In October, for the first time since the Covid lockdown in March 2019, we were back doing in-person We Are Not Your Soldiers school visits. Our October visits began in the New York metropolitan area. John Burns, accompanied by his service dog Zero, spoke to students at four varied schools. Some classes viewed either a […]
From Refuser Solidarity Network My Name is Atalya, In 2017 I publicly refused to serve in the Israeli military. I did so because I felt I could not take part in the occupation of Palestine. Subsequently, I spent four months in military prison, but more importantly, I started walking a path of non-violent resistance to the […]
Our friend Barbara Harris, a long-time activist for peace and justice, member of the Granny Peace Brigade, and organizer of a vigorous effort to combat military recruiters at NYC public schools, died recently after a long illness. We’re sharing this extensive page covering some of that work: A Tribute to Counter-recruitment Activist Barbara G Harris.
Samantha Goldman talks with Will Carless, national correspondent for USA Today on extremism, about his recent investigation: The military ordered big steps to stop extremism. Two years later, it shows no results. Follow him on Twitter @WillCarless and read his work at USA Today. Listen on Spotify. Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here […]
On this episode of the Free Thought Project Podcast, hosts Matt and Don engage in a deeply enlightening conversation with veterans Will Griffin and Joe Urgo of We Are Not Your Soldiers, an organization which boldly stands as a counter-narrative to the enticing pitches of military recruiters. Through the lens of their own profound transformations, […]
By Oren Ziv From +972 Magazine | Original Article On Sunday afternoon, hundreds of Israelis gathered outside the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium high school in central Tel Aviv for the launch of a new letter by young conscientious objectors under the banner of “Youth Against Dictatorship.” Despite pressure from the far right and the Education Ministry, […]
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 […]
