We’re sending a big hug to you at this tremendously fraught time in this country, and — largely because of U.S. actions — a horribly dangerous time for the globe. Whether you support our project regularly, or have not done so for years, we reach out to you with outrage, plans and determination to stand up for humanity and the planet.
Two critical issues our all-volunteer project focuses on:
In spite of U.S. allies accepting the island prison, and most people here thinking it is closed, World Can’t Wait participates in global actions to CLOSE the U.S. torture camp at Guantanamo. The U.S. has set a precedent with the prison that the most powerful military can get away with depriving people of their rights, torture them and face no consequences; rather, such crimes enforce invincibility of U.S. empire and are kept as a threat to those who would resist.
Many of you signed The New York Times ad we published back in 2013 demanding its closure, 4 years after Obama promised to close it, and didn’t. Then Trump called for expanding the prison; VP Vance and possible Defense Secretaries Hegseth and DeSantis were officers at Guantanamo during the worst of the torture.
27 men are still held in the prison; 16 have been cleared for release as long as 14 years ago; several are too mentally injured to ever stand trial. 3 have agreed to plead guilty in connection with 9/11 and be sentenced to life in prison. Military courts have upheld that plea; the Biden administration opposed it in favor of trials resulting in the death penalty and has not released the cleared prisoners, most from Yemen.
WeAreNotYourSoldiers.org which actively and urgently dissuades students from joining the U.S. military. This became a project when we met so many veterans of the “war on terror” suffering from acute moral injury. Talking helped them process the horror they had been involved in.
There is a great need, even as the U.S. military is struggling to meet its recruitment goals, to intervene directly and stop another generation from waging immoral, unjust, and illegitimate war. In only the last weeks, speakers from We Are Not Your Soldiers visited a college-level Arabic language class whose members may be recruited to become military interpreters or CIA assets, and with many urban high schoolers who could be lured into the “poverty” draft with promises of college access, via intense social media promotion.
A very generous donor has pledged to match all donations up to $2,000 to We Are Not Your Soldiers. Your gift will be doubled now.
We’ve just been approached by a Vietnam-era veteran, a tribal member in the southwest, who asks our help in reaching students on the reservations who feel they have no other alternative to signing up.
We can only expand this work with your help and donations.