WE ARE NOT YOUR SOLDIERS!
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08.06.2024
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The new documentary film, What I Want You To Know, is an intimate journey alongside post-9/11 veterans as they share deeply personal stories from their deployments, exploring truth and justice in the context of their wars. Their depictions of moral injury provide a unique and critical perspective on the cost and consequences of war. Find out where to see it, how to screen it and further details here.

A NYCoRE curriculum guide that helps teachers educate their students as to military recruitment tools, perceptions of the US military and what exactly are “we” fighting for.
You can purchase the book at this link.
A Rethinking Schools curriculum guide, it breaks the curricular silence on the U.S. military engagement in Afghanistan and the Middle East. This collection of insightful articles and hands-on lessons shows that teachers have found ways to prompt their students to think critically about big issues.
Learn more about this book here where you can also purchase a copy.
This is a very useful guide for teachers to work with students around issues relating to the military and recruitment. Includes several short videos of young veterans presenting their experiences, lesson plans, etc. Visit Before Enlisting.
The 2018/19 Back-to-school Kit for Counter-recruitment and School Demilitarization Organizing by the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth is a downloadable PDF book which is an excellent resource for educators.  The kit is a catalog of basic material useful to educating young people and school personnel about the realities of military enlistment and war. The catalog also includes some information on alternatives to enlistment, as well as items written for organizers seeking to reach out to local schools.
United States Foreign Policy: History and Resource Guide
The purpose of this commercial-free educational website is to provide an accessible, accurate, principled, and resource-rich history of United States foreign policy.
It aims to provide a coherent overview of United States foreign policies, covering U.S.  wars, military interventions, and major doctrines over the course of 240 years.  It examines great debates over U.S. foreign policies and wars, focusing especially on leaders and movements advocating peace and diplomacy.  It evaluates U.S. foreign policies and wars from a principled perspective, one that reflects ”just war” and international humanitarian norms today.
Organizing Tool Kit for 50 years of GI Resistance Campaign
Has lots of resources on both military resistance and information on the war on Vietnam.  Includes films, readings, books, websites, and music.  In addition to the Organizing Tool Kit page linked to here, the whole site is chock full of useful information. Be sure to take a look at the curriculum page here.
The Viet Nam Full Disclosure (VNFD) campaign has published a series of half-hour podcasts from veterans of the Vietnam War each featuring a different person’s story with both audio and written transcript. This a valuable resource of primary sources of the GI resistance during the Vietnam war.
Highly recommend “The Drummer” in which interwoven stories reveal the traumatic effects of war on the psyches of veterans from different generations. Here are places where you can stream it.
An excellent instructive 45-minute film for high school students and their teachers about the history of the Viet Nam War, composed of photographs from that war, by filmmaker Jill Godmilow. Website includes an excellent curriculum and other resources. The film is free to stream or download.
THE BOYS WHO SAID NO! is the first documentary film to profile the young men and women who actively opposed the military draft in order to end the Vietnam War. The film shows how their personal and collective acts of nonviolent resistance, risking arrest and imprisonment for up to 5 years, were a critical part of the antiwar movement, intensifying opposition to the war and eventually forcing an end to both conscription and the war. It can now be viewed online in the U.S. and Canada for $4.99. For larger showings, contact the  distributor, Bullfrog Films.

Quite comprehensive, it includes a section on how the military goes after youth at video game conventions.. It details that no movie that requests military equipment can get made without editorial control over the script. Has a scrolling list of films that were never made because military was denied script control.

Website dedicated to information on how to end compulsory military education in schools. Visit site for information and materials.

VARIOUS MATERIALS (DOWNLOADABLE, VIDEOS, BOOKS, ETC.) FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

Survey for the We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour:  Student Survey
This tool helps teachers and presenters know  students’ opinions about the military, Army, soldiers, war, etc. before any discussion with our speakers. We do think it is important to be aware about the audience with whom we’ll be speaking.

Evaluating a We Are Not Your Soldiers class visit:  Evaluation Form (printable version); On-line Evaluation Form
This tool evaluates the presentation and helps plan for follow-up and future work.

Quiz for the We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour:  Quiz. Want to know the truth and what the recruiters will never tell you? With this quiz we guarantee you will learn the reality about wars, Iraq, Afghanistan, the military, soldiers, etc.

Short Videos of Veterans Speaking Out: Teachers, if you’d like to have some short statements from veterans about various aspects of time in the US military, here are some short videos to show and then discuss with your students.

Afghanistan and the U.S. Learning Resource: A two-page PDF produced in 2021. Very useful. Download here.

Resources for college students for further research with hyperlinks.

Facilitating Conversations on Military Recruitment & Resistance:  Films, articles and discussion prompts. Download here.

Usable Quotes from Smedley Butler, Dwight Eisenhower and Muhammad Ali – download here.

Fact Sheet on Overseas Bases: Two-page printable PDF.

We Are Not Your Soldiers stickers.

Very clear article connecting the climate crisis and militarism enumerated point by point.

Excellent film on YouTube on female Iraq veteran Robynn Murray: “Poster Girl.” Have to be of approved age in order to access the video.

Excellent film on sexual assault in the military: Trailer and full film both available on youtube.

Memoirs written by We Are Not Your Soldiers presenters, three excellent resources:

Mapping Militarism 2022: Excellent resource with maps and figures that chart and follow U.S. militarism and empire.

USA’s Military Empire: A Visual Database 2024: Related resource to the Mapping Militarism link above but brought further up-to-date and additional information.

Charts and text clearly visualizing and explaining U.S. Military Spending vs. the Rest of the World and U.S. Military Personnel Deployments by Country.

Comic book presentation on “The True Legacy of 9/11 – What We Forget.”

F*ck The Army!: How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War, reveals the theatrical dimensions of civilian support for the revolutionary GI Movement of the 1960s-70s. The first, fully narrated history booknof the FTA, an antiwar variety show featuring Jane Fonda that played to tens of thousands of active-duty troops over the course of nine months in 1971. As soldiers and civilian actors, activists, and celebrities worked together to end the Vietnam War, their theatrical acts of solidarity and resistance connected liberation struggles across the lines of race, gender, enlisted status, and nationality.

ANTI MILITARY/ RECRUITING ARTICLES and  LETTERS

Afghanistan is NOT the good war, combat the lies with the truth!  WCW_Afghan_Facts_10-15_a

Letter From Ethan McCord about Recruiters and the We Are Not Your Soldiers tour: Ethan McCord Letter

Frequently asked questions about Iraq: FAQ Iraq