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://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
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.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.afsc.org/youthmil/default.htm
http://www.justthinkfirst.org/index.htm
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iraq_War_resisters
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
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
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.anothermother.org/index.html
http://www.mothersagainstthedraft.org/
http://www.historiansagainstwar.org and http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/resources/steele.html
Petition,
Military, http://www.appealforredress.org/
http://www.winwithoutwarus.org/
http://cpnn-usa.org/index.html
http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/index.php
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/