Tag: Veterans for Peace

It is with sadness that we announce the passing of a great Patriot and a friend to so many of us in the struggle for the justice of World Peace.

Though, as a member of Veterans For Peace and a philosophy professor with a focus on war and ethics, I have often discussed my impressions and insights about war and its aftermath in the classroom, at conferences and with civic groups, I had never had such discussions with someone who had been my "enemy."

A Veterans Day tribute to Dr. Bob Bowman, a true American hero.

It is with sadness that we announce the passing of a great Patriot and a friend to so many of us in the struggle for the justice of World Peace.

Veterans for Peace has officially supported a new investigation of 9/11 for four years - but the national leadership won't take the next step.

Massive turnout for 9/11 truth at the Veterans for Peace convention proves that this issue isn't going away.

Seventeen U.S. military veterans and their allies will stand trial after being arrested as they read the names of the fallen and laid flowers in their memory at New York City’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

The US military has become a culture of rape, prostitution and violence. The West Point Motto, "Duty, Honor, Country" is not just a joke, it is a criminal lie.

Veterans for Peace in Gainesville, Fl placed 6,694 tombstones from dawn on May 25 through dusk on Memorial Day on NW Eighth Ave. between 22nd and 34th Streets as their Memorial Day Weekend event to most respectfully remember those troops who died in Afghanistan since 2001 and in Iraq since 2003.

Recently, I received an email from Veterans for Peace (VFP) Chapter 136 in Central Florida asking me for an endorsement of its resolution to impeach Barack Obama.

Veterans For Peace has once again teamed up with March Forward to bring the Our Lives Our Rights campaign to active duty Gis facing deployment to Afghanistan.

Seven months ago, in December, 2011, Brian Arredondo, age 24, hanged himself in a shed in his mother’s backyard. Brian was the brother of US Marine Corps Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in Iraq in 2004.

RootsAction.org, Just Foreign Policy, Veterans For Peace, and Military Families Speak Out have launched a campaign at http://StarsEarnStripes.org targeting NBC's new program, "Stars Earn Stripes," which the network is advertising during its Olympics telecast. The show will debut on August 13th.

Elliott Adams and Nate Lewis, two members of Veterans For Peace, were part of a larger group of 15 activists arrested Thursday at the gate to Hancock Airbase in Syracuse, N.Y., where they held large banners and signs protesting drones for three hours before they were arrested.

Armed Forces Day was created in 1949 to honor Americans serving in the 5 branches of the U.S. military. Then in 1962 President Kennedy designated the 3rd Saturday of May to recognize Armed Forces Day as an official holiday.

The United States Conference of Mayors, representing 1,200 cities with populations over 30,000, voted in their June 20 plenary session to call on the federal government to end America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and redirect that military spending to home land priorities.

DEFINES PATRIOTISM AND DUTY FOR VETERANS, "TRUTH AND HONOR" Foreword by Gordon Duff Senior Editor VT In the video below, Colonel Bowman, an Air Force combat...

Veterans for Peace Besiege Obama’s White House Winter Soldiers The first Washington snow of the season kept falling as Daniel Ellsberg, of the Pentagon papers fame,...

The PBS program Religion and Ethics Newsweekly last Sunday morning downplayed the existence of any Peace Movement to oppose the continued occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan going into 2011.

Dayton, Ohio Chapter of Veterans for Peace represented at the 16 Dec 2010 Peace Protest at the White House. It is important to emphasize that...

Veterans lead dramatic act of civil resistance at White House - Over 130 arrested protesting the wars. This statement was sent into VT via Facebook...

As The Electronic Intifada reported in November, international solidarity and anti-war activists are facing a new wave of repression in the United States. ......

Endorsers of the December 16 Veteran-Led Civil Resistance against War has asked VT to post this Call to Action. Although these may or may not...

Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) has joined with Veterans for Peace in launching a public education campaign to remind the public and voters of the fiscal costs of War, and the impact the War Economy has on all Americans.

We at VT strive to help those grassroots organizations that know how to connect the dots between America at War and the meltdown of...

- Veterans For Peace is imploring you all to come together with us in re-evaluating the current U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan...

As follow-up to my last update on Operation Recovery, and with the Congressional elections only a few weeks away, Voters for Peace the grassroots...

This posting is a follow-up to VT coverage of Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) and Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) forming an alliance...

In the week or so since the much publicized withdrawal of "combat" troops from Iraq, and President Obama's speech last week,...

PBS FRONTLINE did a documentary that is now available on DVD accurately called Obama's War. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/ FRONTLINE notes that "Tens of thousands of fresh American troops...

The inspiration to do this story came from Paul Wisovaty a member of Vietnam Veteran Against the War (VVAW) who wrote about how Veterans...

This waste in U.S. dollars, mostly on loan from China, for WE are a debtor nation, does NOTHING but aggravate the problem(s) of how Veterans will be treated by the VA and our government in general when they come Home to War.

The Military Family Peace group Military Families Speak Out is asking all Military Families, Veterans, and supporters who question or oppose the continued occupation...

Despite intimidation from Police in LA, San Francisco, and Washington, DC,  the PEACE demonstrations on Saturday, 20 March to demand "U.S. Out of Afghanistan...

As follow-up on my Peace of the Action series covering the up-coming 20 March PEACE demonstrations across the nation Pro-PEACE Veterans and Military Families...

The link to this song was sent into VT by a friend of ours. He asked that it be included in our Stories of...

"Male veterans less than half as likely as male non-veterans to be in prison in 2004. Veterans older, better educated than other State...