Video: This Evil Thing
Excerpts from a performance during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. “Governments called it “Conscription” and “the Draft” … COs called it “This Evil Thing!””
Desmond Doss: Conscientious Objector, Medal of Honor Recipient
Desmond Doss: Refused to carry a weapon & saved the lives of 75 men during the Battle of Okinawa By Marija Georgievska. Vintage News Desmond Thomas Doss is best known to the world as the war hero who refused to kill. He was a United States Army corporal who served...
Update on NDAA and the proposal to register women
Don’t draft women (or men) Update on NDAA and the proposal to register women with the Selective Service System CCW has been monitoring the discussion about extending the draft and draft registration to women ever since the military opened up all combat positions to...
Maria Santelli’s Presentation at World Beyond War
Video: Maria Santelli, Executive Director of the Center on Conscience & War
Talking Points on Selective Service Registration
1) Draft registration for men has been a failure and a burden on millions of men. Rather than extend the burden to women, it’s time to end it now. Gil Coronado, the former director of Selective Service said in the 1999 annual report, “If we are not successful in...
Objecting to War: The Human Conscience vs. the US Military
Conscientious objection wages an active challenge to war, one soldier at a time. By Maria Santelli, CCW Executive Director.
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