Sir, No Sir: GI Resistance in LA and DC

This episode features part two of our conversation with Catholic Worker organizers Lenore Yarger and Steve Woolford, and their son Quinn. From their rural North Carolina home base, they’ve spent 20 years running the GI Rights Hotline, an anonymous lifeline for soldiers looking to get out, resist, or simply not follow illegal orders. Their hotline blew up when Trump ordered National Guard deployments to Los Angeles.

What happens when the empire turns inward? What kinds of calls do they get from soldiers at the breaking point?

We also learn some history of resistance to right-wing, anti-immigrant nativism in Siler City, a small North Carolina town.

Links:

1. GI RIGHTS HOTLINE: (877) 447-4487, girightshotline.org
2. A documentary recommendation from the Iraq War era: Sir, No Sir!

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