- Resisters.info (this Web site; the most comprehensive Internet resource on the draft, draft registration, draft resistance, and the Selective Service System from 1980 to the present)
- Articles about Peace and War from Edward Hasbrouck’s blog
- Congress is again considering proposals to end, or to expand, Selective Service (10 July 2022; also reprinted by Antiwar.com)
- Congress punts decision on draft registration into 2022 or 2023 (27 December 2021; also reprinted by Antiwar.com and and People’s World)
- U.S. Senate prepares to expand Selective Service to women as well as men (14 November 2021; also reprinted by Antiwar.com.)
- House votes this week on Selective Service (17 September 2021; also reprinted by Antiwar.com and Courage To Resist)
- House and Senate Armed Services Committees vote to make women register for the draft (1 September 2021; also reprinted by Antiwar.com and People’s World)
- Letters to the Boston Globe: Let’s run Selective Service up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes (26 June 2021)
- Draft registration requirement for Federal student aid to be ended soon (11 June 2021)
- Supreme Court won’t review Constitutionality of current male-only draft registration requirement (7 June 2021)
- Why I’m suing the National Archives to preserve and make public records of the NCMNPS (22 February 2021)
- Supreme Court asked to review Constitutionality of current male-only draft registration requirement (8 January 2020)
- ‘Solomon Amendment’ linking student aid to draft registration repealed (29 December 2020)
- Court of Appeals overturns ruling that male-only draft registration requirement is unconstitutional (13 August 2020)
- National Commission recommends extending draft registration to women (24 March 2020)
- Appeals Court hears arguments on the Constitutionality of draft registration (5 March 2020)
- Should we be worried about a possible military draft? (16 January 2020)
- Bill introduced to end draft registration (20 December 2019)
- Last Call for Public Comments to End Draft Registration! (18 November 2019)
- Anti-war activists meet with members of the National Commission on Military Service (13 November 2019)
- Former Director of Selective Service says it’s time to end draft registration (28 April 2019)
- ‘A modern-day draft, if marketed carefully and cleverly,…’ (2 February 2019)
- Interim Report of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (23 January 2019)
- Testimony and reports from the hearing of the National Commission on Military Service in Denver (20 April 2018)
- Hearing on the draft & draft registration, Thursday, April 19th in Denver (6 April 2018)
- Federal court declares current military draft registration requirement unconstitutional (24 February 2018)
- Public hearings and written comments on draft registration (16 February 2018)
- Former Selective Service director admits draft registration has failed (20 December 2017)
- House votes down proposal to defund the Selective Service System (7 July 2016)
- Senate approves ‘Defense’ bill including expansion of draft registration to women (14 June 2016)
- Op-Ed: Dump draft registration, don’t extend it to women (5 June 2016)
- Inquiring minds want to know how to avoid the draft (25 May 2016)
- House removes authorization to order women to register for the draft from its version of pending ‘Defense’ bill (17 May 2016)
- Senate & House ‘Defense’ bills would extend draft registration to women (13 May 2016)
- Young women organize against draft registration (5 May 2016)
- ‘Millions of Female Felons’? Government admits resistance made draft registration unenforceable (3 May 2016)
- House Committee votes to extend draft registration to women (27 April 2016)
- Extend draft registration to women — or end it? (11 December 2015; also reprinted by the
Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft (COMD), the San Diego Free Press, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), and elsewhere.)
