This will mean very little in this world of war monger midgets…..but it meant something to me and that is all I need….
Ever heard of the War Resisters League?
Silly question….of course you have not.
Why would you….you are too busy sucking down the propaganda and crap that the media and the War Department feeds you.
The War Resisters League has been opposing war for 100 years.
In her diary on October 19, 1923, the 48-year-old New York City educator Jessie Wallace Hughan (1875-1955) wrote, “Tracy [Mygatt] to dinner—had hair done—organized real War Resisters League …”
Hughan was describing the formal founding of WRL as the successor organization to the Anti-Enlistment League, which had opposed armed forces enlistment during World War I. Conscientious objectors (COs) had faced many trials during the war, especially those whose opposition to war was secular, not religious, but the war’s end did not bring about an end to their difficulties. All of the major national peace groups of the era had expressed strong political sentiment since 1898 against U.S. imperialist incursions, along with burgeoning interest about the new communist experiments in Russian and Eastern European “soviets” (which were established in 1923). Despite their politics, all these peace groups were religiously based. Hughan and her comrades realized the great need for a secular antiwar organization that would support those objectors whose main principle against fighting did not merely derive from a theological standpoint. The new “league” became a section of War Resisters’ International, a then-new European-based secular pacifist group. Hughan served as the organization’s chief funder and director, also serving for decades on the organization’s executive committee; during much of this time, the organization’s sole paid staffer was its Executive Secretary, the redoubtable Abe Kaufman.
https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-history
I got to know these people in the 1970s when I was active in the antiwar movement….not a more dedicated bunch on the planet.
If you feel that you have had enough of endless wars and the endless waste of taxpayer money and would like to try and get involved in the movement then these people are the place to start.
I have never regretted my association with the WRL….and you will not as well.
They are needed more than ever these days.
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