Miguel Gabriel Vazquez speaking remotely to NYC high school students in May. We Are Not Your Soldiers presentations concluded for the spring semester of 2025 with visits to four schools, all in NYC, all public institutions of education: In this video clip from Lyle’s presentation, he speaks about how dehumanization is drilled during Marine boot […]
Excerpts from a Zoom presentation by Miguel Gabriel Vazquez to high school students in NYC in May 2025. The students had recently read The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. I’m a Vietnam veteran, survivor of that war and of the post-traumatic stress that I brought home with me. I came back very confused and […]
By Kedeshia Cassanova A term project inspired by a We Are Not Your Soldiers visit to the author’s class. The Recruiting Process The first thing I see are the combat boots,Tucked under the table they use to recruit.Why do they make it all look so inviting?Can I picture myself on the battlefield fighting? Right now, […]
From Revolution | Original Article June 14—Trump’s 79th birthday—will be marked by a massive military parade. 1 Nearly 7,000 U.S. soldiers will march in Washington, DC. Twenty-eight huge Abrams tanks and more than 100 other military vehicles will roll down the streets. At least 50 military aircraft, including Vietnam-era helicopters and aircraft from each U.S. war, […]
From Refuser Solidarity Network From Israel: Last week, for the first time in many years, a reserve soldier was jailed for refusing to serve in protest of the ongoing genocide. His name is Daniel Yahalom, and he is refusing over the barbaric genocide in Gaza and the ongoing settler-military takeover of the West Bank. From […]
Henri Henrikson addresses NYC college students The month of April started out with kind of a double bill. Joe Urgo and Henri Henrikson presented together to give a historical chronological focus to an on-line class based at a NYC college studying the history of empires. The professor wrote to us, “It was incredibly moving and […]
Anonymous author From World Beyond War | Original Article “Just Follow Orders?” Your Decision You may be faced with a life-altering decision. President Trump could invoke the Insurrection Act, allowing him to deploy members of the U.S. military within the United States. You could be asked to help round up U.S. citizens or immigrant families […]
By Debra Sweet, Director of World Can’t Wait Last week I got to listen in as John Burns spoke via Zoom for the third time that day to college students in North Carolina, presenting for We Are Not Your Soldiers. Speaking to a classroom over Zoom isn’t that easy; the students were spread about a […]
A student at Humphreys High School in Germany participates in a walkout Thursday to protest Trump administration book bans and other efforts to scrub diversity from military base schools. (Courtesy of DoDEA students) By Rebecca Kheel and Thomas Novelly From Military.com | Original Article Hundreds of military children who are students at Defense Department schools […]
Shaniyat Turani-Chowdhury speaking to NYC middle school students March provided We Are Not Your Soldiers a variety of different settings, different ages and different kinds of groupings. It is through your donations that these visits are possible. We provide small stipends to the veterans to help towards compensating them for time off from work and, […]
From The Guardian | Original Article For many Israelis, military service is a rite of passage that lasts two to three years. Being such a formative part of the social contract in Israel, it is unusual for eligible young people to refuse their draft orders. Every year some ask for exemptions, but only a handful […]
This Bar Crawl Radio Podcast is available here and on major podcast platforms. From Bar Crawl Radio | Original Posting A conversation with two veterans of American wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan – about their work with “We Are Not Your Soldiers” – informing high school and college students about the morally unpleasant truths of […]
