Veterans For Peace
Strategies for Moving Beyond War
Veterans working together for peace and justice through non-violence

"It's not my job to decide who's going to live or who's going to die. That's something that I've had to deal with morally and that I'm convinced of. Nothing is more clear in my mind [than] that war is wrong. And I won't be a tool of war anymore. -- SPC Agustín Aguayo, Iraq Vet - Found guilty of desertion - 3/6/2007.

U.S. Soldiers Speak Out About the War in Afghanistan
Soldiers Speak out

PTSD and the Community - in the SoCo Peace Press

by Ted Sexauer
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Poems of War and Peace in Inquiring Mind, a Buddhist Journal

Introduced by Ted Sexauer




Cost of War in Afghanistan
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Click here for parade photos of Chapter 71

How the Military Uses/Abuses Its Soldiers;
Good Reasons Not to Enlist:
  • Courageous Stories of The Resisters
  • Pat Tillman's Family Stands Up to the Generals
  • Was Tillman Murdered ?
  • Army Sgt. Sam Provance Tells about Abu Ghraib
  • US Soldiers "Firing Blindly" on Civilians

    Veterans For Peace Caravan to the Gulf Coast
  • Educating Soldiers Along the Route (Report by Oakland's "embedded" Sarah Olson)
  • Mendocino's White Rose Bus Turned Away from Mississippi (Report by VFP ED Mike McPhearson)

    Links for word from Iraq:
    http://www.appealforredress.org/ and
    http://www.soldiervoices.net/svfor/forumdisplay.php?f=2

    PTSD

    IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR
    Latest News

    VFP Labeled as Threat to Recruiters
    by Joint Terrorism Task Forces: ACLU Responds

    THE GROUND TRUTH
    Stories by Vets of Iraq Occupation

    VFP National Conventions
    August 2006, Seattle - 24 Page Report
    2006 Member Report
    August 15-19, 2007, St. Louis

    SIR! NO SIR!
    Stories of Vet War Resistance in Viet Nam

    DEPLETED URANIUM

    End the Korean War

    VFP Impeachment Campaign

    Map of U.S. Military Bases in Iraq

    Essays by S. Brian Willson

    • Just Foreign Policy Iraqi Death Estimator

    EVENT PHOTOS

    ACTION ALERTS

    Veterans For Peace

    CHAPTER 71
    SONOMA COUNTY
    CALIFORNIA

    VFP STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

    CONTACT US

    Chapter Calendar

    Monthly meetings on Second Monday in
    NW Room of Santa Rosa Veterans Building

    Book: (by some of our members)
    Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace

    Readings

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    Free Counseling for Separation from Military Service, no matter your status:
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    or call GI Rights Hotline at 1-800-394-9544
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    Veterans For Peace Chapter 71
    Sonoma County
    P.O. Box 5551 Santa Rosa CA 95402
    Phone: (707) 573-6047 Email: info@veteransforpeacesonoma.net  
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    Last updated 8/31/10 by JARussellStone

    Whenever you advise a ruler in the way of Tao, counsel him not to use force to conquer the universe. For this would only cause resistance. Thorn bushes spring up wherever the army has passed. Lean years follow in the wake of war. Just do what needs to be done. Never take advantage of power. ... Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end. ------ Lao Tsu (verse 30. tr. Gia Fu Feng)

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