Swanson -- Resistance to War, Part 1 of 4: War and Resistance Studies
Resistance to War, Part 1 of 4: War and Resistance Studies Leave a Comment / June 19, 2026 World BEYOND War’s David Swanson, Kathy Kelly, Sellah N. King’oro, and John Reuwer, spoke on June 19 at the University of Massachusetts – Amherest at the conference on Resistance Studies . Part 1 of 4: War and Resistance Studies, by David Swanson, June 19, 2026 In the 1990s I was doing a Master’s in Philosophy at the University of Virginia when some UVA professors and students began a campaign to get everyone who worked there paid a living wage. It was the first organized activism I worked on, the first time I planned events, recruited people, and argued against misleading claims from opponents of positive change. I got involved in living wage efforts around the country and eventually ended up working for a group called ACORN, but the leading lights for us were Robert Pollin and Stephanie Luce at the Political Economy Research Institute at UMass Amherst. When I later took on military spending, n...
