Weeks of visits to schools and colleges by We Are Not Your Soldiers volunteers have, of course, been canceled for this spring.  But using the digital tools of the class room, we recently remotely visited three college social psychology classes in North Carolina. We connected Lyle Rubin’s presentation to the classes’ study of both the Stanford prison experiment and the Milgram experiment which bear much similarity to what happens via boot camp when Marine recruits go through both a depersonalization and dehumanization process which enables them to become killers. We looked at the results of that training via an incident when an Afghan village was attacked indiscriminately.

Your contributions make these visits possible by enabling us to promote We Are Not Your Soldiers to educators around the country through articles on the web and expanded social media as well as via stipends to our speakers. We are excited to have reached out to an area where we haven’t presented before.

As always, if you know teachers or administrators interested in programming based on history, morality and facts on how U.S. wars impact the globe and the people sent to fight them, contact us at: WeAreNotYourSoldiers@worldcantwait.org.