WRI100 https://wri-irg.org/en en “Persistence!”: an interview with Michael Randle https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2022/persistence-interview-michael-randle <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--42514.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="42514" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-image--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-image--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-image.html.twig * field--expert--field-image--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-image.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-image--story.html.twig * field--node--field-image.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-image.html.twig * field--image.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <picture> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_desktop/public/2022-05/bertrand_russell_leads_anti-nuclear_march_in_london_feb_1961.jpg?itok=AzJglIAl 1x" media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" type="image/jpeg"/> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_mobiles_and_tablets/public/2022-05/bertrand_russell_leads_anti-nuclear_march_in_london_feb_1961.jpg?itok=7dKh582H 1x" type="image/jpeg"/> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_mobiles_and_tablets/public/2022-05/bertrand_russell_leads_anti-nuclear_march_in_london_feb_1961.jpg?itok=7dKh582H" alt="A black and white photo depicting a crowd of people carrying a banner reading &quot;Action for Life&quot;" title="Michael Randle (second from left) leads anti-nuclear march by the Committee of 100 in London on Sat 18 Feb 1961" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> </picture> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <div class="caption">Michael Randle (second from left) leads anti-nuclear march by the Committee of 100 in London on Sat 18 Feb 1961</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 23 May 2022</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p style="margin-bottom: 13px; text-align: left;"><em>Last year WRI staff member Andrew Metheven interviewed Michael Randle, who was Chairperson of WRI from 1966 to 1973. The interview explored WRI's resistance to the Vietnam War, the organisational culture, and the longer term impact of the organisation.</em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13px; text-align: left;"><b>Andrew Metheven: Could you start by describing your role in War Resisters’ International before and when you were Chairperson?</b></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left"><span style="line-height:100%">Michael Randle: I got involved in War Resisters’ International when I became a conscientious objector, I think in 1951. I got in touch with the Peace Pledge Union, and through that War Resisters’ International. Later on I was on the Council, and eventually became Chair. Having decided I was a pacifist, resisting conscription became quite a central thing for me. I was campaigning for alternative service, and I wanted to find out more about the whole history of war resistance. Through that I got involved in the PPU and then attended a WRI conference, I think in Rome in the 1960s.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left">I felt there had to be an organised opposition to war if we were going to get anywhere, and the PPU and WRI were the obvious options from a pacifist point of view. Then there was the excitement of meeting people from various countries who were resisting. Going to international conferences and meeting some of these people - some of whom I had admired from afar, like AJ Muste and Bayard Rustin. Rustin had a big influence on me, both resisting apartheid and anti-racism. I then got actively involved, and with April Carter and others, formed the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War. Not everyone in that group was a pacifist, but we appealed to American servicemen. One of the campaigns that the Direct Action Committee organised was an international campaign against French nuclear testing in the Sahara. We had good international connections through WRI, and I went out to Ghana for a year and helped to organise an international conference against the war in Vietnam.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left"><b>What was that like?</b></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left">Well it was very interesting for me! It was the time of maximum resistance to the Vietnam War. One of the things we did was appeal to people, to think about refusing to fight in Vietnam, and remind service people that the option of conscientious objection existed. So we ran a campaign, with a leaflet printed that appealed to American service men, outlining the option of conscientious objection, and that you could still resist. WRI was issuing leaflets like this at the time. On one occasion, Pat Arrowsmith and I distributed leaflets at an American base - perhaps Menwith Hill - and we actually walked onto the base without challenge! The actual servicemen were very sympathetic, invited us in, and we were talking to them when someone higher up the chain of command came in and was absolutely scandalised! They must have called the police, and the officer was shaking his head and saying we took a great risk by walking onto the base. It was a good time for action, and it was needed.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left"><b>We’re interested in how the culture was - what were meetings like, how was your relationship with staff, how did you settle political differences? </b></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left">Culturally, it was the time of the peace movement - Bob Dylan... Joan Bayez attended the Rome meeting - so that whole alternative culture, a certain hippy element! Not all of us were hippies, but that whole movement had an influence, and affected what we saw as up and coming.<b> </b>I think for people involved in that whole hippy culture, nuclear weapons were the big issue, and that affected the whole feel of the movement.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left"><b>So what was it like being in WRI at the time?</b></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left">There probably was also an older guard, that didn’t see quite eye-to-eye with the new hippy culture, but I think people - like Bayard Rustin, who were more sensitive to new campaigns like around gay rights [helped to bridge the gap]. I think people like Howard Bing would have represented some of the older generation. They were very open-minded but not quite fully understanding what was happening, at that cultural level. When we wrote the leaflet directed to servicemen, Howard Bing was a bit uneasy about some of the draft content - and he was probably right! So in some ways, Howard Bing was more on the ball than we were.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left"><b>Sure, Howard Bing played a big role in building that movement and it can be hard to see it change sometime. And Bayard Rustin, who was so involved in the civil rights movement, will have seen the interconnections, and war as a much more structural thing. That’s something we’re still working on.</b></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left"><b>Could you describe one of the key successes, and one of the key challenges, WRI faced while you were Chair?</b></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left">I think what came out of it - and it wasn’t just War Resisters’ - was the anti-nuclear movement. That was the thing that really galvanized people, including people who wouldn’t consider themselves a pacifist. They brought some energy and some defiance, and the younger generation at the time identified with that spirit of defiance and challenging things, and alternative music, and all that.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left"><b>It sounds like you’re describing a sort of melting pot - and that’s still what WRI is - so many different types of people who sit around a table together. On one level they have a big shared understanding, but also have a lot of different perspectives. Sustaining that isn’t necessarily easy, could you say something about how WRI managed to hold those tensions?</b></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left">A sound bureaucracy! However negative the term may seem, the bureaucracy was maintained and the continuity was there through having an organisation, with systems. Some of us mavericks wanted to kick it all over, and sometimes that came up in the conferences - we can do it all anarchistically and spontaneously! - but actually it does need organisation, and rules. And this may be me as an old man talking now, but I think that was important. So people like Harold Bing did play an important role, and so did the whole secretariat. They were and are important, as is the spontaneous and rebellious aspects.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left"><b>So that was the successes - what were the challenges?</b></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left">Probably, when conscription ended in Britain… conscription was, as in my case, a trigger for people looking for alternatives and alternative organisations. As conscription disappeared in various countries - I suppose it needed a rebellious, alternative culture to feed into organisations like WRI. I think when there was conscription it was clear how war impacted people directly adandn they would go and look for an organisation that would support them. I think the anti-nuclear campaign and the resistance to the Vietnam war were very important for bringing young people into the movement. I think the emphasis on nonviolent direct action appealed to a younger generation as well. As conscription disappeared the campaign against the Vietnam war remained important. Here the whole Gandhian movement was very important. The whole idea of nonviolent forms of resistance.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left">For me, the opposition to weapons of mass destruction was key. I was brought up a Catholic, and the idea of a “Just War” was important. It wasn’t just the cause that had to be just, but the way war was waged had to be discriminate, so weapons of mass destruction were completely against this. This brought people who weren’t 100% pacifist into the movement.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left"><b>I’m interested in what you said as how conscription brought people into the movement. It’s really interesting, and something we “lack” now - but I don’t want it back! But it does make sense that that was drawing people into the movement.</b></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left">Once conscription ended in the UK there had to be other things. Fortunately - or unfortunately - there was the Vietnam war, and there was nuclear weapons, which all helped us gather strength and drew people into looking for alternatives. The Gandhian alternative, of nonviolent action, was one path.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left"><b>Maybe a difference between now and then is that conscription immediately brings war and militarism into your life, but now for us in the UK, we have the privilege of not being exposed to war so explicitly. So to get involved in our movements now your motivation has to be a political or moral choice. Whereas when facing conscription your initial motivation can be personal.</b></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left">I think there are still the moral and political questions, but one is forced to face them in a personal way because you are going to get drawn into this militarist organisation. So you couldn’t avoid it!</p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left"><b>So that became a challenge for WRI?</b></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left">Britain got rid of conscription before all of the other countries in Europe, so our movements in Britain faced that challenge - of making war personal - a bit earlier. But I think the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that was such a moral and political question, that drew people in.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left"><b>How much interaction in that period, when you were Chair, did you have with antimilitarists and pacifists outside Europe? What was WRI like in these terms?</b></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left">The Council met once a year and the exec met three times a year. So I met people at these meetings and conferences, and I got to know a lot of people from European countries, and people from America would come to the triennial conferences. I would have said that WRI had a strong basis in Europe and the United States, and to some extent in India because of the Gandhian campaign. But we had less of a relationship with Africa and parts of Asia.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left"><b>It's hard for younger activists to imagine running an organisation like WRI without the internet! How did communication work? How did WRI work?</b></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left">Meetings and letters! And telephone of course..! I think when I was around WRI, Harold Bing was Chair, and the secretariat, for many years was Devi Prasad. They were involved in the day to day running of the organisation. Devi had a big role, and then the people who were on the Council and executive certainly contributed.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left"><b>If you had one piece of advice for our movements now, what would it be?</b></p> <p style="margin-bottom:13px; text-align:left">First of all - persistence! Because its easy to drift. And the other is to be open-minded to new ideas, and new methods of struggle and consciousness raising. The whole issue of racism and sexism - when the word “sexism” first entered our vocabulary, some people didn’t understand the term! So to be open-minded and aware of new developments and ideas is very important.</p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-programmes-projects--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Programmes &amp; Projects</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/wri100" hreflang="en">WRI100</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--comment--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--comment.html.twig * field--default--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--comment.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig x field--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--node--comment.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--comment.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> <section class="comments"> <h2>Add new comment</h2> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderForm" arguments="0=node&amp;1=42514&amp;2=comment&amp;3=comment" token="edaDweIb0VuL9B4lfO6BlRnfMR8DFHyVuteRx2I4-T4"></drupal-render-placeholder> </section> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Mon, 23 May 2022 13:23:20 +0000 Andrew 42514 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2022/persistence-interview-michael-randle#comments Testimonies from previous WRI staff member https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2022/testimonies-previous-wri-staff-member <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--42476.