Welcome to the ReLaunch of the
Mouths Wide Open Army Men Project!

We’re re-launching our Army Men Project as part of a re-vitalized and re-organizing Anti-War Movement. We encourage you to deploy these little green Army Men around the country and around the globe as everyday reminders of the ongoing horrors of war. While millions of us shared the audacious hope of promised change from a Bush-free Washington – we are, instead, entering the 7th year of America’s illegal war on Iraq and the 8th year of America’s escalating war on Afghanistan.  It’s crucial that people seeking global justice and peace renew their participation in civic dialogue and their commitment to social action.  These small, silent symbols of the wars taking place in our name need to appear EVERYWHERE – at the mall, on a gas pump, in a bookstore or movie theatre, at your post office, in public restrooms, at the 7-11, in the produce section of your grocery store … to foster memory, dialogue, action and resistance.

If you’re visiting this web page, then you’ve probably been given a little green Army Man at a demonstration or peace action or event, or you’ve come upon a symbolic soldier by chance.  Why not join in our version of “increasing troop levels” by deploying some of your own?  Put these little soldiers where they can be found,
taken home and linked to the ongoing struggle for peace! 

Join the Army Men Project! Deploy Soldiers. Take Photos. Participate!

Here's How To Get Started!

ARMY MEN: Please help us cover the United States and the globe with small green Army Men. You can either order your own Army Men and download your own stickers or you can order them directly from Mouths Wide Open.

PHOTOS: And please take photos of your soldiers in their various “outposts” and send them to us (click here for info on photo file size). Add your photo to our Army Men Gallery— be sure to let us know WHERE the Army Man is. (click here for Images).

TALK TO US: If you’ve come upon one of these little plastic soldiers and have something to say about it, please join the dialogue – email us at speak@mouthswideopen.org. (Responses soon to be posted.)

And please check out OUR LINKS PAGE to access groups who are working directly with soldiers and soldiers’ concerns and to see articles related to militarism. Creating an environment in which Americans have been hospitable to making war on Iraq has been fostered, in part, by a growing militarism in our culture. This LINKS PAGE provides a great foundation of related articles describing militarism in fashion, video games, advertising, etc. which impacts and affects all of us every day.