From Bar Crawl Radio | Original Podcast For many of us, our country is walking a tightrope between democracy and autocracy. I am a US American civilian. I avoided serving in the US military during the Vietnam War. My father and son were in the military – one in WWII – the other a never-deployed Marine. Despite […]
From Bar Crawl Radio | Original Podcast This BCR conversation with Carl Dix was recorded at Gebhards Beer Culture Bar on the UWS. Mr. Dix is a leader of the RevCom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity. Our conversation focused on his his experiences with the U.S. military when our country was at war North […]
From Democracy Now | Original Article With thousands more U.S. Marines headed to the Middle East and President Trump reportedly considering a ground invasion of Iran, we speak with Mike Prysner, executive director of the Center on Conscience and War, who says his organization has received a massive increase in inquiries from soldiers seeking to […]
We view the work we do as a way of helping people see that it is possible to face hard truths personally and collectively and to use that understanding to help build a better world. Since 2008, We Are Not Your Soldiers,a project of World Can’t Wait, has brought veterans into classrooms to share stories […]
Although we say the Spring Semester, we did our January and February school visits in freezing New York City. Fortunately, all the schools were heated and comfortable and gave us a warm welcome. We started out in January with Joe Urgo discussing both his Vietnam experiences as well as his time guarding nuclear installations (unknown […]
By David Swanson From World Beyond War | Original Article Of course it would take millions of images to convey the full story of the harm done by military bases, foreign and domestic, but a key point is, I think, conveyed by the map above. The countries colored blue or purple have U.S. military bases […]
By Paris Fransway and Emily Van de Riet From 13ABC.com | Original Article TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD/Gray News) — A veterans organization is asking troops to “refuse illegal orders” on a new billboard in Arizona. The billboard can be seen along Interstate 10 in Tucson. Veterans for Peace’s Tucson chapter said the billboard is meant to […]
By Michael “Lefty” Morrill From Substack | Original Article History does not always announce itself with cannon fire. Sometimes it clears its throat in a clerical voice, wrapped in liturgy and law, and says something quietly heretical. When Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the Catholic Archbishop for the Military Services of the United States, suggested this week […]
As we move into the spring semester, we look forward to having the opportunity of working with educators and their classes. Our panel of anti-war veterans shares their experiences in the military — from the Vietnam era through to just a couple of years ago — with students in an open dialogue where they are […]
We Are Not Your Soldiers started the winter and closed out 2025 with visits to two community colleges and one private middle school, all in various boroughs of New York City. Joe Urgo spoke to three college classes and included the screening of clips from the Winter Soldier hearings on Vietnam, of which he was […]
By Rory Fanning From Truthout | Original Article Trump plans to use the military to enact the mass deportation of immigrants. As a veteran, I know orders can be refused. Grab a book instead of my phone had been my mantra since November 5 as I sought to protect myself from the despair of political […]
This is an extraordinary time, an unusual era, where the living history and message We Are Not Your Soldiers brings to the classrooms has a special resonance with the students. We’re raising issues and thoughts that are making what are becoming obvious connections with their lives. They’re seeing in living color imperial criminality in Gaza, […]
