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Courage to Resist - Supporting the Troops, War Resisters

Courage to Resist supports US military war resisters, conscientious objectors, and truth tellers. Join us in refusing endless war and empire!<br>

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Courage to Resist - Supporting the Troops, War Resisters

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  1. Courage to Resist - Supporting the Troops, War Resisters Courage to Resist supports US military war resisters, conscientious objectors, and truth tellers. Join us in refusing endless war and empire! SUPPORTING THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT We’re a group of concerned community members, veterans and military families who support military objectors to illegal war and occupation and the policies of empire. Our People Power strategy weakens the pillars that maintain war and occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere by supporting GI resistance, counter-recruitment and draft resistance, which cuts off the supply of troops. We are autonomous from and independent of any political organization, party or group.

  2. Courage to Resist - Supporting Military War Resisters Who Refuse to Fight Courage to Resist supports the troops who refuse to fight, or who face consequences for acting on conscience, in opposition to illegal wars, occupations, the policies of empire abroad and martial law at home.   Our People Power strategy weakens the pillars that perpetuate these causes of immense violence. By supporting military resistance, counter-recruitment, and draft resistance, we intend to cut off the supply of troops for war, while pledging resistance to the policies of hate, repression, and the militarization of policing domestically.  We are autonomous from and independent of any political organization, party or group.

  3. Since 2003, tens of thousands of service members have resisted illegal war and occupation in a number of different ways—by going AWOL, seeking conscientious objector status and/or a discharge, asserting the right to speak out against injustice from within the military, and for a relative few, publicly refusing to fight.

  4. While there are those who would like to dismiss war resisters as “cowards,” the reality is that it takes exceptional courage to resist unjust, illegal, and/or immoral orders. For many resisters, it was their first-hand experiences as occupation troops that compelled them to take a stand. For others, “doing the right thing” and acting out of conscience began to outweigh their military training in obedience.

  5. Although the efforts of Courage to Resist are primarily focused on supporting public GI resisters, the organization also strives to provide political, emotional, and material support to all military objectors critical of our government’s current policies of empire. As a grassroots project with limited resources, Courage to Resist nevertheless has a record of successfully working with many resisters and their families in raising the needed funds for civilian legal representation as well as public education campaigns.

  6. Who we are and what we do | Courage to Resist We're a group of concerned community members, vets and families that supports military objectors to illegal war and occupation and the policies of empire. Visit us:https://couragetoresist.org Phone No:5104883559 Address:484 Lake Park Ave #41, Oakland, CA, 94610 Social Media: Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/couragetoresist Twitter:https://twitter.com/courage2resist

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