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="42476" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-image--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-image--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-image.html.twig * field--expert--field-image--story.html.twig 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field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>During the 100 years since WRI's foundation, many activists and groups have worked together and inside WRI's network, as executive and council members, affiliates, close allies and so on. On this occasion, we wanted to highlight the experiences of some of the previous staff members, who for several years worked at the WRI office, organising events, meetings and different actions, creating friendships, alliances and good memories. These are their testimonies! </p> <h2>Veronica Kelly</h2> <p>I wasn’t just new to WRI – I was a novice in the peace movement.  In 1980s Geneva, where I was studying translation, the USA and USSR were playing war games with missile numbers, and first I chose those ‘peace talks’ for a student project.  Disenchanted with them, instead, I explored pacifism, which led to the peace camp in Comiso, where I discovered nonviolent anarchism and direct action.  A women’s roadblock led to deportation from Italy, then a year campaigning, mostly from home in Ireland.  And then, a friend said WRI was advertising.</p> <p>Preparing for the interview I was keen but nervous.  This worldwide organisation had impressed me when, amazingly, its London HQ had helped a motley bunch of activists in distress.  (It was similarly unfazed later when one deportee from Denmark was, inconveniently, staff.  Respect, WRI!)  Meanwhile, the ‘Wanted’ ad specified ‘a projects officer’.  A brand-new position...  Would they expect me to come up with projects?! </p> <p>I plunged into a new life.  A gigantic city, a cramped office, but a network stretching across the planet.  Tiny staff, never-ending tasks, long days.  Correspondence, magazines, appeals, meetings, reports, visitors from all over.  Dawes Street was normally hectic, sometimes hilarious, and I learned so much.  About WRI’s member organisations, of course: issues, campaigns, internal disputes and individuals (thanks Myrtle!).  Practical skills: carefully aligning cut-out paragraphs for the Newsletter, sticking them down with disgusting Cow Gum; drafting minutes (envying Howard’s adroitness); organising conferences from scratch.  Overall, absorbing how a large organisation works.  An insight that’s handy now: working freelance for NGO clients, I can imagine their staff’s working lives.  And as an interpreter I’ve been amused to see other bodies, even companies, adopting peace movement methods for lively, egalitarian, effective meetings. </p> <p>I was forced to shake off my shyness.  Representing WRI at a meeting, I had to approach people.  Which meant preparing!   As my colleagues discovered, not only was I not political, I was naïve.  But Howard – astute, encouraging, giddy – was my mentor: who would be attending, who should I talk to, with what aim?  Sometimes I even had to address a meeting myself.  Or, if a participant was struggling to keep up, I’d whisper in another language (never guessing I’d end up as an actual interpreter).  I grew to love this networking. </p> <p>Perks included fortnights camping on International Marches and ‘field trips’ to sections in Germany and the State of Spain.  Other highlights: being WRI’s witness at the trial of Greek CO Michalis Marangakis, and a thrilling trip behind the Berlin Wall to meet Eastern European pacifists.</p> <p>WRI and sections’ meetings were always high points – exec, council, triennials, women’s gatherings (Ireland, Bangkok), social defence, tax resistance, AGMs...  </p> <p>From the mind-blowing Vedchhi Triennial, one nugget I treasure is Ellen suggesting that WRI should examine all its statements: where they said ‘people’, did this really include women?! </p> <p>Stand-out moments in Dawes Street?  The phone-call telling us Jean De Wandelaer had been kidnapped in El Salvador, leaping into action, rejoicing on his release.  The winter the office was flooded: Myrtle and volunteers to the rescue, mops and buckets, cold and wet, all of us shivering and despairing and giggling.  An exec meeting where knitting appeared with the arrival of two American strangers, their remarks perceptive, sound, constructive – Dorie and Joanne were needle-sharp, and warm with it.</p> <p>So many wonderful, inspiring people from so many countries.  I could begin, but I wouldn’t know where to stop naming them.  Deep gratitude goes to those I worked most closely with: endearing exec and council members, colleagues John, Will, Howard, Pajo, Oili and Chris, our stalwart volunteers (notably Martyn and Martin, Pippa and her three friends who kept me sane), and of course WRI Women and the gathering organisers, especially Ulla, Trui and Casha.  </p> <p>WRI showed me that, everywhere there is repression, there are also determined people resisting nonviolently; that everyone can do something, and even a small act can spark a change.  Whatever the issue, from toys to taxes, patriarchy to Prisoners for Peace, teaching nonviolent social defence, toxic-waste incinerators, climate justice, poverty, social justice, rights, rights, rights...  Nonviolent action is empowering! </p> <p>These convictions, and resisters worldwide I came to know, encourage me when situations seem dire.  With all I learned from WRI, I’ve been emboldened ever since to take initiatives, e.g. around migrants.</p> <p>WRI and its people made me wiser, more confident, more useful, happy.  Gave me lifelong friends.  Pushed me to use my voice.  I’m proud to have worked for WRI, and forever grateful. </p> <p>Cork, Ireland, September 2021</p> <h2>Dominique Saillard</h2> <h4 style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;">The little story of a (would be) article</h4> <p>When Natalia wrote to me more than a month ago to ask for an article about my experience as a WRI staff for this very special Broken Rifle, I put the e-mail on hold for a while. I was tired, I was going on vacation. But when I returned, the e-mail came back to my mind, never to leave it. So, I wrote that yes, I was going to write something, that I owed it to WRI in some way.</p> <p>And after a few days of fruitless thinking, when I was already warning Natalia that I was very sorry, but could not come up with anything relevant, it occurred to me to simply write the following:</p> <h4>Why don't I manage to write this article?</h4> <p>Because there are senses of responsibility that sometimes stifle, rather than liberate. So, I have to convince myself that whatever comes out now, it will make some sense for this commemorative Broken Rifle.</p> <p>Because 100 years inspire respect. I start counting, and I calculate that after 5 years as staff and 7 years as an executive member, I have had a direct part in 12% of this history! Well, something is better than nothing. And above all, it was worth the effort, worth the pain.</p> <p>Because there was pain at times. On a personal level, surely the saddest moment was the sudden death of Howard Clark, with whom I shared the London office and long days of executive meetings all those years. I still get emotional when I think of that day, that sudden sense of finitude, the interrupted stories, the pacifist history that he could still have analyzed, written, recounted… I have a bird´s memory, and it is in his elephant´s memory that I used to fish from time to time: he reminded me of names, events, places, anecdotes from my own time at WRI. He was my external memory.</p> <p>Because I would not know how to summarize my experience as Staff and Treasurer. There was a little bit of everything. Starting with regular bouts of frustration, for all kinds of reasons. There was a fair amount of stress. There was a lot of routines, a lot of unglamorous-but-indispensable tasks. And at the same time, there were completely surrealistic situations at almost every Council or Triennial. There were many decisions to be made. There was a lot of inventiveness – few networks know how to stretch the value of a banknote so much. There was also a lot of humour (the sinew of resistance), contagious laughter (or nervous giggles!). And there were comforting achievements, at the political, solidarity or organizational level. Whether big or small, ephemeral or more durable, they kept us going.</p> <p>Because I would be unfair to a lot of people. I do have lasting memories associated with some of you, I remember atmospheres populated by the silhouettes that were familiar to me in those times. But why go into detail, if WRI is a much more collective effort than what I can describe here? Sometimes, let´s be honest, at the London office, we felt a little bit too much like the (euro) centre of the world. You called us to attention from other continents. But we experienced also a real bond of solidarity, and it was a luxury as staff to be able to touch it with our fingers.</p> <h4>So why did I write to you in the end?</h4> <p>Because WRI is the reason why I live where I live now. In addition to generating surprising migration movements, pacifist love stories have pulled many militant strings and probably guided more than a few political decisions. Now, that would be interesting! Who is willing to take up the task of writing a Political-Sentimental Herstory of WRI?</p> <p>Because I wanted to tell you that despite the years, and the distance that I have kept after leaving the Executive in 2015, I do not forget the community that WRI has been since its inception.</p> <p>Because you are a very stubborn kind of people, infuriating at times, insistent, persistent, demanding, exhausting. And yet, you are some of the best people I have ever met.</p> <p>Because I owe a large part of who I am to my passing through WRI, to the steps I took with you through the many places we crossed all these years.</p> <p>Because I still feel very proud to have been a drop of water in the sea of people that helped that polymorphous monster to move forward.</p> <p>Because what I keep from my WRI time is a network of caring friends and a sense of gratitude that make it impossible for me not to write you something today.  </p> <h2>Roberta Bacic, London office, 1998 - 2004</h2> <p>It is significant to look back at my arrival from Chile to London at the end of January 1998.</p> <p>It felt extremely cold as I had left at the height of summer in Chile. Dominique Saillard was waiting for me at Heathrow airport with a bunch of flowers and took me to a flat where I was to stay while I settled. The next day I came by tube to WRI’s office at 5 Caledonian street.</p> <p>It has been even more special to remember what it felt like, and the impact of a total change of life, landscape, language, culture and human environment, as we mark 100 years of WRI this 2021. Whilst not much can be said in one page, the core gets reflected in what stays forever and I have tried to capture when curating the exhibition Nonviolence in Action: Antimilitarism in the 21st Century (http://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/search-quilts2/fullevent1/?id=227) launched on the 25th March this year.</p> <p>I have very happy memories of shared conversations, lunches, struggles and discussing ways to confront wars and engage in active nonviolence. This extended beyond WRI, to “Peace News”, “Housmans Bookshop”, and “Conscience: Taxes for Peace, not War”. We were surrounded by volunteers and supporters and often we disagreed and challenged each other. We lived and experienced a very different way of life: horizontal relationships, dedication beyond office hours, always being short of cash, always full of projects and most got done with or without budgets. Many of the relationships established then still endure; the bonds we created transcend the time I was at the office and regenerate and express through what we continue doing. Another important element was the trans-generational and transnational dimension of the community we lived and experienced.</p> <p>A very important and central work during my time in the office was to work on the archives. Important documents, photos, magazines, badges, minutes of meetings, etc., - kept in boxes over decades - were prepared for sending to the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, where they are stored and accessible to study.</p> <p>I would like to finish this succinct account by sharing the image of this sticker that embodies what WRI stands for and what my first project was; to prepare for WRI’s 22nd Triennial Conference that took place in Poreč, 6 months after my arrival. My son designed the badge, Chilean activists and friends joined us in Croatia, a country just emerging from a bloody war. It also took me to my father’s homeland.</p> <p>12 July 2021, Benone, Northern Ireland</p> <h2>Will Todd</h2> <p>Back in 1983, when, in my mid 20s, I was offered work with WRI many friends advised me against taking a peace movement office job - long hours, low pay etc. - but I wanted to do a something that fitted with my beliefs at the time (I’d recently completed an MA in Peace Studies at Bradford University in the UK) and I don't regret it. I would still say if you get this kind of opportunity take it - you will learn a lot about yourself and the things you believe in and how such organisations work in terms of people and power structures. It will be hard and there will be struggles but you will meet some great people on the way and hopefully get to do some small things to make the world a better place.</p> <p>My work consisted mostly of fairly routine office administration (someone has to do it!) but I was involved with running the prisoners of conscience annual campaign which really resonated with me. It was a very down to earth, people-centred type of project and linked very much to the reason why I became interested in pacifism – a friend's soldier brother was killed whilst fighting in the Vietnam war. I was also full of admiration and in awe of the women’s campaign at Greenham which was very active then. At that time (the mid 1980s) we were still very much in the midst of the Cold War, never dreaming that the Berlin Wall would fall in 1989. Since then with the growth of the EU (and despite Brexit) it seems that some bits of the peace movement's work might almost be done. Not that this has put an end to wars/conflicts – rather merely shifting focus geographically and to the underlying neo-colonialism, racism, economic exploitation etc. which fuels these conflicts nationally and internationally.</p> <p>I mentioned meeting and working with some great people - fellow workers and WRI Council members. What struck me most about this group, the WRI ‘team’, was the generational and political (albeit left-wing) diversity of the people, but all somehow mostly, but not always harmoniously, united and coming together with purpose. In my opinion it’s the people that make an organisation and build its success or otherwise. The WRI has had more than its fair share of talented individuals to draw on. For example, Pietro Pinna, a slender man with dark wavy but thinning hair, and who always used to wear a suit or 'smart' clothes (but not a tie) which seemed rather odd in the peace movement. He seemed very old to me back then but was probably only in his late 50s. Quiet but articulate, self-contained and serious, he stood out from other more extrovert Council members. Myrtle Solomon, the chair at the time, in her mid 60’s, a tour de force, with a passion and commitment to the work which was completely infectious; and Howard Clark, in his mid 30s, running the office with such great energy and insight coupled with his lovely humour and wit. Pietro, Myrtle and Howard are, sadly, no longer with us but their legacy is huge and I hold their memory, and that of others far too numerous to mention here, dear. Without a doubt during my time with WRI I learnt much from all these people and gained skills and experience which has stood me in good stead throughout my subsequent career working for the British Council in international cultural relations.