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Veterans For Peace appeals to Israeli soldiers to lay down their arms

Israel's military has in recent days attacked the Gaza strip with drones and F-16s, and has apparently been preparing for a possible ground war. Israel is using weaponry provided by the United States at the expense to U.S. taxpayers of $3 billion per year. Veterans For Peace member Doug Rawlings…

Veterans and allies arrested in New York as Afghanistan war enters year 12

Twenty-five people, most of them U.S. military veterans, were arrested while laying flowers at a war memorial in New York City Oct. 7. They were engaged in a peaceful vigil to honor those killed and wounded in war and to oppose the U.S. war in Afghanistan as it entered its 12th year. The vigil was…

Official VFP statement regarding police assaults in Oakland

Veteran For Peace member, Scott Olsen, a Marine Corps veteran twice deployed to Iraq, is in hospital now in stable but serious condition with a fractured skull, struck by a police projectile fired into a crowd in downtown Oakland, California in the early morning hours of today. Other people were…

Statement from Veterans For Peace regarding current events in Northern Africa

“THERE IS ONE THING STRONGER THAN ALL THE ARMIES IN THE WORLD: AND THAT IS AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME.” Events unfolding in Tunisia and Egypt hold much hope for the people of that region and indeed the entire world. What do those events show us? · The demonstrations are succeeding because…
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