We Are Not Your Soldiers had a remarkable 2021, reaching over a thousand students and engaging them in critical conversations. For example, remote visits were made to classes in a well-prepared New York City middle school; several NYC high schools including a special five-speaker series over one semester to the same five classes; high school students in Oregon about to read The Things They Carried set during the war on Vietnam; community colleges in North Carolina, Long Island and NYC; and universities in NYC and Philadelphia.

Our panel of male veterans who have so openly shared their compelling stories during We Are Not Your Soldiers talks haves been joined by two women veterans, one who was stationed in Iraq and one who became a conscientious objector in the National Guard due to her moral objections to the wars in the Middle East.

Your donations help cover expenses to bring veterans into classes. Through December 31, two generous donors pledge to match $5,000 of your donations to World Can’t Wait. We are entirely funded by donations from individual supporters like them, and like you.

It is only with your help that we have internet presence and communication tools to continue this project of bringing veterans into classrooms without any charge to the schools. How else would young people get to hear these voices and dialogue with them on what has happened to the people of countries around the world due to U.S. military interventions?

Some excerpts from students’ papers in response to class visits:

“Without seeing such people, I could have made a drastic choice and change in my life and made it without being fully aware.”

“Once I saw that veterans understood that they were being used, my mind switched. I saw humanity in what I thought were robot killers. My resentment switched from the soldiers to the commanders of the soldiers.”

“The video they showed made my stomach turn and I became emotional knowing what people in the Middle East go through at the hands of the military. It was really disturbing to see how technology plays a hand in basically making it ‘easier’ to kill people, even if they are innocent.”

Click here to read and/or print excepts from the Summer 2021 article in the Radical Teacher journal on We Are Not Your Soldiers.

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