</p> <p>September 2021</p> <h2>Javier Garate</h2> <p class="Standard">As I reflect on my time at WRI, I decided to go back to look at the book with photos of my time as a WRI staff and it makes me realise how lucky I was to spend all those years at Cale Road. The images show a recurring theme, which is people gathering together. For me, these were the moments that marked me the most, as these were when our network came alive. I remember my first WRI event in 2003 (before I joined the staff) in Israel for  International Conscientious  ObjectionDay. It really hit me to the core that as I was coming from Chile I was meeting people as far as South Korea, Turkey, Spain, etc. and that even if we came from so different places we had so much in common, in our struggle against militarism. This feeling continued throughout my time at WRI.</p> <p>I remember when I joined the staff I was tasked with two “small” projects, to produce an international handbook on nonviolent campaigns and to launch a global campaign on war profiteers, under the newly set up Nonviolence Programme. I was like, oh shit, what did I get into! Luckily, quickly I realised that even if we were a very small office, there was a whole network out there extremely committed, I was not alone! I think that is the biggest power and magic of WRI. With few resources, we manage to accomplish so much. Throughout my time at WRI, my main goal was to keep that network active, promoting the development of regional networks and uniting people around common goals. Even if I was coordinating at the time the Nonviolence Programme, it was the network that made it flourish.</p> <p>As WRI celebrates its 100th anniversary, I wonder what the future looks like for a network 100 years old. Is what was needed 100 years ago still needed today? What role does a global network like WRI plays in today's world? I do believe there is a need but I am also convinced that it is important to look deep into what role it plays in this extremely interconnected world we live in today.</p> <p>Finally, as I recall my time at WRI, I think of so many friendships, many of them that I keep until today. But inevitably, I think of Howard. 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nonce="6pJZAjR0"></script><p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px">In 2021, we commemorated the 100th year since WRI’s foundation. During the year we held events marking the centennial to reflect on the past, review our present resistance and learn what the coming years hold for our network.</p> <h2>BROKEN RIFLE ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA</h2> <p>The centenary commemoration started on March 23rd when we encouraged our supporters to share Broken Rifles across social media. The Broken Rifle is a symbol used by the antimilitarist movement and War Resisters International since its foundation in 1921. So, from March 23rd to 25th our affiliates and supporters shared various versions and designs of the Broken Rifles on social media. These were some of the Broken Rifles we shared on <a href="file:///C:/Users/ASUS/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Word/•%09https:/www.facebook.com/story.php%3fstory_fbid=5462146947143768&amp;id=116749965016853&amp;m_entstream_source=timeline">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CMzdvouAq8W/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/warresistersint/status/1374765451809599493">Twitter</a> and our <a href="https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2021/broken-rifles-wri100">website</a>.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en">This broken rifle by Ralph Ziman in Cape Town in 2015 has to be the biggest broken rifles ever produced - it filled the city square.</p> <p>To mark our 100th anniversary we're sharing lots of versions of our famous broken rifle symbol. Find out more here: <a href="https://t.co/LsZQdmL7uh">https://t.co/LsZQdmL7uh</a> <a href="https://t.co/u58NEZOBuY">pic.twitter.com/u58NEZOBuY</a></p> <p>— War Resisters' International (@warresistersint) <a href="https://twitter.com/warresistersint/status/1374671080003108868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2021</a></p></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>Here's a video that World without War, one of our affiliates from South Korea, posted on their social media where they made the “Broken Rifle”.</p> <div class="fb-video" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/withoutwar.org/videos/292215679083949" data-show-text="true" data-width="500"> <blockquote cite="https://www.facebook.com/withoutwar.org/videos/292215679083949/" class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><p>전쟁저항자인터내셔널 (WRI, War Resisters' International)의 100주년을 축하하며 "부러진 총"을 만들어보겠습니다. To celebrate WRI's 100th anniversary, we will make the "Broken Rifle". War Resisters' International #WRI100</p> <p>Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/withoutwar.org/">전쟁없는세상 World Without War</a> on Thursday, 25 March 2021</p></blockquote> </div> <h2>CONFLICT TEXTILES EXHIBITION</h2> <p>Also, as part of the centenary, Roberta Bacic, with the support of Breege Doherty, curated an online exhibition of Arpilleras called: <a href="https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/search-quilts2/fullevent1/?id=227">Nonviolence in Action: Antimilitarism in the 21st century.</a> The exhibition comprised 28 pieces and one of them was commissioned specially to mark the centennial. A guided tour of the exhibition pieces took place on March 25th (in English). Later in the year, in October, we organised <a href="https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/search-quilts2/fullevent1/?id=249">a talk (in Spanish)</a> where we learned a little bit more about some of the pieces of this curated collection.  </p> <p>If you missed the exhibition launch from last year, you can watch it here:</p> <div class="fb-video" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/warresistersint/videos/467757174345057/" data-show-text="true" data-width="500"> <blockquote cite="https://www.facebook.com/warresistersint/videos/467757174345057/" class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/warresistersint/videos/467757174345057/">Exhibition launch: Nonviolence in Action</a></p> <p>Our launch event for the conflict textiles exhibition.</p> <p>Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/warresistersint/">War Resisters' International</a> on Thursday, 25 March 2021</p></blockquote> </div> <h2>TIMELINE OF WRI'S HISTORY</h2> <p>A timeline of WRI’s history was created too. In the timeline, we highlighted a few of the key events that illustrate how our organisation has changed and grown since we were formed in 1921. You can still access this timeline <a href="https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2020/wris-history">here</a>.</p> <h2>NONVIOLENCE IN ACTION ONLINE CONFERENCE</h2> <p>Finally, at the end of the year, we organised the online conference Nonviolence in Action. From November 20th to November 28th, we held three plenary sessions where we had the opportunity to explore the past, present, and future of our movement, followed by a discussion space where we had the chance to reflect on the future of the antimilitarist movement and the network.</p> <p>During this week, some of our affiliates and allies facilitated workshops, covering a variety of issues related to militarism, war and violence and the resistance to them. If you missed the plenary presentations or if you would like to review them, you can go <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzOwADMRx7iClAkwvAhCupOP4ekA5U3ia">here</a>. We also recorded some of the workshops.</p> <h2>LOCAL AND AUTONOMOUS EVENTS</h2> <p>As part of the centenary, we encouraged our network to organise their events. Here is a list of some of the events that were held during the year:</p> <h3>Colombia</h3> <p>Esporas de Saberes – Conversations that change the world: Dialogues about antimilitarism, nonviolence and resistance alternatives. You can find the two conversatories (in Spanish) below.</p> <h4>Conversatory #1:</h4> <p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CGVAjyhFvws" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p> <p>Conversatory #2:</p> <p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N5btBkbTkD4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p> <h3>Germany</h3> <p>An exhibition celebrating WRI's 100 years of resistance in Berlin. Click <a href="https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=6274365122588609&amp;id=116749965016853&amp;m_entstream_source=timeline">here</a> to see some pictures from the exhibition.</p> <p> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --> </p><div alt="WRI100 Berlin exhibition" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_half&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="c555bf73-5a56-4295-a7d4-a0c8f02ba8a6" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/berlin.jpg?itok=HXTd4C-X 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/berlin.jpg?itok=HXTd4C-X" alt="WRI100 Berlin exhibition" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /><!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --> <h3>Finland:</h3> <p>AKL and Committee 100 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=5579605618731233&amp;id=116749965016853&amp;m_entstream_source=timeline">online event</a>.</p> <p> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --> </p><div alt="WRI100 Finland event" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_half&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="97ee30dd-8f26-4221-9cf3-37a104198797" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/finland.jpg?itok=J6Z8OjIU 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/finland.jpg?itok=J6Z8OjIU" alt="WRI100 Finland event" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /><!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --> <p style="text-align:justify; 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Source: ramalc.org" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> </picture> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <div class="caption">RAMALC&#039;s meeting in Asunción. Source: ramalc.org</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 07 Feb 2022</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--dynamic-twig-field:node-author-name-twig---custom.html.twig * field--default--node--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig.html.twig * field--default--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig--story.html.twig * field--node--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-dynamic-twig-fieldnode-author-name-twig field--type-ds field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Author(s)</div> <div class="field--item"> <span>Pelao Carvallo</span> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px">The Antimilitarist Network of Latinamerica and the Caribbean (RAMALC by its acronym in Spanish) is closely linked to War Resisters' International (WRI). This link is mutual and sustained: The history of both organizations shows this.</p> <p>RAMALC is a current, living, existing organization, with the difficulties historically faced by antimilitarist organizations of nonviolent direct action that claim to be autonomous and self-managed. That is why its history is under construction and could be a good subject for historians. This history, year by year, shows how the link between RAMALC and WRI is maintained and sustained.</p> <p>RAMALC was created in 2014 at a Latinamerican Antimilitarist gathering in Quito (Ecuador) organised with WRI's support, summarising the coordination, cooperation and mutual regional work that had existed since the 1990s. </p> <p>The first regional group was the ROLC - Network of Conscientious Objection (CO) in Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on the exercise and recognition of the right to CO and its tension with antimilitarism. This network, in broad coordination with WRI, was dominated by institutionalised organisations (NGOs) that aimed more at lobbying and legislative and media pressure, in contrast to the interest of conscientious objectors who aspired more to strategies of insubmission and/or nonviolent direct action.</p> <p>This tension, together with the withdrawal of international cooperation from a large part of South America in the mid and late 1990s, made the continuity of the ROLC unviable, which managed to organise five Latin American meetings (ELOCs<a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftn1" id="_ftnref1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a>), being the last one in Medellín, Colombia in 1999<a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftn2" id="_ftnref2" name="_ftnref2" title="">[2]</a>.</p> <p>In the early 2000s, although the ROLC no longer existed, there were still sub-regional or bilateral meetings of antimilitarist and CO groups. The desire to meet and work together led to the creation of the Coordinadora Latinoamericana Antimilitarista y de Objeción de Conciencia (CLAOC) in the mid-2000s, marking a change of focus. The CLAOC emerged and developed around events on 15 May, International Day of Conscientious Objection: one in 2004 in Santiago (Chile)<a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftn3" id="_ftnref3" name="_ftnref3" title="">[3]</a> organised by WRI and the antimilitarist group <em>Ni Casco Ni Uniforme</em>, and another in 2010 in Asunción (Paraguay) organised together with the organisation <em>La Comuna de Emma</em>,<em> Chana</em> and others<a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftn4" id="_ftnref4" name="_ftnref4" title="">[4]</a>.</p> <p>In addition to these events, the Latin American and Caribbean coordination continues existing in the meetings that the people had in the regional working groups within WRI's Conferences and Assemblies, such as in Padeborn, Germany in 2006 and in Ahmenabad, India in 2010. It was in these physical meetings and in email exchanges, and with the great support of Andreas, Javier, Howard and Dominique (who from the WRI office in those years, showed great interest in supporting Latin American initiatives) that the idea of having an autonomous meeting began to take shape and become a reality. Andreas, for example, maintained an excellent relationship with antimilitarist groups in Colombia, with visits on the ground from time to time.</p> <p>Thus, since 2012, the idea of relaunching The Antimilitarist Coordination in the region was possible thanks to the fact that local activity had never disappeared (although it had diminished in some places) and to WRI's support. In 2014, in Quito, there was a meeting that combined training in Nonviolent Direct Action, strategy and political coordination, creating the network that was named RAMALC. This meeting was marked by government repression of social movements opposed to extractivism, so much so that for security reasons the Nonviolent Direct Action resulting from the training had to be suspended.