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  • Collection: War Resisters League Southeast

SteveS_NAARPR.mp3
WRL Southeast staff organizer and co-founder Steve Sumerford reflects on the political climate in North Carolina when he and Diane Spaugh co-founded the regional office in 1976.

SteveS_1979.mp3
WRL Southeast office co-founder Steve Sumerford remembers 1979 as year of political repression, white supremacist violence, global crisis, and right-wing victories in the US.

JoanneS_TrainingandFeminism.mp3
Joanne Sheehan, WRL New England founder, WRL Feminism & Nonviolence Task Force member, and Clamshell Alliance organizer, reflects on the importance of nonviolence training for coordinated protest.

Collage of fliers and photographs on a pink background. The photographs are of a national War Resisters League gathering, with everyone raising their fists in the air; Mandy Carter, a young African American woman with short hair standing in front of the barbed wire fence of a military base; and Mandy Carter and others marching behind a banner with two prominent women's symbols. The fliers are for a "nonviolent vigil" and a list of candidates for the "Durham gay and lesbian solidarity coalition." What looks like a political button features an image of hands breaking a rifle in half, the War Resisters League's logo.

Three white-presenting people sitting around a table. The person in the center table, who is wearing a name tag, is smiling and looking at the person to her right.
WRL Southeast organizer Dannia Southerland (R) at War Resisters League's 1983 national conference.

An event newsletter with a list of dates and event descriptions for the month of May 1983.
Issue of The Newsletter, a lesbian feminist underground newsletter of the Triangle area of North Carolina featuring mention of War Resisters League Southeast

Majority-white group of women-presenting people standing in a crowd facing a row of journalists. Some people are raising their fists in the air. Some women are holding a banner with a web on it that reads, "We meet as women to weave a world web of life to entangle the powers that bury our children." Other signs have women's symbols on them, and some read: "No nukes," "Shanti," and "Socialist feminists"
The Women's Pentagon Action in Washington D.C., before 2,000 women surrounded the Pentagon, weaving yarn webs to symbolically block the entrances.

Front page of a newspaper with a photograph of a group of six people walking with a Continental Walk sign on a sidewalk.
Asheville, North Carolina news article about the Appalachian route of the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, as it made its way from Oak Ridge, TN to Washington, D.C. through North Carolina and Virginia.

Group of six people walking in the center of a road. The first four present as young white men and women followed by two Buddhist monks carrying instruments. A person carries a sign at the front of the line of walkers, reading: Appalachian Route of the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice
Photo of members of the Appalachian route of the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, as they made their way from Oak Ridge, TN to Washington, D.C. through North Carolina and Virginia.

Newsletter article titled "Arrests, Arson Plague Southern Walk." The top right corner features a photograph of Black and white marchers, one of whom is carrying a sign reading "Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice" and the bottom left photograph features a group of Black-presenting men and women standing and facing a cop. A white-presenting man stands behind the group, holding a hand-written sign reading, "The Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice."
Article from the Continental Walk newsletter about the police repression and white vigilante violence that members of the Southern leg of the walk encountered on their journey through Birmingham, Alabama.
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