Refusing to Kill - An exciting new video

27 Jun 05
An exciting new video Refusing to Kill made by the men’s network, Payday, was premiered in London on 12 March as part of Global Women's Strike events in London. An audience of 80 riveted people were delighted to see how refuseniks, with their families’ support, from many countries and many wars refuse military orders to kill or to act without humanity. Veterans describe how they resisted abuse from fellow soldiers, while others talked about how they organized against their health and lives being destroyed – including by Gulf War Syndrome. The video also highlighted the anti-draft movement so prominent during the Vietnam war.

Guest speaker Kai Dahwanee from the Philippines told the true story of how the US-backed Marcos dictatorship was brought down. Millions took to the streets and women took the lead in convincing the grassroots of the military to put down their guns and join the popular protest.

Selma James (Global Women's Strike), Sue Webster, Michael Kalmanovitz (Payday)
photo: Crossroads Women's Centre Photo Collective

Speakers from the Strike, co-ordinated globally from London, spoke about Strike actions all around the world -- highlights included a march of 4-5,000 in India and a historic gathering of 300 Afro-, Indo- and Indigenous Guyanese women – all under the banner of “Invest in Caring not Killing.”

Messages of support were read from George Solomou, the first UK soldier to publicly call on other soldiers to refuse to fight in Iraq, and from Matan Kaminer in Jerusalem who spent two years in prison before he won the right not to serve in the Israeli army. Last year he and other young Israeli refuseniks were guests of Payday at the Crossroads Women’s Centre.

Copies of the video available in VHS/DVD £7 plus p&p.

Find out how to support Abdullah Webster and other refuseniks

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