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Veterans for Peace, Northwest Florida VFP National Chapter 135 in memory of Hugh C. Thompson, rescuer of My Lai |
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Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
Three days later, Nagasaki – and a third of a million Japanese civilians dead. Today, nuclear weapons many times more powerful lie in stockpiles or atop missiles.
They are weapons of mass destruction – to military targets, useless. Despite that, their enormous expense is still at cold-war levels, and the US still maintains a first-strike capability.
America, renounce the use of atomic weapons!
Lead the world in their abolition.
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Young working guys typify Pensacola’s response to VFP’s rallies against violence – this one, on the day the 4,000th American died in Iraq.
NO preemptive war against Iran or anyone else ■ Get out of Iraq ■ End the war in Afghanistan ■ Close bases intended to control events or resources in other countries ■ Work for a solution to the Palestine problem ■ Care for veterans and their families ■ Renounce the use of nuclear weapons ■
Go to Our View – we’ve just updated our mission statement.
Make an organized, systematic search for alternatives to war a part of America’s defense and foreign policy. ■ Go to Alternatives to War—Just Peacemaking
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Choose your rank: Peacemaker $10 – Peacemaker First Class $25 – Chief Peacemaker $50 – Master Peacemaker $75 – Hero $ ____________
I’d like to help • I’m interested in future projects • I’d like to join VFP – (Non-vets can be auxiliary members.) Email us at: vfpnwflorida@earthlink.net |
More about Veterans for Peace – Who we are and what we stand for – Go to About Us
National Statement of Purpose, How to Join, VFP Northwest Florida and National VFP
VFP CHAPTER MEETINGS • Normally, Second Wednesdays, 7:00pm, at the Center for Social Justice, Davis Highway at Moreno St. Email Scott at vfppcola@yahoo.com to get on the notification list. Email or call him at 850-437-1323 if you are not on the list – meetings are sometimes changed.
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For stories of successful nonviolent resistance to injustice and oppression, click the titles below:
• Heroes of Nonviolence – stories of people, some famous, some obscure, who made peace, justice and compassion
part of their lives. They suffered abuse, violence and death in opposition to injustice, violence and war.
• The Army pilot who stopped the My Lai massacre – read about Hugh C. Thompson, the Army med-evac pilot who
landed his helicopter between US rifles and Vietnamese civilians, pointed his machine gun at American troops, and
flew wounded civilians to assistance.
• Beyond Vietnam – Selections from Dr. Martin Luther King’s sermon of April 1967, in which he joined the civil rights
campaign with opposition to the Vietnam War.
• 20,000 Rally to Close US Terror School – Photo essay: Rally to close the “School of the Americas,” Ft. Benning, GA
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■ LINKS: • Veterans for Peace, Inc • School of the Americas Watch • United for Peace and Justice
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Work for Peace and Justice through Nonviolence in the world, at home
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