2.01.02 resistance within the military

Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan

Silver Spring, MD, March 2008. Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan. PHOTO: © Diane Greene Lent 2008

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I was explicitly told by my chain of command that I could shoot anyone who came closer to me than I felt comfortable with.

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How to Avoid Destroying Our Movements: On the death of SDS, Nonviolence, and the War

Meaghan Linick (right) of Newschool SDS, Iraq Moratorium, 2007. Photo Thomas Good/Next Left Notes
Authors: Mark Rudd

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We (the Weather Underground) did the FBI's work for them.

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The Suffering CO of Baghdad

Authors: Jim Loney

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Conscientious Objection in Turkey: Struggling to Emerge

Turkish Antimilitarism Demonstration
Authors: Andreas Speck

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Anyone who discourages military service can face prosecution. Birgul Ozbaris could face 21 years in jail.

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Looking for Resistance, Reconciliation, & Di An: a US Veteran in Vietnam

Authors: Steve Morse

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I was pleased to travel in a Viet Nam not under military attack by a foreign power.

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An Army of None

An Army of None

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I told her about chanting "Kill the people, burn the village," and how that chant still runs through my veins to this day.

Counter-recruitment organizing is the most practical way to tangibly resist United States policy that, while cutting funding for education, employment, and social programs, promotes war and empire. It exposes the relationship between, and acts to correct, both local and global injustices.

From Issue 377 - July-August 2007

Violence is a Choice We Can Refuse

Violence is a Choice We Can Refuse
Authors: Fred Marchant

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Fred Marchant on Herzog

From Issue 377 - July-August 2007

A Duty to Disobey: Lt. Watada Challenges the Legality of the War in Iraq

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Authors: Kyle Kajihiro

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To stop this war, for the soldiers to stop fighting it, you must show potential military resisters that no matter how long they sit in prison their families will have a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs.

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Activist Forum: Films for Organizers

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Authors: %anonymous

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Peacework asked activists across the country to fill in the blank, "If I could show one under-appreciated film or video to a room full of potential organizers, I'd show..." and explain why or how they'd use that film.

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Light Among the Ruins

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Authors: Conn Hallinan

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The war in Lebanon has reinvigorated the Israeli peace movement with some very new elements.

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