Tag: War Resisters League
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My rejection of war and violence…
español April 23, 2025 / Fabiola Cardozo Ponte / NNOMY - It began at a very young age, born and raised in an environment of precariousness and economic hardship, where I felt the hostility of the world. Structural violence reduces your opportunities for advancement and makes your life an endless series of daily challenges. Living in a poor home where violence and its various manifestations were ...
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The History of War Resisters League (USA)
The War Resisters League (WRL) was formed in 1923 by Jessie Wallace Hughan, a leading suffragist, socialist, and pacifist. It is a section of the London-based War Resisters' International. In the ...
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Counter-Recruitment Season
Kevin Young - “Counter-recruitment,” alternatively known as “truth-in-recruiting” or CR for brevity’s sake, involves providing young people and their parents with information about alternatives to ...
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Countering the Militarisation of Youth
18 Nov 2011 — warresisters International Study Conference Germany 2012 Darmstadt, 8-10 June 2012 "In Europe, and to some degree on a global level, there are presently two trends which both ...
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Portland high schools set to permit anti-war protesters to recruit students alongside the military
23 October 2011- Oregonian Betsy Hammond - The Portland school board is set to adopt a rule Monday to give "counter-recruiters" skeptical about the value of joining the military the same access to ...