CPF Launches “We Go on Record” Website
The Catholic Peace Fellowship is happy to launch its newest web project: We Go On Record, www.wegoonrecord.org.
We Go On Record is an “online community of conscience,” a space on the internet for people to express their opposition to war in their own words and to draw inspiration from others–including military servicemembers–who have also publicly expressed their opposition to war.
Significantly, We Go On Record will provide the first way for people concerned about a draft to register their objection to war on the web. We Go On Record will be a permanent archive of public statements of conscientious objection (CO) to war, viewable on the web, but also periodically backed up to ensure that no CO statements are lost. Statements submitted to We Go On Record would be permissible as evidence before a draft board under current law.
We Go On Record also makes available, again for the first time on the web, long excerpts of applications for CO from recent veterans. These statements, a few of which are currently available under the “Military Objectors” section of the site, make for uniquely moving reading. They are personal conversion stories of people who turned their backs on war and embraced nonviolence.
CPF welcomes all who object to war in any form, whether they are pacifists or follow the just war tradition, whether veterans or civilians, whether draft-eligible or not, to join us in going on record against war. We encourage you to post your own CO statement to We Go On Record!
