The War Resisters League (WRL) is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States, having been founded in 1923. Founded in 1923 by men and...
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of anti-war organizations List of peace activists Nonviolence Pacifism Antimilitarism War resister War Resisters League "About War Resisters' International"...
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women who had opposed World War I. The War Resisters League is a section of the London-based War Resisters' International which was founded in Bilthoven...
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Tax resistance (redirect from Tax resisters)
disobedience. Tax resisters are distinct from "tax protesters", who deny that the legal obligation to pay taxes exists or applies to them. Tax resisters may accept...
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American Deserters Committee (category Anti–Vietnam War groups)
Revolutionary Union, The Resistance, American Friends Service Committee, War Resisters League and the Committee for Peace and Freedom. ADC was formed by a group...
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draft resisters and scholars of draft resistance reject the categorization of resistance as a form of evasion or avoidance. Draft resisters argue that...
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David Dellinger (category War Resisters League activists)
for Conscientious Objectors. He was also a long-time member of the War Resisters League, joining the staff in March 1955. In July–November 1951, Dellinger...
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David McReynolds (category War Resisters League activists)
"a peace movement bureaucrat" during his 40-year career with the War Resisters League. He was a resident of New York City. McReynolds was twice a candidate...
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Against the War War Resisters League Win Without War Women's Peace Party Women's Peace Society Women's Peace Union Writers Against the War on Gaza Youth...
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Greens Unity (Swedish political party) War Resisters' International War Resisters League Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Women's Peace...
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Since 1958, the War Resisters League, the pacifist group founded in 1923, has awarded almost annually its War Resisters League Peace Award to a person...
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A. J. Muste (category War Resisters League activists)
the Communist Party. He was also on the national committee of the War Resisters League (WRL) and received its Peace Award in 1958. Always a creative activist...
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Postcolonial Feminism. Fiorentini began her journalism work in 2004 with War Resisters League and Left Turn. From 2013 to 2019, Fiorentini was a host and senior...
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Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee (category Anti–Vietnam War groups)
Central Park. Leader Norma Becker was a member of the established War Resisters League. Chairman David Dellinger later became known as one of the Chicago...
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Draft evasion (redirect from Draft Resister)
draft resisters and scholars of draft resistance reject the categorization of resistance as a form of evasion or avoidance. Draft resisters argue that...
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from war and militarism. In 1982, the War Resisters League and the Center on Law and Pacifism organized a "National Action Conference" to discuss war tax...
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Anti-Vietnam war protests in England and Australia. September 21. War Resisters League organizes first U.S. protest against the Vietnam War and "anti-Buddhist...
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March 1972 issue of WIN Magazine, a journal associated with the War Resisters League. The documents revealed the COINTELPRO operation, and led to the...
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Peacemakers conducted an anti-conscription campaign in alliance with the War Resisters League and African American leader A. Philip Randolph. Segregation became...
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Grace Paley (category War Resisters League activists)
through the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. With the escalation of the Vietnam War, Paley joined the War Resisters League. She was arrested on a number...
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Randy Kehler (category War Resisters League activists)
interview with, Kehler as one of several Vietnam-era draft resisters discussing that form of anti-war activism. Daniel Ellsberg's exposure to Kehler in August...
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Ralph DiGia (category War Resisters League activists)
forty years of dedicated service at the War Resisters League." In 2005, WRL gave the 40th annual War Resisters League Peace Award to DiGia and his longtime...
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mission is to support U.S military war resisters, including helping them with legal fees such as well-known resisters Chelsea Manning and Reality Winner...
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organisations, including the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the War Resisters League, and the War Resisters' International. Many people including, as they are now...
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Reconciliation, American Friends Service Committee, the Bruderhof, War Resisters League, and the Catholic Workers Movement, became involved in the antiwar...
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Jessie Wallace Hughan (category War Resisters League activists)
York: War Resisters League, 1939. Pacifism and Invasion. New York: War Resisters League, 1942. Three Decades of War Resistance. New York: War Resisters League...
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United States v. Burns Vietnam Veterans Against the War War Resisters' International War Resisters League Peace Award War Resisters Support Campaign...
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Norma Becker (category War Resisters League activists)
protest the Vietnam War, and of the Mobilization for Survival coalition. She served as chairperson of the pacifist War Resisters League from 1977 to 1983...
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well as Egypt and Israel. Evidence has also been collected by the War Resisters League that its products have been used to disperse protests in Tunisia...
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Maris Cakars (category War Resisters League activists)
student, civil rights and anti-war groups. According to Tad Richards: As part of his work with Win, the War Resisters League and the Committee for Non-Violent...
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