
Other links and resources about the draft, draft registration, and draft resistance:
- Leaflets
- Posters and graphics
- Podcasts, webinars, and radio and TV archives
- Anti-draft news
- 2021 calendar of events related to Selective Service)
(Timeline of events leading up to the registration of women for the draft)
- Anti-draft testimony, statements, editorials, and op-eds
- Anti-draft songs and music videos
- Selective Service System plans and preparations for a draft
- Draft registration and the possibility of a general draft
- Immigrants and Selective Service
- Women, the draft, and draft registration
- National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (NCMNPS, 2016-2020)
- The medical draft (“Health Care Personnel Delivery System”)
- Compulsory national service
- Financial aid for nonregistrants
- Background on “Selective Service”, draft registration, and draft resistance since 1980
- Statistics on draft registration, resistance, compliance, and enforcement since 1980
- Resistance within the military and by veterans and military families
- U.S. war resisters in Canada and other countries
- Resistance to military recruiting
- Outsourcing and privatizing war to mercenaries and contractors
- Draft resistance and anti-draft organizations, Web sites, and activities
- Lawsuits and court decisions related to draft registration
- Proposals for legislation related to draft registration
- Petitions to Congress related to draft registration
Audio and video of radio, TV, podcasts, and webinars:
- Draft Women? Hell No!
(Video of CODEPINK webinar, recorded 26 May 2020)
- Congress leaning towards drafting women for next war
(Courage to Resist podcast with Rivera Sun of CODEPINK, 26 April 2020, 35 min.; download mp3)
- Audio explainer: What is the Selective Service System and how would a draft work?
(Edward Hasbrouck at Truth In Recruitment town hall, Santa Maria, CA, 12 October 2019; 30 min. mp3)
- Women and the Draft
(Catholics Against Militarism podcast and vlog, 25 April 2020, 47 min.; download mp3; view video on YouTube)
- C-SPAN video of my testimony and answers to questions from the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (25 April 2019)
- The Future of Draft Registration in the U.S.
(Courage to Resist podcast, 22 February 2018, 35 min.; download mp3)
- Abolish the Draft! (Or Extend It To Everyone?)
(Love and Revolution Radio, 2 July 2018, 60 min.; download mp3)
- The draft, draft registration, draft resistance, and women and the draft (KZFR Radio, 7 February 2020; first 30 minutes of show; download mp3)
- Extend Selective Service Registration to Women or End it for Men?
(Talk Nation Radio: Edward Hasbrouck with David Swanson, 19 July 2016; 29 minutes)
- Courage Under Fire: Resistance to War
(National Radio Project, 2004; last 9 minutes beginning at 20:10 of show; download mp3)
- David Swanson and Daniel Ellsberg
(San Francisco Public Library, 28 May 2016. Ellsberg at 1:25:25 of video: “Despite the fact that the draft did account for large rallies, it also was essential to a large war. And I think that if we got the draft back, in other words if we started drafting people we’d have a much larger military,
and I believe that we would — dangerous and wrongful as it is for us to be operating with special forces in many, many countries around the world — if we were operating with brigades and divisions…. then what’ll go with that is a hell of a lot more bombing than you’ve seen yet.
With the American troops would come bombing of the local country on a vastly greater scale…. The fact is that the overall scale would be enormously greater. A draft, I’m afraid, would facilitate that. That’s one lesson from Vietnam.”)
Anti-draft songs and music videos from the 1980s and after
It’s up to you not to heed the call-up
You must not act the way you were brought up
Who knows the reasons why you have grown up?
Who knows the plans or why they were drawn up?
It’s up to you not to heed the call-up
I don’t want to die!
It’s up to you not to hear the call-up
I don’t want to kill!
