War Resisters League
Location: New York, New York, United States
Duration: 1923 - current (Africa solidarity work known in the 1970s and 1980s)
The War Resisters League (WRL), founded in 1923, is an explicitly secular organization working for nonviolent revolution. WRL is the U.S. affiliate of War Resisters International. In 1975, WRL opposed foreign intervention in Angola. In 1978, WRL endorsed the U.S. tour of Drake Koka, general secretary of the Black Allied Workers Union (BAWU) of South...
The War Resisters League (WRL), founded in 1923, is an explicitly secular organization working for nonviolent revolution. WRL is the U.S. affiliate of War Resisters International. In 1975, WRL opposed foreign intervention in Angola. In 1978, WRL endorsed the U.S. tour of Drake Koka, general secretary of the Black Allied Workers Union (BAWU) of South Africa, organized by the Drake Koka Tour Committee. In the 1970s and 1980s, WRL worked with various anti-apartheid organizations to link Southern Africa, Central American, and peace movement solidarity work. (Source: War Resisters League website accessed August 9, 2014 and documents on this website.)
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