By Madeline Marshall From Vox | Original Article Why are the police bringing military assault rifles to protests? Across the country, Americans protesting racial injustice and police brutality — the overwhelming majority of them peacefully — have been met by police forces that look more like an army. Officers have shown up to protests with […]
In May and June, the school year winds down in high schools and colleges and we made our final visits for the spring semester. Lyle Rubin addressed a NYC college ethics class. Rosa del Duca spent a full day with classes at a large NYC high school, our third visit and third speaker to present […]
By MIR Italia – Movimento Internazionale della Riconciliazione From Pressenza | Original Article In a joint appeal to members of the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a broad civil society alliance from 20 countries has called on the European governments to grant protection and asylum to Russian and Belarusian […]
We are very much looking forward to the release of this new documentary, “One More Mission,” which is in progress. It is about the Vietnam veterans who demanded an end to the war. Find out more here.
We are pleased that the Memorial Day 2022 interview is available to all listeners here on the WIOX radio archives. Tune in!
By Tori Bateman From American Friends Service Committee | Original Article Military recruiters work in schools and our communities to get young people to sign up for the military. They often target low-income students and students of color for enlistment. In some cases, military recruiters abuse their power. They harass recruits, lie about military service, […]
From TomDispatch | Original Article Introduction by Tom Engelhardt: As we think about the nightmarish war in Ukraine, let me just offer you a few figures: almost a million dead, nearly 400,000 of them civilians; at least 38 million people turned into war refugees or internally displaced; and perhaps $8 trillion in money squandered on […]
The Tale of The Brave Knight is an illustrated book that talks about war and the consequences it has for soldiers and their family members. It is a tale of a family in the aftermath of a war that carried on in their lives for years after the peace treaty was signed. The Tale of […]
By Melissa Chan From NBC News | Original Article The number of sailors who deserted the Navy more than doubled from 2019 to 2021, highlighting the lack of options contract-bound sailors face when they’re desperate to leave. The number of sailors who deserted the Navy more than doubled from 2019 to 2021, while desertions in […]
By Alex Ruppenthal From Chalkbeat | Original Article Hundreds of Chicago Public Schools students at predominantly Black and Latino high schools were forced to participate in what is supposed to be a “voluntary” military-run training program, according to a new report released Wednesday detailing an investigation by the district’s watchdog. The practice of automatically enrolling […]
The month of April we traveled remotely to educational institutions in three states: New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Our speakers – Joy Damiani, Miles Megaciph and John Burns – also were located in three different states but all our “voyages” worked well via Zoom. We spoke to students in two NYC high schools – […]
By Joy Damiani If You Ain’t Cheatin’, You Ain’t Tryin’ and Other Lessons I Learned in the Army is my answer to all of the questions everyone has asked me about the military and quite a few nobody’s asked. It’s the answer I was never able to give at cocktail parties, or backstage at shows […]
