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Gazette-Times: Corvallis display, virtual events set to note Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Jim Day, Aug. 4, 2020 To say that this year’s efforts to note the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have faced challenges would be an understatement. Observances scheduled at sites around … Continue reading
Posted in Human War Toll, Nuclear warfare, Peace Activism, Veterans For Peace News
Tagged hiroshima, nagasaki, nukes, peace, VFP
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Release Marine Jose Segovia Benitez from I.C.E.
From the VFP national Deported Veterans Advocacy Project: Jose Roberto Segovia Benitez, a U.S. Marine who was honorably discharged, is being held at the I.C.E. Processing Center in Adelanto, California. Jose has been diagnosed with PTSD/Traumatic Brain Injury and is … Continue reading
Posted in Human War Toll, Peace Activism, Veterans For Peace News
Tagged cost of war, deported veterans, PTSD, veterans for peace, VFP
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Vietnam Full Disclosure
Does the Burns documentary tell the full story…accurately? Beginning September 17, 2017, PBS (Oregon Public Broadcasting here) will air the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick series on the American war on Vietnam or as they call it, “The Vietnam War.” … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Human War Toll, Peace Activism, Veterans For Peace News
Tagged agent orange, burns, documentary, full disclosure, gulf of tonkin, my lai, pbs, VFP, vietnam, war crimes
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A sad loss…
April 8 update: Good article in the LBCC Commuter paper. A memorial is set for this Thuqrsday, Apr. 13, 4:30pm at LBCC, Albany. More details TBA. Our VFP chapter and local Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) branch are mourning … Continue reading
Posted in Human War Toll, Veterans For Peace News
Tagged Dakota Tyger, IWW, suicide, veterans, VFP
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The peace boat Golden Rule sails into a new era of nuclear activism
This article originally appeared in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July 25, 2016. [with links] by Dawn Stover Dwarfed by the ships from the US Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy, and the US Coast Guard that visited Portland, Oregon, … Continue reading
Posted in Human War Toll, Peace Activism, Veterans For Peace News
Tagged fleet week, golden rule, marshall islands, nuclear disarmament, nukes, veterans, VFP
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Congress: Stop the spying on activist groups
Popular Resistance, Mar. 8, 2016 ON 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF BREAK-IN THAT EXPOSED COINTELPRO – 60 GROUPS DEMAND CONGRESSIONAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE FBI & DHS Over 60 national and local groups have signed on to a letter initiated by the Bill … Continue reading
Posted in Peace Activism, Veterans For Peace News
Tagged bill of rights, BORDC, congress, FBI, homeland security, NSA, VFP, vfpnational
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Veterans For Peace Protests Pivot to Asia
Newton’s third law of motion reads, “When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body.” VFP member protests in early December, … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Human War Toll, Peace Activism, Peace News, Veterans For Peace News
Tagged bruce gagnon, ellen davidson, japan, jeju island, okinawa, south korea, VFP
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VFP Press Release on Gaza Freedom Flotilla Seizure
@GazaFFlotilla #GazaFreedomFlotilla Press Release from Veterans For Peace 1404 North Broadway St. Louis, MO 63102 (314) 725-6005 http://www.veteransforpeace.org @VFPNational FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, July 2, 2015 For more information: Ray McGovern, Participant, 2011 Freedom Flotilla, 703-994-1459 Michael T. McPhearson, VFP Executive … Continue reading
