USMC Veteran on Aid Flotilla Struck Twice By Israel
Responding to the firebomb attacks by Israel on two boats in the Gaza aid flotilla now in port at Tunis, Toledoan and Marine Corps veteran, Philip Tottenham said, “Nothing Israel does anymore is surprising. The total deprivation of humanity the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank continue to endure at the hands of Israel and the U.S. is unparalleled in modern history. Our governments are failures and so we must do what they won’t: STAND UP TO THE AXIS OF EVIL FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANITY. AMERICANS ARE IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST AND DESPERATELY NEED TO WAKE UP AND ACT FAST.”
Coast Guard Veterans Condemn CG Transport Flights for Immigration and Customs Enforcement
For some time now, Coast Guard C-27 Spartan and C-130 Hercules aircraft - once dedicated to the proud missions of rescue and lifesaving - have instead been used as tools of fear, ferrying human beings across the country like cargo in a deportation machine. Masked agents load innocent people in chains, torn from families, schools, churches, hospitals, and often the only life they have known, denying them due process, and sowing terror in our communities. Make no mistake: this is not “border security”, It is not "repatriating Cubans or Haitians at sea.” It is a collaboration in cruelty. It is Gestapo behavior in a Coast Guard uniform.
Veterans For Peace Condemns the Deployment of National Guard in Washington, DC, and the Misuse of U.S. Troops and ICE to Create Terror in Our Cities
Veterans For Peace unequivocally condemns President Trump’s unlawful deployment of the National Guard to Washington, DC. This follows the outrageous deployment of National Guard and U.S. Marines to the streets and parks of Los Angeles in support of ICE terror tactics in a city where as many as one in ten residents are undocumented workers. Even U.S. military veterans have been targeted and deported.
Veterans Sail With 50 Boat Flotilla to Gaza
A 50 boat flotilla including members of Veterans For Peace has just set sail to Gaza to break the siege, open a humanitarian corridor, and end the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
ICE Kidnaps Disabled Army Veteran
Zahid Chaudhry, originally from Pakistan, has lived in the US for 25 years and is a member of the Olympia chapter of Veterans for Peace. He sustained disabling injuries in 2003 while training to go to Iraq. He uses a wheelchair and was discharged from the military for medical reasons in 2005. Zahid was taken into ICE detention during a citizenship interview on Thursday at the United States Citizen and Immigration Services office in Tukwila, Washington