Formed in 2008, We Are Not Your Soldiers continues to bring veterans into classrooms to share their experiences in the U.S. military while engaging in dialogue with students, exposing imperial wars to a generation – actually, a society – largely unaware of the crimes being carried out throughout the world in their names. In 2023 […]
A panel of filmmakers discusses their role in producing films on the scale and impact of the GI movement during the Vietnam War, the role of artists in supporting antiwar soldiers, and honoring helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson who tried to halt the killing and rescue civilians in the midst of the My Lai massacre. For […]
November was a month of travels – taking us to Georgia, Ohio and North Carolina as well as Brooklyn, Manhattan and Long Island in New York. We began the month with two exceptional visits. We usually go to classrooms where the educators have invited us to enrich their curricula by addressing their students. These visits […]
Although filmed in 2006, it is highly relevant today.
We Are Not Your Soldiers presenter Lyle Jeremy Rubin was one of a group of veterans demanding a ceasefire now who spoke at a press conference organized by Representative Cori Bush. Hear Lyle’s contribution starting at 4:46. Click link to watch.
By Derek Seidman From Truthout | Original Article Hundreds of veterans returned from Iraq ready to fight the horror and injustice of the U.S. military industrial complex. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. It also marks 20 years since the birth of the massive global antiwar movement that […]
From Refuser Solidarity Network In the past few weeks, the Jewish Arab war resistance movement is experiencing one of its hardest and most terrifying moments – perhaps the worst it has been in at least a generation… On October 25th, police shut down an Arab-Jewish meeting in the Israeli city of Haifa, the main subject […]
In October, for the first time since the Covid lockdown in March 2019, we were back doing in-person We Are Not Your Soldiers school visits. Our October visits began in the New York metropolitan area. John Burns, accompanied by his service dog Zero, spoke to students at four varied schools. Some classes viewed either a […]
From Refuser Solidarity Network My Name is Atalya, In 2017 I publicly refused to serve in the Israeli military. I did so because I felt I could not take part in the occupation of Palestine. Subsequently, I spent four months in military prison, but more importantly, I started walking a path of non-violent resistance to the […]
Our friend Barbara Harris, a long-time activist for peace and justice, member of the Granny Peace Brigade, and organizer of a vigorous effort to combat military recruiters at NYC public schools, died recently after a long illness. We’re sharing this extensive page covering some of that work: A Tribute to Counter-recruitment Activist Barbara G Harris.
Samantha Goldman talks with Will Carless, national correspondent for USA Today on extremism, about his recent investigation: The military ordered big steps to stop extremism. Two years later, it shows no results. Follow him on Twitter @WillCarless and read his work at USA Today. Listen on Spotify. Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here […]
On this episode of the Free Thought Project Podcast, hosts Matt and Don engage in a deeply enlightening conversation with veterans Will Griffin and Joe Urgo of We Are Not Your Soldiers, an organization which boldly stands as a counter-narrative to the enticing pitches of military recruiters. Through the lens of their own profound transformations, […]