For he who will die
Is he who will kill
[The Clash, The Call-Up, 1980]
Selective Service System plans and preparations for a general or special-skills draft:
Draft registration and the possibility of a general draft
- Resisters.info
(this Web site of information about the draft and draft resistance)
- Repeal the U.S. Military Selective Service Act
(World Beyond War; includes form to e-mail your representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate)
- Leaflet: End draft registration! (PDF)
- Educate, agitate, and organize: Anti-draft actions and organizations
- FAQ about the Selective Service System and the military draft (PDF)
- Preguntas frecuentes sobre el Sistema de Servicio Selectivo y la conscripción (servicio militar obligatorio) (PDF)
- Advice about Selective Service registration
- Why do we oppose the draft?
(by Edward Hasbrouck)
- Does the U.S.need a draft for self-defense? (No.)
(by Edward Hasbrouck)
- Ageism, youth liberation, and the draft
(by Edward Hasbrouck)
- Activists fought the US military draft for decades — they may soon have to again
(by Robert Levering, Waging Nonviolence, 19 May 2020)
- U.S. Congress to Extend Draft Registration for Women
(War Resisters International, 8 June 2020)
- Congress to Consider Requiring Women to Register for the Draft
(“The Boys Who Said No!” blog, 31 March 2020)
- The Draft in Perspective
(TEDx talk by Wadi Yakhour, staff director for the Selective Service System, 28 May 2020)
- Talk of War
(interviews with military veterans and with Rivera Sun of CODEPINK, Santa Fe New Mexican, 23 January 2020)
- Could the U.S. Reinstate the Military Draft?
(by Daniel Holland, Yes! Magazine, 13 February 2020. “This is my call to resist.”)
- Should women be eligible for US military draft?
(by James Jeffrey, BBC News, 26 April 2020)
- Bringing Back the Draft: 5 Possibilities for the Future of Military Conscription
(by Hope Hodge Seck, Military.com, 22 March 2020)
- As Army Calls on Medics to Return to Service, Congress Considers New Skills Reserve
(by Hope Hodge Seck, Military.com, 8 April 2020)
- Leaflets about the draft, draft registration, and draft resistance
- News, and
updates on the draft and other issues of peace and war from Edward Hasbrouck’s blog
- Articles by Edward Hasbrouck from Antiwar.com
- Prosecutions of Draft Registration
Resisters in the USA since 1980
(includes final verdicts, sentences, and results of appeals in all 20 cases; also includes
links to GAO audits and Selective Service System reports on compliance with registration)
- Selective Service Registration
(Truth In Recruitment, 6 November 2018)
- Should women be required to register for the draft? Commission likely to recommend big changes
(by Gregory Korte, USA Today, 23 January 2019)
- Commission Issues Verdict: Women, Like Men, Should Have To Sign Up For Draft
(by David Welna, NPR, 25 March 2020)
- Selective Service registration comes under fire again
(by David Welna, NPR, 27 May 2019)
- Women Should Have to Register for Military Draft, Too, Commission Tells Congress
(by Sarah Mervosh and John Ismay, New York Times, 24 March 2020)
- Military draft should include women, Congress-appointed commission report finds
(by Laura Widener, American Military News, 25 March 2020)
- Would a Draft Matter?
(by Nan Levinson, TomDispatch.com, 10 March 2020; also reprinted by The Nation and elsewhere)
- COVID-19: Another Reason Why The Draft is Obsolete
(by James Jay Carafano, Heritage Foundation, 23 April 2020)
- Report on the Purpose and Utility of a Registration System for Military Selective Service
(report to Congress by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, 17 March 2017; made public as an appendix to government motion to dismiss complaint in Kyle v. Selective Service System, filed 28 August 2017)
- The Selective Service System and Draft Registration: Issues for Congress
(Congressional Research Service report R44452, Version 13 updated 1 May 2020)
- Expanding the Selective Service: Legal Issues Surrounding Women and the Draft
(Congressional Research Service Legal Sidebar LSB10491, 8 June 2020)
- For a million U.S. men, failing to register for the draft has serious, long-term consequences
(by Gregory Korte, USA Today, 2 April 2019)
- ‘Selective’ Service Refuseniks Are Still Punished, Just Not Prosecuted
(by Matt Welch, Reason, 3 April 2019)
- Draft Registration Has Hurt American Men for Decades. Now It May Hurt Women, Too.
