110+ Organizations to Biden: End U.S. Program of Lethal Strikes Abroad
113 organizations from the United States and around the world sent a letter to President Biden calling for an end to the U.S. program of lethal strikes outside recognized battlefields, including through the use of drones.
SOVA Testifies House Committee on Veteran Affairs
The House Committee on Veteran Affairs held a May 27 hearing on VA Infrastructure at which Bruce Carruthers spoke for SOVA
Veterans For Peace Objects to Militarism in “Eagle Act” and “U.S. Innovation and Competition Act of 2021”
Veterans For Peace calls for an end to the framing of China as the United States’ greatest national security threat. Our greatest national security threat is the worsening climate crisis. Rather than squandering tax dollars and fossil fuels on war preparedness, our government needs to address the climate crisis.
#DeplatformSixDays
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Veterans For Peace are calling on Microsoft (Xbox) and Sony (PlayStation) and Valve not to host or digitally distribute the soon-to-be-released video game “Six Days in Fallujah,” developed by Highwire Games and published by Victura.
Statement on Leaders' Climate Summit from Veterans For Peace Climate Crisis and Militarism Project
The Leaders' Climate Summit is a step forward after many steps backward by the previous administration. But it is just a starting point. In the breakout session hosted by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and attended by, among others, the defense ministers of Iraq, Japan and the U.K., climate impacts on the military, not the impacts caused by the military were highlighted. This is inadequate. The United States military is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels and emitter of greenhouse gasses, as well as a major polluter at domestic and overseas bases. Other large militaries also consume tremendous amounts of petroleum products and generate highly toxic waste.