“After Alex was killed in Iraq, my ex-wife told me that he didn’t want to go back … If I had known about Courage to Resist, Alex might be alive today.”
“Courage to Resist is a organization that has helped many soldiers, including myself who have taken a vital stance in refusing to redeploy to Iraq…”Michael Uhl led a combat intelligence team with the 11th Infantry Brigade in Vietnam during 1968-69. Afterwards, he helped expose the Phoenix Program.
Podcast: “I’ll be so glad when you go home” – Michael Dempsey
I said, "This is fucked up.” And he said, “You’re just having a little thing.” And I said, “No, it’s not okay.” I said, “We don’t ... read more
Podcast: “The right not to fight an illegal war” – John Catalinotto
On organizing with the American Serviceman's Union: "I thought, what could I be doing that's more effective than helping the GIs ... read more
Podcast: “Intentionally trying to disrupt the machine” – Ward Reilly
"Four of us from the same platoon desert[ed] together, which is the ultimate military crime," shares Ward Reilly, US Army Vietnam era ... read more
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Podcast: “I refuse to be [used] against people who dissent” – Zels Johnson
"It's very hard for people to believe that their country would try to kill them," explains former National Guard member Zels Johnson. read more
Podcast: “There were US anti-war soldiers all over the world” – Hal Muskat
"I told my command officer that I wasn't going to, I was refusing my orders [to Vietnam] ... In his rage, he thought if he ... read more
International Conscientious Objectors’ Day 2019 Report and Photos
Berkeley, California: Report and photos from the 13th Annual "Berkeley C.O. and War Resisters’ Day" and Peace Flag raising. read more
Drone warfare activist Daniel Hale facing 50 years for whistleblowing
Air Force vet, intel analyst turned anti-war activist arrested and charged with violating the Espionage Act. read more
Gerry Condon, Veterans For Peace, violently arrested at Venezuelan Embassy
Emergency support needed at the Venezuela Embassy in DC - "Their coups failed in Venezuela so they are trying one here." read more
Supporting the Troops Who Refuse to Fight
We’re a group of concerned community members, veterans and military families who support military objectors to illegal war and occupation and the policies of empire. Our People Power strategy weakens the pillars that maintain war and occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere by supporting GI resistance, counter-recruitment and draft resistance, which cuts off the supply of troops. We are autonomous from and independent of any political organization or party.
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Chelsea Manning from jail pledges continued grand jury refusal
“Nothing that will convince me to testify before this or any other grand jury for that matter.” – Chelsea Manning
“The Boys Who Said NO!” upcoming documentary
The Boys Who Said NO! is an upcoming documentary profiling the young people who actively opposed conscription in order to end the draft and the Vietnam War.
Podcast: “I was part of a war that I came to see as unjust, immoral, illegal” – David Cortright
“Speaking out against [the war], as an active-duty GI, would incur some risks. I might have to pay a price, but I had to do it because business as usual was not an option.”
Former Selective Service director says it’s time to end draft registration
Former Selective Service director says the program no longer works, the database is hopelessly inaccurate, and that it should be shut down entirely.
Podcast: “It was a bit crazy.” Andy Berman on enlisting to stop the war
“We were holding demonstrations, and sometimes the demonstrations became very militant. Yet, the war kept on going.”
Don’t believe the hype about Venezuela
By Randy Rowland. Don’t blame Venezuela for the US economic war being waged against it. We are witnessing a US siege.
Podcast: Mike Wong, “All of a sudden, this all became very real”
“The My Lai Massacre hit the front pages…. I went and turned myself in to the Presidio stockade, and refused orders to Vietnam.”
Podcast: Doug Rawlings, “It was a very thin line and you could very easily step across it”
“Why didn’t I intervene and stop this guy from smacking around this papasan or these guys from gang raping this 16-year-old villager? Why didn’t I stop that? I didn’t.”
Podcast: Patrick McCann, “I really realized the United States was a criminal enterprise”
“… and they asked my friend and I did we want to go to Chicago the next day for a Black Panther rally. That was the night I became a revolutionary.”
