VFP National Convention - August 27-30, 2008 Join us in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN for a weekend of networking, social justice work, education, and fun. Then stay in the Twin Cities to demonstrate against the Republican National Convention.
Veterans For Peace www.veteransforpeace.org
216 S. Meramec Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63105
314-725-6005
Veterans For Peace is a national organization founded in 1985. It is structured around a national office in Saint Louis, MO and comprised of members across the country organized in chapters or as at-large members. There is an annual convention each year attended by our members, families and supporters from across the nation. Members receive periodic VFP publications.
The organization includes men and women veterans of all eras and duty stations including from the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), World War II, the Korean, Vietnam, Gulf and current Iraq wars as well as other conflicts. Our collective experience tells us wars are easy to start and hard to stop and that those hurt are often the innocent. Thus, other means of problem solving are necessary.
Veterans For Peace is an official Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) represented at the UN.
Whether or not you wish to participate in chapter activities, please consider becoming a Veterans For Peace member. As an organization, we are what our members make us. You can be part of that effort. Help us put an end to war.
We draw on our personal experiences and perspectives gained as veterans to raise public awareness of the true costs and consequences of militarism and war - and to seek peaceful, effective alternatives.
"....my new video, “GIVE PEACE A CHANCE 2008”, from the Album “Think Big” is ready for it look on my page. I producing this video clip with spectacluar films of Greenpeace Germany e.V. and I am wrote this song , not only because I have children, but also because peace in the world will never have a rest ….. because music is the best language world-wide
Thank you for letting me be part of your important work. If we all work together we can not only IMAGINE a world of peace but raise our children with no war. I want that for my three grandsons. For all the children of the world.
One of the nations’ premier medical ethicists said the VA’s behavior in the anti-smoking study violated basic protections for humans in medical experiments.
“When you’re taking advantage of a very vulnerable population, people who have served the country, and the agency that’s responsible for their welfare isn’t putting their welfare first, that’s a pretty SERIOUS BREACH OF ETHICS,” said Arthur Caplan phd, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. http://www. washingtontimes. com/interactives/disposable-heroes/
Thank you for your service, and your voices for peace. Next Event: ------> JULY 5 TH @ 2 PM <------ (I-44 exit L on Hampton, cross 40, R on Wells for parking) Speaking Out Against: The Bush Administration The Destruction of our Constitution The War OF Terror Corporate Greed & Social Injustice Come click an image on our page, they all link to great information! We Must be the Change we wish to see in the world! peace, StLSpeaksOut
Thank You!! IN MEMORY OF MY HUSBAND OF 27 YEARS REUBEN C. PERRY III SERVED US NAVY 1966-1969 ABOARD USS DYNAMIC MSO 432 DIED JUNE 3, 2005 DUE TO EXPOSURE TO AGENT ORANGE
PLEASE HELP US FIND THE CHILDREN OF VIETNAM VETERANS THAT ARE SUFFERING EITHER BECAUSE OF AGENT ORANGE AND/OR THE AFTER EFFECTS OF THE VIETNAM WAR IT IS TIME TO UNITE AND SPEAK OUT GO TO & ADD AGENT ORANGE LEGACY TO YOUR TOP FRIENDS! http://www. myspace. com/agentorangelegacy
Tuesday, June 10th at the Schlafly Tap Room Veterans for Peace www. veteransforpeace. org presents a free viewing of The American Ruling Class www. theamericanrulingclass. org/home/ The American Ruling Class, the world's first dramatic-documentary-musical, explores our country's most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in our nominally democratic republic. This feature-length satire stars Lewis Lapham, the renowned essayist and author, and a heavy-weight ensemble cast that includes former cabinet secretaries, corporate mandarins, media magnates, and at least one journalist working as a waitress. The film follows Lapham and two recent Yale graduates as they make the rounds of Pentagon briefings, the World Economic Forum, philanthropic foundations, law firms, corporations banks, and New York society dinners as they attempt to answer the question, Who rules America?
The narrative portion of the film, interwoven throughout, tells the story of two representative graduates, one rich and one poor as they seek direction in their lives. Does America have a ruling class? If so, of what is it made, and how does it co-exist with our democracy? How does one join it: should one even want to? The real life luminaries become characters in a story about power and its responsibilities, and by the films end, the young men must decide: do they wish to rule the world or save it?
Washington Transcripts (What is really being said in DC)
I and John McCain adamantly oppose this new GI bill floating around Congress, the one that gives people who have served only three years in the military full educational benefits. John and I believe it is too costly and will only encourage troops to get out of the service after only one or two combat tours. Get out after being trained to be the world’s best warriors. This country can’t wage my war on terrorism and can’t preserve my Presidential legacy with incentives to back slide like this bill allows.