(by Max J. Rosenthal, Mother Jones, 17 June 2016. “The Senate has approved making women register, but plenty of people want to get rid of the Selective Service system altogether.”)
- Building a F.A.S.T. Force: A Flexible Personnel System for a Modern Military
(by the Bipartisan Policy Center, March 2017. Recommendations include: “Enhance and expand the Selective Service System to include all young American adults. Require Selective Service registrants to complete the military vocational aptitude test.”)
- Nothing Will Come of Nothing
(Guest blog post by Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, U.S. Army (retired), co-counder of the All-Volunteer Force Forum,
which has lobbied the NCMNPS to recommend reinstatement of the draft and universal basic military training.)
- Rising costs, dwindling recruit numbers, increasing demands may bring back the military draft
(by Todd South, Military Times, 19 November 2019)
- Why Bringing Back the Draft Could Stop America’s Forever Wars
(Op-Ed by Elliot Ackerman, Time, 10 October 2019)
- The Draft: The Disconnect between the U.S. Military, Its Wars, and the American Public
(by Marti Hiken and Luke Hiken, Dissident Voice, 22 April 2011)
- Talking about the draft
(by Edward Hasbrouck, WIN Magazine, Summer 2010)
- Refuse, Resolve, Resist
(“WIN Letter”, WIN Magazine, Summer 2010)
- Who Will Fight These Wars?
(by Marguerite Helen and Edward Hasbrouck, Peacework magazine, March 2003)
- Public vs. Quiet Resistance
(by Erica Leigh and Edward Hasbrouck, National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, 10 October 2018)
- Draft Resistance and Prison
(by John Bach, in “Friends and the Vietnam War”, Pendle Hill, 1998.
“The treatment afforded to women in the anti-war movement was too many times dismissive, unjust, and lecherous.
I would have my sisters know that many of us regret and repent. We live and learn and hopefully get better.
This is what distinguishes us from our government.”)
- The case for keeping military draft registration
(by Larry Korb, Military Times, 22 April 2019. “[i]n the 1980 campaign, Ronald Reagan pledged he would cancel [draft registration] because it was an unnecessary and wasteful program. In my first year serving as an assistant secretary of defense for President Reagan, I was given the task of developing the case for the president to renege on his campaign promise….”)
- The United States Still Needs Draft Registration
(by Mark F. Cancian, Task & Purpose, 25 February 2016; “Eliminating registration would send the wrong signal to Americans as well as our enemies…. Draft registration also sends a message to prospective adversaries. It shows that the United States has a great reservoir of personnel that it can draw from in an emergency.”)
- The Hard Questions About the Selective Service Have Nothing to Do With Women in Combat
(by Katherine Kidder, War on the Rocks, 12 February 2016; “Perhaps the question isn’t whether or not women should have to register for Selective Service — but whether Selective Service should exist at all…. Representative Hunter is concerned that the full inclusion of women in combat positions will affect combat effectiveness. Yet a much larger threat to an effective U.S. military is the influx of conscripts into the force.”)
- Three Vietnam Veterans Respond to National Commission
(by Briana Erickson, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 14 November 2020; more about the novel, Last Draftees)
- Kerry expresses reservations about nation’s all-volunteer military
(by Ralph K.M. Haurwitz, Austin American-Statesman, 27 April 2016)
- In honor of Muhammad Ali, Sen. Rand Paul will introduce bill to end Selective Service
(by Nick Storm, CN2 Louisville TV news, 6 June 2016; includes embedded video interview with Sen. Paul.)
