Close Guantanamo Bay Rally
What do we want? Human Rights! When do we want them? Now!
Wednesday January 11, 2012 was a rainy, cold day in Washington DC. It was the kind of day you did not leave the warmth of your home unless you had to, unless there was something really important to do. It just so happened that there was something very important to do in Washington DC on Wednesday. There was a rally against Guantanamo Bay, torture, and indefinite detention.
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"Their condition was more closely linked to an inner conflict rather than threats to their lives..."
A new study acknowledges PTSD is a result of moral injury.
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Another Way To Stand With People of Conscience
The Center on Conscience & War is now a member of the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), as well as campaigns in Arizona, California, Massachusetts, and Washington.
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District of Columbia Residents: Automatic or Manual? Tell D.C. Council Not to Link Registration With Driver's Licenses
A majority of states in the U.S. now link registration with Selective Service and obtaining a driver’s license. What this means is that if a man has failed to register, he cannot receive his license.
Now the District of Columbia, the nation’s capital, is working to do the same thing to its young male residents.
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Please Join Us for Two Minutes of Silence to
Honor Armistice Day
It was on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month in the year nineteen hundred and eighteen that the guns fell silent on the Western Front in Europe. Many people have described this moment; one of the most poignant is by Kurt Vonnegut in his book Breakfast of Champions: “It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God.”
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Do You Know the True Costs of the Military?
In Washington D.C., politicians are overwhelmed by a looming debt ceiling and can’t decide on an avenue for addressing the budget crisis. Republicans want to see spending cuts from social services while Democrats are looking to raise taxes.
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Alternatives To Killing
Know of people, especially youth, who are looking for alternatives to the military? We have some options!
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