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Friday, September 4, 2015

Call Out To VFP Members to Take Action On International Peace Day, Sep 21

VFP National is asking Veterans For Peace members to celebrate International Day of Peace by sponsoring an event or supporting, joining with and promoting current Peace Day efforts underway in your city or town. It is the intent of Veterans For Peace National to help popularize International Day of Peace to the point that it becomes part of mainstream culture. International Day of Peace does not mean peace somewhere else.
To hold meaning to the average person, it must also mean peace in their communities. <More> E-mail casey@veteransforpeace.org for ideas on what you can do in your community. 
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Patrick Gokey, Post-Cold War Vet, Becomes Lifetime Member

I became a member of San Diego Veterans For Peace after meeting local members at Occupy San Diego in 2011. For years their continued hard work and dedication toward peace have inspired me.
After meeting people from all over the world at the national conventions in Miami and San Diego, I made my decision to become a lifetime member because there exists no greater cause than peace and no greater group of individuals dedicated to that cause than the members of Veterans For Peace.
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Yoko Ono and Masahide Ota Join VFP Advisory Board


Yoko Ono
is a multimedia artist, singer and peace activist who is also known for her work in avant-garde art, music, and filmmaking. She is the widow and second wife of John Lennon.

Masahide Ota is a Ryukyuan academic and politician who served as governor of Okinawa prefecture in the 1990s. Ota was educated at Waseda University, Tokyo, and Syracuse University, New York.

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Golden Rule Enjoys Fair Winds!

The Golden Rule and her intrepid crew are in Santa Barbara this weekend, where yesterday we held a 2 pm press conference in front of the Maritime Museum at the Santa Barbara Harbor.  David Krieger, director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation spoke, and Santa Barbara Veterans For Peace will present us with a check for $500!  <More>

Read Ed Asner's comments about the Golden Rule.

Travel Opportunities for Activists



Location
Sponsored by
Dates             
Contact for Additional Information
Palestine Code Pink Nov 1-8, 2015 Visit the Code Pink website
Cuba Code Pink Nov 20-29, 2015 Visit the Code Pink website
Cuba Jim Ryerson Jan 2016 For more information email Jim Ryerson at jim@cubaconnections.org..
Cuba Code Pink Feb 2016 Visit the Code Pink website
Việt Nam Việt Nam's  Hoa Binh (Peace) Chapter 160 Mar 14 -Mar 30
2016
For more information, please email Nadya Williams
Cuba Code Pink May 2016 Visit the Code Pink website
Palestine Interfaith Peacebuilders May 21 -Jun 1 2016 For more information email emily@IFPB.org
Palestine Palestine Jul 16 - Jul 29 2016 For more information email emily@IFPB.org
Palestine Palestine Oct 24 - Nov 6 2016 For more information email emily@IFPB.org

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In This Issue:

Call Out To VFP Members to Take Action On International Peace Day, Sep 21

Patrick Gokey, Post-Cold War Vet Becomes Lifetime Member

Yoko Ono and Masahide Ota Join VFP Advisory Board

Golden Rule Enjoys Fair Winds!

Travel Opportunities for Activists

Resources  to Support the Iran Agreement

Save the Dates: Nov 20-22 - SOA Watch Vigil

Join the VFP Women's Facebook Page

Veterans For Peace 2015 Annual Spring Tour to Viet Nam

Upcoming VFP Endorsed Actions/Events


Resources to Support the Iran Agreement

We have created a page of resources to support  the Iran agreement, including a call for vigils on September 10. 
To add your chapter's action, please submit this form.

Save the Dates: Nov 20-22 - SOA Watch Vigil

The SOAW annual mobilization is one of the largest anti-militarization convergences in the US.  It connects activists from across America who come together to denounce failed policies, the militarization of the hemisphere, the daunting effects of imperialism as well as to remember the long and ongoing history of brutal US intervention in Latin America that the SOA/WHINSEC represents to perfection. BUT we also come together to listen, learn and be inspired by each other, to raise awareness about and draw connections between struggles, and to celebrate the beauty of creativity and resilience. The Vigil weekend is an opportunity to grow stronger together and to build grassroots power!

Join the VFP Women's Facebook Page

There is now a facebook page for women members of VFP.  All women members are encouraged to participate.  

Veterans For Peace 2015 Annual Spring Tour to Viet Nam

Dates of travel:  Mar 14 - Mar 30, 2016
Each year since 2012, members of Việt Nam's Hoa Binh (Peace) Chapter 160 of Veterans For Peace invite up to 20 veterans, non-veterans, spouses & peace activists to come to Việt Nam for an insider's 2-week tour. The Hoa Binh chapter is the first & only overseas VFP chapter of American veterans living in Việt Nam!

The mission of the tour is to address the legacies of America’s war, as well as visit a beautiful country & form lasting ties of friendship & peace. 

For more information, email Nadya Williams @ nadyanomad@gmail.com

Upcoming VFP Endorsed Actions/Events

Aug 28 - Oct 15 - Golden Rule Schedule of Events
Sep 21 - International Peace Day in your city
Sept 24 - 30 - Iowa Speaking Tour with Ray McGovern and Coleen Rowley
Oct 7  - Anniversary of U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan
Oct 9-24 - Maine Walk For Peace
Nov 20-22, 2015 - SOA Watch 25th Anniversary Vigil

Did you know?

In 1990, VFP published a 36-page treatise on the logic of abolishing war as an instrument of state policy, "Abolish War! The
Last Campaign".



























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