- Before blogs caught it, Obama site told of requiring students to serve
(WorldNetDaily, 8 November 2008)
- Obama’s chief of staff choice favors compulsory universal service
(by J.D. Tuccille, The Examiner, 6 November 2008)
- Obama, McCain, and draft registration (“Selective Service”)
(by Edward Hasbrouck, 8 September 2008)
- The Draft Debate Heats Up
(by Edward Hasbrouck, The Nonviolent Activist, January 2005)
- U.S. House of Representatives votes down military draft. So what?
(by Edward Hasbrouck, 5 October 2004)
- Pelosi begs my question on the draft
(by Edward Hasbrouck, 28 October 2004; includes link to video)
- End Draft Registration!
(by Sheldon Richman, 29 December 2006)
- Americans Reject Reinstating the Military Draft
(poll results attributed to CBS News, 18 March 2006)
- Dodging The Word “Draft”:
Support grows for beefing up U.S. forces; Some see situations where volunteers may not be enough
(San Francisco Chronicle, 4 April 2005, page A-1)
- Collateral Damage: Draft Resistance & the Anti-War Movement
(by Chris Clarke, Coyote Crossing, 18 July 2006; incorporates an earlier article first published by CounterPunch, 25 January 2003)
- Counter-recruitment and the draft
(letter to the editor by Edward Hasbrouck, S.F. Weekly, 2 November 2005)
- Shelter Under the Anti-war Umbrella
(by David Solnit, AlterNet, 18 February 2005)
- Poll: 29% of young voters would resist a draft
(15 October 2004)
Financial aid for nonregistrants
- Fund for Education and Training (FEAT)
“Assisting individuals who believe it is wrong to register for the draft”
with alternatives to Federal financial aid denied to nonregistrants.
- Student Aid Fund for Nonregistrants
“To help replace potential government grants and loans lost by students who for reasons of
Christian conscience choose not to register with the U.S. Selective Service System.”
Limited to Mennonites or any nonregistrant attending a Mennonite college.
- Alternative Aid for Nonregistrants
(partial listing of alternatives to Federal government financial aid,
including dedicated funds for nonregistrants)
Draft resistance history since 1980


[Crowd at the West Coast mobilization against the draft and draft registration
listens to speakers including Fred Moore
of the National Resistance Committee. Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco, 22 March 1980.
Photos by Chris Booth for Resistance News.]
- History of draft registration and draft resistance since 1980
(by Edward Hasbrouck)
- Prosecutions of Draft Registration Resisters in the USA since 1980
(includes final verdicts, sentences, and results of appeals in all 20 cases; also includes
links to GAO audits and Selective Service System reports on compliance with registration)
- Public vs. Quiet Resistance
(by Edward Hasbrouck, National War Tax Resistanne Coordinating Committee blog, 10 October 2018)
- A Call for Resistance
(Founding statement of purpose of the National Resistance Committee, 2 March 1980)
- Draft resistance and the politics of identity and status
(by Edward Hasbrouck, in We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America,
edited by Elizabeth Betita Martinez, Mandy Carter, and Matt Meyer, October 2012,
published by PM Press and the War Resisters League)
- National Resistance “Conspiracy”?
(1984 article by Edward Hasbrouck analyzing government documents and other sources on the government’s prosecution policy and the possibility of prosecutions for conspiracy, aid, abetment, or advocayc of draft registration resistance)
- Letters to the editor in the New York Times about draft registration and resistance:
- On the Failures of Draft Registration
(letter to the editor by Edward Hasbrouck from Lewisburg [PA] Federal Prison Camp, 21 March 1984:
“The issue for Congress and the American people is the failure of draft registration: After almost four years of registration,
a million of those eligible haven’t registered…. In such circumstances, it is absurd to think that
reinstatement of the draft is a realistic possibility, and it is dangerously naive to make foreign policy
commitments that will require a draft.”)
