{"id":50729,"date":"2020-08-12T20:46:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T20:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/wr\/?p=50729"},"modified":"2020-08-25T16:53:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T16:53:51","slug":"remembering-john-lewis-dont-forget-his-resistance-to-militarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/wr\/2020\/08\/remembering-john-lewis-dont-forget-his-resistance-to-militarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering John Lewis, don\u2019t forget his resistance to militarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"fvtusrGZRdNhm0Rv1kNrjw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1177968943\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'fvtusrGZRdNhm0Rv1kNrjw',sig:'qc2zQHGmc5jy4TGI5zwzuHu_BZkqlyZTN9BI3tbVlP0=',w:'594px',h:'405px',items:'1177968943',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src=\"\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" async=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The heroic John Lewis was a conscientious objector to war, something barely mentioned in all the elegies unfurled in his honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;I was surprised to see so many of the well-written obituaries, including in the <em>New York Times,<\/em> fail to mention Lewis\u2019 opposition to war; so did the beautiful elegies spoken at his funeral. But to erase this vital part of Lewis\u2019 history feels both dishonest and potentially damaging to the movements he has helped inspire. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This moment after the murder of George Floyd needs that piece of good trouble \u2014 the spirit of war resisters. That spirit is already visible, in those resisting militarized police and federal agents in camo. They know, as Lewis did, that the \u201cinfrastructure of oppression police\u201d is international in scope; most know that nonviolent protests trace back to those resisting war. John Lewis refused to be part of that infrastructure, to join the international shock troops deployed against people of color everywhere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1961, after years enacting Gandhian practices of nonviolent action in Freedom Rides and at lunch counters, Lewis told his draft board that he was a conscientious objector \u2014 defined as a person with beliefs that make it impossible to be part of war or preparations for war. Lewis modeled his actions after the great reverend James Lawson, who spoke eloquently at his funeral about teaching Lewis non-violent resistance in those 1958 workshops in the basement of his Nashville church. Lawson was himself a conscientious objector, like fellow civil rights icon Bayard Rustin \u2014 and, like Rustin, he spent years in prison for his beliefs and then went to India to study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote alignright is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The draft board declared Lewis \u201cmorally unfit\u201d because of how often he had been arrested.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lewis\u2019s draft board denied his CO application in 1961. He appealed that determination repeatedly, while his commitment to nonviolence grew as he spoke at the March on Washington and mobilized hundreds to register voters during the 1964 \u201cFreedom Summer.\u201d At the end of the summer of 1964, Lewis\u2019 appeal was granted, making him the first Black conscientious objector in Alabama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The draft board reversed its decision two years later. By 1966, Lewis was nationally known for his voting-rights activism and March 1965 heroism on \u201cBloody Sunday\u201d on the bridge from Selma to Montgomery. When he arrived in Selma, Lewis was carrying a book by Thomas Merton, a monk who\u2019d hosted peace activists including Father Dan Berrigan. In August 1965, Lewis was in Washington on the day when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few months later, in January 1966, the always-internationalist Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, which Lewis chaired, threw a shot at the bow of the Johnson Administration\u2019s cornerstone military policy, not just opposing the war in Vietnam but supporting draft resistance. In their anti-war manifesto, they said, \u201cWe [also] take note of the fact that 16 percent of the draftees from this country are Negroes called on to stifle the liberation of Vietnam, to preserve a \u2018democracy\u2019 which does not exist for them at home.\u201d Lewis didn\u2019t write that statement, but when asked he told reporters he supported every word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Immediately after SNCC\u2019s Jan. 6 press conference, the FBI in Atlanta wired Washington and the Department of Defense cancelled Lewis\u2019s 1-O status as a conscientious objector; he was now classified as 4-F or \u201cnot qualified to serve.\u201d The draft board declared Lewis \u201cmorally unfit\u201d because of how often he had been arrested. In those days, anti-war activists often hailed a 4F as a badge of honor and it galvanized them to keep organizing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t#newsletter-block_5f345630ae123 {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ECECEC;\n\t\t\t\tcolor: #000000;\n\t\t}\n\t\t#newsletter-block_5f345630ae123 #mc_embed_signup_front input#mce-EMAIL {\n\t\t\t\tborder-color:#000000 !important;\n\t\t\t\tcolor: #000000 !important;\n\t\t}\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"newsletter-block_5f345630ae123\" class=\"newsletter px-4 pt-4 pb-2 text-center mb-4\">\n    <div class=\"newsletter-block\">\n        <h3 class=\"newsletter-block\">Sign Up for our Newsletter<\/h3>\n        <p class=\"newsletter-description\">We&#8217;ll send you a weekly email with the latest articles.<\/p>\n        <div class=\"newsletter-form-wrapper\">\n          <div id=\"mc_embed_signup_front\" class=\"py-3 w-100\">\n  <form action=\"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.us2.list-manage.com\/subscribe\/post?u=f279f100fef8b39c61c33aef1&amp;id=615747eb15\" method=\"post\" id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" name=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" class=\"validate\" target=\"_blank\" novalidate>\n    <div id=\"mc_embed_signup_scroll\">\n      <div class=\"mc-field-group input-group\">\n        <input type=\"email\" value=\"\" name=\"EMAIL\" class=\"required email form-control\" placeholder=\"Email Address\" id=\"mce-EMAIL\">\n        <div class=\"input-group-append\">\n          <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Subscribe\" name=\"subscribe\" id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe\" class=\"d-flex btn btn-sm btn-yellow\">\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <!-- real people should not fill this in and expect good things - do not remove this or risk form bot signups-->\n      <div style=\"position: absolute; left: -5000px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"b_f279f100fef8b39c61c33aef1_79af2f1e5e\" tabindex=\"-1\" value=\"\">\n      <\/div>\n      <div id=\"mce-responses\" class=\"clear\">\n        <div class=\"response\" id=\"mce-error-response\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"response\" id=\"mce-success-response\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/form>\n<\/div>        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Decades later, Lewis carried his conscientious opposition to war onto the Congress floor. Arguing in 2002 against the invasion of Iraq, Lewis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/john-lewis-was-a-lonely-voice-against-war-with-iraq-2020-7\">thundered on the House floor<\/a>: \u201cWhat fruit will our actions bear, not just for us but for our children?&#8221; Lewis asked. &#8220;And not just for the children of our own land, but the children of the West, and the Middle East, and the world? It is the children, our little boys and girls, who must live with the consequences of our war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five years later, Lewis was the first member of Congress to actively support the Appeal for Redress, an action in which thousands of active-duty military personnel appealed for a withdrawal from Iraq using their constitutional right to seek redress of grievances. Most recently, Lewis responded to the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani with the Unconstitutional War with Iran Act of 2019, to \u201cprohibit funds from being used for kinetic military operations against Iran\u201d without congressional authorization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lewis himself affirmed that in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/30\/opinion\/john-lewis-civil-rights-america.html\">final testimonial<\/a> for the <em>New York Times:<\/em> \u201cIn my life I have done all I can to demonstrate that the way of peace, the way of love and nonviolence is the more excellent way.\u201d How is that not worth honoring?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missing in almost all of the elegies following his death, John Lewis\u2019 history as a conscientious objector to war is worth honoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":50733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,79],"tags":[22,98,100,101],"region":[68],"series":[],"article_type":[],"class_list":["post-50729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-militarism","category-racial-justice","tag-conscription","tag-united-states","tag-vietnam-war","tag-war","region-north-america"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.3 (Yoast SEO v28.3) - 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