The San Diego Veterans For Peace Armistice/Veterans Day ceremony was conducted with a small crew of SDVFP members and supporters plus a Blue Star family singer who performed “In Flanders Fields” as our closer. Masks were worn except when speaking and social distancing was observed throughout. Jim Brown welcomed all with a short discussion of how…
(Above) Firefighter working to contain forest fire in Northern California (NYTM). The facts and consequences of global climate crises are awesome, depressing, and frightening in human and planetary terms. Climate Corner reviews timely climate science and news reports and selects a few that elicit a resounding “wow” response, positive or negative. Climate Corner shares a…
SDVFP CLIMATE CORNER (Summer 2020) The facts and consequences of global climate crises are awesome, depressing, and frightening in human and planetary terms. Climate Corner reviews timely climate science and news reports and selects a few that elicit a resounding “wow” response, positive or negative. Climate Corner shares a few…
We, as members of the San Diego Veterans For Peace, denounce the ongoing instances of police violence against Black bodies and people of color, this time resulting in the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We also stand in opposition to the State of Minnesota’s and the Minneapolis police force’s militarized response to…
To free up billions of Pentagon dollars for investing in critical environmental projects and to eliminate the environmental havoc of war, movements for a livable, peaceful planet need to put “ending war” at the top of the “must do” list. Medea Benjamin The environmental justice movement that is surging globally is intentionally intersectional, showing how…
The release of the Afghanistan Papers this week has laid out in clear detail the failed policy and the catastrophic level of malfeasance that reach the highest levels of the U.S. government. Every level of government bears responsibility for misleading the American public and for creating the conditions in which an unchecked military operates without…