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Transcript: Soldier for the Truth

STAFF | Los Angeles Weekly | February 26, 2004

"With master’s degrees from Harvard in government and zoology and two books on Saharan Africa to her credit, she found herself transferred in the spring of 2002 to a post as a political/military desk officer at the Defense Department’s office for Near East South Asia (NESA), a policy arm of the Pentagon." [more]

Accidental Anarchist

Steven Mikulan | Los Angeles Weekly | July 11, 2003

"Much of the Internet is a cricket chorus of disaffected voices, and Raisethefist.com, which Austin still operates, is no different from any other of the woollier one-man sites on the left and right. Perhaps, in another time, the feds would have merely regarded Sherman Austin as a minor irritant, marginally worth watching. But then 9/11 hit, and the rest, as they say, is hysteria." [more]

Analysis: Selling War, Buying Recruits

Greg Goldin | Los Angeles Weekly | March 7, 2003

"It costs the Department of Defense roughly $11,000 to lure in each recruit, a price tag that has doubled in the last decade, in part because 64 percent of young Americans say they definitely would not volunteer for military service under any conditions." [more]

Analysis: LA's Slow March to Peace

Howard Blume and Christine Pelisek | Los Angeles Weekly | February 14, 2003

"There was no burgeoning grassroots anti-war movement in Los Angeles a year ago. But now, in this spread-out, segregated, traffic-bogged, indifferent metropolis, enough people have signed petitions and gathered with signs at street corners to get the City Council paying attention: Resolutions on a war in Iraq are now before the council." [more]

Feelings of Insecurity

Ben Ehrenreich | Los Angeles Weekly | January 2, 2003

"[He] little to say to comfort the families of Iranians imprisoned in this country last week by the Immigration and Naturalization Service as part of a nationwide roundup of men and boys from largely Muslim countries. As Bush spoke, dozens still sat in immigration detention centers and local jails, and anxiety and outrage coursed through the Iranian-American community." [more]

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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.