We Are Not Your Soldiers made our first visit of the 2024/25 academic year to speak to three classes at a college in the NY metropolitan area. Brittany Ramos DeBarros, who had been an officer in Afghanistan, presented to the students and engaged in discussion with them. Watch here. See a student comment we received […]
By Debra Sweet Since 2008, when we began sending anti-war veterans into class rooms, their presentations have largely focused, very importantly, on their experience in wars across the world, from Vietnam to Iraq, when those running this country and its military were united in war on the world. But those “normal imperialist” times are gone. […]
By 2nd Lt. Joy Metzler From Counterpunch | Original Article Somewhere around the age of 20, I sat in a large auditorium at the United States Air Force Academy with a thousand other cadets and cheered at footage of real drone strikes on real people, laughing along with everyone else as we watched little, pixelated figures run for […]
In April 2024, We Are Not Your Soldiers brought, via Zoom, veteran Rosa del Duca to speak to college students in New York City.
By Nick Turse From Responsible Statecraft | Original Article His role in the 1968 slaughter of over 100 Vietnamese was a feature, not a bug, in the ill-fated US war in Southeast Asia On the evening of March 15, 1968, members of the Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry, were briefed by their commanding officer, […]
We Are Not Your Soldiers has been scheduling anti-war veterans into classroom visits since 2006 via World Can’t Wait and formally, as a World Can’t Wait project, since 2008. Critical thinking is encouraged and demonstrated with the students. We aim, through this deep engagement, to clarify for some students why they should not join up, […]
By Nick Turse From TomDispatch | Original Article U.S. Troops Are Losing a War with Their Deadliest Enemy At the end of the last century, hoping to drive the United States from Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam’s holiest sites, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden sought to draw in the American military. He reportedly wanted […]
By Guy Davies and Britt Clennett From ABC News | Original Article To see video, visit original article. JERUSALEM — Yuval Green, a 26-year-old reservist who was called up to fight in southern Gaza, said he decided to leave the Israel Defense Forces when his unit was asked to set fire to a Palestinian house […]
By Liza Rozovsky From Haaretz | Original Article Yuval was required to torch two residential buildings; Michael realized how many civilians were likely to be killed during every bombing he observed; and Tal broke down when Israel entered Rafah. They are willing to suffer the price for their refusal to serve in Gaza. When Tal […]
From Democracy Now | Original Article As Israel’s war on Gaza enters its 10th month, we speak with Mohammed Abu Hashem, a Palestinian American who ended a 22-year career in the U.S. Air Force after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed his aunt in October. “It was clear to me that I needed to step […]