- More articles about Peace and War from Edward Hasbrouck’s blog
- Antiwar.com
- Conscripting Women Will Produce Equal Slavery, Not Equal Rights (by Erik Brakey, 19 November 2021)
- U.S. Senate Prepares To Expand Selective Service to Women as Well as Men (by Edward Hasbrouck, 14 November 2021)
- House votes this week on Selective Service (by Edward Hasbrouck, 19 September 2021)
- House and Senate Armed Services Committees vote to make women register for the draft (by Edward Hasbrouck, 1 September 2021)
- Crunch Time in Congress for Selective Service (by Edward Hasbrouck, 17 August 2021)
- Don’t Expand Draft Registration — End It (by Thomas L. Knapp, 27 July 2021)
- What’s Wrong with Registering Women for the Draft? (by David R. Henderson, 23 July 2021)
- Supreme Court Won’t Review Constitutionality of Current Male-Only Draft Registration Requirement (by Edward Hasbrouck, 7 June 2021; also reprinted by People’s World)
- House Armed Services Committee Hearing on Selective Service (by Edward Hasbrouck, 19 May 2021; also reprinted by Courage To Resist and People’s World)
- Ditch the Draft, Once and for All (by Rivera Sun, 20 April 2021)
- ‘Selective Service Repeal Act’ Introduced in Congress (by Edward Hasbrouck, 16 April 2021; also reprinted by Courage to Resist)
- Opponents of Military Conscription Call for ‘Full and Fair’ Hearing Before Congress Decides Whether To Expand Selective Service to Women - or To End It (by Edward Hasbrouck, 11 March 2021; also reprinted by World BEYOND War, Courage To Resist, and People’s World)
- Drafting People Into the Moral Equivalent of War: The False Promise of Universal National Service (by Doug Bandow, 17 March 2021)
- In the World’s Most Militarized Power, Conscription Is a Tool of War (by Doug Bandow, 10 March 2021)
- Supreme Court asked to review Constitutionality of current male-only draft registration requirement (by Edward Hasbrouck, 8 January 2021)
- Good News and Bad News for the Military Draft in 2021 (by Edward Hasbrouck. 29 December 2020)
- Draft Registration on Track for 2021 Debate in Congress and Supreme Court (by Edward Hasbrouck, 8 October 2020)
- Court of Appeals Overturns Ruling That Male-Only Draft Registration Requirement Is Unconstitutional (by Edward Hasbrouck, 13 August 2020)
- Congress May Act Soon on Selective Service (by Edward Hasbrouck, 21 May 2020)
- National Commission Recommends Extending Draft Registration to Women (by Edward Hasbrouck, 25 March 2020)
- Major Announcement Due This Week on the Military Draft (by Edward Hasbrouck, 23 March 2020)
- Anti-Draft Activists Call on Congress To End Draft Registration (by Edward Hasbrouck, 2 March 2020)
- Bill Introduced To End Draft Registration (by Edward Hasbrouck, 20 December 2019)
- NPR: ‘Selective Service Registration Comes Under Fire Again’ (by Edward Hasbrouck, 27 May 2019)
- National Commission on Military Service report and hearing schedule (by Edward Hasbrouck, 23 January 2019)
- National Commission on Military Service Interim Report Due Wednesday, January 23rd (by Edward Hasbrouck, 21 January 2019)
- National Commission on Military Service To Release Interim Report in January (by Edward Hasbrouck, 6 November 2018)
- Hearing on the Draft and Draft Registration, Thursday, 9/20/2018 in Los Angeles (by Edward Hasbrouck, 31 August 2018)
- Hearing on the Draft and Draft Registration, Thursday, April 19th in Denver (by Edward Hasbrouck, 8 April 2018)
- More articles by Edward Hasbrouck from Antiwar.com
- CODEPINK Women Against War (“Pink Tank” blog)
- Courage To Resist
- Fifth Estate
- Draft NOtices (Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft, San Diego. Published continuously since 1982, and currently being scanned, although not all older issues are available online yet.)
