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Showing posts with label CO Issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CO Issues. Show all posts
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Declarations of Conscientious Objector status skyrocket
Posted here because RantWoman cannot locate the Brian Tyler Cohen video about this topic.
BOMBSHELL: Troops allege Hegseth and Trump pushing them to VIOLATE laws as discharge requests SURGE
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Conscientious Objection?
Pacific Yearly Meeting notes:
Our government does not grant conscientious objector status when a draft is not active. The only way to achieve it is to petition your draft board. The US has used a draft five times to force men to die in war. With Congress showing it has no real power to resist the president dragging our country into war, it’s a very dangerous time.
If you are age 18-25, you can build your case for conscientious objector status. Become a member to your local meeting. If you are spiritually opposed to war, then write that in your membership request letter.
If you are age 18-25, you can build your case for conscientious objector status. Become a member to your local meeting. If you are spiritually opposed to war, then write that in your membership request letter.
RantWoman notes in a "Mean to research" light:
1. There is some activity, (pending legislation or executive order?) in the direction of making draft registration automatic.
2. RantWoman is unclear whether automatic draft registration applies to both men and women.
3.RantWoman has the impression that a conscientious objection claim can refer to a specific war even if one can imagine circumstances they would be willing to bear arms for.
4. There are periodic conversations about universal public service.
ALL of these points merit further research, by both people articulating conscientious objector beliefs and by anyone seeking to pull the US out of its current militarization trend.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Belle on Automatic Draft Registration and the Pope in politics
One of RantWoman's favorite YouTube voices, esteemed for packing a lot of punch into few words and for taking on lots of questions politely and with solid information.
The video is pithy. Catch all the points.
"The Book of Donald"
Sunday, March 29, 2026
God's Gonna Cut you down--for Holy Week?
Who Knew? Marilyn Manson has covered this Johny cash song God's Gonna Cut You Down several times.
Tell me it's weird to make this the earworm of the week for holy week. Guess what! COPE!
This song is dedicated to the Secretary of #WarCrimes, to his pastor who is being even more Rah-rah violence, and to Pope Leo attempted to spank the warmongers.
And the evidence for referral
🚨Pete Hegseth Just Dropped A SUNDAY BOMB On His Own Military!
James Talarico STUNS After Hegseth's Pastor Drops Unthinkable Attack
RantWoman is willing to, but NOT linger long, in the place where the good pastor's words refer to some kind of spiritual transformation. On account of allof MAGA who are metaphor-challenged though, Yuck. Way to win converts bro.
And the Pope
“Those Who Take the Sword Will Perish” — Pope’s Palm Sunday Anti-War Message | APT
“God won’t listen to war leaders” -- Pope’s blunt message on Iran war | DW News
And the Center on Conscience and War is right there in social media saying, basically, "if this galvanizes you, we can help you file a conscientious objector claim.
Friday, March 27, 2026
Center on Conscience and War interview on Zeteo
Right to conscientious objection is enshrined in military regulations.
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Let's talk about Trump claiming victory and Iran publicly mocking Trump....
Trump Claims Iran War Is Won, But Hegseth’s New Recruitment Standards Say Otherwise | The Daily Show
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
"You must refuse illegal orders"
Videos with arc of the story. Skip to the bottom for most recent
Sen Mark Kelly Targeted? Breaking Down the Pentagon’s Move
referencing the Nuremburg principles
And from Hawk, in, um, interesting vernacular.
about use of military in cities
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
New faces and Conscientious Objection
RantWoman posts this info FYI for anyone facing considerations about possible unlawful orders.
Anyone considering decisions should consult legal counsel
UPDATE on US troops DISOBEYING Trump’s ILLEGAL orders
Some Chicago moments
"There's no emergency. There is no justification..."
And in other news
About Face Vets
Monday, September 15, 2025
Ukrainian Pacifist Yuri Sheliazhenko: his story.
#Ukraine #Pacifism
RantWoman until now has neglected voices of peace activists in Ukraine. Here is one modest effort to remedy that. RantWoman's main content curation here: links served up by Google. Presented in chronological order
Yuri worships online with Kyiv Friends when he can.
