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War Resistance
Individual and collective acts of war resistance by military personnel, veterans, parents, and everyday citizens.
NewsSDS: On 26 Campuses, Students Demonstrate Against Afghanistan OccupationDate: October 8, 2009TOLEDO BLADE: Military list opt-out updatedDate: August 20, 2009JAMAIL: Veterans Group Calls on Soldiers to Refuse Deployment OrdersDate: December 14th, 2009Take ActionEnd the U.S. Army's prosecution of Lt. Watadasource: Veterans For Peace and United for Peace and JusticeUpper Midwest Walk for Peacesource: Voices for Creative Non-ViolenceVoters For Peace 'Cancelled Check' Campaignsource: Voters for PeaceEventsDemocracy Track at the U.S. Social ForumThe Democracy Track is a series of sessions and community spaces at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27-July 1, 2007. The purpose of these sessions is to centralize democracy in all of our everyday struggles. National Counter-Recruitment & Demilitarization Conference(July 17, 2009 - July 19, 2009)The conference will bring together a broad spectrum of people to share skills and form the relationships needed to build a permanent resistance to militarism. Youth, parents, educators, veterans, artists, members of social justice organizations and more will come together for practical training on counter-recruitment, legislative challenges, and public pressure to promote non-military alternatives. Extending Democracy w/The Progressive, Manski, Farsetta, Gray, Wellstone(May 1, 2009 - May 2, 2009)Major speakers include Robert Redford, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the editorial staff of the Progressive Magazine. Liberty Tree's Ben Manski, together with various members of Liberty Tree's Board of Directors and Board of Advisors -- John Nichols and Robert McChesney, among them -- will also be speaking at this exciting event. Publications & TalksCCR: Restore. Protect. Expand The Constitution: Amend the War Powers Resolution(April 9, 2009)A discussion of the need to restore the Congressional role in declaring war by amending the War Powers Act. Prospects for Participatory Democracy in the U.S.A"The task . . . is to facilitate the growth of an aggressive democracy movement in the United States." Manski: From liberty to empire -- The demise of American defenseA history and legal analysis of the transformation of the National Guard. |
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