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
Historic Golden Rule Sailboat to Lead Peace Flotilla Around Alcatraz
The boats will be decorated with banners calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons, for an end to the U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza, and opposing plans to turn Alcatraz into an ICE prison.
VETERANS FORCE NY COUNTY SHERIFF TO TAKE DOWN ISRAELI FLAG
For over 600 days the Israeli flag flew over our county jail. It was a flagrant display of a Sheriff knowingly engaging in a divisive, illegal act in violation of New York State Public Building Law.