Issue of WIN Magazine Assesses Antiwar Organizing and Activism
To read the full report online, or for ordering information, visit: http://warresisters.org/listeningprocess
What is lacking in today’s peace movement? How can grassroots organizers turn popular antiwar sentiment into broad-based action? What strategies and tactics should be employed, and how should the antiwar movement relate to the elections? The War Resisters League recently conducted a Listening Process, asking 90 grassroots organizers from across the county to address these and other questions and to reflect on the state of the antiwar movement in the United States. The new 40-page special issue of WIN magazine features their reflections and insights. The 90 interviewees are organizers and activists from diverse organizations, including WRL local chapters; local efforts like Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools in southern California; constituency-based organizations like U.S. Labor Against the War, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Women of Color Resource Center; and national coalitions like United for Peace and Justice. Some of those interviewed work primarily on peace and antiwar issues, while others focus mainly on gender justice, labor, racial justice, the environment, or community issues.
The interviews explore constraints that the movement faces, as well as openings; how to build a more multiracial, cross-class and broad-based movement; the relevancy of nonviolence; the role of soldiers, veterans and military families; and many other questions. We hope this report will be a small contribution in an ongoing strategic dialogue. We invite you to check it out, order copies, forward the report to others, organize a discussion, or comment online.
For more information, to order copies of the special issue of WIN magazine, or to read it online, visit http://warresisters.org/listeningprocess
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