[Peace-discuss] Veterans For Peace Fighting War & Empire; While Building Right To Assembly

[David Johnson via Peace-discuss]

  Veterans For Peace Fighting War & Empire; While Building Right To Assembly

Vietnam Vet Memorial protest
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June 4th, 2014
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Vets arrests Carol Ezell is arrested at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 
New York Oct. 7 Photo by MIKE HASTIE 
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Vets arrests Carol Ezell is arrested at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 
New York Oct. 7 Photo by MIKE HASTIE

Veterans for Peace <http://www.veteransforpeace.org/> 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 "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."

This video by Inside Out Ptv 
<https://www.youtube.com/user/InsideOutReport> 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.


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