- A Consensus in Support of Draft Registration (1)
(letter to the editor by Wil Ebel, Assistant Director of Selective Service for Public Affairs, 23 March 1984:
“Edward Hasbrouck’s letter assailing draft registration is woefully in error. Perhaps we should not expect an incarcerated individual to have accurate and up-to-date information,
but your readers should not be deluded by Mr. Hasbrouck’s misrepresentations. Draft registration is not a failure.”)
- A Consensus in Support of Draft Registration (2)
(letter to the editor by Rep. Gerald Solomon: “Edward Hasbrouck called the Solomon Amendment, which denies student aid to those who
refuse to register for the draft, ‘a failure.’ The real failure is his inability to separate constitutional rights from taxpayer-financed privileges.
We’re hearing a lot these days about ‘yuppies,’ the young urban professionals from the baby boom now on the cusp of political and economic power.
I’d hate to think they still cling to the ‘me generation’ notion that the working taxpayers of this country owe them a college education
and upward mobility…. If I had my way, those who do not register would lose not only the ‘right’ to a student loan but
every other taxpayer-funded benefit.”)
- Courageous Foes of Draft Registration
(letter to the editor by Marjorie Baechler, 7 April 1984: “The remark by Wil Ebel of the Selective Service System that
‘perhaps we should not expect an incarcerated individual to have accurate and up-to-date information’… is an attempt to
demean Edward Hasbrouck… and all of us who share conscientious objection to the settling of disputes through the violence of war.”)
- We Still Won’t Go!
(letter to the editor by Edward Hasbrouck, 9 December 1990; PDF of print version as leaflet.
“Only 20 nonregistrants were ever prosecuted, the last almost five years ago. The attempt to enforce registration has been abandoned,
essentially in failure, while millions continue not to register.”)
- Life Outside the Mainframe
(about Fred Moore, editor of Resistance News and one of the coordinators of the National Resistance Committee)
- Bernie and Me
(by Alex Reyes, Eastern Regional Director and
Washington, DC, representative of the National Resistance Committee;
note that this is about Bernard Rostker, former Director of Selective Service, and not about Sen. Bernie Sanders)
- Courage Under Fire: Resistance to War
(Interview with Edward Hasbrouck beginning at 20:10, National Radio Project, 2004; background)
- A Conversation with Draft Resisters from the Vietnam War Era and Resisters from the Early 1980s
(Video outtake from the 2020 documentary film, The Boys Who Said No)
- POEM: Attorney General Edwin Meese III
(by Dan Rutt, 20 August 2015. Blog post includes a poem written in prison in 1987, and more reflections on draft registration resistance.)
- Protesters proud of actions opposing draft: Today, he’s convinced it was the right thing to do.
(Connecticut Post, Sunday, 3 September 2006)
- Unrepentant Resister: Looking Back 20 Years to my Draft Resistance Trial
(by Andy Mager, Syracuse Peace Council Newsletter, February 2005)
- 1980-1981 Military Draft Actions in Chicago
(by Karl Meyer)
- Costs of a Flimsy Card
(by Michael Wehle, The Progressive, April 1987)
- Draft Resistance, 80’s Style
(profile of 1980’s draft resister Ben Sasway by 1960’s draft resister and New York Times staff writer David Harris, The New York Times Magazine, 22 August 1982, comparing draft resistance in the 1960’s and in the 1980’s)
- Nothing About the Draft Makes Sense
(by William Greider, Rolling Stone, 30 September 1982. “Registration is not working…. [H]undreds of thousands are not signing up.
Collectively, they confront the government with one of the grossest episodes of mass defiance of the law since
Americans decided to drink their way through Prohibition. In this case as well, the only practical solution is repeal.”
See also William Greider’s 1981 Rolling Stone profile of draft registration resisters Matt Meyer, Matt Nicodemus, and Edward Hasbrouck,
not available online.)
