conscientious objector

On this show, we speak with Francesco Da Vinci author of “I Refuse to Kill”, a nonviolent activist, Conscientious Objector, documentary film producer, and for more than 20 years photographer with Getty Images.  

He is a Ukrainian who is not talked about much and whom the Western mainstream media does not like to talk about. He is Yurii Sheliazhenko, a conscientious objector, a representative of EBCO (European Bureau for Conscientious Objection) and War…

Ahead of the hearing on 6 March 2023, before the Council of State, Greece’s Supreme Administrative Court, of the case of Thomas Katsaros, whose application for the status of conscientious objector to military service has been rejected by the Minister…

In Ukraine, on 16 January 2023, Ivano-Frankivsk Appeal Court rejected the appeal of 46- year-old Christian Vitaly Alekseenko against his conviction for refusing call up to the military on conscientious grounds. “I told the court I agree that I have…

In Ukraine, a trial against Ukrainian journalist, pacifist and conscientious objector Ruslan Kotsaba will be held on Tuesday 19 July 2022, simply because he publicly expressed his pacifist views. The International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), War Resisters’ International (WRI), the…

If we were to look beyond words to actions, there would be no doubt that virtually all U.S. politicians have, in effect, taken the Trump/Kissinger view of U.S. troops for as long as there have been U.S. troops. “Why should…