In late June, We Are Not Your Soldiers published a report describing in detail the accomplishments of We Are Not Your Soldiers during the 2017-18 school year as well as our goals for the coming year. Please take a look. When that report went out, Nick Mottern, […]
From Refuser Solidarity Network | Original Article Plainclothes military police officers arrived at conscientious objector Hillel Grami’s home on Sunday, 29 July, six days after he failed to report at the induction center and undergo enlistment. He was arrested at home — an exceptional action by the Israeli army that we have not seen in […]
From Courage to Resist| Original Article Courage to Resist believes that all military personnel have a moral and legal obligation to refuse to comply with any order that involves collaboration with these immigrant concentration camps. Actual concentration camps are in the process of development at military bases across the Southern United States. Potential locations have […]
By Yumna Patel From Mondoweiss | Original Article Israel can now ban critics of the occupation from giving presentations to school children, according to a law passed Monday night by Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. Known as the “Breaking the Silence” law, the bill passed with a majority of 43 votes in favor and 24 against. The […]
These poems are selected from Timothy Tarkelly’s book, The Raucous Shouting of Stripes. AWOL September, you came too slow and brought with you a target. Sleep, you left me and I looked everywhere. I turned barracks dregs into clinical halls and found you. Blood, you boiled and left me breathless. Brothers, you ignored me and […]
By Stan Levin Listen up, son. You are one of today’s pawns on the chessboard, and the recruiter sitting across from you is the chess master. He is not your friend, son. He knows you better than you know yourself. He knows about testosterone, He knows about immaturity, and the naiveté of children such as […]
We Are Not Your Soldiers had a very active year in New York City, touring as many schools as we have done anywhere around the country during the height of the war on Iraq. We did four full weeks of school visits – two in the fall semester and two in the spring semester. A […]
By Spenser Rapone From Truthdig | Original Article Truthdig Editor’s note: On the outside, Spenser Rapone’s West Point graduation uniform looked like all the other cadets’. Underneath his dress uniform, however, was evidence of his political views: a T-shirt bearing Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara’s image, and a cap that read, inside, “Communism will win.” The […]
By Eyal Press From The New York Times | Original Article Even soldiers who fight wars from a safe distance have found themselves traumatized. Could their injuries be moral ones? In the spring of 2006, Christopher Aaron started working 12-hour shifts in a windowless room at the Counterterrorism Airborne Analysis Center in Langley, Va. He […]
By David Swanson From DavidSwanson.org | Original Article “Memorial Day is a time to remember, appreciate, and honor the selfless patriots who gave the ultimate sacrifice in service to freedom. At a time when our country seems so divided, we must not forget that it is because of their service and sacrifice that we live […]
We received the following request from Studentprivacy.org. Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, NY Department of Education, will be holding Town Hall Forums throughout NYS from 5/2-6/15/2018. One topic she will be addressing is Student Privacy Rights. The New York Coalition to Protect Student Privacy advocates for student privacy rights when they take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude […]
by William Schroder From History News Network | Original Article More than forty years after the Vietnam War, death and devastation continue to follow in its wake, and the misery index rises even though the shooting has long stopped. Richard Nixon once stated that no other American war was more “misunderstood, misreported or misremembered.” This may […]