Not surprising that Mr. Sheliazhenko's views are controversial. Here are current requests and then some background
World Beyond War:
"Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution
of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko"
https://actionnetwork.org/
OR
https://tinyurl.com/YuriiSept
War Resistors' International:
"Ukraine: Stop the proceedings against Yurii Sheliazhenko"
https://wri-irg.org/en/
OR
https://tinyurl.com/Yurii-Sept
"Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution
of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko"
https://actionnetwork.org/
OR
https://tinyurl.com/YuriiSept
War Resistors' International:
"Ukraine: Stop the proceedings against Yurii Sheliazhenko"
https://wri-irg.org/en/
OR
https://tinyurl.com/Yurii-Sept
Yurii Sheliazhenko - Keynote Speech at the Peace Conference 2022 - Local...
REfreshing to see several other items on the Stop the War website including reference to Russian activist Boris Kagarlitsky.
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Thursday, August 8, 2024
VERY harsh words to JD Vance for His Bogus Attacks on Tim Walz
The comment RantWoman posted
1. THANK YOU for the rant.
2. After "Hang Mike Pence," I think ANYONE willing to be VP for #DementiaDon probably has a few screws loose.
3. Not necessarily knowing the details of #ShadyVance service in Iraq, I am inclined to think that if he wants a medal for six months of writing press releases, he should get in line behind #CadetBoneSpurs and that guy's "personal Vietnam" avoiding STD's
4. Admittedly a bit of a tangent, perhaps this is all a plot to make some of the peacenik left parse out a bunch of aspects of military service including disruption of families, families of enlisted men that qualify for food stamps in some areas, and a BUNCH of other quality of life and veteran support issues that planners for the Iraq engagement were way too eager to ignore going in.
The comment RantWoman posted
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
New Weapons. New impacts Russian Military Base Devastation Revealed in New Images!
There is no shortage of footage about destruction and the machinery of destruction in Russia's war on Ukraine.
RantWoman may in fact have posted too much herself, especially from this commentator. RantWoman appreciates learning that his military experience involved staffing ICBM's in America's heartland.
What draws RantWoman's attention in this post, though, is his vehemence about the opinions expressed by some of the political prisoners released and flown out of Russia in the most recent multinational prisoner exchange.
RantWoman has not kept meticulous track of exactly who all the released figures are besides the US citizens and green card holder. Commentary here, though, speaks about different political views expressed by some of the released Russian prisoners.
RantWoman did not catch the name of the person saying that ordinary people are hurting because of international sanctions on Russia. Therefore, the West should repeal sanctions and just accept a ceasefire and leave Russia in place. That unquestionably is a pro-Kremlin position. OF COURSE ordinary people are suffering under the sanctions regime. That is nothing unusual. Some ordinary Russians also feel it is there patriotic duty to send their sons off to war. There is patriotic duty, and there is having no alternative: plenty of ordinary people are upset by the war but feel powerless because of endless crackdowns on all forms of dissent.
This commentator seems, to RantWoman, a little glib about the necessity of violence in this case. Ukraine has a right to self-defense. Russia needs to GO HOME and to get the troops home while they are still alive, not fed into Russia's military meat grinder. And unfortunately, when Russia goes home, there will be SO MUCH healing needed that it is hard even to have a vision of all that needs to occur.
The second figure RantWoman remembers is Ilya Yashin, an opposition politician from Bashkortostan, one of the "brown people regions where Putin continues to forcibly conscript people. Yashin at least is considerably more categorical about the war needing to end and Russia bearing responsibility.
So, the interesting questions: who will these two former prisoners find to talk to in the West and will either of them consider returning to Russia?
And will RantWoman ever get around to digesting some of the "Russia is about to collapse / Putin is this, Putin is that" content out there to consider....
Saturday, March 2, 2024
More modest remembrance of Asia Bennett than this weeks farewells to Alexei Navalny
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistoryMonth2024
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| This bus stop near Meeting was in remarkably good condition today, especially compared to many past visits documented in passing in this blog. RantWomanblames cellphone oopses for lack of a more topical photo |
Today was Asia Bennett's memorial.
Asia Bennett Seattle Times Obituary
Asia Bennett Seattle Times Obituary
Thematic comments:
1. For a faith tradition founded on the equality of Women, (see Margaret Fell) and credited historically with important connections to suffrage movements, only in the 20th century was Asia credited with being "the first woman to..." for a number of different Quaker organizations. Asia spent the early part of her career working in childcare. Her family's bio reported that she at some point noted how much dealing with toddlers--and their parents--prepared her for the many different leadership and personnel roles she took on within various Quaker organizations.
[RantWoman sometimes carries around in her head thoughts such as "a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." When RantWoman observes long-lasting marriages where deep love is obvious, though, RantWoman also firmly believes in supporting the partnership behind leaders so special Light and appreciation for Lee, Asia's husband of almost 77 years.]
