Veterans For Peace Announces Tour to Viet Nam for 2019
By popular demand, VFP Chapter 160 in Viet Nam will host another tour Sept 7-22nd for VFP members, spouses, friends, who have requested one more chance to visit the country that shaped our lives in so many ways. Applications due by July 1st
Veterans to Protest “Christening” of the Lyndon B. Johnson at Bath Iron Works
Statewide peace groups will gather to protest the “christening”[sic] of a Zumwalt class warship at General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works (BIW) shipyard on the morning of Saturday, April 27. The ship will be named for President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was driven from office by anti-war protesters over his bombing of civilians during the Vietnam War.
"Peace in the Pacific" Voyage set for May
Veterans For Peace Golden Rule Project is pleased to announce that the Golden Rule is scheduled to begin an epic voyage for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament on about May 1.
VFP Members Visit Venezuela with U.S./Canada Peace Delegation
Former VFP Board member Dan Shea and I had the honor of representing Veterans For Peace on a recent U.S./Canada peace delegation to Venezuela, organized by the U.S. Peace Council. The purpose of the delegation was to express our solidarity with the Venezuelan people and their elected government, which is resisting a multi-pronged attack from right wing oligarchs supported by the U.S. government.
Veterans Call on U.S. Troops to Resist Illegal Orders to Invade Venezuela in Response to Trump
Veterans For Peace (VFP) calls on all members of the U.S. military to refuse illegal orders to intervene in Venezuela. Furthermore, VFP urges all U.S. military leaders to inform the president that they will order their units to stand down from preparations to invade Venezuela.