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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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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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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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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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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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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Reconciliation, American Friends Service Committee, the Bruderhof, War Resisters League, and the Catholic Workers Movement, became involved in the antiwar...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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2016-2017 Soros Justice Fellow. 2017 Ron Sable Award for Activism 2017 War Resisters League Peace Award 2022 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters awarded by...
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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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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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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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conscientious objection Tax resistance Voluntaryism War resister War Resisters' International War Resisters League On July 30, 2001, explicit clarification of...
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List of peace activists (redirect from List of anti-war activists)
leader in U.S. War Resisters League for 40 years, chair of War Resisters' International, organizer of major national anti-Vietnam War demonstrations David...
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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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writer and pacifist, co-founder with Frances M. Witherspoon of the War Resisters League, and longtime officer of the Campaign for World Government. Mygatt...
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understanding United States War Resisters League Peace Award War Resisters League To a person or organization whose work represents the League's radical nonviolent...
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1991, Doctor of Humane Letters (Honorary), Hamilton College 1997, War Resisters League Peace Award 1999, 6th Annual Heinz Award in the Human Condition 2001...
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Bayard Rustin (category War Resisters League activists)
Alabama, New York: War Resisters League, 1956 A report and action suggestions on non-violence in the South, New York: War Resisters League, 1957 Civil Rights:...
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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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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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