The Revisiting Our Outrage category is a visit back to 2005 when the Iraq war motivated a confluence of activists extending from Boomers to Millennials into the streets in protest but also drove counter-recruitment in its "movement" moment. As we experience an international pandemic in 2020 we can be reminded that the Iraq War was an extended pandemic of perpetual war from 2003 to 2014 and led us into a time where our wars have gone silent and are now normalized with our citizenry.
"Revisiting Our Outrage," is a look back to activist reports in reaction to the Bush era Iraq war mobilizations, and the resultant school demilitarization activism and resistance that took place before we descended into the fog of protracted cultural militarization in the following years. The reports listed below also measure the distance that we have traveled that transformed a counter-recruitment movement into a proactive peace practice.
23/10/2008 / Javier C. Hernandez / New York Times - Barbara G. Harris, 72, looked her troops in the eye. Staring out at mohawks on one side of the room, salt-white bobs on the other, she said in her delicately firm way: "Hold your ground. You have every right to stand there, and if anyone tells you differently, tell them your rights." A retired teacher and longtime peace advocate, Ms. Harris was ...
19/02/2008 / Courage to Resist - For months, the anti-war women’s group CodePink staged near-daily protests outside of a Marine recruiting station in downtown Berkeley, California. These gatherings ...
01/02.2008 / Kevin Fagan / San Francisco Chronicle - Emboldened by this week's show of support by the Berkeley City Council, anti-war protesters on Thursday cranked up their noisy effort to throw ...
16/12/2007 / Bradley@RiseUp / Santa Cruz IMC - Santa Cruz County activists, including the Santa Cruz gaggle of the Raging Grannies, demonstrated for peace in front of the Military Recruitment Center ...
20/08/2007 / anscr / Americus Times-Recorder - A newly formed group, Peace Action Team (PAT) holds a forum from 7-9 p.m. Aug. 6 at Lake Blackshear Regional Library to discuss military recruitment in ...
14/08/2007 / Haleakala Times - When it comes to military recruitment in public schools, no child’s information is left inaccessible. According to a brief section of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act ...
14/07/2007 / Bryan G. Pfeifer / Workers World - Dozens of anti-war protesters returned to an Army Recruiting Station two blocks from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee April 4 to deliver this ...
18/11/2005 / Pittsburgh Organizing Group / pittsburgh.indymedia - On Friday, November 18th, Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG) held a noisy but non-violent protest outside a military recruiting ...
17/11/2005 / Mike Burke / National Youth and Student Peace Coalition - Not Your Soldier Day of Action erupts on over 40 campuses nationwide Students across the country to protest military ...
25/10/2005 / Anya Kamenetz / Village Voice - One Saturday this summer, Monique Dols, a Columbia University senior and a national leader of the Campus Antiwar Network (CAN), saw again why she has ...