Originally founded in 2002 as the Iraq Pledge of Resistance, the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance models its actions on the campaigns of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance
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A statewide network of activists and organizations committed to keeping the Maryland Guard at home by enforcing the law
Maryland Campaign to Keep the Guard Home
Who We Are
We are residents of Maryland, appalled at the destruction visited upon Iraq and Afghanisstan, concerned about the state of our nation, and profoundly troubled by the multiple deployments of our state's Guard members to Iraq and Afghanistan
We join with groups in several states around the country to end this illegal deployment of our Guard to Iraq and Afghanistan.
The National Campaign
Legislators in twelve states have publicly committed to introduce legislation in upcoming legislative sessions, and legislation has already been submitted in four states: Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
These national organizations are co-sponsoring the campaign to keep the Guard at home:
- AfterDowningStreet.org
- Cities for Peace
- CODEPINK
- Courage to Resist
- Iraq Veterans Against the War
- LIBERTY TREE Foundation for the Democratic Revolution
- Military Families Speak Out
- Peace Action
- Progressive Democrats of America
- United for Peace and Justice
- Veterans for Peace
- U.S. Labor Against the War
- Women Legislator's Lobby
- Women's Action for New Directions.