</p> <p>RAMALC's support and relationship with WRI were maintained and strengthened in the following meetings, as well as in the activity between physical events. In 2015 RAMALC held a meeting in Mexico City. The main activity of this event focused on the anniversary of the disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa, as the date of the event coincided with that first anniversary. For this reason, the training focused on fear in social activism and how to confront it, and the action resulting from the training was immersed in the march to the city's Zócalo, which demanded the return of the 43 students alive, justice and truth, as well as denouncing the responsibility of the State in this event ("It was the State"<a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftn5" id="_ftnref5" name="_ftnref5" title="">[5]</a>).</p> <p>One activity that is part of the work between meetings is the preparation of the next physical event, which is undertaken by a local team, together with the rest of RAMALC, always trying to have a direct or indirect representation from WRI. The positioning in the face of militarisation<a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftn6" id="_ftnref6" name="_ftnref6" title="">[6]</a> and the construction of local networks, local training, Nonviolent Direct Actions, and demilitarisation activism are part of RAMALC's daily activities.</p> <p><em>The Caracolito Group</em> took on the creation of a local organising team for the RAMALC meeting/training in Asunción in November 2017, which concluded with a Direct Action against extractivism disguised as urban development<a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftn7" id="_ftnref7" name="_ftnref7" title="">[7]</a> that mainly affects the urban and semi-urban popular sectors of Latin America and the Caribbean.</p> <p>At each RAMALC meeting, strategic planning and set of objectives for the following period is carried out, which act more as a commitment and stimulus for joint work than a strict guide to be followed.</p> <p>Since 2017, following the Venezuelan uprising, social activism has been on the rise in the region, generating the "Andean Spring"<a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftn8" id="_ftnref8" name="_ftnref8" title="">[8]</a> with social uprisings in Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Peru and briefly in Bolivia. In all this social conflict, the people and groups that are members of RAMALC have actively participated in Direct Actions, trainings and activism of all kinds, always from antimilitarism and Nonviolent Direct Action focus. Likewise, the main part of the actions of this network is the concern for the care of those who, being part of RAMALC and/or WRI in the region, are affected in their freedom and rights<a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftn9" id="_ftnref9" name="_ftnref9" title="">[9]</a> by governments of any sign that repress social protest without contemplation. To this end, coordinated action with WRI is always attempted, as has been the case in Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, Ecuador, Chile, among others.<a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftn10" id="_ftnref10" name="_ftnref10" title="">[10]</a>.</p> <p>In the midst of this "Andean Spring", the RAMALC meeting/training was held in Bogotá (Colombia) in July and August 2019, in coordination with WRI, which at the same time held the Antimilitarism in Movement Conference, as well as its regular Assembly. RAMALC's training, designed in the context of the militarisation of borders in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the migration crisis, was held with difficulties in the Colombian border city of Cúcuta, on the border with Venezuela.</p> <p>The pandemic has slowed down the physical meetings, but it has not stopped RAMALC's anti-militarist action, which from the outset has monitored the use of the pandemic as an excuse for governments to continue militarising the region<a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftn11" id="_ftnref11" name="_ftnref11" title="">[11]</a>; militarisation with an extractivist undertone that they barely conceal. In this, there has been an affinity with WRI.</p> <p>RAMALC develops an anti-militarist activity based on the local action of each participating group and individual, emphasising joint action with WRI, from network to network. This is why these 100 years of WRI are important for this Network, and the fact that there are four RAMALC members on the WRI's board is a sign of this close link based on autonomy and affinity of goals and methods.</p> <hr /><p><a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftnref1" id="_ftn1" name="_ftn1" title="">[1]</a> <a href="http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/press/ecu2.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/press/ecu2.html</a> <a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/story/1997/oc-en-america-latina#Heading11">https://wri-irg.org/es/story/1997/oc-en-america-latina#Heading11</a></p> <p><a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftnref2" id="_ftn2" name="_ftn2" title="">[2]</a> <a href="https://www.antimilitaristasmadrid.org/moc-carabanchel/cain/cain_14.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://www.antimilitaristasmadrid.org/moc-carabanchel/cain/cain_14.htm</a></p> <p><a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftnref3" id="_ftn3" name="_ftn3" title="">[3]</a> <a href="https://wri-irg.org/en/news/2004/icod04-en.htm">https://wri-irg.org/en/news/2004/icod04-en.htm</a></p> <p><a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftnref4" id="_ftn4" name="_ftn4" title="">[4]</a> <a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/story/2010/asuncion-transantimili">https://wri-irg.org/es/story/2010/asuncion-transantimili</a></p> <p><a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftnref5" id="_ftn5" name="_ftn5" title="">[5]</a> <a href="http://ramalc.org/declaracion-de-la-ramalc-en-solidaridad-con-ayotzinapa-y-todos-las-y-los-desaparecidos-de-mexico/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">http://ramalc.org/declaracion-de-la-ramalc-en-solidaridad-con-ayotzinapa-y-todos-las-y-los-desaparecidos-de-mexico/</a></p> <p><a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftnref6" id="_ftn6" name="_ftn6" title="">[6]</a> As an example of this: <a href="http://ramalc.org/no-queremos-mas-armas-para-latinoamerica/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">http://ramalc.org/no-queremos-mas-armas-para-latinoamerica/</a></p> <p><a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftnref7" id="_ftn7" name="_ftn7" title="">[7]</a> <a href="http://ramalc.org/accion-directa-contra-la-militarizacion-de-los-cuerpos-y-territorios-en-asuncion/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">http://ramalc.org/accion-directa-contra-la-militarizacion-de-los-cuerpos-y-territorios-en-asuncion/</a></p> <p><a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftnref8" id="_ftn8" name="_ftn8" title="">[8]</a> <a href="https://www.clacso.org/la-primavera-andina-florece-en-pandemia/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://www.clacso.org/la-primavera-andina-florece-en-pandemia/</a></p> <p><a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftnref9" id="_ftn9" name="_ftn9" title="">[9]</a> <a href="http://ramalc.org/agresion-a-festivales-solidarios-guatemala/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">http://ramalc.org/agresion-a-festivales-solidarios-guatemala/</a></p> <p><a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftnref10" id="_ftn10" name="_ftn10" title="">[10]</a> An example of a coordinated action between RAMALC and WRI <a href="http://ramalc.org/declaracion-de-la-internacional-de-resistentes-a-la-guerra-irg-y-la-red-antimilitarista-de-america-latina-y-el-caribe-ramalc-sobre-la-iniciativa-de-restablecer-el-servicio-militar-obligatorio-en-h/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">http://ramalc.org/declaracion-de-la-internacional-de-resistentes-a-la-guerra-irg-y-la-red-antimilitarista-de-america-latina-y-el-caribe-ramalc-sobre-la-iniciativa-de-restablecer-el-servicio-militar-obligatorio-en-h/</a></p> <p><a href="https://wri-irg.org/es/articulo/2022/el-fuerte-lazo-antimilitarista-la-ramalc-y-la-irg-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe#_ftnref11" id="_ftn11" name="_ftn11" title="">[11]</a> <a href="http://ramalc.org/boletin-no2-covid19-y-militarizacion-de-las-sociedades-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">http://ramalc.org/boletin-no2-covid19-y-militarizacion-de-las-sociedades-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe/</a></p> 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'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Join us for <strong>Nonviolence in Action: Antimilitarism in the 21st century</strong> an online conference bringing together activists from across the international peace movement to learn, strategise and build solidarity.</p> <p>The War Resisters’ International (WRI) network – and the whole international peace movement - finds itself at an important crossroads. Over the last hundred years we have been resisting war and its causes. In that time the nature of war has itself changed beyond all recognition, and our resistance has also changed, broadened and adapted. WRI works with many groups, organisations and individuals all over the world, supporting, connecting, learning, resisting. Nonviolence in Action will bring us together to reflect, learn and challenge one another to develop more effective strategies for taking nonviolent action against war and its causes.</p> <table align="center"> <tbody> <tr align="center"> <td><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/en/node/42443/" role="button">Click here to register for Nonviolence in Action plenary sessions</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <center><a class="btn btn-primary" href="#workshops" role="button">Click here to register for workshops</a></center> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr /> <p>The event will run between two weekends. Plenaries will be delivered by a number of speakers sharing their experiences and ideas. Discussion spaces will be participatory discussion spaces (we have timed these to allow people from both hemisphere’s to join at sociable times) to reflect on the issues raised in the plenaries. Workshops will be on more specific themes, issues and causes.</p> <p>The plenaries are public events open to anyone to attend, and will be held simultaneously in English and Spanish. Some of the other events are restricted to members of War Resisters' International and our member organisations. If you are not a member but would like to attend please email <a href="mailto:info@wri-irg.org">info@wri-irg.org</a>.</p> <h1>Schedule</h1> <p><em>Please note the times given are in UTC - you will need to check the times according to your own time zone.</em></p> <p><em>Speakers are listed below, <a href="/en/story/2021/nonviolence-action-speaker-profiles">you can see their full profiles here</a>.</em></p> <style type="text/css">.tg {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;} .tg td{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; overflow:hidden;padding:12px 9px;word-break:normal;} .tg th{border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px; font-weight:normal;overflow:hidden;padding:12px 9px;word-break:normal;} .tg .tg-9z9h{background-color:#cfe1e2;border-color:#000000;text-align:left;vertical-align:top} .tg .tg-hqwp{background-color:#98c6ca;border-color:#000000;text-align:left;vertical-align:top} .tg .tg-a8qb{background-color:#5ea8ad;border-color:#000000;text-align:left;vertical-align:top} .tg .tg-f7v4{background-color:#c0c0c0;border-color:#000000;text-align:left;vertical-align:top} .tg .tg-73oq{border-color:#000000;text-align:left;vertical-align:top} </style> <table class="tg" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="tg-73oq" width="16.66%">&nbsp;</td> <td class="tg-73oq" width="16.66%">Saturday 20th November</td> <td class="tg-73oq" width="16.66%">Sunday 21st November</td> <td class="tg-73oq" width="16.66%">Monday 22 - Friday 26th Nov</td> <td class="tg-73oq" width="16.66%">Saturday 27th November</td> <td class="tg-73oq" width="16.66%">Sunday 28th November</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-73oq">2-4pm UTC</td> <td class="tg-a8qb"><strong>Plenary: </strong>100 years resisting war and its causes</td> <td class="tg-hqwp"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none"><strong>Plenary: </strong>Resisting militarism today</span></td> <td class="tg-f7v4" rowspan="1"><strong>Workshops</strong> (see below for more details)</td> <td class="tg-9z9h"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none"><strong>Plenary:</strong> Sustaining our resistance</span></td> <td class="tg-73oq"><strong>Discussion space: </strong>What's next?&nbsp;A space to reflect on the future of the antimilitarist movement.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h2>Saturday 20th November&nbsp;- 100 years of resisting war and its causes,&nbsp;<strong>2-4pm UTC</strong></h2> <p><em>Speakers:</em></p> <ul> <li>Wolfgang Hertle</li> <li>Joanne Sheehan</li> <li>Roberta Bacic</li> <li>Igor Seke</li> </ul> <h2>Sunday 21st November -&nbsp;Resisting militarism today,&nbsp;<strong>2-4pm UTC</strong></h2> <p><em>Speakers:</em></p> <ul> <li>Ray Acheson</li> <li>Dr. Sam Perlo Freeman</li> <li>Rosa Moiwend</li> </ul> <h2 id="workshops">Monday 22nd – Friday 26th November - Workshops</h2> <table style="box-sizing: border-box; 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padding: 0px; text-align: left; width: 472px;"><font size="2">Zoom registration link</font></th> </tr> </thead><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 146px;"><font size="2">Mon 22nd Nov</font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 156px;"><font size="2">14:00 UTC</font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 280px;"><font size="2"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Building a new world in the shell of the old (1): </strong>an introduction to Constructive Programme*</font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 472px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="2"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pduyuqTotE9V6JGStzISoT9Hms2u1n13T%C2%A0" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(127, 54, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Click here to register</a></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 146px;"><font size="2">Mon 22nd Nov</font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 156px;"><font size="2">18:30 UTC</font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 280px;"><font size="2"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">#CutThePentagon and Divest from the War Machine: </strong>learn more about CODEPINK's commitment to building a feminist anti-war movement and tactics from organizing success stories. </font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 472px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="2"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIld-yvqzspGNH0ooq3zNEJo9q2pcZ2b3nU" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(127, 54, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Click here to register</a></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 146px;"><font size="2">Tues 23rd Nov</font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 156px;"><font size="2">00:00 UTC (7pm EST on Monday)</font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 280px;"><font size="2"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Building a new world in the shell of the old (2): </strong>an introduction to Constructive Programme*</font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 472px;"><font size="2"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvcu2hqDooGtCyoV7QBxC0NoagQHQY4bR5" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(127, 54, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Click here to register</a> </font></td> </tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 146px;"><font size="2">Weds 24th Nov</font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 156px;"><font size="2">19:30 UTC</font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 280px;"><font size="2"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">International peace issues in Northern Ireland</strong></font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 472px;"><font size="2">For more information, visit: <a href="https://innatenonviolence.