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<h1>Veterans For Peace Fighting War & Empire; While Building
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<span class="cat-date-line4">By Staff, <a
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June 4th, 2014</span><br>
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<p><big><big><a href="http://www.veteransforpeace.org/">Veterans
for Peace</a> has been working to end war and militarism
since 1985. They are close allies and contributors to
Popular Resistance and their members are consistently active
in peace and justice movements throughout the nation, and
often travel the world working to end war and stand with
victims of militarism. They challenge US Empire and
imperialism by exposing the true costs of war and the real
reasons for the interventionist policy of the United States.
These veterans served the nation after taking a pledge to
protect the nation and its Constitution, they see their work
with VFP as a “<span style="color: #000000;">greater
responsibility to serve the cause of world peace.” They
pledge nonviolence in their actions as they seek “to build
a culture of peace by using our experiences and lifting
our voices.”</span></big></big></p>
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<p><big><big>This video by <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/user/InsideOutReport">Inside
Out Ptv</a> focuses on members of VFP who have
been arrested at the Vietnam War Memorial in New York City
repeatedly in recent years. Their first arrest was at
peacekeepers working in support of the Occupy movement when
it was holding a General Assembly at the memorial to discuss
political issues impacting the nation. Members have been
arrested for the last two years on the anniversary of
America’s longest war, the War in Afghanistan, to protest
that war as well as to remember the war dead — not only US
troops but people who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan,
as well as native peoples killed in the war of Manifest
Destiny — the roots of US Empire. Veterans and their
allies have arrested while reading the names of those who
have died and prosecuted for exercising their Constitutional
Right to Assemble and exercise their Freedom of Speech.
Another purpose of these protests is to protect those rights
for future generations.</big></big></p>
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