Aug. 23, 2010 (KILLEEN, TX) – Five peace activists successfully blockaded six buses carrying Fort Hood Soldiers deploying to Iraq outside Fort Hood’s Clarke gate this morning at around 4 a.m. While…
Category: G.I. Resistance
Protest at Fort Hood against the Deployment of the 3rd Battalion to Iraq
The occupation of Iraq is only being re-branded, not ended. Soldiers are still being deployed. We received this notice from people planning protests with the 3rd Battalion is sent to Iraq next…
We Are Not Your Soldiers at UCSB: The Time for Resistance is Now!
By Emma Kaplan On Friday May 7, Matthis Chiroux and I went to the University of California, Santa Barbara, a campus in a gorgeous setting a stone’s throw from the Pacific…
Youth in LA to Recruiters: Get the hell away from me!
Report from We Are Not Your Soldiers organizers Today Emma Kaplan, World Can’t Wait Youth & Student Coordinator, and Matthis Chiroux, Iraq War resister, took the We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour to…
Report back from We Are Not Your Soldiers in the Bay Area
Updated report originally posted at wearenotyoursoldiers.org Today at a high school in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA: 100 students heard Emma, Matthis and Robin Long present We Are Not Your Soldiers….
I’m Not Your Hero
By bmcfann25 Originally posted on ivaw.org I was at McDonald’s the other day when something quite peculiar happened to me. I was standing in line waiting for my food when an older…
Veteran of “Collateral Murder” Company Speaks Out
Statement from Josh Stieber WASHINGTON – April 9 – Josh Stieber, who is a former soldier of the “Collateral Murder” Company, says that the acts of brutality caught on film and recently released…
Beyond Flagatory
By Matthis Chiroux Nearly 43 years ago to the day, Martin Luther King delivered one of his two most famous speeches: Beyond Vietnam. For the first time, King took a hard-line stance…
Soldier who Refused to Deploy to Afghanistan: Travis Bishop Released from Fort Lewis Stockade
By Alice Embree War resister and conscientious objector Travis Bishop was released from the stockade at Fort Lewis, Washington Thursday morning. During court-martial proceedings at Fort Hood, Texas, Bishop was sentenced to…