We Are Not Your Soldiers

08/14/2026

08/14/2026

We are fortunate that one of the professors whose classes we visited in April shared with us this summer the papers written by her students following presentations. We now would like to share one of them with you.
https://www.wearenotyoursoldiers.org/can-you-give-us-5-minutes/

08/14/2026

Your support means a lot for us as we look forward to an active Fall semester. As school hasn’t even started yet, we haven’t even begun our outreach to educators. But, we’ve already received two exciting invitations — one to facilitate a Q&A to two college student organizations doing a military-connected film screening and another to three community college classes. Your contributions make all this possible as educators, students and schools are not charged for our presentations. Aside from our very minimal operating expenses small stipends are given to the veterans who speak.
https://worldcantwait.betterworld.org/campaigns/we-not-your-soldiers-dialogue-st-2?

08/10/2026

First as a Marine and then as a journalist, I spent years tied to Afghanistan. I returned one last time to speak to a former enemy in search of answers, and perhaps closure.
https://www.wearenotyoursoldiers.org/why-i-sought-out-a-taliban-commander-i-had-fought/

08/09/2026

Ann Wright: "I appeal to the consciences of U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine pilots who fly the bombers and attack aircraft and to Navy, Air Force and Army personnel who command land and sea-based missile units and those who plan these attacks, to stop these criminal actions. Save Your Soul, Your Conscience, Your Sanity—STOP THE BOMBINGS!"
https://www.wearenotyoursoldiers.org/an-appeal-to-the-consciences-of-those-who-are-bombing-iran/

07/29/2026

I invite you to sit with me in this feeling of brokenness, and to step outside of the American delusion of war making and “peace through strength”—the normalization of coercion and dominance... In every person, there is a soldier or warrior spirit, long waiting for a direction worth fighting for. This Earth is a place worth protecting, and in its people is a common humanity worth putting your body on the line for.
https://www.wearenotyoursoldiers.org/what-i-saw-when-i-stopped-pretending/

07/11/2026

We Are Not Your Soldiers engaged our great crew of presenters with 60 classes and two student clubs in the past school year. It is only with your support that we can keep this going and growing in the coming school year. These conversations are more important than ever as the “forever wars” not only continue but spread further and further. Please help us as students question more and more as U.S. society is falling apart and they are beginning to see more clearly the connections between domestic issues and imperialist interventions. Hearing stories directly from those who have U.S. military experiences themselves makes connections to the students that a lecture, article or book or even a movie doesn’t make.
https://www.wearenotyoursoldiers.org/2025-26-school-year/

07/11/2026

This week, Veterans for Peace organized outreach to the active duty sailors here in NYC for Fleet Week and convened a gathering of antiwar organizations. Stephanie showed several short clips of veterans speaking to students. It was great to see them on the big screen, and appreciate the knowledge and depth of conviction they bring to class. Here’s one of those clips, a compilation of a few presentations.
https://www.wearenotyoursoldiers.org/2025-26-school-year/

07/02/2026

We're sharing with you conversations from a college class. It’s important for all of us to focus on how people think and respond to honest exchanges. When we bring out the history and focus on the criminal aspects of what the U.S. has done to the globe through its military, lights go on. We thought you’d be interested in reading excerpts from two of the papers sent to us about Ross Caputi’s visit to social psychology community college classes.
https://worldcantwait.org/2026/07/02/interesting-a-u-s-veteran-speaks-with-college-psych-students/

06/19/2026

We finished out the 2025-26 school year with two NYC visits: the first was via Zoom to a community college class while the second was in person to a school that ranged from middle school through high school where we were invited due to teacher concern about the number of military recruiters on the campus.
https://www.wearenotyoursoldiers.org/june-visits/