An Iraq War Veteran’s Experience…“I served in the U.S. Armed Forces for several years, seeing combat in Iraq and therefore I can speak with a great deal of authority about what happens. I think students, as well as teachers, should invite the We Are Not Your Soldiers (WANYS) tour into their schools to find out […]

by Lauren Martino, intern at the World Can’t Wait office in New York City Lauren Martino Everyone in my generation…knows what assault rifles, battle rifles, sniper rifles, etc. look like and what they can do now because of video games… this is an industry bent on planting [a] positive image of warfare in the minds […]

The We Are Not Your Soldiers tour brings Iraq -era war veterans into the classroom to bring to student the on-the-ground reality about what the military is recruiting for. We have reached thousands of youth in person and want to reach millions more with the message that young people do not have to kill and […]

Aug. 23, 2010 (KILLEEN, TX) – Five peace activists attempted to  blockade six buses carrying Fort Hood Soldiers deploying to Iraq outside Fort Hood’s Clarke gate this morning at around 4 a.m. While the activists took the width of Clarke Rd. and slowed the buses to a halt, police made no arrests, but instead beat […]

by Lina Thorne The Chicago Chapter tabled at Warped Tour Saturday, bringing this resistance movement to thousands of high school students and other youth attending this all-day outdoor music festival. We had orange bandannas, t-shirts saying “Military Recruiters Get the Hell Away from Me,” flyers and several large signs: one “Wrong Army Wrong” and another […]

By Emma Kaplan Eight of us from the We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour recently hit  the first stop on the Warped Tour in Mountain View, CA. The Warped tour is a summer punk rock concert that draws thousands of youth. Our Crew included including five students who first heard the tour last Spring, and Robin […]

Emma Kaplan, World Can’t Wait Youth & Student Coordinator, and Matthis Chiroux, Iraq War resister, took the We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour to a public high school in Southern CA. Emma said it felt like a prison: one entrance, one exit, and lots of cops in uniform. “You feel like you’re viewed as a […]

Note: We got some great pictures and film of our tour. Out of respect and safety for the students in the high schools, we are not making them public and keeping names of schools confidential. “We should resist and let the recruiters know that they are unwanted”-   Bay area high school student Today at a […]

Collateral Murder April 15, 2010 I know that these incidents happen more often than not. This is reality, not some video effigy edited to demonize soldiers. What you see in this video and the entire occupation is illegitimate. Atrocities like this were commonplace in 2004-2005 when I was there with the First Cavalry Division, it’s […]

Watch this footage from 2007 – interviews with residents of the Baghdad neighborhood from the day after the now-notorious massacre of civilians caught on tape by the US military and released this week by Wikileaks. At the time, their reports went basically unnoticed. Now, with the military’s own footage showing people walking down the street […]

The We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour, a project of the World Can’t Wait, is not your typical counter recruiting classroom presentation. World Can’t Wait Activists and Iraq war veterans have teamed up to present the reality of ongoing wars of occupation, and the need for a resistance movement led by young people that can […]

One week into the 8th year of the war in Iraq, the We Are Not Your Soldiers tour is on the ground  in Cleveland Ohio today. Tomorrow Liz and Anthony will  head to Columbus and tomorrow evening, Cleveland Revolution Books is hosting a fundraising party where people can come meet these speakers.   Here is […]