This is an extraordinary time, an unusual era, where the living history and message We Are Not Your Soldiers brings to the classrooms has a special resonance with the students. We’re raising issues and thoughts that are making what are becoming obvious connections with their lives. They’re seeing in living color imperial criminality in Gaza, in the waters of the Caribbean and they’re seeing it and feeling it up close as friends and family fear round-ups by ICE, the National Guard has been called into various U.S. cities and all are feeling/fearing the cuts to already minimal social services and funding. We enter the schools with increased enthusiasm and are met with the same.
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In two months this fall, we visited one NYC middle school class, four classes in a NYC high school, three classes in a NYC community college and another three classes in a NC community college, two private colleges – one in NYC and one on Long Island -presenting to two classes, and three public colleges in NYC speaking with 7 classes.
Watch Rosa del Duca discussing the National Guard with students at one of those schools.
A Long Island student noted after John Burns spoke to her class, “I am grateful you brought awareness of what goes on in the Army because I really didn’t know this stuff. With your trauma, you are helping others.”
Read the full Autumn report here.
It is only with your support that We Are Not Your Soldiers can continue this important work of outreach to so many students, to help develop their growing consciousness by helping them to understand, through primary sources, the history of this country and its relationship to the rest of the world, and to begin thinking about what they can do to reverse the disastrous trends affecting our planet and create a better world for their and future generations.
Let’s finish up our 2025 fund and soon move on to our new fund for 2026. We have several colleges and a high school visit this month of December. And… we already have invitations reaching through April 2026 without having even started outreach for the spring semester!