- Men and Women Who Dare to Say No
(history of Mennonite resistance to draft registration, 1980-1985)
- When Law and Conscience Conflict: The Draft Nonregistration Case of U.S. v. Mark Arden Schmucker
(by one of Mark Schmucker’s attorneys; published as a chapter in the the court’s officially-commissioned history of its notable cases, pp. 266-288)
- Rally at noon
(editorial in the Daily Princetonian during the tenure of current Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan as chair of the editorial board, 12 February 1980)
- Resist Registration
(editorial in the Harvard Crimson, 8 January 1981. “It isn’t often [the government] decides to give large parts of the population
an opportunity to show their displeasure with the country’s foreign policy. This week, though, the government has called on all
18-year-old men to register for the draft. It is an opportunity not to be missed. We urge those called upon to register to refuse, and to refuse loudly.”)
- Why I Refuse to Register
(Op-Ed by Paul Jacob, first published 17 May 1985, The Orange County Register)
- Who is Ed Hasbrouck, and why is he bucking the system?
(by Melinda Macauley, The Townsman, Wellesley, MA, 9 December 1982, pp 10-11)
- Who Is Edward Hasbrouck?
(background to my draft registration resistance and other political activism)
- National Resistance Committee archives
(Swarthmore College Peace Collection)
- Stanford Against Conscription records, 1979-1985
(Stanford University Archives)
- Reawakening resistance to draft registration: some implications for the 1980’s.
(by Lieutenant Paul Joseph Jackson, U.S. Navy, December 1980. A bizarre and confused but nonetheless interesting master’s thesis by a student/researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, who infiltrated meetings and collected literature from Northern California draft resistance and draft counseling organizations in 1980. “The objectives of this research are (1) To determine who the leaders of the local draft registration meetings are; (2) To determine the extent of their support at these meetings; (3) To gather data on the alternatives to draft registration offered at these meetings as well as in current anti-draft literature; (4) To gather data on the effectiveness of such meetings in convincing draft-age youth not to register or to register under protest; (5) To offer predictions, based on the history of draft resistance in America and on the observations made above, on the impact of such groups on future attempts to bring back the draft.”)
- I Want You! The Evolution of the All-Volunteer Force
(by Bernard Rostker, ISBN 0-8330-3896-6, RAND Corporation, 2006, free e-book or PDF download. Now on the staff of the RAND Corporation, Rostker was Director of the Selective Service System from 1979-192. Despite its obvious self-interest, this book is the most detailed and revealing “insider” memoir of the reinstatement of draft registration in 1980. Rostker left the Selective Service System in 1982, and his memoir makes no mention of the aborive attempt at prosecution of nonregistrants that followed.)
- Selective Service System “Channeling” memorandum, 1965
(Also available as a PDF as reprinted by the Resistance, c. 1968. One of the few pre-1980 documents on this Web site, but reproduced here because of its enduring influence and because the full document, while often mentioned, isn’t readily available elsewhere.)

Resistance within the military and by veterans and military families
- The GI Rights Hotline
(877) 447-4487
- CourageToResist.org
(“No recruitment. No draft. Support GI resisters. An army of None!”)
- Bradley Manning: Rich Man’s War, Poor (Gay) Man’s Fight
(by Larry Goldsmith, June 7, 2011; included in the anthologies Against Equality: Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars and Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion.)
- Info and Resources on
Resistance Within the Military
(Jeff Paterson, Gulf War refusenik)
- Peace-Out
(“You can get out of the military as a conscientious objector,
even if you enlisted. Here’s how.”)
- Iraq Veterans Against the War
(“Bring the troops home now. Support Iraqi reconstruction. Support our veterans
and our troops now and upon their return home.”)
- Veterans For Peace
(“Veterans working together for peace & justice through non-violence”)
- Military Families Speak Out
(“People opposed to the war in Iraq who have relatives or loved ones in the military”)
- Gold Star Families for Peace
(“Families of soldiers who have died as a result of war … organizing
to be a positive force in our world to bring our country’s sons and daughters
home from Iraq, to minimize the human cost of this war, and to prevent other
families from the pain we are feeling as the result of our losses.”)
