VFP and Counter-recruiting

Veterans for Peace has a long and diverse history of Counter-recruitment

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Veterans for Peace has been an important contributor to the history of counter-recruitment groups and individuals raising public concerns about the culturally militarizing effect that Pentagon recruitment efforts have on our youth. VFP speaks with authority to young people from personal experience and unapologetically raise their voices against the moral corruption of our war making complex.

Below are links to examples of VFP/Counter-recruitment around the country and an article archive of VFP community outreach related to demilitarization of our communities and schools:

VFP Counter-recruitment pages

VFP Counter-recruitment News Reports

Madison Veterans for Peace display Memorial

VFP Chapters in the National Directory

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How Ann Wright, Former US Army Colonel and Diplomat, Became a Peace Activist

Dimitri Lascaris - Story Transcript DIMITRI LASCARIS: This is Dimitri Lascaris reporting for The Real News Network from the port in Naples, Italy. I’m seated here with Ann Wright, in front of the one of the ships to Gaza on the 2018 Freedom Flotilla. Ann is a retired United States Army colonel. She’s a former United States diplomat who resigned in protest over the war in Iraq. And she is a peace ...

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U.S. Army | Dimitri Lascaris | Ann Wright | Veterans For Peace

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San Diego Military Community's Reaction to President's Controversial Russia Comments

Alex Presha and Brie Stimson - President Trump answered this question: "Is Russia still targeting the U.S., Mr. President?" with "Thank you very much, no." President Trump is facing a backlash from c ...

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Veterans for Peace wants to wake people up to the insanity of war

Anthony Douglas - We love comfort. Do we love peace? That’s the question Ed Flaherty poses. You’ll have seen Flaherty at the downtown Friday Peace Rally, which has been happening nearly weekly for 14 ...

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Richard Czaplinski: What kind of peace?

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Richard Czaplinski, of Warren, a U.S. Navy veteran who is the recently elected president of Will Miller Green Mountain Veterans For Peace, Chapter 57. “I’m for pe ...

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Will Miller Green Mountain Veterans For Peace, Chapter 57 | Richard Czaplinski | Veterans For Peace

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Counter-recruitment and the Campaign to Demilitarize Public Schools

Scott Harding and Seth Kershner are the authors of a new book, Counter-recruitment and the Campaign to Demilitarize Public Schools (Palgrave Macmillan). Drawing on dozens of interviews with activists conducted between 2012 and 2014, their book describes the various tactics used to demilitarize public schools in the United States. They also discuss case studies of successful organizing and advocacy to challenge the presence of military programs in educational settings. For more info, visit: http://www.palgrave.com.

Veterans For Peace is excited to be
coming to St. Paul for their

33rd Annual Convention,
August 22-26th.

Located at the Intercontinental
St. Paul Riverfront.
More details to come!

The week will be filled with amazing
workshops, discussions, community
and music.

Planning is Underway for Armistice Day 2018!

One hundred years ago the world celebrated peace as a universal principle. The first World War had just ended and nations mourning their dead collectively called for an end to all wars. Armistice Day was born and was designated as “a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated."

After World War II, the U.S. Congress decided to rebrand November 11 as Veterans Day. Honoring the warrior quickly morphed into honoring the military and glorifying war. Armistice Day was flipped from a day for peace into a day for displays of militarism.

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Visit the Demilitarize Our Schools Facebook Group

The Demilitarize Our Schools group is a community organizing site for activism to intervene in the growing cultural militarism being promoted in our public schools. Please limit postings to information and developments that directly relate to counter-recruitment and school demilitarization organizing.

This site is sponsored by The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (http://nnomy.net/), the Stop Recruiting Kids Campaign (http://srkcampaign.org/), Project on Youth & Non-Military Opportunities (http://www.projectyano.org/), and Veterans for Peace (http://www.veteransforpeace.org/)

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