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Jun 1, 2026 /  Edward Hasbrouck  / Antiwar.com -  A new poll by Overton Insights shows the breadth and depth of opposition to a military draft – and how far members of Congress lag behind popular anti-draft (and anti-war) sentiment.

All categories of Americans who were polled would oppose a draft: Republicans, Democrats, and independents; women and men; people of draft age and people too old to be drafted; and people of all races.

The wording of the poll reflected the confused nature of most recent reporting about U.S. planning and preparation for a draft. There was no mention of the impending shift from self-registration to automatic registration of young men for a future draft.

Respondents to the poll were asked, “If President Trump implemented a military draft, would you support or oppose it?”, which implies (incorrectly) that the President could activate a draft without authorization from Congress.

But the focus of the question on whether respondents would approve of an action by President Trump makes it even more noteworthy that a preponderance of Republicans – presumably supporters of the President – would oppose an attempt by Trump to activate a draft. 41% of Republicans would oppose a Trump draft, compared to 33% who would support it. Among Republicans as among all other groups, most opponents of a draft hold their views “strongly”, while most supporters would only “somewhat” support a draft.

When U.S. Marines killed twenty-four people in an Iraqi town, they also recorded the aftermath of their actions. For years, the military tried to keep these photos from the public.

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August 27, 2024 / Madeleine Baran / The New Yorker - On the morning of November 19, 2005, a squad of Marines was traveling in four Humvees down a road in the town of Haditha, Iraq, when their convoy hit an I.E.D. The blast killed one Marine, Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, and injured two others. What followed would spark one of the largest war-crime investigations in the history of the United States.

During the next several hours, Marines killed twenty-four Iraqi men, women, and children. Near the site of the explosion, they shot five men who had been driving to a college in Baghdad. They entered three nearby homes and killed nearly everyone inside. The youngest victim was a three-year-old girl. The oldest was a seventy-six-year-old man. The Marines would later claim that they were fighting insurgents that day, but the dead were all civilians.

After the killing was over, two other Marines set off to document the aftermath. Lance Corporal Ryan Briones brought his Olympus digital camera. Lance Corporal Andrew Wright had a red Sharpie marker.

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Apr 28, 2026 / Move the Money Campaign / Women's International League for Peace & Freedom WILPF / NNOMY - We live in a country where young people are told there is “no money” for affordable housing, no money for mental‑health services, no money for climate resilience, no money for education, and no money for the basic social supports that allow communities to thrive. Yet somehow, year after year, there is always money for war.

In 2024, global military spending reached an astonishing $2.7 trillion, the highest in human history. The United States alone accounted for nearly half of that total. While families struggle to pay rent and schools crumble from disinvestment, the military budget continues to swell without meaningful public debate. These are not natural forces. These are political choices.

The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) has named this crisis with clarity: it is time to Move the Money — away from weapons and toward the social, economic, and ecological foundations of real security. Their campaign exposes a truth that policymakers rarely admit: militarization does not make us safer. It drains the resources that actually keep societies stable and resilient.

At the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY), we see the consequences of these choices every day. When public budgets prioritize war, young people pay the price. Underfunded schools become recruitment grounds. Economic precarity becomes a pipeline into the military. Communities of color, immigrant youth, and low‑income students are targeted most aggressively, not because the military offers opportunity, but because our society has systematically denied them alternatives.

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May, 14, 2026 / NNOMY Administration / National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth -  These are trying times. DHS agencies and the military are invading our communities. Our military is waging war or threatening war on multiple fronts.

Meanwhile, in order to maintain such an active presence on the world stage, the military needs more recruits. Recruiters are appearing at our schools, community meetings, social media, on our phones, everywhere it seems.

At the same time, the number of groups actively involved in counter recruitment has never been needed more. The National Network Opposing Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) is pushing against that trend as activist groups spark into action. We cannot wait three years for a change. Too much is at stake.

We are planning a SECOND webinar Saturday, June 13th, 2026 building on our first and we invite you to participate. No prior attendance necessary. Take a deeper look at proven strategies. Each section is presented by people that have been deeply involved in this work for a significant period.

Your attendance is vital. Big or small, everything we do helps prevent a young person from making a decision they may regret (and often do).  RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/demilitarizeJun13

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May 03, 2026 / Joy Damiani / We Are Not Your Soldiers -“How do veterans become homeless?” is a question that should not have to be asked in a healthy society. When addressed to me by a teenager in a school in the heart of Manhattan, it spoke volumes of the world students are about to inherit. Not only are they witnessing and experiencing horrors in every direction, but they’ve got frighteningly little information about what the future is going to hold for them, and even less about the military.

They don’t know that even if you “volunteer,” the military is a job one does not simply quit – hearing that caused one student to turn to the teacher and tell him they’d decided against enlisting. They don’t know that military members are government property, or that every first enlistment contract is an eight-year contract. A couple of students asked about the possibility of a draft – which could affect nearly all of them – as they had no idea what to expect. Many had questions about the average day in the life of a soldier, or my “best” and “worst” experiences on active duty. Most of the students were actively engaged in the discussion and had more questions than there was time to answer. It clearly demonstrated for me the gravity of this work, and the deep need for it in our communities.