by Kindra Bradley | Nov 13, 2020 | GI Rights Hotline, Peace, War and Use of Military Force
What gives us hope? This has been a tough time. As I write this, the presidential election in the United States has not officially come to a conclusion and the nine-day interval since Election Day has felt like a month, at least. COVID cases are beginning their...
by Kindra Bradley | Jun 4, 2019 | Before Joining, Conscientious Objection, GI Rights Hotline, Military, Selective Service System
Recently Lenore described our work with the GI Rights Hotline to a Guatemalan immigrant friend. “The government must not like you,” he said. “Once you’re in the US military, they make it almost impossible to get out.” Not everyone with whom we talk...
by Kindra Bradley | May 21, 2019 | Conscientious Objection, Draft, Religion, Selective Service System
The Selective Service System is currently being scrutinized, hopefully with an element of discernment involved. That’s where you come in. We depend on you to comment during this short window of time during which decisions are being made about future...
by Kindra Bradley | May 7, 2019 | War and Use of Military Force
The violence we give will always come home to us. A bomb dropped in Cambodia will explode in a classroom in Colorado. The bodies of Guatemalan mental patients, mangled by the experiments of American researchers, will be cremated in the fires of Ferguson, Missouri. The...
by Kindra Bradley | Apr 29, 2019 | Conscientious Objection, Draft, Selective Service System
The National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service has been holding public hearings since February 2018 in order to gather and share information about its mandate to update the Selective Service System (and, therefore, draft and conscientious objector...
by Kindra Bradley | Nov 21, 2018 | War and Use of Military Force
Artificial intelligence in war weapons rarely makes it into the news. Yet, it requires our careful attention because it is already part of international and national lawmaking. The United Nations (UN) Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on the Convention on Certain...
