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My experience is a telling tale that refusing to kill is not only a call to people directly involved in the genocidal military war machine. 12 March 2005
Opt-out:meeting
in Philadelphia
23
May 2005
A
community dialogue to launch a grassroots campaign to let students and
parents know our right to "Opt Out" & to demand that money
for war
and prisons go instead to caregivers, youth and communities!
300 UC Santa Cruz students kicked Army, Navy and Marine Corps recruiters out of the annual Career Center Job Fair 5 April 2005
COUNTER-RECRUITMENT:
NYU Students Block CIA Recruiters
A
planned CIA recruiting event at New York University (NYU) was cancelled
after a protest demanding the CIA
abandon its recruiting program at NYU 3 April 2005
Payday has not only supported women’s Strike actions, but has also organised with women and men refusing the military and its lethal and repressive work, from the US and the UK to Israel and Eritrea. The ‘poverty draft’ – those driven to join the US army by economic necessity, mainly people of colour and immigrants – enables the US to make ‘endless war’. Thus those refusing the military are a vital part of the movement to end not only war but poverty.
After all, do we really have an obligation to support the troops no matter what they do as they prosecute this slaughter against a minor league opponent? Would you indeed support the troops if their mission involved nuclear incineration of Iraqi cities and villages? One, two, many My Lai massacres?
21 March 2003
Men have a tremendous stake in whether we fight another war. Fathers do. Sons do. Brothers, uncles, nephews, husbands--we all do. While the armed forces have begrudgingly accepted women into their formerly old boys' club, the vast majority of the soldiers bombing and battling in Baghdad will be male, most just barely past boyhood. Yet it is mainly our mothers, sisters, aunts, nieces, wives, partners and daughters who have been demonstrating for peace. Undated
My father went in the army at 15. He came out of abject poverty, had to steal his food from market stalls and shops. He came out of the army to marry my mother, but the 1st World War started, he was called up. Professional soldiers were in demand. There were most casualties in the first six months of the war, it was vicious, and he was one of them. In France he was blown up and was hospitalised for the rest of the war. He was discharged with a disability pension. Mother said he was a different person when he came home, his whole personality had changed. He couldn’t ever stop shaking. 14 February 2002
I come from Italy, it's my home but there are many things that are wrong with my country. And one is that every man, at the age of 18, or later if he goes to university, has to waste 1 year being trained in the army. He has to spend one year being trained to kill and slaughter other human beings. Every single man is paid by the State for a whole year to be trained as a soldier, as a killer. Now that's a big waste of time, money and resources. 8 March 2003
When bus drivers allowed school girls to travel for free to the anti-war protest at Westminster last Wednesday or when police officers refuse to arrests peace activists or when teachers encourage, rather than discourage their students to oppose the war, they all contribute to the many refusals that we need to win against the warmongers. 8 March 2003
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