Podcast: Gene Marx, “Sir: We’re not the good guys”
“You know what Commander, I’m not going to be doing that … I don’t know if you’ve noticed it over here, but we’re not the good guys,” declared Lt. Gene Marx to his XO in Vietnam.
Podcast: Paul Cox, Vietnam grunt to underground GI paper publisher
“There was a lot of guilt that I didn’t have the courage to stand up on the day that we killed those people,” explains Paul Cox.
Watch this short video “before you enlist!”
“Before You Enlist!” (2018), a short video that provides a rational voice to counter often deceptive US military recruiting practices.
Podcast: Randy Rowland faced death for protesting the war in Vietnam
“It wasn’t like I planned to be a resister or a troublemaker or anything of the sort,” explains Randy Rowland, an organizer of the “Presidio 27 Mutiny.”
Free Chelsea Manning (again)!
Jailed for refusing to collaborate with the WikiLeaks grand jury, Chelsea declared “I will not comply with this, or any other grand jury.”
Podcast: “This was a war … against an entire people” – Michael Uhl
Michael Uhl led a combat intelligence team with the 11th Infantry Brigade in Vietnam during 1968-69. Afterwards, he helped expose the Phoenix Program.
Chelsea Manning from jail pledges continued grand jury refusal
“Nothing that will convince me to testify before this or any other grand jury for that matter.” – Chelsea Manning
“The Boys Who Said NO!” upcoming documentary
The Boys Who Said NO! is an upcoming documentary profiling the young people who actively opposed conscription in order to end the draft and the Vietnam War.
Podcast: “I was part of a war that I came to see as unjust, immoral, illegal” – David Cortright
“Speaking out against [the war], as an active-duty GI, would incur some risks. I might have to pay a price, but I had to do it because business as usual was not an option.”
Former Selective Service director says it’s time to end draft registration
Former Selective Service director says the program no longer works, the database is hopelessly inaccurate, and that it should be shut down entirely.
Podcast: “It was a bit crazy.” Andy Berman on enlisting to stop the war
“We were holding demonstrations, and sometimes the demonstrations became very militant. Yet, the war kept on going.”
Don’t believe the hype about Venezuela
By Randy Rowland. Don’t blame Venezuela for the US economic war being waged against it. We are witnessing a US siege.
Podcast: Mike Wong, “All of a sudden, this all became very real”
“The My Lai Massacre hit the front pages…. I went and turned myself in to the Presidio stockade, and refused orders to Vietnam.”
Podcast: Doug Rawlings, “It was a very thin line and you could very easily step across it”
“Why didn’t I intervene and stop this guy from smacking around this papasan or these guys from gang raping this 16-year-old villager? Why didn’t I stop that? I didn’t.”
Podcast: Patrick McCann, “I really realized the United States was a criminal enterprise”
“… and they asked my friend and I did we want to go to Chicago the next day for a Black Panther rally. That was the night I became a revolutionary.”
Podcast: Gene Marx, “Sir: We’re not the good guys”
“You know what Commander, I’m not going to be doing that … I don’t know if you’ve noticed it over here, but we’re not the good guys,” declared Lt. Gene Marx to his XO in Vietnam.
Podcast: Paul Cox, Vietnam grunt to underground GI paper publisher
“There was a lot of guilt that I didn’t have the courage to stand up on the day that we killed those people,” explains Paul Cox.
Watch this short video “before you enlist!”
“Before You Enlist!” (2018), a short video that provides a rational voice to counter often deceptive US military recruiting practices.
Podcast: Randy Rowland faced death for protesting the war in Vietnam
“It wasn’t like I planned to be a resister or a troublemaker or anything of the sort,” explains Randy Rowland, an organizer of the “Presidio 27 Mutiny.”
Free Chelsea Manning (again)!
Jailed for refusing to collaborate with the WikiLeaks grand jury, Chelsea declared “I will not comply with this, or any other grand jury.”
