Swords to Plowshares has published a new self-help guide for veterans on discharge review, "Upgrading Your Discharge and...
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Current events and activism worth paying attention to.
2017 NLG Convention Report
By Jeff Lake The National Lawyers Guild held its 80th National Convention in Washington, D.C. on August 2-6, 2017. The...
Court blocks Trump ban on transgender servicemembers
Update 3/28/18: In light of recent news of a newly revised trans ban by the Trump administration, we are preparing a new post...
On Watch Fall-Winter 2017, 32-page double issue, now online
Veterans And The Trump Resistance,
DoD Updates Instruction On Conscientious Objection,
Updated MLTF Guide To Challenging Military Sexual Violence,
MLTF Update On Transgender Service Ban,
Guidance On Servicemember Dissent,
On Watch 40 Year Retrospective,
Concerns About Ken Burns PBS Vietnam War Series,
Book Review: Dangerous Grounds,
NLG Convention Report
Trump issues policy instruction for ban on transgender troops
In the past few days, several developments have occurred in the ongoing story of President's Trump's reinstatement of the ban...
New guidance on discharge upgrade applications related to mental health, TBI, sexual assault and sexual harassment
The Department of Defense has issued a new guidance on discharge upgrade applications based on mental health conditions,...
Trump initiates Trans service turmoil, but policy remains unchanged for now
On July 26th, President Trump issued via Twitter his decision that transgender personnel would no longer be able to serve in...
On Watch Summer 2017 issue now available
Hazing and Bullying in the Military
New Air Force CO Instruction
DOD Transgender Policies To Be Delayed?
Chelsea Manning Released – Rejoicing Tempered By Reality
Report On GI Rights Hotline Annual Conference
MLTF Contingency Planning For Warfare
In Memory of Teresa Panepinto
MLTF Members Recognized As “Champions Of Justice”
Report on 2017 GI Rights Hotline Annual Conference
By Anne Cowan The GI Rights Network held a very successful annual meeting on May 18-21 at Stony Point Center, just north of...
In Memory of Teresa Panepinto
Teresa died unexpectedly in a hospital in Oakland on April 3, 2017, with her loving family and a circle of close friends by her bedside. She was 41. We remember her as a fierce advocate for GI Rights and resistance, vets, and justice. Click title to read more.
Enactment of Transgender Recruitment Policies Postponed
Kathy Gilberd, legal worker and longtime GI Rights advocate, looks into the delay on enforcing new trans-friendly recruitment policies, which were enacted in 2016 during the Obama administration.
New Military Transgender Policy Memo Published
A new MLTF memo on Military Transgender Policy is now available. Written by Kathleen Gilberd, the memo will likely need...
Chelsea Manning criticizes US military’s new transgender policy
In an op-ed published in The Guardian on July 1, recently released whistleblower Chelsea Manning addressed changes in military...
New memo on Dissent policies published, Military Psychiatric Policies updated
Newly published: A new memo on Military Dissent Policies and an update to Military Psychiatric Policies.
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