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Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award Reception
A Pre-Convention Reception evening honors Veterans For Peace 2016 Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Visiting VFP UK members host a discussion” Undermining Militarism in the UK.” Pat Scanlon sings his new song “Extremist” Wednesday, August 10, 7-9pm, Room 212 Veterans Building, 401 … Continue reading
Posted in California Chapter, East Bay Chapter, Event, Hoa Binh Chaper 160, San Francisco Chapter, Veterans Community Media Center, Veterans For Peace, Veterans For Peace Chapters, Veterans For Peace National HQ, Veterans For Peace UK, Western Region
Tagged Army Special Air Service, Ben Griffin, Boston VFP, British Army, British Royal Air Force, Daily Kos, Daniel Lenham, Extremist, Howard Zinn, Nadia Mitichell, Pat Scanlon, peace, San Francisco, SAS, Smedley Butler Brigade, United Kingdon, Veterans, VFP, VFP UK, vfpsf, vfpsf.wordpress.com
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31st Veterans For Peace National Convention
PEACE AT HOME, PEACE ABROAD A Just and Sustainable Future for the World’s Children August 11-15, 2016, Thursday-Monday Clark Kerr Campus, UC Berkeley, California Veterans For Peace National Convention http://www.vfpnationalconvention.org/ Berkeley, California is the place to be in August when the 2016 VFP National … Continue reading
Posted in California Chapter, Denny Riley, Event, San Francisco, San Francisco Chapter, Veterans, Veterans For Peace, Veterans For Peace Chapters, Western Region
Tagged Andrew Bacevich, Ann Jones, Antonia Juhasz, California, Chapter 69, Helen Caldicott, Howard Zinn, Oliver Stone, peace, Roy Scranton, San Francisco, Veterans For Peace, Veterans For Peace National Convention, VFP, vfpsf, vfpsf.wordpress.com
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Zekerhullah’s Story: Surmounting Fear Through Nonviolent Resistance
Visiting Kabul is unsettling. Reuters recently reported that as many as 700 heavily armed Taliban insurgents were battling Afghan security forces in Logar, a key province very close to Kabul. Local officials said it is a test of the Afghan … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Afghanistan 2014, Peace Journeys, Sherri Maurin
Tagged Afghan, Afghan Peace Volunteers, Afghanistan, American reporter, APV, Bamiyan bazaar, Borderfree Center, Borderfree Community Center of Nonviolence, Dari, Ghazni, Hazara, Hazaras, Kabu, Kathy Kelly, Last Tango In Kabul, Logar, Love Can Open Every Border, Matthieu Aikins, Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism, Paktia, Pashtoons, peace, Reuters, Rolling Stone, San Francisco, Sherri Maurin, Street Kids Program, Tajiks, Taliban insurgents, VCNV, Veterans For Peace, vfpsf, vfpsf.wordpress.com, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Wardak, Zekerullah
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Sherri Maurin: Peace Journey 2014
Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 Sherri Maurin leaving this morning for Kabul by way of Chicago, Netherlands and Istanbul Hello friends, Many of you have heard me talk warmly about the Afghan Peace Volunteers (youthpeacevolunteers.org) who I have been in conversation with … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Afghanistan 2014, Peace Journeys, San Francisco Chapter, Sherri Maurin, Veterans For Peace
Tagged Afghan Peace Volunteers, Afghanistan, Gandhi, Global Days of Listening, Kabul, Kathy Kelly, non-military solutions, nonviolence, peace, Peace Journey 2014, Quakers, San Francisco, Sherri Maurin, So Korea, South Korea, Veterans For Peace, VFP, vfpsf, vfpsf.wordpress.com
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Occupy Madison: Solidarity with Occupy Oakland and Scott Olsen
Occupy Madison – http://occupy-madison.org/ Video date: Saturday October 29, 2011 This is a video of a march held in Madison, WI to demonstrate solidarity with Occupy Oakland and Scott Olsen. Scott Olsen is a 24-year-old originally from Onalaska, Wisconsin who … Continue reading
Occupy Oakland: Veterans For Peace
Steve Morse, Veterans For Peace, Chapter 69, San Francisco October 27, 2011 Members of Veterans for Peace (VFP) from Oakland, San Francisco, other East Bay and Bay Area cities stand in a vigil of solidarity with Iraq Veterans Against the … Continue reading
Occupation Has No Future: Bay Area Premiere
Bay Area Premiere Occupation Has No Future Thursday February 3, 2011 7:30PM FREE War Memorial Veterans Building San Francisco (415) 673-2711 Director David Zlutnick and members of the Dialogues Against Militarism delegation that inspired the film will be present to … Continue reading
Posted in Veterans For Peace
Tagged anti-militarist movement, civil disobedience, conscientious objectors, David Zlutnick, Dialogues Against Militarism, Israeli, Israeli militarism, Israeli soldiers, Justice, Palestinian, peace, US veterans, Veterans For Peace, vfpsf, vfpsf.wordpress.com, War Memorial Veterans Building, war resisters, West Bank
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Melissa Etheridge In American Idiot On Broadway
Grammy and Academy Award winning singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge will play the role of St. Jimmy for a one-week engagement of American Idiot February 1 – 6, 2011. Billie Joe Armstrong takes over the role, February 10 – 27 at the … Continue reading
Watada vs Hasan: The Pen Is Mightier Than The Gun
By Michael Wong, December 29, 2010 In 2009, there were two national cases of Army officers who opposed deployment to a Middle East war. But that’s where the similarities end, because each of the officers chose opposite courses of action. … Continue reading
Posted in San Francisco Chapter, Voices Of Veterans
Tagged Anwar al-Awlaki, Army, Bob Watada, Camp Casey, Carolyn Ho, Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink, conscientious objectors, Courage to Resist, Ehren Watada, Fort Hood, Fort Lewis, GI, gun, Hasan, Honolulu Advertiser, Iraq, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Islamic, JOhn Head, Judge Benjamin Settle, Killeen, Michael Wong, Mike Wong, Muslin, Nida Malik Hasan, peace, pen, resistance, Rosa Saanishi, Under the Hood, Veterans For Peace, vfpsf.wordpress.com, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, war, Watada
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SF Veterans Day Parade 2009
In search of Peace… Members of the American Legion, Bob Basker Post #315 participated in the Veterans Day Parade in San Francisco on Sunday, November 8, 2009. Carrying five balloons they found out creating “Peace” is not as easy as … Continue reading
Veterans Speakers Alliance: Veterans For Peace 