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Bits-Peaces-flyer-21.11-final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(127, 54, 0); text-decoration: underline;" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://innatenonviolence.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Bits-Peaces-flyer-21.11-final.pdf</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><font size="2">Weds 24th Nov</font></td> <td valign="top"><font size="2">23:00 UTC</font><br> </td> <td valign="top"><font size="2"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"></strong></font><b><span style="caret-color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Resisting Arms Fairs: Sharing Strategies (Spanish and English - Interpretation available)</span></b></font></td> <td valign="top"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SAUgKbySROWEfpxDMBPqhQ"><font size="2"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SAUgKbySROWEfpxDMBPqhQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(127, 54, 0); text-decoration: underline;" moz-do-not-send="true">Click here to register</a></font><font size="2"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkce6uqzoiHdaiZEjuXIVjHwOUAtMegQC_" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(127, 54, 0); text-decoration: underline;"></a></font></a></td> </tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 146px;"><font size="2">Thurs 25th Nov</font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 156px;"><font size="2">14:00 UTC</font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 280px;"><font size="2"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Save Sinjajevina!</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Montenegrin movement that stopped a NATO training base</font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 472px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="2"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkce6uqzoiHdaiZEjuXIVjHwOUAtMegQC_" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(127, 54, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Click here to register</a></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="middle"><font size="2">Thurs 25th Nov</font></td> <td valign="middle"><font size="2">21:00 UTC</font><br> </td> <td valign="middle"><font size="2"><b>Resisting the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline (TBC)</font>: </b>how the Wet'suwet'en First Nations people are resisting a gas pipeline.<br> </font></td> <td valign="middle"><font size="2"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcodOysqzIqG9MmUA1NASBJgb7G4oTKXww-" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(127, 54, 0); text-decoration: underline;" moz-do-not-send="true">Click here to register</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="middle"><font size="2">Friday 26th Nov</font></td> <td valign="middle"><font size="2">9:00 UTC<br> </font> </td> <td valign="middle"><font size="2"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Intersectional Antimilitarism: mobilising everyone for peace</strong><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;"> </span></font> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="2">A discussion of the importance of holistic organising in antimilitarist struggles</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle"><font size="2"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMocu2srDMiG9Qtjzd1eTxKgwB39E4n958J" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(127, 54, 0); text-decoration: underline; font-family: &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Click here to register</a></font></td> </tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 146px;"><font size="2">Friday 26th Nov</font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 156px;"><font size="2">13:30 UTC</font></td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 280px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="2"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Return of Conscription? </strong>an online workshop on the debates around the reintroduction of conscription in different countries and and how antimilitarists and peace activists are responding.</font></p> </td> <td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; width: 472px;"><font size="2"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcodeivrjIsH9QDMbu9Sf5LQ-VANzeJroXa" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(127, 54, 0); text-decoration: underline;">Click here to register</a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><font size="2">Friday 26th Nov<br> </font> </td> <td valign="top"><font size="2">16:00 UTC<br> </font> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><font size="2"><b>Actions against recruitment in Colombia</font>: </b>A talk to know about what is happening in Colombia with arbitrary detentions for recruitment purposes and forms of resistance to militarism in Colombia<b> </b>(Spanish with interpretation into English)</font></p> </td> <td valign="top"><font size="2"> <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc-2urDsjHdd-Jy0HBzzDDjLShMcBF7F7">Click here to register</a><br> </font> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>* We will run the "building a new shell" workshop twice.</p> <h2>Saturday 27th November -&nbsp;Sustaining our resistance,&nbsp;<strong>2-4pm UTC</strong>&nbsp;</h2> <p><em>Speakers:</em></p> <ul> <li>Stellan Vinthagen</li> <li>Sarah Reader &amp; Carrie Hou</li> <li>Andrea Ixchíu</li> </ul> <h2>Sunday 28th November - Discussion space</h2> <p><strong>2-4pm UTC:</strong>&nbsp;What's next?&nbsp;A space to reflect on the future of the antimilitarist movement.</p> <h1>Costs</h1> <p>All of the events are free to attend, but organising large international events, even online, does incur costs - Zoom accounts, interpretation, etc. For those able we suggest a £10/$10/€10 donation towards the running costs of this event.&nbsp;If you feel able to donate to support this event, and WRI more generally, <a href="/en/support-WRI">please click here</a>.</p> <h1>Registration</h1> <p>Click the button below to register for the public plenaries. If you would like to join a discussion group but are not a member of a WRI affiliate, please email us at <a href="mailto:info@wri-irg.org">info@wri-irg.org</a>. We will share details for workshops soon.</p> <table align="center"> <tbody> <tr align="center"> <td><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/en/node/42443/" role="button">Click here to register for Nonviolence in Action</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h1>Interpretation</h1> <p>All of the events will be in English. 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I am a writer and activist, and member of the AJ Muste Institute board of directors.</p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderLinks" arguments="0=51514&amp;1=default&amp;2=en&amp;3=" token="E2y47JM14w2ewzOEc1_-dK5CG8NQrspfwg7NPr4x8m8"></drupal-render-placeholder> </div> </article> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/comment/comment.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'comment__comment__story' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * comment--comment--story.html.twig * comment--comment.html.twig x comment.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/comment/comment.html.twig' --> <article data-comment-user-id="0" id="comment-52421" about="/en/comment/52421" typeof="schema:Comment" class="js-comment" data-comment-user-id="0" id="comment-52421" about="/en/comment/52421" typeof="schema:Comment" class="js-comment comments"> <mark class="hidden" data-comment-timestamp="1636648297"></mark> <div> <h3 property="schema:name" datatype=""><a href="/en/comment/52421#comment-52421" class="permalink" rel="bookmark" hreflang="en">241 School Place,, Third Floor</a></h3> <footer> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'user' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * user--compact.html.twig x user.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/user/templates/user.html.twig' --> <article typeof="schema:Person" about="/user/0"> </article> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/user/templates/user.html.twig' --> <p> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'rdf_wrapper' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/rdf/templates/rdf-wrapper.html.twig' --> <span rel="schema:author">Submitted by <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/user/templates/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" content="Catherine-Anne McCloskey">Catherine-Anne… (not verified)</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/user/templates/username.html.twig' --> on Wed, 10 Nov 2021 - 02:10</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/rdf/templates/rdf-wrapper.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'rdf_metadata' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/rdf/templates/rdf-metadata.html.twig' --> <span property="schema:dateCreated" content="2021-11-10T02:10:33+00:00" class="hidden"></span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/rdf/templates/rdf-metadata.html.twig' --> </p> <a href="/en/comment/52421#comment-52421" hreflang="en">Permalink</a> </footer> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--comment-body--default.html.twig * field--comment--comment-body--comment.html.twig * field--comment--comment-body.html.twig * field--comment--comment.html.twig * field--comment-body.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div property="schema:text" class="field field--name-comment-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Looking forward to the event.</p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderLinks" arguments="0=52421&amp;1=default&amp;2=en&amp;3=" token="NGF8PUDEEc6hOuYavuAX6Ndj9iKioWDuAAb0cI8qQNk"></drupal-render-placeholder> </div> </article> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/comment/comment.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'pager' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/pager.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/pager.html.twig' --> </section> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Thu, 02 Sep 2021 10:44:30 +0000 Andrew 42441 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/nonviolence-in-action#comments WRI: 100 years resisting war and its causes https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2021/wri-100-years-resisting-war-and-its-causes <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--42380.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="42380" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-image--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-image--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-image.html.twig * field--expert--field-image--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-image.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-image--story.html.twig * field--node--field-image.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-image.html.twig * field--image.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <picture> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_desktop/public/2021-03/screenshot_2021-03-23_at_12.38.02.png?itok=dY4sjaLB 1x" media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" type="image/png"/> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_mobiles_and_tablets/public/2021-03/screenshot_2021-03-23_at_12.38.02.png?itok=Mr55IAlC 1x" type="image/png"/> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_mobiles_and_tablets/public/2021-03/screenshot_2021-03-23_at_12.38.02.png?itok=Mr55IAlC" alt="WRI100 Logo" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> </picture> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <div class="caption"></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 23 Mar 2021</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Today is our 100th anniversary! Our international network of pacifist and antimilitarists was formed on 23-25 March 1921 at a meeting in Bilthoven, the Netherlands. Since then we have grown into a global network of war resisters with over 90 affiliated groups across 40 countries committed to our founding declaration:</p> <p>"War is a crime against humanity. I am therefore determined not to support any kind of war, and to strive for the removal of all causes of war."</p> <p>To mark our 100th anniversary, for the next three days we're going to be sharing some of the creative, beautiful examples of the Broken Rifle that WRI and our friends and allies around the world have created over the last 100 years. </p> <p><strong>Here are a few ways to mark the centenary with us:</strong></p> <ul><li><b>Post a broken rifle image on social media</b> - You can find lots of different versions of our famous logo <a href="https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2021/broken-rifles-wri100" moz-do-not-send="true">here</a>. Use the #WRI100 hashtag and tag with our social media profiles.</li> <li><b>Join us on 25th March for the launch of an exhibition of "conflict textiles"</b> - we'll be given a guided tour of the Nonviolence in Action exhibition at 1:30pm UTC. More details about the Zoom webinar event <a href="https://wri-irg.org/en/event/2021-03/exhibition-launch-conflict-textiles-exhibition-nonviolence-action" moz-do-not-send="true">are available here</a>.</li> <li><b>Set up a regular gift to WRI</b> - we're aiming to find 100 new donors, to mark the 100 years we've been resisting war and its causes. <a href="https://wri-irg.org/en/support-WRI" moz-do-not-send="true">Find out more here</a>.</li> <li><b>Learn more about WRI's history</b> - we have a timeline of key information on our website <a href="https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2020/wris-history" moz-do-not-send="true">here</a>.</li> </ul></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-programmes-projects--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Programmes &amp; Projects</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/wri100" hreflang="en">WRI100</a></span> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/programmes/wri-network" hreflang="en">WRI network</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--comment--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--comment.html.twig * field--default--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--comment.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig x field--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--node--comment.