Greetings for 2025! We are scheduling visits by our panel of veterans to classes for this Spring semester — in person or via remote technology, in English or Spanish! Contact We Are Not…
Category: Military Recruitment
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How we interrupt military recruitment
A thought from Debra Sweet: In the fall of 1969, I crammed into a room with other students to hear an anti-war journalist speak about Vietnam. I had already protested to stop…
Refusing Trump’s Orders: Military Resistance to Mass Deportation
Thank you Sam Goldman for interviewing Brittany Ramos DeBarros on the Refuse Fascism weekly podcast. Brittany is Organizing Director at About Face, the anti-war veterans organization formerly called Iraq Veterans Against the War. Brittany is also a speaker for…
Brittany Ramos DeBarros at First Fall We Are Not Your Soldiers Visit
We Are Not Your Soldiers made our first visit of the 2024/25 academic year to speak to three classes at a college in the NY metropolitan area. Brittany Ramos DeBarros, who had been an officer…
We Are Not Your Soldiers Goes Back to School
We are in the midst of scheduling visits for this fall semester in schools around the country. Watch one of our presenters Rosa del Duca speak, this past April, via Zoom with college students in…
Schedule Veterans to Speak With Students
We Are Not Your Soldiers has been scheduling anti-war veterans into classroom visits since 2006 via World Can’t Wait and formally, as a World Can’t Wait project, since 2008. Critical thinking is…
This killing system’s unexpected victims
Last week, the writer and war reporter Nick Turse shared remarkable statistics of the effects on those used to fight the U.S. imperialist wars in Suicide Squad: U.S. Troops Are Losing a…
Learn from looking at U.S. wars
Our We Are Not Your Soldiers school visits ended for the spring semester with a presentation by West Point graduate and Army veteran Dean Feinman to two classes at a NYC community college. See this commentary…
Visiting Classrooms in March
March saw We Are Not Your Soldiers visiting a lot of schools, one in Philadelphia and the rest in various boroughs of New York City. Lyle Rubin spoke remotely with four Philly…
Oppose moral injury caused by your government
You feel it when we say “stop the crimes of your government.” You agree “humanity and the planet come first.” Friends – join in the mission of World Can’t Wait and its We Are…