Resisters

Fewer know the more recent stories of the resisters to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who also came to Canada seeking refuge.

The change opens the way for people who want greater representation of the Frontier Wars (between British colonists and Indigenous resisters) to get on the board which will make that decision.

The horrific attack outraged war resisters and human rights groups.

But it drew a quick, harsh protest from the German Peace Society — United War Resisters (DFG-VK in German), an almost 130-year-old anti-war group.

Whatever rightwing columnists say, the predicted great revolt hasn’t materialised: a study by Kings College London classed fewer than one in 10 Britons as “resisters”, actively fighting against it.

I have been working on Japanese American literature, community activism, and history for many years now, but I have been reluctant to rejoin JACL, given its stance on the Tule Lake resisters.

Since being established in 2003, the school has enabled girls to become the unlikely heroes and resisters of their lives’ journeys.

There are phony resisters who have spent two years calling Trump a racist, fascist, lying, traitorous maniac who will destroy the planet; yet they now find reasons to support the newest war crime.

By the time a group called "ReSisters" began organizing a rally against white nationalism for August 10, it had spent more than a year sharing left-wing posts about feminism, immigration and other hot-button topics.

Hope to see more resisters come true.

I would drive war resisters across the Canadian border.

Meet fellow resisters during the Women’s March to the Polls: Phoenix.

During and after World War I, Landis, an ardent patriot, presided over several high-profile trials of draft resisters and others whom he saw as opposing the war effort.

He and Naiche (the son of Cochise and hereditary leader after Tahzay's death) together led many of the resisters during those last few years of freedom.

In the first few months, reports suggest that there were many who refused STO and went into hiding, mostly in areas where people hid Jews and resisters.

Marguerite managed to escape from the Ravensbrück-bound train, which was halted during an Allied air strike; she survived in the woods in the chaos of the closing days of the war, until rescued by fellow resisters.

Resistance became closely linked with the effects of the occupation and Vichy legislation and as the working class became alienated "resisters and people on the run could be harboured with a degree of safety".

War Resisters International has stated that the right to conscientious objection to military service is primarily derived from—but not yet explicit in—Article 18 of the UDHR: the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.