Lyle Rubin, a Marines veteran who was stationed in Afghanistan and is one of the We Are Not Your Soldiers presenters, was a panelist in this conversation sponsored by Scholars Strategy Network and Brooklyn for Peace about U.S. imperialism and the recruitment of immigrants into the U.S. military. Watch the video here.
A very interesting interview on Vietnamese TV (with English translation for everything said in Vietnamese) with Ron Carver on the history of the opposition to the U.S. war on Vietnam within the U.S. military. The recent exhibition in a Vietnamese museum on the period of the war and opposition within the U.S. military, curated by […]
Joe Urgo and Will Griffin April took We Are Not Your Soldiers to speaking locations both within and outside the borders of the United States – remotely, although we would have loved to have done all these visits in person! We started with a very new experience – speaking for two hours with graduate diplomacy/security […]
By Fred Hidvegi From Common Dreams | Original Article As my birthday approaches, I grow more and more anxious because a professional organization of trained terrorists that calls itself an army wants me to be one of them. And if I say no, a prison sentence will be the result. As a soon-to-be 18-year-old Israeli […]
By Rowaida Abdelaziz From Huffington Post | Original Article The U.S. government has long celebrated having immigrants in the military, but Sofya Aptekar’s new book shows it’s a much more complicated story. The U.S. government has long celebrated having immigrants in the military and has touted the 158,000 people who have earned citizenship through service […]
By Sam Biddle From The Intercept | Original Article Federal contract materials outline plans to geofence 67 different public high schools throughout the state and to target phones with recruitment ads. The Georgia Army National Guard plans to combine two deeply controversial practices — military recruiting at schools and location-based phone surveillance — to persuade […]
By Nan Levinson From TomDispatch | Original Article Losing Wars and Losing Recruits After more than 20 years of losing wars, recruiting for the U.S. Army is now officially a mess. Last year, that service fell short of its goal by 15,000 recruits, or a quarter of its target. Despite reports of better numbers in the […]
Update from Revolution | Original Article – 4/17/23 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) brands herself as a “progressive” in Congress who has spoken out against some of America’s war crimes. She’s now pimping on her “progressive cred” to shill for—and legitimize—the U.S. military. In March, AOC co-sponsored a “student services fair” at a high school in her […]
By Ruben Abrahams Brosbe From Yes! Magazine | Original Article The branches of the U.S. military have long seen high schools as optimal recruiting grounds. Some veterans are beginning to fight the propaganda and tell students the truth about military service. March 20 marked the 20th anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Iraq. The […]
We Are Not Your Soldiers started out 2023 with two visits to a NYC alternative high school special education class: the January visit featured presentations by Vietnam veterans Joe Urgo and Miguel Gabriel Velazquez while Miles Megaciph performed and spoke during the February visit. January related to Martin Luther King’s speech about the U.S. war […]
Airtime: PBS American Experience premier is Tuesday, March 28, but air-times vary with local stations. Most will broadcast at 9:00 p.m. ET or at 8:00 p.m. CT. It will be available for one month streaming on PBS.org and indefinitely on the American Experience web site. We are pleased to announce that We Are Not Your […]
