From We are Not Your Soldiers!
On May 5th, the tour will be going in to the high schools in the Bay Area. Friday May 7 at 7:00pm, we will be at the Multi-Cultural Center-Theater on the Campus of UCSB. Don’t miss this! The We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour, a project of the World Can’t Wait, is not your typical counter recruiting presentation.
World Can’t Wait Activists and Iraq war veterans have teamed up to present the reality of ongoing wars of occupation, and the need for a resistance movement led by young people that can spark and inspire a much needed and more determined anti-war movement. The future of the young and the future of the people of the world are intertwined as we all hang in the balance.
Collateral Murder?
It’s not an aberration.
It’s not acceptable.
This whole war is illegal and immoral!
SPEAKERS SCHEDULED TO APPEAR AT UCSB
Matthis Chiroux
Matthis joined the U.S. Army at age 18. For five years, he worked in Public Affairs until being discharged as a sergeant in ‘07 following tours in Japan and Germany, with shorter deployments to the Philippines and Afghanistan. He publicly refused activation and deployment to Iraq from the IRR in ‘08 and won a victory for resisters when the military discharged him under honorable conditions as a result. Mathis has been going to high school classrooms all over New York City on the We Are Not Your Soldier to tell students the truth about what happens when you join the U.S. Military. Mathis currently sits on the Board of Directors for Iraq Veterans Against The War.
Emma Kaplan
Emma Kaplan is the National Youth & Student Coordinator of World Can’t Wait. She has organized protests against torture,military recruiting centers, and against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She is going to trial in August for participating in the protests with Port Military Resistance, where people formed human blockades to prevent the Stryker brigades from being sent to Iraq. Most recently Emma has spoken to hundreds of students at assemblies & classrooms around the country on the We Are Not Your Soldier Tour.
Endorsers to date: Students for Justice In Palestine
This event is open to the community. Don’t miss it!