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--comment.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> <section class="comments"> <h2>Add new comment</h2> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderForm" arguments="0=node&amp;1=42380&amp;2=comment&amp;3=comment" token="G8MrXeVZRGmC68elxyX8sddw4OC0td2FFanGfs_mlSM"></drupal-render-placeholder> </section> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:18:22 +0000 cmoy 42380 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2021/wri-100-years-resisting-war-and-its-causes#comments Conflict Textiles exhibition: Nonviolence in Action: Antimilitarism in the 21st Century https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2021/conflict-textiles-exhibition-nonviolence-action-antimilitarism-21st-century <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--42358.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="42358" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 23 Feb 2021</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Roberta Bacic - a previous WRI staff member who has developed the Conflict Textiles collection  <a href="https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/" target="_blank">https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/</a>  has curated, with the assistance of Breege Doherty, an online exhibition of textiles (arpilleras, quilts and wall hangings) that will be hosted on the WRI website. Arpilleras (pronounced ‘ar-pee-air-ahs’) are appliquéd tapestries that originated in Chile and have since been used by women across the world to explore themes of war, conflict, nonviolence, and protest.</p> <p>This exhibition <strong>Nonviolence in Action: Antimilitarism in the 21st Century</strong> marking the 100th anniversary of WRI is comprised of 28 pieces. These arpilleras, quilts and wall hangings bring us face to face with the courageous denouncement, resistance and nonviolent actions of many of us in various continents who, with our families and communities have experienced the human cost of war. The textile <a href="https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/search-results1/fulltextiles1?id=436">Centenary 2021 War Resisters' International/ Internacional de Resistentes a la Guerra</a> has been specially commissioned to mark the centennial.</p> <p>You can browse the exhibition below. For more details on any of the textiles please visit: <a href="https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/search-quilts2/fullevent1/?id=227">https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/search-quilts2/fullevent1/?id=227</a></p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-juicebox-gallery--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--field-juicebox-gallery--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--field-juicebox-gallery.html.twig * field--default--field-juicebox-gallery--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--field-juicebox-gallery.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig x field--juicebox-relative-width.html.twig * field--node--field-juicebox-gallery--story.html.twig * field--node--field-juicebox-gallery.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-juicebox-gallery.html.twig * field--image.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/juicebox/templates/field--juicebox-relative-width.html.twig' --> <div> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'juicebox_embed_markup' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/juicebox/templates/juicebox-embed-markup.html.twig' --> <div class="juicebox-parent"> <div id="node--42358--field-juicebox-gallery--rss" class="juicebox-container"> <noscript> <!-- Image gallery content for non-javascript devices --> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-03/wri-irg-centenary-0321-ph-1-comp.jpg?itok=x9T1zI1K" alt="Centenary 2021 War Resisters&#039; International / Internacional de Resistentes a la Guerra, English arpillera, Linda Adams, 2021, Photo Pamela Hayes Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Centenary 2021 War Resisters&#039; International / Internacional de Resistentes a la Guerra, English arpillera, Linda Adams, 2021, Photo Pamela Hayes Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/01_broken-rifle2-1019-mm-copyright-added.jpg?itok=eqgHut4Y" alt="Broken Rifle 2, Northern Ireland arpillera, Irene MacWilliam, 2013, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Broken Rifle 2, Northern Ireland arpillera, Irene MacWilliam, 2013, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/02_img_9029_f-soldiers-copyright-added.jpg?itok=_D0_e1c-" alt="Soldiers back from the wars (1/4) - Arpillera trilogy, English arpillera, Linda Adams, 2010, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Soldiers back from the wars (1/4) - Arpillera trilogy, English arpillera, Linda Adams, 2010, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-03/soldiers-back-war-attack.jpg?itok=nOQPcfyT" alt="Soldiers back from the wars (2/4) – Attack, English arpillera, Linda Adams, 2010, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Soldiers back from the wars (2/4) – Attack, English arpillera, Linda Adams, 2010, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-03/soldiers-back-war-ghost.jpg?itok=8GDGmITL" alt="Soldiers back from the wars (3/4) – Ghost, English arpillera, Linda Adams, 2010, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Soldiers back from the wars (3/4) – Ghost, English arpillera, Linda Adams, 2010, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-03/soldiers-back-war-return.jpg?itok=Mch4bHnC" alt="Soldiers back from the wars (4/4) – Return, English arpillera, Linda Adams, 2010, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Soldiers back from the wars (4/4) – Return, English arpillera, Linda Adams, 2010, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/03_executed-at-dawn-photo-m.jpg?itok=UZPqX-R9" alt="Executed at dawn, Northern Ireland quilt, Irene MacWilliam, 2009, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Executed at dawn, Northern Ireland quilt, Irene MacWilliam, 2009, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/04_lost-children-of-war-mm.jpg?itok=k4qPDCxX" alt="Lost Children of war, Northern Ireland arpillera, Irene MacWilliam, 2009, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Lost Children of war, Northern Ireland arpillera, Irene MacWilliam, 2009, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/05_freedom-pol-prisoners-0419-mmimg_8116_lr.jpg?itok=jMDWy2nC" alt="Libertad a los presos políticos / Freedom for the political prisoners, Chilean arpillera, Anonymous , c1985, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection. Provenance Kinderhilfe arpillera collection, Chile/Bonn" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Libertad a los presos políticos / Freedom for the political prisoners, Chilean arpillera, Anonymous , c1985, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection. Provenance Kinderhilfe arpillera collection, Chile/Bonn</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/06_walking-to-death-mm.jpg?itok=2QcWFoY8" alt="Walking to Death, Northern Ireland quilt, Helen Herron, 2003, Photo Martin Melaugh, Helen Herron collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Walking to Death, Northern Ireland quilt, Helen Herron, 2003, Photo Martin Melaugh, Helen Herron collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/07_exilio-de-los-republicanos-.jpg?itok=YAUHU8oj" alt="Exilio de los Republicanos cruzando los Pirineos / Exile of the Republicans crossing the Pyrenees, Catalonian / Spanish arpillera, Arpilleristas Fundació Ateneu Sant Roc, 2012, Photo Roser Corbera, Fundació Ateneu Sant Roc collection, Catalonia/Spain" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Exilio de los Republicanos cruzando los Pirineos / Exile of the Republicans crossing the Pyrenees, Catalonian / Spanish arpillera, Arpilleristas Fundació Ateneu Sant Roc, 2012, Photo Roser Corbera, Fundació Ateneu Sant Roc collection, Catalonia/Spain</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/08_blutspur-scan.jpg?itok=f1oyQFRE" alt="Blutspur / Blood trail, German Wall hanging, Heidi Drahota, 2011, Photo Claus Sperr , Heidi Drahota collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Blutspur / Blood trail, German Wall hanging, Heidi Drahota, 2011, Photo Claus Sperr , Heidi Drahota collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/09_auf-der-flucht-1945-mm.jpg.jpg?itok=HEOgdBH2" alt="Auf der Flucht 1945 / Fleeing in 1945, German arpillera, Mara Loytved-Hardegg, 2010, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Auf der Flucht 1945 / Fleeing in 1945, German arpillera, Mara Loytved-Hardegg, 2010, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/10_aleppo-school-1019-mm.jpg?itok=WXjRQfqj" alt="Aleppo school / Escuela en Aleppo, Siria, English arpillera, Linda Adams, 2016, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Aleppo school / Escuela en Aleppo, Siria, English arpillera, Linda Adams, 2016, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/11_where-are-they-mm.jpg?itok=XJ1TkYV6" alt="¿Dónde están? / Where are they? Chilean arpillera, Anonymous, 1980s, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection. Provenance Theresa Wolfwood, Victoria, Canada" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">¿Dónde están? / Where are they? Chilean arpillera, Anonymous, 1980s, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection. Provenance Theresa Wolfwood, Victoria, Canada</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/12_exilio-ii-exile-ii-cp.jpg?itok=Ta3MAFjl" alt="Exilio ll / Exile II (Woman mourning those who have been exiled), Chilean arpillera, Anonymous , c1984, Photo Colin Peck, Marjorie Agosín collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Exilio ll / Exile II (Woman mourning those who have been exiled), Chilean arpillera, Anonymous , c1984, Photo Colin Peck, Marjorie Agosín collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/13_digital-death-1019-mm.jpg?itok=4yGng0gj" alt="Digital Death, Irish arpillera, Deborah Stockdale, 2014, Photo Martin Melaugh, Deborah Stockdale collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Digital Death, Irish arpillera, Deborah Stockdale, 2014, Photo Martin Melaugh, Deborah Stockdale collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/24_en-el-lado-bueno-de-la-valla-rc.jpg?itok=I6HdiPUn" alt="En el lado “bueno” de la valla / On the “Good&quot; Side of the Fence, Spanish arpillera, Antonia Amador, 2015, Photo Roser Corbera, Conflict Textiles Collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">En el lado “bueno” de la valla / On the “Good&quot; Side of the Fence, Spanish arpillera, Antonia Amador, 2015, Photo Roser Corbera, Conflict Textiles Collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/15_the-war-and-the-different-ways-of-suffering-mzs-lr.jpg?itok=Jw94Iknx" alt="La guerra y las distintas formas de padecerla / The war and its different layers of suffering, Catalonian / Spanish arpillera, Luz Ferran Latorre, participant of the Casal de barri Congrés-Indians arpillera group, Barcelona, 2016, Photo Mariona Zaragoza Saltó, Courtesy of Luz Ferran Latorre, Catalonia / Spain" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">La guerra y las distintas formas de padecerla / The war and its different layers of suffering, Catalonian / Spanish arpillera, Luz Ferran Latorre, participant of the Casal de barri Congrés-Indians arpillera group, Barcelona, 2016, Photo Mariona Zaragoza Saltó, Courtesy of Luz Ferran Latorre, Catalonia / Spain</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/16_desplazamient-mm.jpg?itok=cyK6bPDi" alt="Desplazamiento / Displacement, Colombian arpillera, Mujeres tejiendo sueños y sabores de paz , 2010, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Desplazamiento / Displacement, Colombian arpillera, Mujeres tejiendo sueños y sabores de paz , 2010, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/17_landmines1019-mm.jpg?itok=wsr9XEKR" alt="Landmines, German arpillera, Heidi Drahota, 2014, Photo Martin Melaugh , Heidi Drahota collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Landmines, German arpillera, Heidi Drahota, 2014, Photo Martin Melaugh , Heidi Drahota collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/18_cuatro-alamos-torture-centre-lr-eg.jpg?itok=CI8Qie9C" alt="Centro de Torturas Cuatro Alamos / Cuatro Alamos torture centre, Chilean arpillera, Aurora Ortiz , 2014, Photo Eva Gonzalez, Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Centro de Torturas Cuatro Alamos / Cuatro Alamos torture centre, Chilean arpillera, Aurora Ortiz , 2014, Photo Eva Gonzalez, Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/19_der08qlt_iri10_0995-l.jpg.jpg?itok=xVHa-DZH" alt="Peace Quilt - Common Loss, Northern Ireland quilt, Irene MacWilliam, 1996, Photo Martin Melaugh, Irene MacWilliam collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Peace Quilt - Common Loss, Northern Ireland quilt, Irene MacWilliam, 1996, Photo Martin Melaugh, Irene MacWilliam collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/20_gaza-tb.jpg?itok=8-zhffdR" alt="Gaza, English arpillera, Linda Adams, 2014, Photo Tony Boyle, Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Gaza, English arpillera, Linda Adams, 2014, Photo Tony Boyle, Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/21_demonstration-against-tortu.jpg?itok=3ggCGDEy" alt="En Chile se tortura / Demonstration against torture, Chilean arpillera, Violeta Morales, 1988, Photo Martin Melaugh, Oshima Hakko Museum collection, Japan. In the care of Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">En Chile se tortura / Demonstration against torture, Chilean arpillera, Violeta Morales, 1988, Photo Martin Melaugh, Oshima Hakko Museum collection, Japan. In the care of Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/22_-movimiento-contra-la-tortura-mm.jpg?itok=3knjNHlR" alt="Movimiento contra la tortura / Movement against torture, Chilean arpillera, Anonymous, 1989, Photo Martin Melaugh, Oshima Hakko Museum collection, Japan. In the care of Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Movimiento contra la tortura / Movement against torture, Chilean arpillera, Anonymous, 1989, Photo Martin Melaugh, Oshima Hakko Museum collection, Japan. In the care of Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/23_img_9034_f-mm-1.jpg?itok=OslE2xy1" alt="La Cueca Sola / Dancing Cueca alone, Chilean arpillera, Anonymous, 1989, Photo Martin Melaugh, Oshima Hakko Museum collection, Japan. In the care of Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">La Cueca Sola / Dancing Cueca alone, Chilean arpillera, Anonymous, 1989, Photo Martin Melaugh, Oshima Hakko Museum collection, Japan. In the care of Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/-lime-kilns-of-lonquen-ph.jpg?itok=qB4xFliz" alt="Hornos de Lonquén / Lime kilns of Lonquén, Chilean arpillera, Anonymous, 1979, Photo Tony Boyle, Conflict Textiles collection. Provenance Joanne Sheehan, USA" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Hornos de Lonquén / Lime kilns of Lonquén, Chilean arpillera, Anonymous, 1979, Photo Tony Boyle, Conflict Textiles collection. Provenance Joanne Sheehan, USA</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/25_rape-is-a-crime-mm.jpg?itok=IWODtU_F" alt="Violar es un crimen / Rape is a crime, Peruvian arpillera, MH, Mujeres Creativas workshop, 2008, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">Violar es un crimen / Rape is a crime, Peruvian arpillera, MH, Mujeres Creativas workshop, 2008, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/26_.