Chris Lombardi

1 month ago | crisaintmarchin.medium.com | Chris Lombardi

This year, Memorial Day kind of snuck up on me. Other years, when I was more in touch with the milvet community and anxious to get the word out about I Ain’t Marching Anymore, I thought about Memorial Day a lot, and even wrote about it in a 2015 op-ed piece timed to the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two:Created after the Civil War as “Decoration Day” — for the flowers decorating graves — Memorial Day tends to evoke memories of some very specific losses and of related acts of heroism.

1 month ago | centeronconscience.org | Chris Lombardi

Tomorrow is, first declared in 1982 by European objectors to compulsory military service. The day’s meaning has has since broadened to cover each service member’s right to follow their conscience. And CCW,  Veterans For Peace, Center on Conscience and War and Refuser Solidarity Network are hosting “Voices of Conscience” for the day.

Mar 8, 2025 | crisaintmarchin.medium.com | Chris Lombardi

Chris Lombardi·Follow6 min read·--It’s the day any writer dreams of: when book reviewers look at your book and find it good. My readers here mostly know me as a writer of nonfiction, with my book I Ain’t Marching Anymore and subsequent articles in places like Waging Nonviolence, most about military personnel refusing the unthinkable.

Feb 11, 2025 | medium.com | Chris Lombardi

Chris Lombardi·FollowPublished inI Ain’t Marching Anymore·5 min read·--Photo by engin akyurt on UnsplashLike so many of us, I start my day calling my reps, about the newest atrocity leashed by the Trump-Musk administration. The staff of my Congressman, Dwight Evans, is always courteous; they’ve even put together a page of resources about how they’re fighting back and we can, too.

Jan 16, 2025 | medium.com | Chris Lombardi

Chris Lombardi·FollowPublished inI Ain’t Marching Anymore·9 min read·--PROUD BOYS marching in front of the US Supreme Court along First Street between Maryland Avenue and East Capitol Street, NE, Washington DC on Wednesday morning, 6 January 2021 by Elvert Barnes PhotographyAs 2025 began, it seemed like everyone was talking about military extremism.