Conscientious Objector support websites: 

Center on Conscience and War (formerly NIBSCO):  http://www.centeronconscience.org 

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO): http://www.objector.org

 

Overview:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientious_objector

 

Conscientious Objectors -- definitions, registration and draft:

Article, Help Your Peace-Loving Child Avoid the Draft,” http://www.mothering.com/articles/growing_child/family_society/avoid_draft.html 

http://www.afsc.org/youthmil/default.htm

http://www.centeronconscience.org/index.shtml

Letters of support: http://www.centeronconscience.org/objection/letters.shtml

Military CO: http://www.centeronconscience.org/milco/info.shtml

http://www.objector.org

http://co.quaker.org/index.html

http://www.pointofclarity.org/

http://archive.uua.org/news/2003/iraq/militaryservicefacts.html

http://plrc.org/docs/CC_Update_1_attach1B.pdf     

http://www.scn.org/IP/sdmcc/co.htm

http://www.rcnv.org/rcnv/co.htm

European COs: http://www.ebco-beoc.org/index.html

U.S. Selective Service System,  http://www.sss.gov/ , http://www.sss.gov/FSconsobj.htm

Statements of Conscience, http://www.turntowardlife.org/library_of_conscience.htm

Interfaith Guide to CO, http://www.turntowardlife.org/a_change_of_heart2005.pdf

 

Registries for COs

http://archive.uua.org/news/2003/iraq/militaryservicefacts.html

http://www.aluucminister.org/ (Example of church creating a local registry)

http://www.peaceabbey.org/confcenter/coregistry.htm

http://www.iwillnotkill.org/

http://www.pointofclarity.org/action/register.cfm

http://www.peaceroots.org/1%60Our%20Campaigns/Conscientious%20Objectors.aspx

 

Military recruitment in schools:

http://www.notyoursoldier.org/

http://www.comdsd.org/

http://www.afsc.org/youthmil/default.htm

http://www.justthinkfirst.org/index.htm

http://themmob.org/lmca/

http://www.militaryfreeschools.org/

http://youth.forusa.org/article.php?id=108

http://www.warresisters.org/youth/

http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Recruitment_Education.vp.html

 

Military Conscientious Objectors

http://www.centeronconscience.org/UAA/05142007.shtml

G.I. Rights, www.girights.org

Iraq Veterans Against the War, http://www.ivaw.org/

Lt. Watada:  http://www.thankyoult.org/

http://www.peace-out.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iraq_War_resisters

http://www.resisters.ca

http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/

http://soldiersayno.blogspot.com

Article, “Message to the Troops:  Resist!”: http://www.alternet.org/story/14289/

Article: http://www.comdsd.org/article_archive/EnlightenmentBootCamp1-07.htm

Article, military COs: http://www.alternet.org/story/18215/

Article, military dissent: http://www.notyoursoldier.org/article.php?id=79

Article, desertion rates: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071116/D8SV1IUO1.html

Article, soldier suicides:  http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/60851/

Article, one soldier’s suicide:  http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iGp8wCHce_RXL7Xp4w8MzmsUD7HQD8TL29IO0

Related – Military Training according to Dave Grossman’s “Killology”:                    

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Grossman_(author)

            http://www.killology.com/art_weap_sum_psych.htm

            http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heart/interviews/grossman.html

            Rebuttal: http://www.theppsc.org/Grossman/SLA_Marshall/Main.htm

 

Conscientious Objection to Paying for War 

http://fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=1838&issue_id=143

National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund , http://www.peacetaxfund.org/

http://www.warresisters.org/wtr_menu.htm

http://wartaxboycott.org/

Article 'We Won't Go' To 'We Won't Pay',  http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B06E1D9143BF930A3575BC0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

Related articles on U.S. debt and war:

            Paul B. Farrell columns, http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/america-becoming-global-credit-risk/story.aspx?guid=%7BAE018C0F-A657-47E0-A53F-E67A522A775A%7D

            http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/if-we-rome-wall-street/story.aspx?guid=%7BE71DF12D-6F67-4D51-8A77-1AA17A4C57BC%7D