- West Point Graduates Against The War
(“Duty, Honor, Country.”)
- Vets4Vets
(“Outreach to Iraq-era vets by Iraq-era vets” including confidential support groups)
- Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
(“We uniquely empower Iraq & Afghanistan combat veterans to use their credibility and
experiences to speak truth to power [and] shape public opinion.”)
- Sir! No Sir!
(a documentary film on “the story of the G.I. movement to end the war in Vietnam”)
- Winter Soldier
(a re-released 1971 documentary film on the eyewitness testimony of
Vietnam veterans about what they had seen and done in the war)
- “Fuck the Troops”: 1
2 3
(Why some people don’t “support the troops” who fight, but only support the troops who refuse to fight)
U.S. war resisters in Canada and other countries
- War Resisters Support
Campaign / Campagne d’appui aux objecteurs de conscience [Canada]
(Canadian national headquarters in Toronto; campaigning “to allow US war resisters… to have refuge in Canada”)
- War Resisters Support
Campaign - Vancouver
- Let U.S. Iraq War Resisters Stay in Canada!
(Campaign in support of Canadian Bill C-440, “An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (war resisters)”.
If passed, Bill C-440 will allow US Iraq War resisters to apply for permanent resident status in Canada.)
- Let Them
Stay: Voices of US Iraq War Resisters in Canada
(28-minute video, 2005; excerpts available
online as streaming video
with links to supplemental video and other resources,
or available for purchase on DVD or videotape)
- Briefing
Paper on US Soldiers coming to Canada
(Canadian Friends [Quakers] Service Carol GiacomoCommittee; includes information on Canadian
immigration and refugee laws relevant to draft as well as military resisters)
- Vietnam War Resisters in Canada
(an extremely thorough bibliography of print and online resources compiled and maintained by Joseph Jones,
Librarian Emeritus, University of British Columbia)
- Our Way Home Research (OWHR) Institute For War Resistance and Policy Alternatives
(Involved in organizing the Our Way Home” Reunion Event and Memorial
in Castlegar, B.C., in 2006 and 2007, and subsequent events honoring “the contribution made to Canadian life by the US war resisters who came to
Canada during the Vietnam War…. the courage of those resisting current US militarism
by seeking safe haven in Canada now, during the US war in Iraq [and] the thousands of
Canadians who helped them resettle in this country, both then and now.”)
- Iraq war vet Andre Shepherd seeks asylum in Germany
(By Military Counseling Network, Connection e.V., and Courage to Resist. 3 December 2008; includes link to audio interview)
Resistance to military recruiting
- National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY)
(network of local and national counter-recruitment organizations)
- From Student Debtor to Soldier: How the student loan debt crisis forces low-income students of color into the military
(by Anna Attie, In These Times, 14 December 2020)
- Counter-Recruitment in the Time of Covid
(by Kate Connell and Fred Nadis of Truth in Recruitment, Antiwar.com, 29 September 2020)
- Truth In Recruitment
(Santa Barbara County, CA)
- Counter-recruitment and the draft
(letter to the editor by Edward Hasbrouck, S.F. Weekly, 2 November 2005)
- What Everyone Should Know Before Joining the Military
(FAQs about military recruiting and enlistment)
- Does Selective Service data matching violate Federal laws?
(comments of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and others, 21 December 2004)
- Not Your Soldier” Project
(youth counter-recruitment and direct action organizing and training)
- Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (Project YANO)
(San Diego, CA; local group with some national resources)
- Oh Baby, It’s Drafty Out There
(by Frida Berrigan, AlternNet, 5 July 2005)
- Against Equality: Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars
(see also their anthology Against Equality: Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars, also included as a section in their larger collection, Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion.)
Outsourcing and privatizing war to mercenaries and contractors
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