http://www.sdvfp.org/wp-content/uploads/podcast/SDVFP_Podcast_Episode_2_Final.mp3 Episode length: 16:52 Click ‘play’ above or right-click and save to download this podcast. Ben Griffin, Founder, Veterans For Peace United Kingdom In the second episode of the San Diego Veterans for Peace Podcast, SDVFP member Patrick Gokey speaks with Ben Griffin, founder of the United Kingdom Chapter of Veterans For Peace. Ben served…
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This morning at 11:00 hours, myself, Jack Doxey and Jim Brown meet with Ryan Peters, Veterans Affairs Specialist in the office of Rep. Darrell Issa. We focused on our opposition to war against Iran and pointed out the various reasons why pursuing war was an act of folly. We also focused on, and urged Mr.…
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Prepared by the VFP Iran Working Group. Iran has not historically been an aggressive state in modern times, having invaded and occupied no other state for over 250 years. Numerous retired U.S. military general staff have publicly stated that Iran poses no threat to the United States. Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear…
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By Linda Pershing, with Lara Bell. Originally appeared in WarIsACrime.org. Memory portrait by Gina Johnson, http://operationhometies.com Brian Arredondo never really recovered from his brother’s death in the Iraq War. When they were kids, Brian adored his older brother Alexander and tagged along with him whenever he could. They were often seen playing together in parks…
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In many parts of the world, people will pause to commemorate what happened 67 years ago on August 6, 1945, when the United States unleashed the most diabolical weapon in the history of mankind on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later on August 9th, the same hellish fire consumed the city of Nagasaki.
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Something came to me as I walked past the church of epiphany in Washington D.C. I had just viewed numerous monuments designed to memorialize our legions of war wounded, war dead and those that served. At the American History museum our war making past and present is codified as “The Price of Freedom”. A quarter…
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