The We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour made its debut trip to Philadelphia this past week. In four presentations in two urban schools approximately 90 high-school students saw the “Collateral Murder” video with commentary from Ethan McCord. Anti-war veteran and war resister Matthis Chiroux and World Can’t Wait Steering Committee member Samantha Goldman discussed with […]
By: Joe Urgo, Viet Nam Veteran Another student… took off the national guard shirt he was wearing and gave it to Matthis saying he no longer would wear it. Matthis Chiroux, Iraq war resister and part of the “We Are Not Your Soldiers” tour, and I met with three groups of students at a Vermont […]
Prior to the premiere opening of the new film at the Tribeca Film Festival last weekend, “Incident in New Baghdad”, Ethan McCord and filmmaker James Spione spoke at Revolution Books on Thursday evening, April 21st. You can watch the video here. (Video by Kevin Gosztola) Ethan spoke at length how he joined the Navy at […]
by Lauren Martino, intern at the World Can’t Wait office in New York City Lauren Martino Everyone in my generation…knows what assault rifles, battle rifles, sniper rifles, etc. look like and what they can do now because of video games… this is an industry bent on planting [a] positive image of warfare in the minds […]
by Lauren Martino, intern at the World Can’t Wait National Office in New York City The WANYS panel at NYCORE (NY Coalition of Radical Educators) on Saturday, March 29th inspired a lot of hope in me that was previously wearing thin. The room was packed with teachers, students and even a film crew making a […]
On Friday, March 18th, the weekend that activists traveled to Washington, DC to protest eight years of war on Iraq, the We Are Not Your Soldiers tour spent that Friday morning in a local DC Catholic School. Participating in the presentation were Elaine Brower, anti-war military mom and National Steering Committee member of World Can’t […]
The We Are Not Your Soldiers tour brings Iraq -era war veterans into the classroom to bring to student the on-the-ground reality about what the military is recruiting for. We have reached thousands of youth in person and want to reach millions more with the message that young people do not have to kill and […]
Aug. 23, 2010 (KILLEEN, TX) – Five peace activists attempted to blockade six buses carrying Fort Hood Soldiers deploying to Iraq outside Fort Hood’s Clarke gate this morning at around 4 a.m. While the activists took the width of Clarke Rd. and slowed the buses to a halt, police made no arrests, but instead beat […]
by Lina Thorne The Chicago Chapter tabled at Warped Tour Saturday, bringing this resistance movement to thousands of high school students and other youth attending this all-day outdoor music festival. We had orange bandannas, t-shirts saying “Military Recruiters Get the Hell Away from Me,” flyers and several large signs: one “Wrong Army Wrong” and another […]
By Emma Kaplan Eight of us from the We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour recently hit the first stop on the Warped Tour in Mountain View, CA. The Warped tour is a summer punk rock concert that draws thousands of youth. Our Crew included including five students who first heard the tour last Spring, and Robin […]
Emma Kaplan, World Can’t Wait Youth & Student Coordinator, and Matthis Chiroux, Iraq War resister, took the We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour to a public high school in Southern CA. Emma said it felt like a prison: one entrance, one exit, and lots of cops in uniform. “You feel like you’re viewed as a […]
Note: We got some great pictures and film of our tour. Out of respect and safety for the students in the high schools, we are not making them public and keeping names of schools confidential. “We should resist and let the recruiters know that they are unwanted”- Bay area high school student Today at a […]
