War Resisters' Stories

Small Actions, Big Movements: The Continuum of Nonviolence, the WRI's International Conference co-hosted by the Ceasefire Campaign, will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, 4 - 8 July 2014. The other supporting organisations in South Africa are Embrace Dignity, working against the exploitation of prostitution and sex-trafficking, and the Action Support Centre, based in Soweto, which is the African regional hub of a global network of organisations and individuals committed to transforming conflict.

Coming up next month is the Disarmament Camp in Burghfield, Britain from 26 August - 7 September. The camp, run by Trident Ploughshare, is part of the Action AWE campaign that is acting to halt nuclear weapons production at the Atomic Weapons Establishment factories at Aldermaston and Burghfield. Groups are coming from Finland, Sweden, Spain, France, Italy and Belgium – it would be great if more people would be able to join us!

About 180 US nuclear bombs are still being stored in Europe for use by NATO in the event of a nuclear strike, although it is not clear who against. 20 of these nuclear bombs - left over from the Cold War - are deployed in Büchel in South Eifel (Rheinland-Pfalz), Germany.

On 14 June 2013 groups in India, Germany, South Africa, the State of Spain, Chile, Congo, the USA and Israel did a variety of actions to call for education systems and research free from the influence of the military. The actions included street theatre; holding placards near a school with a recent history of resistance to the military; and a workshop on an alternative, nonviolent education system.

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Registration is still open for War Resisters' League conference, to be held August 1 – Sunday, August 4th, 2013 at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. It's their 90th anniversary and the line up includes Barbara Ehrenreich, Winona LaDuke, Vijay Prashad, Rosa Moiwend and Randy Kehler so take a look and book now!

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