Emma Kaplan is the National Youth & Student Coordinator of World Can't Wait. She has organized protests against torture, military recruiting centers, and against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She participated in the protests with Port Military Resistance, where people formed human blockades to prevent the Stryker brigades from being sent to Iraq. Most recently Emma has spoken to hundreds of students at assemblies & classrooms around the country on the We Are Not Your Soldier Tour, a tour with Iraq vets into high schools aimed at building a youth movement of resistance to military recruiting.
A Call For Mass Action Against The Suppression of The Occupy Movement
SIGN THIS CALL TO ACTION These past several months have witnessed something very different in the U.S. People from many different walks of life came together to occupy public space in nearly 1,000 cities in the U.S. They stood up to vicious police violence, they broke through the confines of ...
Disrupting The Democrats and the National Defense Authorization Act
What a night! I went down to Occupy Seattle up at SCCC. Met some folks who were going to protest Maria Cantwell at the Paramount Theater. They told me about how Maria Cantwell voted for the National Defense Authorization Act. And yes, she is a democrat. The National Defense Authorization ...
Youth in LA to Recruiters: Get the hell away from me!
Today me and Matthis Chiroux, Iraq War resister, took the We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour to a public high school in Los Angeles. It felt like a prison: one entrance, one exit, and lots of cops in uniform. You feel like you’re viewed as a criminal just stepping through ...
Crimes Are Crimes – No Matter Who Does Them
Join Cindy Sheehan, Cornel West, Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, Ray McGovern, Carl Dix, Bill Quigley, William Blum, Joyce Kozloff, Ann Messner, David Swanson, Sunsara Taylor, Stephen Rohde, Fr. Bob Bossie, Peter Phillips, Jed Stone, Tomás Olmos, Peter McLaren, Jodie Evans, Margaret Lawrence, Matthis Chiroux, Larry Everest, Andy Worthington, ...
I'm Not Sorry and I Would Do It Again!
[The following is an update to Emma Kaplan's blog, 'Stop Military Spying, Support Port Protesters!']I want to thank everyone for their statements of support and donations to our trial over the past couple of weeks. The Port Military Protest trial ended January 27th with the judge declaring a mistrial due ...
Stop Military Spying, Support Port Protesters!
On Friday January 27th, Olympia anti war activist Patti Imani and World Can’t Wait Steering committee member Emma Kaplan will be facing trial for participating in protests with Port Military Resistance (PMR) in August 2008. They could face a fine of $200 and 6 months in jail. PMR has been ...
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January 29th, 2012
A Call For Mass Action Against The Suppression of The Occupy Movement
SIGN THIS CALL TO ACTION These past several months have witnessed something very different in the U.S. People from many different walks of life came ...
December 11th, 2011
Disrupting The Democrats and the National Defense Authorization Act
What a night! I went down to Occupy Seattle up at SCCC. Met some folks who were going to protest Maria Cantwell at the Paramount ...
May 8th, 2010
Youth in LA to Recruiters: Get the hell away from me!
Today me and Matthis Chiroux, Iraq War resister, took the We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour to a public high school in Los Angeles. It ...
April 19th, 2010
Crimes Are Crimes – No Matter Who Does Them
Join Cindy Sheehan, Cornel West, Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, Ray McGovern, Carl Dix, Bill Quigley, William Blum, Joyce Kozloff, Ann Messner, David Swanson, ...
February 7th, 2010
I'm Not Sorry and I Would Do It Again!
[The following is an update to Emma Kaplan's blog, 'Stop Military Spying, Support Port Protesters!']I want to thank everyone for their statements of support and ...
January 26th, 2010
Stop Military Spying, Support Port Protesters!
On Friday January 27th, Olympia anti war activist Patti Imani and World Can’t Wait Steering committee member Emma Kaplan will be facing trial for participating ...
May 8th, 2010
Youth in LA to Recruiters: Get the hell away from me!
Today me and Matthis Chiroux, Iraq War resister, took the We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour to a public high school in Los Angeles. It ...
December 11th, 2011
Disrupting The Democrats and the National Defense Authorization Act
What a night! I went down to Occupy Seattle up at SCCC. Met some folks who were going to protest Maria Cantwell at the Paramount ...
January 29th, 2012
A Call For Mass Action Against The Suppression of The Occupy Movement
SIGN THIS CALL TO ACTION These past several months have witnessed something very different in the U.S. People from many different walks of life came ...
April 19th, 2010
Crimes Are Crimes – No Matter Who Does Them
Join Cindy Sheehan, Cornel West, Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, Ray McGovern, Carl Dix, Bill Quigley, William Blum, Joyce Kozloff, Ann Messner, David Swanson, ...
February 7th, 2010
I'm Not Sorry and I Would Do It Again!
[The following is an update to Emma Kaplan's blog, 'Stop Military Spying, Support Port Protesters!']I want to thank everyone for their statements of support and ...
January 26th, 2010
Stop Military Spying, Support Port Protesters!
On Friday January 27th, Olympia anti war activist Patti Imani and World Can’t Wait Steering committee member Emma Kaplan will be facing trial for participating ...
Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah
Mike, was the triple overtime Outback Bowl come-from-behind win the greatest Spartans game ever?
Yes -- or at least it will be until their appearance in next year's Rose Bowl, a game which... Continue Reading
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