Goals of thos project tour are
to:
- Raise national
awareness of the true costs of
war.
- Bring attention to
the actions by our government
officials that undermined global
peace efforts.
- Bring attention to
Veteran issues.
- Peacefully protest
military action and the illegal torture of
prisoners, detainees, and
civilians.
- Bring attention to
the use of Depleted Uranium Arms and the physical and
generations harm they cause to
our military, the enemy and
civilians populations were they
are used.
- Deliver The Veterans For
Peace Message to schools,
communities, and the media.
- Sponsorship letter
"We, having
dutifully served our nation, do hereby
affirm our greater responsibility to
serve the cause of world peace by
applying the concept of engaging conflict
peacefully, without violence."
Veterans for Peace, Inc.(www.veteransforpeace.org)
Donation letter
to support VFP National Bus Tour
Sponsor the Website & Video
Documentary here:
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are more products in our online store.
Clearly, we have a problem!
Uranium
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Bush
Hates Veterans! (Flash)
June 22,
2004
Senate Backs Ban on Photos of
G.I. Coffins
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
US
Government is accused of under reporting
US Causualties!
International
Count
We will be visiting
Walter Reed Medical Center
Washington D.C. Sunday, July 18,
2004
Join
the VFP Roadtrip Yahoo Message Boards to set up
caravan (have ride need ride list) etc.
We are looking for
stories that express the ideas and
concerns of those men, woman and families
that pay the highest costs in war.
We have a Yahoo group
to document these interviews with The
Veterans For Peace members on the
national bus tour. This will be shared
live on the internet and used in this
website, interactive dvd, and as a
learning tool for high school and college
students.
If you would like to
participate in this group documentary,
start by signing up to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vfproadtrips , then take a few moments to
write a description about who you are,
why you are joining the group and add a
picture of yourself. You will be given
access to previous interviews of active
service personnel, post your questions of
veterans in your community, family
members of those in military service etc.
You will also be able to submit digital
video, scanned photographs, with yo
National Veterans For
Peace (Statement of Purpose)
Veterans Working
Together for Peace & Justice Through
Non-violence. Wage Peace!
We, having dutifully
served our nation, do hereby affirm our
greater responsibility to serve the cause
of world peace and justice.
Americans will be secure at home only
when there is peace and justice
abroad. To this end, we will work,
with others:
#1 toward increasing
public awareness of the true costs of
war,
#2 to restrain our
government from intervening, overtly and
covertly, in the internal affairs of
other nations,
#3 to end the arms race
and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons
#4 to abolish war as an
instrument of international policy.
ur interviews.
To achieve these goals,
members of Veterans For Peace pledge to
use non-violent means and to maintain an
organization that is democratic.
Veterans for Peace,
Inc. (VFP) is a non-profit 501(c)(3)
educational and humanitarian organization
dedicated to the abolishment of
war.
VFP was founded in 1985
by ex-service members committed to
sharing the horrors they experienced.
Our membership is
comprised of veterans from all wars
spanning from The Spanish Civil War to
the Gulf War. These members are
distributed amongst 86 nationwide
chapters, and dozens of international
affiliations.
Our international
activities include working with our
affiliations in El Salvador, Russia,
Canada, Japan, Guatemala, Viet Nam, the
Netherlands, Chiapas (Mexico), France,
England, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vieques (Puerto
Rico), and numerous others. A
member of the Nobel-Peace Prize winning
Coalition to Ban the Sale and Use of
Landmines, VFP has been undertaking
arduous tasks since its inception.
From bringing medical aid to Central
American nations, to evacuating wounded
children from war-torn Bosnian hospitals
and securing medical treatment elsewhere
around the globe, or just sitting down
with American high school kids so that
they may make choices for themselves
based on reality, and not myth. We
remain firmly committed to the abolition
of war.
We know the
consequences of American foreign policy
because once, at a time in our lives, so
many of us carried it out. We find
it sad that war seems so delightful, so
often, to those that have no knowledge of
it. We will proudly, and
patriotically, continue to denounce war
despite whatever misguided sense of
euphoria supports it.
Wage Peace!
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