IVAW conducts Operation WANT
Seven members from IVAW’s LA Chapter staged an early morning action on October 11th, placing 4,200 miniature soldiers around a gas station along with posters declaring “The Price of Gas: 4171 US SOLDIERS”
Read MoreSeven members from IVAW’s LA Chapter staged an early morning action on October 11th, placing 4,200 miniature soldiers around a gas station along with posters declaring “The Price of Gas: 4171 US SOLDIERS”
Read MoreThe Oregonian covered the Winter Soldier event in Portland. There were three panels, soldiers and Marines, family members and clinicians and supporters of war resisters. The soldiers gave heart wrenching testimony such as that...
Read MoreAre we going to see more of this? a US soldier is in custody after shooting dead two sergeants at a base near Baghdad. The Pentagon has refused to release his name and rank. Independent journalist, Dahr Jamail was heard on Air...
Read MoreThe NY Times has an article up about Iraq war deserters. One of the complicating issues about filing for conscientious objector status is brought to light in this article. Many soldiers are not opposed to fighting a war if they...
Read MoreA fellow peace activist wrote this and gave me permission to post it here. It is moving and thoughtful and attends to the too little attention given by the mainstream media upon these gut wrenching testimonies of our wounded...
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post Former Marine Jon Turner began his presentation by ripping his service medals off his shirt and tossing them into the first row. He then narrated a series of graphic photographs showing bloody victims...
Read MoreFor more video from the protests ongoing in DC right now follow this link Let’s bring our troops home where we need them, can take care of them and where we love them.
Read MoreOne of the first conscientious objectors was Camilo Mejia who is now on the board of IVAW, Iraq Veterans Against the War. He has helped organize this Winter Soldier event because he feels it is his patriotic duty to defend the...
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Read MoreThere were about twenty local veterans from the Vietnam and Korea era attending this evening as Elliott Adams, president of Veterans for Peace visited with Chapter 141 for the first time. Many issues were discussed from...
Read MoreThis month from the 13th to the 16th hundreds of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans will testify about what the war is really about. This year, from March 13 to 16, about 300 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will follow...
Read MoreThis is just so sad. The article does not say how many tours he had served already but he was desperate not to return again. A soldier trying to avoid redeployment to Iraq had a friend shoot him in the leg and then claimed he...
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