Youth and Students
Students Need Reality About U.S. Wars
- Category: Youth and Students
World Can't Wait began sending veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq into classrooms in 2007, as GW Bush, and then Obama, claimed the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan were being won. Not "won" and not over, as we know now. The Trump/Pence Regime has roared in with MAGA, pushing its plan to "win" in Afghanistan: sending more troops, having dropped the biggest bomb ever - MOAB - and threatening Pakistan, as well, of course, as several other countries. Looking at the whole picture: Trump's explicit threats of the use of nuclear weapons, direction to take the restraints off commanders in the field and keeping Guantanamo open heighten the danger that students in school now will be sent to commit war crimes.
We Are Not Your Soldiers All Ages F*ck the Army!!! Benefit/Show
- Category: Hear From Educators
This tour is needed now more than ever. Obama is leaving 50,000 troops in Iraq and escalating the war of terror in Afghanistan by sending an estimated of 30,000 troops to Afghanistan and plans to boost an estimated 92,000 troops into the military. Where will all these troops that Obama is sending come from? The military recruiters have budget of billions to recruit youth who are in high school now. They roam the hallways and lunch-rooms, call students at home, and set up at malls where kids hang out. The military cannot fight this expanded “war on terror” in Afghanistan without this fresh cannon fodder. Military recruiters now have almost unlimited access to reach high school students because the “No Child Left Behind” law ties funding for schools to whether recruiters can get to students.
Student Response to We Are Not Your Soldiers
- Category: Organize Your High School
We Are Not Your Soldiers had a very active year in New York City, touring as many schools as we have done anywhere around the country during the height of the war on Iraq. We did four full weeks of school visits – two in the fall semester and two in the spring semester. A week of visits means that we went to at least one school each day, either going from class to class in one building, seeing several classes combined together or doing two schools in one day. The presentations were made by recent veterans of the war of terror. In one school, we also did a presentation on Vietnam by a Vietnam veteran and in another school, a combined presentation by both the Vietnam veteran and the Afghanistan veteran.
Volunteers Needed at Warped Tour Booth
- Category: Youth and Students
We Are Not Your Soldiers in Hayward CA
- Category: Youth and Students
The New School Students’ Demands & Occupation Are Righteous; NYPD Assaults & Arrests Are Wrong
- Category: Youth and Students
200 Students Witness WaterBoarding
- Category: Youth and Students
200 students witness water-boarding demonstration at Diablo Valley College (CA)
from San Francisco Bay Area World Can't Wait
Diablo Valley College Inquirer article
On October 30, 2008 World Can't Wait and Contra Costa Radical Action organized a water boarding demonstration at DiabloValleyCollege in Pleasant Hill, CA, (a local community college in conservative suburban ContraCostaCounty). This action was organized to bring awareness and hopefully motivate the students to take some kind of action against the torture and war that is going in their names. The college has a very diverse group of students and the quad area is usually congested with people standing around in groups discussing the latest trends.
About an hour before the demonstration a couple of us walked around the campus informing and inviting the students to the demonstration. We asked them if they had heard about water boarding and if the had any opinions on it. Most had never heard of water boarding but were interested and wanted to check out the demonstration.
We set up in the middle of the quad on a stage with large signs that read "NO TORTURE" and a bench for the water boarding. As I walked through the crowds inviting more students to come watch I noticed that a lot of students were noticing the signs and became interested in what was going on. We ended up growing a large crowd of about 150-200 students.
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