WATCH: The People Vs Agent Orange
A new film, The People Vs. Agent Orange is being released at a theater near you and is available for streaming. Watch how two heroic women are leading a worldwide movement to end the plague and hold the manufacturers accountable. In France, Tran To Nga is suing the American chemical industry for poisoning her in Vietnam. In America, Carol Van Strum exposes the continuing use of toxic herbicides. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened. A helicopter technician secretly films the contamination of reservoirs, while a massive industrial cover-up goes on.
Winter Soldiers for Peace and Social Justice: Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Today
The event will commemorate the Winter Soldier Investigation organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) 50 years ago in February 1971, and similar hearings by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) 37 years later in March 2008.
The Winter Soldier Investigation: 50 Years Later
50 years ago this month the Winter Soldier Investigation (WSI) in Detroit was organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Over 100 veterans testified. The panelists spoke of atrocities they had seen or carried out. WSI got very little press at the time, but it did get some attention from anti-war members of Congress.
RELEASE: US, South Korean and International Civil Society Organizations Call for the Suspension of US-ROK Combined Military Exercises
On January 27th, a statement endorsed by 110 U.S., 197 South Korean, and 80 international civil society organizations was sent to the Biden administration urging the suspension of annual combined military exercises with South Korea in order to restart diplomacy with North Korea.
Veterans For Peace Celebrates Nuclear Ban Treaty
As veterans concerned about issues of war and peace, we are happy to celebrate the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), the important new international peace initiative that goes into force on January 22. The “Nuclear Ban Treaty,” as it is also known, was approved 122-1 by the UN General Assembly in July 2017, a clear expression of the will of the world’s people.