- Let’s Try Democracy” (David Swanson’s blog)
- NoDraft.org (Paul Jacob; includes “Common Sense” syndicated radio commentaries and Townhall columns)
- PeaceVoice (peace and justice op-ed syndication service)
- Selective Service registration deserves a full hearing in Congress (by Edward Hasbrouck, 31 March 2021; published by Counterpunch, CityWatch Los Angeles, The Daily Review (Towanda, PA), Sierra County [CA] Prospect, SitNews.us (Ketchikan, AK), World BEYOND War, and RootsAction)
- Four Reasons to Ditch the Draft (by Rivera Sun, 27 April 2020; published by LA Progressive, Counterpunch, Progressive Party USA, Popular Resistance)
- It’s time. End the Draft, Once and for All (by Rivera Sun, 21 November 2019; published by ArtVoice, Fergus Falls Minnesota Journal, Bainbridge Island Review, Sierra County California Prospect, Gilmer West Virginia Free Press, Los Angeles CityWatch, Middleton Pennsylvania Press & Journal, Counterpunch, New Castle Indiana Courier Times, Columbia South Carolina Times & Democrat, Antiwar.com, Environmentalists Against War, World Beyond War)
- The Reporter for Conscience’ Sake (Center on Conscience & War)
- On Watch (Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild)
- The Privacy Act and the Selective Service System (by Edward Hasbrouck, Spring 2022)
- Congress punts decision on draft registration (by Edward Hasbrouck, Winter 2022)
- Armed Services Committees vote to make women register for the draft (by Edward Hasbrouck, Fall 2021)
- Supreme Court refuses to weigh Constitutionality of male-only draft (by Edward Hasbrouck, Summer 2021)
- Time to Act Against Selective Service Registration (by Edward Hasbrouck, Winter 2020, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 25-27)
- Congress and 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Postpone Decisions on Selective Service (by Edward Hasbrouck, Fall 2020, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 14-19)
- Future of the Draft Goes to Congress After National Commission Recommends Expanding Selective Service Registration to Women (by Edward Hasbrouck, Summer 2020, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 11-17)
- Coming Soon: Congressional Debate on Selective Service (by Edward Hasbrouck, Spring 2020, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 12-16)
- Ex-Director of Selective Service calls for end to draft registration (by Edward Hasbrouck, 17 July 2019)
- MLTF Resources abut Selective Service registration and the draft
- People’s World:
- National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY)
- American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)
- News from the HomeFront (Quaker House of Fayetteville, NC)
- More news about women, the draft, and draft registration
- Resistance News (National Resistance Committee, 1980-1987. Resistance News was the most diverse and widely-circulated journal of resistance to the draft and draft registration from 1980 through 1987. Not available online, although some articles have been republished on this Web site and all issues were microfilmed by University Microfilms, Inc. (now Proquest). Print and/or microfilm copies are available in some libraries and archives. This list is probably incomplete, but some libraries have incomplete sets of print issues. Holdings on microfilm are more likely to include all issues of Resistance News on a single reel of film. I have a few complete sets of print copies, and can provide copies of issues or articles on request.)
- Other significant anti-draft news and analysis (more here)
- Washington Wants To Be Able To Draft Your Daughters Into Military Service, in the Name of ‘Equity’. Here’s a better idea: Abolish the ‘Selective’ Service. (by Matt Welch, Reason, 18 March 2021)
- Draft Registration Has Hurt American Men for Decades. Now It May Hurt Women, Too. (by Max J. Rosenthal, Mother Jones, 17 June 2016)
- Draft registration demands resistance (by Ethan Foote, Waging Nonviolence, 10 June 2021; also reprinted here)
- Activists fought the US military draft for decades — they may soon have to again (by Robert Levering, Waging Nonviolence, 19 May 2020)
- Would a Draft Matter? (by Nan Levinson, TomDispatch.com, 10 March 2020; also reprinted by The Nation and elsewhere)
- Could the U.S. Reinstate the Military Draft? (by Daniel Holland, Yes! Magazine, 13 February 2020)di
- Feminists weigh in on draft registration for women (by Claire Schaeffer-Duffy, National Catholic Reporter, 28 June 2016)
- ‘It’s Just Registration, It’s Not the Draft’: Will women be required to register for war? (by Maria Santelli, Sojourners, June 2016)
- 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)
- Other selected news articles (more here)
- Selective Service Tweet on FEMA Partnership in Event of Military Draft (by Nathan Worcester, Epoch Times, 25 March 2022. “‘The Russian invasion of Ukraine is demonstrating the risks of unrealistic over-reliance on the will to fight of a conscript army, and the way that the perceived availability of a bottomless reserve of draftees emboldens war planners and makes military adventurism more likely.’ Hasbrouck said.”)
- Is it time to abolish the military draft? Rep. Peter DeFazio thinks so. (Interview with Oregon Public Broadcasting, 25 April 2021.)
- Should women be eligible for U.S. military draft? (by James Jeffrey, BBC, 25 April 2020)
- Women Should Have to Register for Military Draft, Too, Commission Tells Congress (by Sarah Mervosh and John Ismay, New York Times, 24 March 2020)
- 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)
- Should women be required to register for the draft? Commission likely to recommend big changes (by Gregory Korte, USA Today, 23 January 2019)
- Gender-Neutral Draft Registration Would Create Millions of Female Felons (by Steven Nelson, U.S. News & World Report, 3 May 2016)
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