases in Viet Nam, or U.S. ground troops, including U.S. allies, or the spraying of deadly Agent Orange, there was not one day during the Viet Nam War, where the U.S. […]

“Thank you both so much for spending the day with us today! Our students really need to hear what John has to say more than ever in this tumultuous climate and your work truly does make a difference — you are saving lives in all sorts of different ways!!” – received from a NYC high […]

On Memorial Day, radio host Dennison Joyce interviewed two We Are Not Your Soldiers presenters, Joe Urgo and Joy Damiani, on his WIOX Catskill radio show “Through the Looking Glass.” When Dennison taught in a NYC high school he often had our speakers visit his classes. On the hour-long show Joe and Joy speak about […]

A great resource Half a year ago David Vine’s new book, The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State was launched. The book was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History. Reviewers have called the book “revelatory”, “brilliantly document[ed]”,  and “a […]

All our April We Are Not Your Soldiers school visits continued to be conducted remotely. We began by going to three classes at a Manhattan college where the students viewed “Collateral Murder” and then discussed, with Army veteran John Burns, the film, his own experiences in the military and the implications of ethics and technology, […]

Joe Urgo, Vietnam veteran who presents at schools with We Are Not Your Soldiers, was interviewed in April on the 50th anniversary of Dewey Canyon III, when Vietnam veterans (and some active duty military) demanded an end to the US war on Vietnam. They spent a week on the streets of Washington, bringing the war […]

“Unmanned” is a short feature film dealing with the conflicts of a drone pilot stationed somewhere in the United States. Its 21 minutes register with viewers just like reading an impactful short story would. We show clips from it during many of our We Are Not Your Soldiers classroom visits.   After viewing it with his high school […]

Find out more about this new book and how to obtain it, here. “It’s hard to believe that a 17-year-old who can’t vote or drink can go to war. Del Duca’s experience as one of those teens — who joined the National Guard to pay for college and then finds herself on the verge of […]