-no-going-back-photo-mm-copyright-added.jpg?itok=3Oo1Lylb" alt="No going back, Northern Ireland arpillera, Sonia Copeland, 2009, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">No going back, Northern Ireland arpillera, Sonia Copeland, 2009, Photo Martin Melaugh, Conflict Textiles collection</span> </p> <p class="jb-image"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/juicebox_small/public/2021-02/27_small-actions-big-movements.jpg?itok=VdiRGnlj" alt="SMALL Actions BIG Movements, English arpillera, Linda Adams, 2014, Photo Martin Melaugh, Roberta Bacic private collection" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <br/> <span class="jb-title"></span><br/> <span class="jb-caption">SMALL Actions BIG Movements, English arpillera, Linda Adams, 2014, Photo Martin Melaugh, Roberta Bacic private collection</span> </p> </noscript> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/juicebox/templates/juicebox-embed-markup.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/juicebox/templates/field--juicebox-relative-width.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-programmes-projects--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Programmes &amp; Projects</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/wri100" hreflang="en">WRI100</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--comment--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--comment.html.twig * field--default--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--comment.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig x field--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--node--comment.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--comment.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> <section class="comments"> <h2>Add new comment</h2> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderForm" arguments="0=node&amp;1=42358&amp;2=comment&amp;3=comment" token="SVrigI7dxuN7FoPBbwYuvO_4QO_BRxjd9k5xvOGe05A"></drupal-render-placeholder> </section> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:37:42 +0000 Andrew 42358 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2021/conflict-textiles-exhibition-nonviolence-action-antimilitarism-21st-century#comments Getting organised for WRI's centenary https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2020/getting-organised-wris-centenary <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--42216.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="42216" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-image--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-image--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-image.html.twig * field--expert--field-image--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-image.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-image--story.html.twig * field--node--field-image.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-image.html.twig * field--image.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <picture> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_desktop/public/2021-03/wri-100-onlylogo.png?itok=PK6nl-rH 1x" media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" type="image/png"/> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_mobiles_and_tablets/public/2021-03/wri-100-onlylogo.png?itok=EIcPD1LK 1x" type="image/png"/> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_mobiles_and_tablets/public/2021-03/wri-100-onlylogo.png?itok=EIcPD1LK" alt="WRI100 logo" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> </picture> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <div class="caption"></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 29 Oct 2020</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>We are excited to be preparing for WRI’s 100th anniversary! As part of it, we are working on a number of events and activities (online for now) to mark this important date. </p> <p>But just as important are plans to hold a number of autonomous local events throughout the year. Our network’s involvement in WRI’s 100th anniversary is vital. We believe, the local events would reflect the diversity and scope of our network at its best. In order to achieve this, we would need your support and involvement. </p> <p>Below are a number of ways you can get involved and celebrate WRI's centenary with your autonomous local events.</p> <p><strong>Email info@wri-irg.org if you would like more information with the title 'WRI100 Local Events'</strong></p> <h1>Examples of WRI100 events / What can you do?</h1> <p>We are aware most of you are working with limited capacity and already have a busy schedule for the next year. We are hoping the ideas below might help to give you a better idea of how you can get involved.</p> <p>Please note, we are not expecting history-focused events (unless you would prefer to do), but events/actions focusing on our campaigning today. Also, you might already have activities planned for next year and you might consider linking them with WRI100. Here are possible activities you might consider:</p> <ul><li>Organise a seminar, public forum or webinar on different militarist issues: Inform the public about your activism, key issues to focus, and encourage more people to take action against militarisation. WRI office might be able to help you find speakers. Also for webinars, WRI office can assist you technically and provide necessary tools for it.</li> <li>Nonviolent direct actions: Organise an action at one of the pillars that sustains militarism / one of the actors in the war machine. For example targeting an arms company, military recruitment centres, military bases, arms fairs</li> <li>Organise a photo exhibition in your area of anti-militarist resistance: past and present. WRI office is working on an exhibition at the moment which we are hoping to make it available in early 2021.</li> <li>Organise a film screening and discussion on the “war machine” and how our governments and companies are complicit - come up with a list of films and sympathetic directors who would support WRI100</li> <li>Organise a strategy workshop on “How to campaign against militarism in 2021” - We could provide ideas of a strategy workshop plan / tools groups can use</li> <li>Organise a direct action training on how to resist militarism</li> <li>Online action: Post on social media with the hashtags #WRI100 or #IRG100 and share from your campaigns linking to WRI100 (or relevant updates from your countries) and spread your word and resistance.</li> <li>Celebrate your previous work: Organise a celebration gathering to celebrate 100 years of international anti-war resistance and everything your group has done. Tell us about your work, and we can post it on our website wri-irg.org, and on social media. </li> <li>Publish articles and interviews about militarisation and/or resistance to it in your country, inform others and help us expand our international solidarity.</li> </ul><p>Not sure what to do? Get in touch with us! We can discuss action ideas with you, or put you in touch with others in your country who are already planning something.</p> <h1>What can WRI office to do support?</h1> <ul><li>Offer a speaker for an online or physical event</li> <li>Using WRI zoom account for your webinars</li> <li>Help with translation and possibly interpretation</li> <li>Link you up with other WRI groups organising similar activities</li> <li>Send you printed material (including WRI flyers)</li> <li>Provide access to an online timeline and exhibition of WRI history</li> </ul><h1>What does it mean to organise a ‘WRI100’ event?</h1> <p>In your events, we would be glad if you:</p> <ul><li>Use the WRI100 logo (which we will share with you later this year) in your publicity and communications.</li> <li>Make a mention of WRI and its 100th anniversary as well as your affiliation with our international network.</li> <li>And make WRI co-host for your events on social media, as well as using the hashtags #WRI100 and #IRG100</li> </ul><p><strong>Email info@wri-irg.org if you would like more information.</strong></p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-programmes-projects--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Programmes &amp; Projects</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/465" hreflang="en">Front Page</a></span> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/wri100" hreflang="en">WRI100</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--comment--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--comment.html.twig * field--default--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--comment.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig x field--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--node--comment.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--comment.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> <section class="comments"> <h2>Add new comment</h2> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderForm" arguments="0=node&amp;1=42216&amp;2=comment&amp;3=comment" token="qyHrp0-rhRdAoBQlz6nzdiJSgSSHFosI9ILIBdPesmc"></drupal-render-placeholder> </section> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:12:47 +0000 Andrew 42216 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2020/getting-organised-wris-centenary#comments A brief history of WRI's Women Working Group https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2020/brief-history-wris-women-working-group <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--42071.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="42071" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-image--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-image--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-image.html.twig * field--expert--field-image--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-image.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-image--story.html.twig * field--node--field-image.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-image.html.twig * field--image.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <picture> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_desktop/public/2020-04/wri_women_gathering_2004.jpg?itok=KNyWTXml 1x" media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" type="image/jpeg"/> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_mobiles_and_tablets/public/2020-04/wri_women_gathering_2004.jpg?itok=Xh7F1xdp 1x" type="image/jpeg"/> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_mobiles_and_tablets/public/2020-04/wri_women_gathering_2004.jpg?itok=Xh7F1xdp" alt="WRI Women Gathering" title="International gathering of women trainers - “Asking the Right Questions: Gender and Nonviolence” in Thailand, October 2004." typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> </picture> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <div class="caption">International gathering of women trainers - “Asking the Right Questions: Gender and Nonviolence” in Thailand, October 2004.</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 20 Apr 2020</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--dynamic-twig-field:node-author-name-twig---custom.html.twig * field--default--node--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig.html.twig * field--default--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig--story.html.twig * field--node--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--dynamic-twig-field--node-author-name-twig.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-dynamic-twig-fieldnode-author-name-twig field--type-ds field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Author(s)</div> <div class="field--item"> <span>Joanne Sheehan, Ellen Elster, Veronica Kelly, Trui Masschelein, Ulla Eberhard, Shelley Anderson, Dorie Wilsnack’s </span> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p> </p> <p>The WRI Women's Working Group was formally established in 1985 at WRI Triennial Conference in India. From that moment on, a very important work continued, to which several anti-militarist and / or feminist women from WRI's network joined. The women's working group had an impact worth remembering, highlighting and continuing.</p> <p>This piece gathers the reflections of some of the women who were an active part of the working group, where they share their experiences and the impact they consider the group had on WRI, and on their activism and personal life. Also, you can find at the end of this story a timeline assembled by Joanne Sheehan with help from Ellen, Dorie, Cynthia Cockburn, her files and memory, that briefly summarises WWG trajectory.</p> <h2>Some reflections from Ellen Elster</h2> <p>I was an active part of WRI’s Women’s Working Group since its start until I resigned from the WRI council in 2006.</p> <p>Women’s situation within the movement was discussed first time during the Triennial early 1970. On the Triennial in 1975 it was decided to have a women’s gathering together with IFoR (International Fellowship of Reconciliation) the summer 1976 in France. This was my first meeting with women within the international antimilitarist movement. The meeting with women from different parts of the world, thinking and meaning the same as I did, was very inspiring.</p> <p>Since then there have been four other gatherings (Scotland in 1980, Ireland in 1987, Thailand in 1992 and 2004), two of them in cooperation with women in IFoR. In addition, women met at all WRI’s international meetings (councils and conferences). The Women’s Working Group (WWG) was formally established at the WRI Triennial Conference in India 1985/1986.</p> <p>The purposes of the WWG were to draw additional light on the role of women in peace processes; to bring women’s perspectives into WRI, drawing on different cultures and traditions; to bring antimilitarist perspectives into women’s groups; to network among and provide emotional support to women who are isolated in their antimilitarist work; not least, creating a women-only-space at WRI-meeting.</p> <p>A closer solidarity between women in WRI was established. Themes like nonviolence and feminism, feminism and antimilitarism, militarism, masculinity and patriarchy were put on the agenda. The masculinity culture within WRI, after all it was a male-dominated organisation, existed as long as I was part of it, though it became better over the years. A couple of examples, men who dominated the plenary discussions, and women taking leader-roles were met with open scepticism. To deal with this, we started all meetings by having a meeting in beforehand, going through the agenda, to prepare ourselves for the discussions.</p> <p>The group was loosely organised. Most of the times we were coming together at meetings under the heading WWG, but we gave reports and minutes to WRI. Other times, we communicated through e-mails and gave out a newsletter. The most important project was giving out the anthology on women conscientious objector.</p> <p>I think that the only area we didn’t have very much impact was bringing antimilitaristic perspectives into women’s groups.</p> <p>I have always appreciated that we had this woman-only group within a very male-dominated organisation. It was a safe place. It was a place where we could discuss certain issues, undisturbed, and go into the depth of the themes.</p> <p>I am not sure how well we managed to deal with cultural differences among the women from different parts of the world. But I did have a sense that being women, we had more in common, despite cultural differences.