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photos/video -Veterans for Peace Anti-War Memorial Day |
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by Michael Borkson
Email: nosanctions (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified!) |
01 Jun 2010
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Boston: May 31, 2010:
Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speakout, Iraq Veterans Against the War, AFSC,and members of the Iraqi community gathered on this Memorial Day to protest the US wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsPfyjjSsOQ
more photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/protestphotos1/sets/72157624177537464/ |
 photos/video Vets for Peace Anti-War Memorial Day |
Boston: May 31, 2010:
Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speakout, Iraq Veterans Against the War, AFSC,and members of the Iraqi community gathered on this Memorial Day to protest the US wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
Speakers related in solemn words the tragedy of lost American, Iraqi, and Afghani lives-also how the wars have taken a toll on the mental and physical health of returning veterans.
Several Iraqi refugees spoke of how the US war there has devastated their country and how the US occupation is not welcome in Iraq.
The event concluded with a ceremony in which the names of Massachusetts soldiers and Iraqis and Afghanis killed were read aloud, and participants tossed a flower in the harbor for each name read.
video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsPfyjjSsOQ
more photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/protestphotos1/sets/72157624177537464/
VETERANS FOR PEACE
Veterans Working Together for Peace & Justice Through Non-Violence
Statement of Purpose
We, having dutifully served our nation, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace. To this end we will work, with others:
a)To increase public awareness of the costs of war;
b)To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations;
c)To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually elimi nate nuclear weapons;
d) To seek justice for veterans and victims of war;
e)To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.
To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use nonviolent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace.
Veterans for Peace, Inc.
National Office
216 South Meramec Ave.
St. Louis, MO 6S105
S 14-725-6005
email: vfped (at) veteransforpeace.org
website: www.veteransforpeace.org
Smedley D. Butler Brigade
P.O. Box 1604
Andover, MA 018 10
Tel. 978—475-1776
www.smedleyvfp.org
Email: lee (at) massvfp.org |
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See also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsPfyjjSsOQ
http://www.flickr.com/photos/protestphotos1/sets/72157624177537464/
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