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It all started in 1967, with six Vietnam veterans marching together in a peace demonstration. Now, forty-two years later, VVAW is still going strong-- continuing its fight for peace, justice, and the rights of all veterans.
Explore these pages; see what we've done, what we do, and why we do it. The struggle continues, perhaps these days more than ever. VVAW has never stopped working to protect the welfare of those who served their country.
Will you join us?
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Latest Commentary: Taken from "From Vietnam to Afghanistan: The Bling They Curse and Carry" by Marc Levy:
That night at dinner Ron and his father keep pushing me. They want to hear about the war from someone who knows, someone who's seen it. So I tell them. "You're going to hear a lot of things from a lot of grunts, but here's my take." I get it over with... Read More
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Excerpt From THE VETERAN: Now Online Taken from Sullivan Campaign '09: Part 1 by Joshua Noehrenberg:
On May 16th, 2009, local organizers from Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), Veterans For Peace (VFP), Labor Beat and American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), just to name a few, gathered in Kresge Hall at Northwestern University to engage in a series of discussions on what it means to demilitarize the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). David Solnit, a long-time organizer with Courage to Resist, and a pioneer of the use of Puppetry at the November 1999 protests against the WTO, led us in a workshop on building a campaign against the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) and military academies, which combine to make the Chicago Public School system the most militarized in the nation. At the end of the session, we set a next meeting time and date, and allotted ourselves several research assignments.
Over the next two months, the Demilitarized U (DU) coalition ebbed and flowed throughout a cycle of bi-monthly meetings... Read More
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