#draftresistance

James M Branum - יעקב מתתיהו ☮

@jmb.c.im.ap.brid.gy

4 days ago

News clipping from newspaper with headline "Pia Machita Arrested in U.S. Officer Raid - Rugged Old Indian Rebel Bows to Airplane as marshal's posse rounds up tribesmen; capture effected peacably

I'm sharing a paper that I wrote about the story of Pia Machita, a Tohono O'odham elder who led his village in resisting military conscription from 1940-1941.

It is a powerful story and one that brings to mind other moments of Indigenous resistance to the draft […]

[Original post on c.im]

bkeithb

@bkeithb.bsky.social

5 days ago

The question now: how many more will be dragged into a war they never signed up for?

#USSoldiers #NoWarWithIran #AntiWar #DraftResistance #VeteransForPeace #StopTheWar #TrumpLied #BootsOnTheGround #ConscientiousObjector #PeaceMovement

LN Montpetit

@lninmontreal.bsky.social

5 months ago

If that doesn't tell the murderers what kind of world our youth wants, nothing will.
#IsraeliTeens #DraftResistance #BurningDraftPapers #YouthActivism #IsraelProtests #CivilDisobedience #VoicesOfChange #FreedomOfExpression #SocialJustice #StandWithYouth

Quiet Americans

@quietamericans.com

5 months ago

But decades later, his book was rediscovered — and helped expose one of the most complex and painful chapters of Japanese American history.

#QuietAmericans #JohnOkada #NoNoBoy #JapaneseAmericanHistory #WWII #Resistance #DraftResistance #AAPIHeritage #CivilRights #NeverForget

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Quiet Americans

@quietamericans.com

8 months ago

Follow to remember these rebels with a cause.

#NoNoBoys #JapaneseAmericanHistory #WWIIHistory #CivilRights #Incarceration #AAPIHistory #ExecutiveOrder9066 #QuietAmericans #HiddenHistory #DraftResistance #NeverForget

Quiet Americans

@quietamericans.com

8 months ago

And for that, they were sent to federal prison.
While they were being incarcerated.

#HeartMountain #DraftResistance #WWIIHistory #JapaneseAmericanHistory #CivilRights #MassIncarceration #LoyaltyQuestionnaire #ConscientiousObjectors

Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages (JAMP)

@jampilgrimages.bsky.social

1 year ago

#OTD in 1944, the #HeartMountainFairPlayCommittee held it's first public meeting.

#japaneseamerican #draftresistance #heartmountain #nisei #leavenworth #McNeilIsland #wwii #emi #nakadate #hoshizaki #okamoto #civilrights

@woodstockwhisperer.bsky.social

1 year ago

#January5, 1968 Attorney General Ramsey Clark announced indictments of #BenjaminSpock #RevWilliamSloaneCoffinJr #MichaelFerber #MitchellGoodman and #MarcusRaskin #VietnamWar #draftresistance woodstockwhisperer.info/2016/01/05/d...