Veterans for Peace

Veterans Use Memorial Day To Promote Peace Messsage

HuffingtonPost.com | David Sands | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Veterans for Peace, Video, Memorial Day, Memorial Day Michigan, Arlington Michigan, Anti-War Memorial Day, Steve Saelzler, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Memorial Day Detroit, Detroit News

Members of a local veterans group will place more than 200 cross-shaped markers on the grounds of Livonia's Nehasil Park Monday to mark the lives of M...

Read Whole Story

Cut It Out: An Open Letter to Black Bloc Anarchists

Carl Gibson | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Chicago NATO Summit, Veterans for Peace, Nonviolence, Nato Summit 2012, Occupy Wall Street, Black Bloc, Police Brutality, Agent Provocateur, Anarchists, Chicago News

You didn't stop war, end capitalism, or even get close to the NATO summit. All you did was attract more riot police to an otherwise peaceful event, leading to kettlings, beatings and arrests. Way to go.

Read Post

A Memorial Day Remembrance of Peace Activist Soldiers

Doug Bradley | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Memorial Day, Peace, Vietnam War, Anti-War, Vietnam Veterans, Conscientious Objectors, Anti-War Movement, Veterans for Peace, Peace Activists, Politics News

On Memorial Day, I remember some of the most ardent and intense peace enthusiasts I've ever known: U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.

Read Post

11/11/11 Will Be Celebrated as Originally Intended: As Armistice Day!

Coleen Rowley | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Armistice-Day-2011, Armistice Day, Kurt Vonnegut, Wilfred Owen, War-Is-a-Crime, Veterans Day, Veterans for Peace, World War II, 11-11-11, 11/11/11, Armistice, 11:11:11, Culture News

It's too bad Americans, as a whole, unlike Europeans, have forgotten this important history of Armistice Day and in fact have reverted to celebrating war as heroic.

Read Post

How You Can Help Scott Olsen, Iraq War Vet Critically Injured At 'Occupy Oakland'

Posted 12.26.2011

Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen was injured after being hit in the head with a police projectile at Occupy Oakland. Olsen's family is waiting to see i...

Read Whole Story

Veteran "Frightened" by Americans Cheering Osama's Death

Pat LaMarche | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Veterans for Peace, Osama Bin Laden Dead, Peace, Ground Zero, Veterans, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

Marco Frucht joined the U.S. Army in 1988, he was 24-years-old. Monday night Frucht drove to the site of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan and left behind his 4th Infantry Division patch and -- he hopes- - the rest of his anger.

Read Post

The "Golden Rule" will Sail Again

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Veterans for Peace, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Rainbow Warrior, Golden Rule, Albert Bigelow, Nuclear Testing, Atomic Energy Commission, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Greenpeace, Veterans, Test Ban Treaty, Green News

The Golden Rule, the legendary 30-foot ketch that once terrified U.S. government officials, will return to the seas again this coming summer.

Read Post

1,200 Crosses Say No to Afghanistan War

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Santa Barbara, Veterans for Peace, Afghanistan, Rethink Afghanistan, Robert Greenwald, Brave New Foundation, Afghanistan Protest, Afghanistan Demonstration, World News

The movement to rethink the Afghanistan War is picking up steam. The Aug. 8 demonstration in Santa Barbara is just one example of the growing discontent and the creative actions by local activists to express it.

Read Post

Military Sexual Trauma - Seeking Justice

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Veterans for Peace, Department of Veterans Affairs, Kira Mountjoy-Pepka, Rape, Military Sexual Trauma, Veteran's Administration, Ann Wright, Grace After Fire, Service Women;s Action Network, Coalition Against Sexual Assault in the Military Services, Rotc, Code Pink, Pack Parachute Charity, Ptsd, Afghanistan War, Pascale Bourgaux, Veteran's Day, Military, Mercedes Gallego, Eve Ensler, Iraq War, Tina Priest, Rape in the Ranks, Fort Bragg, Disable Amercian Veterans, Staff Sergeant Sandra Lee, Military Rape Awareness Wekk, U.S. Army, Vva, Vetwow, Impact News

While embedded with Marines during the invasion of Iraq, journalist Mercedes Gallego was cautioned that it was not safe to be alone. The reason, the servicewomen explained, was fear of being raped.

Read Post

Mothers and Soldiers: Healing the Bonds Destroyed by War

Christian Avard | Posted 05.25.2011

Susan Galleymore is the author of Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War & Terror. She made international headlines as she traveled to Iraq to visit her son stationed in the Sunni Triangle.

Read Post

Cheney Center At University Of Wyoming Draws Protests

AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Veterans for Peace, Iraq War, Enhanced Interrogations, University of Wyoming, Dick Cheney, Politics News

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A decision by the University of Wyoming to name a new center for international students for former Vice President Dick Cheney i...

Read Whole Story

Why I Won't Go Back

Camilo E. Mejia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ar-Ramadi, Conscientious-Objector, Florida National Guard, Veterans for Peace, Iraq War Conscientious Objector, Iraq War Veterans, Iraq War, Politics News

It is true that as a soldier it is not your job to question the nature of a mission, but what if that mission violates your morality so much you cannot reconcile it with your most basic beliefs?

Read Post