Tuesday, June 10th at the Schlafly Tap Room Veterans for Peace www. veteransforpeace. org presents a free viewing of The American Ruling Class www. theamericanrulingclass. org The American Ruling Class, the world's first dramatic-documentary-musical, explores our countrys most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in our nominally democratic republic. This feature-length satire stars Lewis Lapham, the renowned essayist and author, and a heavy-weight ensemble cast that includes former cabinet secretaries, corporate mandarins, media magnates, and at least one journalist working as a waitress. The film follows Lapham and two recent Yale graduates as they make the rounds of Pentagon briefings, the World Economic Forum, philanthropic foundations, law firms, corporations banks, and New York society dinners as they attempt to answer the question, Who rules America? Check out this preview:
From one friend of Howard Zinn to another — thanks for adding me. ¶ People hear only what they want, so facts alone won't wake them; they need inspiration too. ¶ This world's evils have a common root: Bullies, liars, thieves, & murderers — whether in market, government, or elsewhere — believe we're all separate, motivated only by self-interest, by greed & fear. They want us to share that belief; they use it to justify themselves and to discourage us from uniting. They use it to shape the world's political & economic systems that perpetuate war & poverty. Their real power comes not so much from secret conspiracies as from propaganda that we all hear every day and that we hardly notice, implicit in the background assumptions of television & newspapers. ¶ But you & I have found a better purpose inside ourselves & our friends. It's in everyone, if we can just wake them; we're all one flesh & blood. Let's spread that vision, for until we do our other advances will be minor & temporary. ¶ The outcome of the ideological struggle is not yet determined, so no one can afford to be just a spectator. Join the movement, if you haven't already: get involved in whatever way feels right for you. Question authority. Keep fighting, loving, hoping, singing. Hand in hand, we may still be able to heal this world. ¶ I'm impressed with ideas of Lakoff & Waldman about *how* to spread the vision, so I'm trying to promote their ideas via comments like this one and the essay on my MySpace page. I'm not selling anything. ¶ The real war is between classes, not nations; so I'll picnic on July 14, not July 4. Wouldn't it be nice to close Guantanamo by Bastille Day? ¶ Peace, love, hope, and revolution — Eric
Recognize these Democratic members of Congress, and vote in a PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATIC Candidate when their term is up!!
In the last decade the Blue Dog Caucus has systematically voted along Neo-Con ideology; bankrupting our economy through deregulation and outsourcing, bringing us into an occupation that has cost over a million innocent lives, and now is making sure that our VETS don't get the proper increases in benefits through the new GI bill !!!
If there's anyone who hasn't been redistricted yet, WAKE UP, and vote these people OUT !!!
AR, 4th - Mike Ross AR, 1st - Marion Berry AZ, 8th - Gabrielle Giffords AL, 5th - Bud Cramer CA, 47th - Loretta Sanchez CA, 29th - Adam Schiff CA, 43rd - Joe Baca CA, 20th - Jim Costa CA, 18th - Dennis Cardoza CA, 1st - Mike Thompson CO, 3rd - John Salazar CA, 36th - Jane Harman FL, 2nd - Allen Boyd FL, 16th - Tim Mahoney GA, 12th - John Barrow GA, 3rd - Jim Marshall GA, 2nd - Sanford Bishop GA, 13th - David Scott IN, 2nd - Joe Donnelly IL, 8th - Melissa Bean IN, 8th - Brad Ellsworth IN, 9th - Baron Hill IA, 3rd - Leonard Boswell KS, 3rd - Dennis Moore KY, 6th - Ben Chandler LA, 3rd - Charlie Melancon MS, 4th - Gene Taylor MA, 2nd - Mike Michaud MN, 7th - Collin Peterson NY, 24th - Mike Arcuri NY, 20th - Kirsten Gillibrand NY, 2nd - Steve Israel NC, 7th - Mike McIntyre NC, 11th - Heath Shuler ND - Earl Pomeroy OH, 18th - Zack Space OH, 6th - Charlie Wilson OK, 2nd - Dan Boren SD - Stephanie Herseth Sandlin PA, 10th - Chris Carney PA, 17th Tim Holden PA, 8th - Patrick Murphy TN, 5th - Jim Cooper TN, 4th - Lincoln Davis TN, 6th - Bart Gordon TN, 8th - John Tanner TX, 22nd - Nick Lampson UT, 2nd - Jim Matheson
Washington Transcripts (What is really being said in DC)
We don’t create homeless veterans; they do it to themselves. My Veterans Administration supports veterans who support themselves, not them that whine about what they been put through and not getting enough education benefits. Look at John McCain and myself, we are both Vietnam era and we didn’t need no education benefits. We both picked ourselves up by the boots. We are both shinning beacons of what these homeless vets can be, beacons standing on a high hill of compassionate conservatism.
From the blog that is all about political hacks betraying democracy!
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