The Ukraine Crisis and the Recent IPCC Report
Just as Veterans For Peace (VFP) condemned US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, we strongly condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and grieve for the human and environmental/climate devastation now occurring there.
Release: Stop Padding the Pentagon’s Budget, 86 Groups Tell Biden
President Joe Biden should decrease the Pentagon topline in his forthcoming FY 23 budget request, Public Citizen and 85 other groups said today. Following the president’s FY 22 request proposing a substantial military spending increase, Congress proceeded to give the Pentagon an additional $25 billion.
U.S. and Russian Women Call for Peace
The letter came about through the work of American and Russian women participating in a dialogue and peacebuilding initiative found in 2021 by Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy and the American Committee for US-Russia Accord.
VFP Statement on
Veterans For Peace has not taken a position to either endorse or oppose the demonstration “Rage Against the War Machine”
100 U.S. Organizations Release Statement Urging Biden “to End the U.S. Role in Escalating” the Ukraine Crisis
As organizations representing millions of people in the United States, we call upon President Biden to end the U.S. role in escalating the extremely dangerous tensions with Russia over Ukraine. It is gravely irresponsible for the president to participate in brinkmanship between two nations that possess 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons.