Before You Enlist / After You Say No

FROM AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMITTEE
AFSC asked The Ruckus Society and Training for Change to create a training manual to respond to the growing counter-recruitment movement. The Ruckus Society has played a lead role in the Not Your Soldier counter-recruitment camps and coupled with Training for Change's direct education approach the result is pedagogically sound, information packed series of workshops with a skill-building emphasis. Matt Smucker also wrote the Media and Messaging workshop. In this manual are eight workshops, on average about 3-hours long. They are designed so they can be put together to make a longer training, or used separately.

AFSC 2006 229 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Binding The Wounds Of War

Ayoung Relief Worker's Letters Home 1943-47

BY CLIFFORD BARNARD
Clifford Barnard was a CO in WW2 and joined the Friends Ambulance Unit, the book is a collection of his letters home to his parents and tells of his experiences in training and then in the newly liberated Europe, including the Sandbostel camp for political prisoners that is more fully described in his previous book "Two weeks in May". The letters are delightful, even if the subject matter is often sad, there are elements of biography and the touching romance with his future wife is cataloged

Pronoun Press 2010 198 PP. Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

Choosing Against War

A Christian View

BY JOHN ROTH
"Roth wrote this short, simple introduction to Christian pacifism 'out of a conviction that the gospel of Jesus Christ does indeed speak to the crises of our day with a perspective that is both distinctive and unique.' Very much in the tradition of Christian apology, the book isn't likely to convert readers with Nietzschean inclinations, whom it often seems to be arguing against. But those curious about Christian pacifism and the strains of the Christian tradition, particularly the historic peace churches (Mennonites, Brethren, and Quakers), which understand that nonviolence lies at the heart of the gospel, could do worse than to start their learning here." - Booklist

Good Books 2002 128 PP. Paper

$9.99 (in stock)

Choosing Peace

A Handbook On War, Peace, And Your Conscience

BY ROBERT SEELEY
A complete discussion of modern war: military recruiting, work against war, and ways to live by your beliefs. Good for youth.

Central Comm. for Conscientious Objectors 1994 245 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Creative Conflict Resolution

More Than 200 Activities For Keeping Peace In The Classroom

BY WILLIAM J. KREIDLER
Teachers learn creative and constructive responses to conflicts occurring in any K-6 class. Offers over 20 conflict resolution techniques with examples, 14 reproducible worksheets, and over 200 class-tested activities and cooperative games.

Scott, Foresman 1984 216 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

Down In My Heart

Peace Witness In War Time

BY WILLIAM STAFFORD
From 1942 to 1945, William Stafford was interned in camps for conscientious objectors for his refusal to be inducted into the U.S. Army. Stafford's memoir of these years offers a rich glimpse into a little-known aspect of World War II and a fascinating look at the formative years of a major American poet. Reprint, first published in 1947.

Oregon State University Press 2006 94 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Early Morning

Remembering My Father, William Stafford

BY KIM STAFFORD
Writer, pacifist, teacher, and a literary mentor to many, William Stafford is one of the great American poets of the twentieth century. He published more than sixty-five volumes of poetry and prose. Before his death in 1993, he gave his son Kim the greatest gift and challenge: to be his literary executor. By piecing together a collage of his personal and family memories, and sifting through thousands of pages of his father's daily writing and poems, Kim illuminates a fascinating and richly lived life.

Graywolf Press 2002 296 PP. Cloth

$7.50 (in stock)

Every War Has Two Losers

William Stafford On Peac And War

BY WILLIAM STAFFORD
For most of the 20th century, from WW I until his death in 1993, American poet and pacifist William Stafford remained convinced that wars don't work. In his poetry and other writings, he showed that it is crucial to think independently when fanatics act and to speak for reconciliation when nations take sides. This book collects the antiwar writings, journal excerpts, pacifist poems, interviews, and an account of his own near-hanging at the hands of American patriots. He assesses U.S. political habits and suggests that there are always alternative approaches to aggression. Includes newly published excerpts from William Stafford's daily journal from 1951 to 1991.

Milkweed 2003 168 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Friends And The Vietnam War

Papers And Presentations From A Gathering For Recollection, Reappraisal And Looking Ahead

EDITED BY CHUCK FAGER
In July 1998, Pendle Hill convened a gathering of Friends to take an in-depth look at what the ordeal of the Vietnam War meant for Friends. This is a collection of stories and essays from that gathering.

Pendle Hill 1998 365 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Friends In Civilian Public Service

Quaker Conscientious Objectors In World War Ii Look Back And Look Ahead

ED DAN SEEGER
Proceedings of a conference held in 1996 of alumni and their spouses of the Civilian Public Service camps which operated during WWII; an extraordinary witness for peace at a time of grave crisis.