            Joseph Stiglitz, http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2007/03/joseph_stiglitz.html 

            Overview on U.S. debt:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt

            Matthew Rothschild article, http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012208N.shtml

  

 

Misc. Antiwar sites

http://www.veteransforpeace.org

http://southbaymobilization.org/

http://www.thepeacecompany.com/links/

http://www.unitedforpeace.org

http://www.anothermother.org/index.html

http://www.gsfp.org/index.php

http://www.mothersagainstthedraft.org/

http://www.historiansagainstwar.org  and http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/resources/steele.html

Petition, Military, http://www.appealforredress.org/

http://www.notinourname.net 

http://www.winwithoutwarus.org/

http://www.forusa.org

http://www.warresisters.org/

http://cpnn-usa.org/index.html

http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/index.php

http://www.peaceroots.org/

 

Military Draft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_National_Service_Act_of_2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rangel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_draft

http://www.house.gov/list/press/ny15_rangel/CBRStatementDraft01112007.html

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:H.R.393:

Liberal view on draft:

            Article by Katha Pollitt, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040607/pollitt

            Letter, http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/toRangelOnDraft.html 

            Statements vs. draft, war, http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org/About.htm

Conservative view on draft:         

            Capitalist Magazine: http://www.capmag.com/category.asp?catID=73

            CATO 1994 policy analysis, http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-214.html

            Blog entry, http://atruett.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/rangel_on_the_d.html

            Blog entry, http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed123006a.cfm

Ending draft registration:

            http://www.objector.org/conscription/end-registration.html

             http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22629

 

COs in History 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientious_objector

http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigations/404_objectors.html

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/thegoodwar/

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/wwii/a1.html

Martin Luther King, http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/november01/military/timeline.html

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/us-history/resource/5669.html

http://civilliberty.about.com/od/religiousliberty/p/objectors.htm

http://www.wri-irg.org/co/icodhist.htm 

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWncf.htm

 

The Christmas Truce (WWI)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce

http://www.christmastruce.co.uk/index.html

 

War and the Constitution (related issue)

Declare War, http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200511/declare-war

Chris Durang: Congress, Don't Let the Decider Bomb Iran - The Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-durang/congress-dont-let-the-d_b_19670.html

Bill Moyers at West Point, http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1129-21.htm

 

Teaching Children About Peace

Article, http://www.mothering.com/articles/growing_child/family_society/avoid_draft.html 

Institute for Peace and Justice, http://www.ipj-ppj.org

Virtual Peace Academy, http://members.aol.com/bridge22/JGPLibrary-AtVusPA.html#CO-Aware

Culture of Peace News Network, http://cpnn-usa.org/index.html

Int’l. Day of Peace, http://www.internationaldayofpeace.org/

Cranes for Peace, http://www.networkearth.org/world/peace.html

World Peace Project for Children, http://www.sadako.org

Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse, http://www.mincava.umn.edu/documents/pnvcur1-6/pnvcur1-6.html

Fellowship of Reconciliation, http://www.forusa.org

Colman McCarthy:         

            Wikipedia, Colman McCarthy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colman_McCarthy         

            Article excerpt by Colman McCarthy, http://www.thinkingpeace.com/Lib/lib050.html 

            Article about Colman McCarthy, http://www.peace.ca/colemanmccarthy.htm

            Interview transcript, 1996, http://www.commongroundradio.org/shows/96/9637.html

Children’s Creative Response to Conflict,  http://www.planet-rockland.org/conflict

Children’s Peace Pavilion, http://www.kidpeace.org

Celebrating Peace, http://www.celebratingpeace.com

New Songs for Peace, http://www.newsongsforpeace.org/

Atrium Society, http://www.atriumsoc.org/

 

Campaign for U.S. Department of Peace, http://www.thepeacealliance.org/