Veterans For Peace

September 14, 2023

Tidbits – Sept. 14, 2023 – Reader Comments: March To End Fossil Fuels – THIS SUNDAY; Looming UAW Strike – What You Can Do; Abortion Rights; Africa and France; Class Visits by Anti-War Veterans; 50 Years Ago Democracy Died in Chile; Cartoons;

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Reader Comments: March to End Fossil Fuels - THIS SUNDAY; Looming UAW Strike - What You Can Do; Abortion Rights Attacks on All Workers; Africa and France; Class Visits by Anti-War Veterans; 50 Years Ago Democracy Died in Chile; Cartoons; more....

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January 14, 2022

Once Upon A Time

Fred Norman

Bay Area poet Fred Norman, a dedicated pacifist in Veterans for Peace, died on December 30. His anti-war poetry lives on.

November 11, 2021

November 11 Armistice Day: Honor Peace Day

H. Patricia Hynes Portside

On Veterans Day November 11, peace groups across the country, reclaim the original intent of Armistice Day: peace among nations through seeking peaceful, effective alternatives to war.

May 31, 2021

F**K War

Veterans for Peace Veterans for Peace

We are ANGRY that there is a holiday that glorifies nationalism and patriotism and ignores the trauma that U.S. militarism enacts all over the globe.

November 23, 2020

Far Right Militias Are Recruiting Vets: We Must Organize Against This Trend

Rory Fanning Truthout

The war machine conditions vets to embrace white supremacy. In order for soldiers to kill, racist indoctrination needs to be part of the training.

July 10, 2020

Undercover Patriots

Danny Sjursen Tom Dispatch

The imperial power that we veterans fought for abroad is the same one some of us are now struggling against at home and the two couldn’t be more intimately linked. Our struggle is, at least in part, over who gets to define patriotism.

June 1, 2020

Veterans Call on the Minnesota National Guard to Stand Down

Veterans for Peace Veterans for Peace

We are appalled to see military weapons, vehicles and equipment once again deployed in U.S. cities to control community members who are reacting to a long history of state-sanctioned violence.

May 25, 2020

To Thank Me For My Service, Work for Peace

Rosemarie Jackowski Veterans for Peace

I mourn mostly for those we have killed — and I mourn for those we haven't killed yet, but will in the days ahead.

July 8, 2019

The Antiwar Movement No One Can See: Will It Put a Crimp in the War on Terror?

Allegra Harpootlian Tom Dispatch

Movements are defined by their ability to challenge the status quo and, right now, that’s what might be beginning to happen when it comes to America’s wars.

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July 24, 2018

Ken Burns’ “The Vietnam War” Was Nominated For An Emmy, Does It Deserve It?

Doug Rawlings CounterPunch

“If Americans are convinced that their stiff-upper-lip brand of silence in the face of collective murder is the true face of patriotism, then we are condemned as a nation to follow the path of empires that preceded us.” - Doug Rawlings

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