Category: Military Recruitment

The U.S. Navy’s Fleet Week in NYC is normally in May. But this year, to mark the 250th anniversary of the U.S. war of independence, it was moved to this past weekend to make…

We are foregoing reporting the onslaught of news for this week, and sharing with you conversations from a college class. It’s important for all of us to focus on how people think…

We finished out the 2025-26 school year with two NYC visits: the first was via Zoom to a community college class while the second was in person to a school that ranged…

As we’re nearing the end of the school year, especially in the colleges, we went to a community college and a large high school, both in NYC.   Will Griffin gave a wide-ranging…

On an April Monday, Joy Damiani made presentations to four classes at a Manhattan transfer high school. We already sent you Joy’s reflections on that visit. But, if you missed that email, you can read…

We Are Not Your Soldiers presenter Joy Damiani reflects here on a day spent visiting four classes in a NYC high school in April. That was the first school visit of four for that month….

Thanks to those who donated this month. We’re counting on supporters to fund We Are Not Your Soldiers programming for 2026. The total budget is only $15,000. Can you chip in? Although we…

At this moment, as the fascist Trump administration brings waves of imperialist ambitions to heightening dangers hour by hour, it’s all the more urgent to engage in critical conversations with young people…

Since 2008, our project, We Are Not Your Soldiers, has brought veterans into classrooms to share stories of why they enlisted, what they experienced in the U.S. military, the effects on their lives as…

We hardly have time to recount the horrors occurring daily and the brave responses to them. However, we need to mobilize and activate even further our nonviolent opposition in order to bring…