2. LOTS of people talked about Asia's capacity to listen. RantWoman meant particularly to note Vanessa Julye's comment about Asia's role in supporting Vanessa's early steps in the work of addressing racism within the Society of Friends. These thoughts did not make it out of RantWoman's mouth as a message in worship. They WILL be part of thoughts in another post only hinted at here.
3. LOTS of people commented about how Asia asking a question helped direct them toward or away from different forms of witness: aiming for revolution vs getting married, accepting AFSC staff vote to unionize consideration that the organization had a decades-long commitment to supporting unions, engagement about diversity with out LGBT Friends.
4. RantWoman admits to a little bit of frustration about mention of issues in days of yore with scant thought that some of those same issues are very much still throbbing, sometimes in new, highly mutated forms in the life of the world. One of Asia's gifts to the world is to plant seeds for helping new generations find paths among these challenging realities.
5. Inclosing,possibly weird advice to young people new to Friends: GO TO MEMORIALS. Even if you barely know the deceased and are afraid of not knowing a soul from your own generation, GO TO MEMORIALS. Learn. Okay, Asia famously told someone awed by Quaker weddings "oh wait until you see the memorials."
Techie notes.
1. RantWoman has special tirades related to memorials and visits UFM intermittently. Today aside from the bus shelter in LOVELY condition, . the visit revealed QR codes???? RantWoman loves the pblishers of Truth in whatever is the medium of the day. RantWoman is just not sure about QR codes on info sheets on a bulletin . board.RantWoman hopes the QR codes do what is intended. She also hopes the bar codes do not scare away people annoyed by bar codes or by the implication that one must be fluent in particular technologies to be a good Quaker.
2. Even at in-person events, RantWoman LOVES, LOVES, Loves signing into Zoom on her phone with audio disconnected in order not to interfere with room sound. RantWoman just LOVES knowing who all is on the Zoom. (RantWoman kind of means to experiment about these issues on other video conferencing platforms.
3. RantWoman definitely appreciates evolution and continuing revelation about the world of movable mics and Room amplification in the world of hybrid / blended Zoom meetings. RantWoman also tartly remembers the first incarnation of a UFM committee on disabilities: there was a survey. There were minimal requests of the surveyors in Meeting for Business from anyone, alas including RantWoman. But great success was noted because of the next iteration of efforts to ensure that people, such as Asia, with hearing loss, could hear better. RantWoman has no desire to minimize these efforts. However, RantWoman CONTINUES TO TAKE SERIOUS ISSUE with the limitations of that as an approach to addressing matters of disability.
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Some Russia Updates
#Russia #Ukraine
Oracle Eyes on Ukrainian drone attacks far into Russia
RantWoman finds the presentation style robotic. One of these days, RantWoman will do some actual research about Oracle Eyes.
Jake Broe on RUSSIAN infrastructure and brutal military recruitment
Times Radio Ukrain blows up Russian supply bridge
Joe Blogs: labor shortage and ruble collapse
Saturday, December 30, 2023
Ways of resisting war: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
A compendium of #Russia #Ukraine #Belarus etc resistance items.
RantWoman promises to look at her Waging Nonviolence blog roll more often.
Belarusian perspective
Not: inaddition to stories such as those below, there are Ukrainian men exercising their right to conscientious objection. RantWoman will attend to collecting more information.
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
The Ukraine war on two fronts
As much #Russia #Ukraine video etc watching as RantWoman is going to try tonight.
Farid Zakaria reports case iin rules-based order for international commission and using seized Russian assets to aid Ukraine reconstruction.
for an added dimension, tonight's Kyiv worship brought a plea to hold in the Light a conscientious objector now being tried for refusing to kill.
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Putin, military mobilization, ruble collapse
Yep. It's still a war. It's still going badly, and Russia wants to send still more people to the "meat grinder."
GIANT steps backward from early post-soviet work about conscientious objection
here as FYI about point of view
and a dollop of Break the fake with all the greats, Putin, Lukashenko, Orban, Simonyan
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Conscientious Objection Resources Center for Conscience and War.
RantWoman wishes to thank the Friend who brought up the Center for Conscience and War recently in a Meeting for Worship. Information on the site is valuable for a number of different communities and has much more current information than RantWoman previously had at her disposal.
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See also Center on Conscience and War winter 2022- 2023 newsletter
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