April 18, 2011 | Blog
Is Selective Service A Sinking Ship? SSS Using Taxpayer Money to Lobby for Its Survival CCW a couple of months ago that Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colorado) had introduced legislation (H.R. 621) that would shut down the Selective Service System (SSS) and end draft...
March 28, 2011 | Blog
Dr. Beverly Reader Wins: CO discharged from Air Force with former board member as her attorney. On February 11, 2011, the Air Force notified Beverly Reader that it was discharging her as a conscientious objector. Beverly joined the Air Force in 2001, when she...
March 24, 2011 | Blog
Nichole Naderman: CO discharged from the Air Force On March 22, one year after she first approached CCW for help, Nichole Naderman was informed that her application for discharge as a conscientious objector had been approved on Feb. 4. Nichole, whose family had...
March 8, 2011 | Blog
We Are All Conscientious Objectors By J.E. McNeil Friends historically have been conscientious objectors to war. George Fox is axiomatically quoted as saying, “We . . . utterly deny . . . all outward wars and strife and fightings with outward weapons, for any end or...
March 7, 2011 | Blog
J.E. McNeil, Helen Benedict Culture Shock on March 2 . 2011 It is not usual for the military to grant conscientious objector status but recently, the Navy did just that and J.E. McNeil, executive director of the Center on Conscience and War said that the case posed a...
February 23, 2011 | Blog
Midshipman, Then Pacifist: Rare Victory to Leave Navy New York Times Article The Center helped Michael Izbicki through his CO application and referred him to Deborah Karpatkin (with whom we continued to work) when it was obvious he needed extra legal attention. We are...
