All our April We Are Not Your Soldiers school visits continued to be conducted remotely. We began by going to three classes at a Manhattan college where the students viewed “Collateral Murder” and then discussed, with Army veteran John Burns, the film, his own experiences in the military and the implications of ethics and technology, […]
Joe Urgo, Vietnam veteran who presents at schools with We Are Not Your Soldiers, was interviewed in April on the 50th anniversary of Dewey Canyon III, when Vietnam veterans (and some active duty military) demanded an end to the US war on Vietnam. They spent a week on the streets of Washington, bringing the war […]
“Unmanned” is a short feature film dealing with the conflicts of a drone pilot stationed somewhere in the United States. Its 21 minutes register with viewers just like reading an impactful short story would. We show clips from it during many of our We Are Not Your Soldiers classroom visits. After viewing it with his high school […]
Find out more about this new book and how to obtain it, here. “It’s hard to believe that a 17-year-old who can’t vote or drink can go to war. Del Duca’s experience as one of those teens — who joined the National Guard to pay for college and then finds herself on the verge of […]
By Edward Hasbrouck From AntiWar.Blog | Original Article As Doug Bandow reported on Antiwar.com Wednesday, military conscription is a bad idea that just won’t die – and right now it’s under active consideration in Congress. Two years ago, Doug Bandow and I were both invited to testify before the National Commission on Military, National, and […]
By Ken Klippenstein and Matthew Cole From The Intercept | Original Article The Army is investigating a possible series of sexual assaults of a female soldier at the Army training base in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, a commander at the base told press yesterday. The investigation, according to a military official with direct knowledge, is scrutinizing […]
By Mike Hastie, Army Medic Vietnam It is Sunday night, around 9:00 PM on March 14, 2021 in Portland, Oregon. In two days, it will be the 53rd Anniversary of the My Lai Massacre. Since I was a soldier in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam, I have made three trips back to Viet Nam, […]
We continue to make remote visits to classes. At the end of February, we went to a large NYC high school with Miles Megaciph, Marines veteran, and spent the day with students in six classes. One student sent a note thanking him “for sharing with us your experience and journey from a former Marine to […]
From National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth | Original Article Change Your mind and want to get out? If you signed up for the DEP (or the Army’s “Future Soldiers Training Program”) and then changed your mind, watch out for recruiters who say you can’t get out of it, or that you must report […]
A dramatic recording of the full famous speech by Gen. Smedley Butler is available here free for your use. Credit for this dramatized recording goes to Richard Gross, Ioan Ardelean and Christopher Hirschmann Brandt. There are two versions, an MP3 and a wav.
Friday March 12, 2021, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST – A Virtual Event Amid concern about the role of military veterans in the January 6 siege of the Capitol and the recruitment of service members by white supremacist groups, this program will feature soldiers who have followed a different path in speaking out against […]
On February 22, 2021 we filmed an evening panel discussion with the presenters who go into classrooms and dialogue with students. Here’s a chance to meet the whole crew: John Burns, Will Griffin, Miles Megaciph, Lyle Rubin and Joe Urgo. The need to stop the United States’ aggressive militarism and wars against peoples around the […]