Pendle Hill 1998 347 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Guide For Friends On Conscientious Objection To War

BY BEN RICHMOND
Is it ever right to go to war? What does the Bible say? What if there is a draft? Covers practical questions about pacifism and registering as a conscientious objector.

FUP 1991 16 PP. Paper

$1.00 (in stock)

Handbook On Miliatary Taxes And Conscience

EDITED BY LINDA COFFIN
Nine chapters on issues such as "What does the Bible Say?," "A Quaker History," "Spiritual Leadings and Rational Decisions," "Honoring God or Paying Caesar." Includes questions fro study and the text of the Peace Tax Bill in plain English.

Friends Committee on War Tax Concerns 1988 222 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

It's My Life

A Guide To Alternatives After High School

BY JANIINE SCHWAB
If you are wondering what to do after high school, "It's my life!" contains ideas to get you started in your own decision making process. The ideas are themed on positive and non military jobs and vocations in the green economy and in peace building for example. This 89 page guide is loaded with great resources for high school students or any young people looking to start their careers. For more information visit www.afsc.org/itsmylife.

AFSC 2008 89 PP. Paper

$9.95 (in stock)

Liberty And Conscience

A Documentary History Of The Experiences Of Conscientious Objectors In America Through The Civil War

EDITED BY PETER BROCK
Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans have long struggled to reconcile their politics, pacifist beliefs, and compulsory military service. While conscientious objection in the twentieth century has been well documented, there has been surprisingly little study of its long history in America's early conflicts, defined as these have been by accounts of patriotism and nation-building. In fact, during the period of conscription from the late 1650s to the end of the Civil War, many North Americans refused military service on grounds of conscience.

Oxford University Press 2002 194 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Men Of Peace

World War 2 Conscientious Objectors

EDITED BY MARY HOPKINS
Men of Peace has contributions from thirty-two men who refused to become members of the United States armed forces during World War II. They tell what led them to refuse induction and choose to labor for no pay or go to federal prison during the conflict. We discover what influenced them in early life and how they managed during the following decades. By the end of this book we can look back on social changes that they have made and what impact these intelligent humanitarians have had on our present day society.

PDLH 2010 410 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Quaker In Vietnam

Rick Thompson, 1949-1973 - Php 367

BY BETH TAYLOR
This pamphlet is a personal history of Rick Thompson, who worked for the AFSC at their Quang Ngai hospital during the Vietnam War. Rick died in Vietnam. He was the author's first cousin, so based on letters, journals, and interviews with family and friends, she covers his journey of conscience as it led him into the heart of the Vietnam War.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2003 34 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Raising Conscientious Objector Consciousness Among Our Youth

Six Lesson Plans For U.s. Friends High School First Day Programs

COMPILED BY CURT TORELL AND ALICE CARLTON, ON BEHALF OF CHAPEL HILL MEETING
In our current political climate reinstituting a draft for military service no longer seems implausible. Currently registration is required for young men and the process does not allow for declaring CO status. This manual for young Friends carefully considers the issues involved, the law and Quaker practice. It guides the young person and the meeting community through information gathering, decision making and follow-up needed to support CO status.

Quaker Press of FGC 2003 44 PP. Looseleaf

$12.00 (in stock)

Refusing War, Affirming Peace

A History Of Civilian Public Service At Cascade Locks

BY JEFFREY KOVAC
A history of Campy #21, a Civilian Public Service Camp which stood out as community of conscientious objectors during World War II.

Oregon State University Press 2009 192 PP. Paper

$21.95 (in stock)

They Chose The Star (7298)

Quaker War Relief Work In France 1870-1875

BY WILLIAM K SESSIONS
Ex Stony run library, fair condition but guess you would be buying this for information not beauty. A fascinating history of the beginnings of Quaker reklief work which took place in France from 1870 to 1875

sessions of York 1991 102 PP. Paper

$7.00 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

To End All Wars

A Story Of Loyalty And Rebellion, 1914-1918

BY ADAM HOCHSCHILD
World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. Adam Hochschild brings this war to life, focusing on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics - including the conscientious objectors one British tabloid called "human toadstools" - alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain's leading investigative journalist and a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Today, hundreds of military cemeteries spread across the fields of northern France and Belgium contain the bodies of millions of men who died in the "war to end all wars." Can we ever avoid repeating history?

HMH 2011 448 PP. Cloth

$28.00 (in stock)

War Taxes Experiences Of Philadelphia Ye

CRAUDERUEFF, ELAINE

1989 Paper

$6.50 (in stock)