</p> <p>If it is still relevant to have a WWG inside WRI and what focus, must women within WRI to-day answer.</p> <h2>Veronica Kelly’s reflections:</h2> <p>My real introduction to WRI’s women was at the Vedchhi triennial, when a group met in the mornings to discuss feminism and antimilitarism.  As the woman on the WRI staff at the time, I was allowed to sit in and listen (when I wasn’t supposed to be doing something else somewhere else, of course – we were a staff of three!).  I remember Ellen being very clear: what we had to do, within WRI, was bear women in mind constantly, and separately.  If someone says something about “people”, think: does this mean the same thing for women as for men?  Or not?  And I think she suggested going down through all WRI statements etc. and doing the same thing: checking to make sure they were correct when applied to women as well as men.  And if not... </p> <p> That sounds so obvious now – but at the time, having come straight from nonviolent direct action with women activists, I was unfamiliar with how a large, venerable, gender-mixed antimilitarist organisation worked.  (I found out!)  And I agree with Ellen: those women-only meetings within WRI were a lifeline.</p> <h2>Trui Masschelein’s reflections</h2> <p>In 1992, Ulla, Trini Leung (from Hong Kong) and I had several meetings with women in the US at the Women's Information Centre in Syracuse ('Feminist Responses to Racism and Militarism. A dialogue with women peace activists'). Also, at the Mendocino Women's Peace Forum. During this “road trip” we had interviews with local journalists. </p> <p>I would like to add the participation of (branches of) WRI-Women’s Working Group at the International symposium 'Women and the military system' in Helsinki. We were there with several WRI-Women: I guess Veronica knew most of the women there. I found this information about the symposium in Helsinki: “The activist work of women in response to military issues has been complemented by some academic research on women and the military system.  In 1987 an international symposium was held in Helsinki, where 120 women and 10 men from 17 countries discussed women’s place in the military economy, liberation struggles and the liberation of women, the militarization of women and women and the peace movement” (Prudtatorn, 1987; ‘Feminist Forum’, 1987; Isaksson, 1988).<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="" id="_ftnref1">[1]</a></p> <p> It's important to point out that through all our meetings and activities everyone came back home full of inspiration and new contacts: we wrote articles, had meetings with other women and with our male fellow-activists in our local peace organisations. It’s impossible to measure the impact but this was only possible because a woman was working at the WRI's International Office (thanks Veron!).</p> <p> I still have a 'Friends of Women Newsletter' (June 1993) edited by Niramon Prudathorn (who attended the symposium in Helsinki and was the co-organiser of the WRI-Women’s gathering in Thailand) with an extensive report of the WRI-women's conference. Really interesting what this meant! The newsletter started with an open letter to the prime minister in the name of the 170 women from 63 countries who attended the conference, calling for a guideline for ending <a>violence of prostitution</a> in Thailand (see full <a href="https://wri-irg.org/sites/default/files/public_files/2020-04/friends_of_women_newsletter_vol._4.pdf">here</a> or below).</p> <p> WRI-Women’s Working Group made me grow as a feminist, I am so grateful to have met wonderful and inspiring people from the US (on conferences and in the US), fighting for peace and justice. Remembering this helps me to look through the negative perception we get from the US nowadays.  Keep on inspiring many people over there! </p> <h2>Ulla Eberhard’s reflections</h2> <p>My participation in the WWG of WRI had a big influence on what women in the non-violent movement in Germany thought and did. As I was a staff person in the office of non-violent action groups in Germany from 1987 to 1992, it was among my tasks to coordinate the Foega-Womens-Group.</p> <p>Women of the Foega-Womens-Group</p> <ul><li>published a lot of articles about feminism-nonviolence-antimilitarism in the Graswurzel-Newspaper</li> <li>made a lot of nonviolent direct actions, mostly as a women’s group in a bigger mixed activity, for example the blocking of the doors at the Hunsrück military base</li> <li>participated in women’s only activities, for example in the Hunsrück women camp</li> <li>gave workshops about women and antimilitarist during conferences of the peace movement</li> </ul><p>The Foega-Womens-Group was the only anarchist-non-violent-action group in Germany. This point of view did not become mainstream in the German peace movement, but most activists got to know that position.</p> <p>Women’s working group participated in big actions where WRI was part of, for example, at Marches in Brussels, Grebenhain/Germany and Scotland.</p> <p>I would describe the political impact of the women’s action group in Germany (that was influenced by the WWG of WRI) as:</p> <ul><li>putting feminist analysis on the table of the peace movement in Germany</li> <li>taking action as women: this made women in the peace movement very visible</li> <li>bringing the connection between militarism and violence against women in the public awareness.</li> </ul><p>My involvement in some of the activities carried out by Women’s Working Group meant a lot and influenced my personal and professional live as well:</p> <ul><li>It formed my identity as a feminist and non-violent activist</li> <li>We managed to organize such a big international conference in Thailand (and before a little bit smaller in Ireland). This trust in women’s power led me through many occasions later in my life. It was an amazing experience.</li> <li>After our gatherings I learnt how important it is international networking and successful fundraising. These were keystones in my professional life.</li> </ul><h2> “You Can’t Miss This”: Shelley Anderson Reflections on the WRI Women’s Working Group<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title="" id="_ftnref2">[2]</a></h2> <p>The WRI Women’s Working Group had a major impact on me and on my work. I was first introduced to the group in 1987 by my partner (now wife) Francoise Pottier, who was then working for the International Fellowship of Reconciliations (IFOR). She had missed the joint WRI-IFOR Women in the Nonviolent Movement in France (July 13-16, 1976), but did attend the second gathering in Scotland (1980).</p> <p>The Third WRI Women’s Gathering was held in Glencree, Ireland, in July 1987. “You can’t miss this,” she told me. She was right. To find a group of like-minded women activists with their feet planted strongly in both nonviolent movements and feminist movements felt like coming home. There was no need to explain or defend my concerns, unlike at ‘normal’, male-dominated peace conferences. Ultimately some 60 women from 18 different countries participated in this third gathering. I still count as friends many of the women I met at Glencree.</p> <p>What I remember most about the Glencree gathering, aside from the rainy beauty of the Irish countryside, was the sense of excitement and possibility. The sense of shared victory when, after writing a letter to the South African government protesting the jailing of two End Conscription Campaign activists, Janet Cherry and Sue Lund, Cherry was released near the end of the gathering (Lund’s release followed several months later). The sense of hope when Yugoslav activists explained how an alliance of women’s, peace and environment groups successfully forced a public debate on government plans to conscript women, which halted such plans. The shared frustration when the only Polish woman able to attend, Ulla Nowakowska (four other Polish women were denied visas), spoke about the resistance within independent dissident groups to women-only organizing. The camaraderie and laughter when, during a night of sharing folk songs, a shared theme was discovered: a young girl falls in love, and her male lover abandons or is forced to leave her.</p> <p>I was energized by that gathering for months afterwards. I think of this energy to continue the work whenever anyone asks if a women’s group is relevant today. For me, the women’s group wasn’t necessary—it was essential. The sense of being part of a world-wide community kept me going. I think that sense of enthusiasm and shared values is especially important for grassroots women activists who face hostility and isolation, and who continue to struggle despite decreasing resources and increased authoritarianism.</p> <p>The networking was important. Working as an editor for IFOR’s peace magazine, I knew where to go when I needed an article on the peace movement, whether in Ireland or Indonesia. As an organizer for IFOR’s Women Peacemakers Program, the WRI women’s group network was also important when I needed a panel speaker or a nonviolence trainer who understood women’s issues or suggestions about possible participants.  Working on the 4th WRI Women’s conference “Women Overcoming Violence” in Bangkok, Thailand (November 25-1 December, 1992), which drew some 150 women, the majority from the Asia-Pacific region, deepened my understanding of and my commitment to opposing war. My fundraising and organizing skills were honed, as were others: the Thai lesbian group Anjaree made its first public workshop at that conference.</p> <p>I also learned a lot from the way the WRI Women’s working group tried to influence WRI policies and structure. The WRI’s 22nd Triennial in Porec, Croatia (September 1998) was especially instructive with its Gender Day, when all discussions, from peace teams to the war in Kosovo, were to address gender implications.  This was an important model when women inside IFOR presented a plan to engender IFOR and its branches at its quadrennial council (Japan 2006).</p> <p>Most of all the WRI Women’s Working Group’s discussions and moral support was an inspiration for women's programming within its sister pacifist organization, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR). In 1997, IFOR’s Women Peacemakers Program (WPP) was established. In its later years the WPP (which ended in 2017) became a separate organization, not least because of the resistance to tackling women’s issues and promoting women’s leadership within IFOR. Still, by 2005 the IFOR-WPP had trained some 60 women as gender-sensitive active nonviolence trainers, who in turn conducted over 100 nonviolence trainings in 25 countries. This did not include a number of regional gender trainings for peace activists in Africa, Asia, Europe and the USA. In October 2004 the IFOR-WPP and the WRI Women’s Working Group co-organised an international gathering of women trainers, the “Asking the Right Questions: Gender and Nonviolence” consultation, in Thailand.</p> <p>It is ironic that IFOR, whose women members had never organized into a working group, developed a women’s program. The IFOR Women Peacemakers Program came about because of several factors, not least of which was sympathetic leadership and a dedicated staff person whose sole job was to fundraise for and develop the program. While the networking and information sharing of the WRI Women’s Working Group was successful, more could have been accomplished if it had had a sharper focus. </p> <p>An awareness of the interconnectedness of issues such as militarism, gender, poverty and environmental degradation has never been so vital. So, too, is the empowerment of grassroots women activists. I’m proud of the contributions the WRI Women’s Working Group has made in both these areas, and keenly aware that the work must continue.</p> <h2>Dorie Wilsnack’s reflections</h2> <p>I hope I have my facts correct but my first memory of hearing the collective voice of WRI women was at the 1978 triennial in Denmark when women made a request to the WRI Council for support for another women’s gathering and one esteemed (male) Council member replied with loud frustration “ I don’t understand what you women want!” That lack of understanding never quite went away. Nevertheless, WRI women members became more articulate and stronger.</p> <p>I did not attend the 1980 Scotland gathering but I organized in the US for other War Resisters League women to attend. I attended the Glen Cree, Ireland Gathering in 1987 and helped to organize the 1992 Thailand Gathering and the 2004 Thailand conference of women nonviolence trainers. In the early 1990’s, after the WRI Council met in New York, I helped to set up the tour for some WRI women to meet war resisters women in the US. Throughout my time on the WRI Executive and WRI Council, I took an active part in the women’s meetings before each Council meeting and various other WWG activities.</p> <p>I gained two major gifts from the Women’s Working Group. One was the circle of support and common understanding, knowing that we were not alone in our ideas. But a more meaningful gift to me was the diversity of contexts and experiences. One might say now that WRI had a limited diversity at the time, but I met women who were living in very different cultures than my own, facing very different challenges than I did. Hearing their stories expanded my universe in deep ways. I would return from Women’s Working Group gatherings with a sobering awareness of the risks that women from Eastern Europe, or later from Turkey, were taking just for being feminists and anti-war activists.</p> <p>There have been a number of references to the difficulties we faced in raising feminist issues within the WRI. I would like to be a bit more concrete about that. WRI was filled with members who believed that war resistance meant resistance-to-conscription and that other forms of resistance were minor add-ons. So for women to claim our own reasons for resistance to war was difficult for many male WRI members (and leaders, I’m sorry to say) to understand. And as the feminist analysis deepened for some of us, as we saw more clearly the heavy links between misogyny and war-making, our commitments grew stronger, but the gap grew wider between us and some male members of the WRI.</p> <p>Those gaps and conflicts brought various skirmishes. They look petty on the surface but I’m not sure they really were petty. At one Triennial or more, there were men who insisted on attending the meetings identified as for women-only. At one Council meeting, a lengthy time on the agenda had been set up for the Women’s Working Group to make a major presentation. Our time was minimized because the Council decided that hearing stories from a visiting World War 2 conscientious objector was move valuable. For some women, the closing of ears and doors was too much and pulled back or dropped out.</p> <p>But for me, as the others have shared, I left each WRI theme group and conference and meeting and Women’s Gathering feeling empowered to keep raising questions and organizing. And I felt – still feel – so fortunate to have worked together with such amazing women during the years I was involved with WRI.</p> <h2>Timeline WWG actions, gatherings and dates to highlight</h2> <p> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --> </p><div alt="WWG Timeline" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_full&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="c63d1e90-64ef-46cf-8abf-bf00fe218edd" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT 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