We work to build a service-member & veteran led movement that ends militarism by transforming ourselves, military culture and American society.
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Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) was founded by Iraq war veterans in July 2004 at the annual convention of Veterans for Peace (VFP) in Boston to give a voice to the large number of active duty service people and veterans who are against this war, but are under various pressures to remain silent.
03/14/2019
Drop the MIC kicks off tomorrow!
Join About Face: Veterans Against the War, GABRIELA, and Bay Peace with CCSF Women’s and Gender Studies department on Thursday March 14th for Drop the MIC: Feminist Leadership Against Militarism. Veterans and allies are also invited to check out the week’s activities for About Face’s national Drop the MIC tour stop: https://bit.ly/DTMTBay
02/27/2019
Join About Face: Veterans Against the War, GABRIELA, and Bay Peace with CCSF Women’s and Gender Studies department on Thursday March 14th for Drop the MIC: Feminist Leadership Against Militarism. Veterans and allies are also invited to check out the week’s activities for About Face’s national Drop the MIC tour stop: https://bit.ly/DTMTBay
07/01/2016
https://fundly.com/vets-stand-up-at-the-rnc-dnc
Click here to support Vets Stand Up at the RNC/DNC by Siri Margerin Help raise money to send Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War to the RNC and the DNC. The Republican and Democratic Conventions are coming up fast an...
PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT ASSEMBLY against Militarization
Friday, June 26, 2015, 1.00 to 5.30 p.m.
MLK Library 225, San Jose State University
(150 E. San Fernando St.)
Please join us at the US Social Forum in San Jose on June 26th for the PMA against Militarization’s third in a series of gatherings, or "rolling assembly,” to collectively think about how to further de-militarize and de-criminalize our communities. Our goal will be to focus a reflection and action space that highlights our multiple resistances to the intersecting dimensions of militarization and militarism articulated through a convergence of wars: war against Black and Brown youth, war on drugs, war on the border, war on terror, war on the environment and war on the social factory.
We imagine an assembly as a space to share information and resources across regions, generate new strategies for coordinated action, and build a network of support for local struggles. Towards that end, we are proposing a very specific schedule (see below) to engage three key areas of struggle and promote direct actions that will keep our process going beyond June 26th. We have scheduled each designated reflection and action hour with time devoted to discussion followed by a portion of the hour reserved for generating action proposals. Our goal in highlighting areas of struggle will be to review the projects, tools, networks, and strategies already in place in each area of struggle to connect across anti-militiarization efforts. For an archive of earlier gatherings in the rolling assembly please see < https://ggg.vostan.net/ccra/ #16>.
Struggle against Militarization Domestically
What are the strategies and practices that serve our efforts to abolish militarized policing and mass incarceration as well as tear down militarized borders and interior enforcement and end the war on the poor? How can we more fully connect struggles to confront police violence, struggles that refuse and disrupt the criminalization of people of color including through detentions and deportations, with struggles against surveillance and militarized technological incursions into our daily lives?
Struggle against Militarization on an International Scale
How do our struggles make visible the ways militarization at home is intricately linked to militarization and militarism abroad? How can our resistances more fully connect US settler-colonialism with specific occupations, e.g. Palestine? What have been our past successes in sharing tools that disrupt US military deployments abroad in order to end US investment in war and warfare, while connecting this to struggles against violences at home in the present? How are comrades in other countries mobilizing against US militarism that impacts specific regions?
Strategies, Practices, and Projects to promote Community Safety
What can we learn by examining collectively the convivial tools that advance our struggles—from skill shares, community care tents, cop watching, boycotts, rallies, assemblies, people’s investigations, caravans, justice campaigns, and people’s defense projects? How can our local organizing efforts go beyond solidarity and protest as well as state efforts to co-opt our demands for justice?
Schedule:
1.00 — 1.20 welcome & agreements
1.30 — 2.30 reflection & action: domestic militarization
2.40 — 3.40 reflection & action: militarization abroad
3.50 — 4.50 reflection & action: community safety
5.00 — 5.30 direction action and strategic planning
For more information contact:
Annie Paradise
Manolo Callahan
For Memorial Day, 31 testimonies from the nation's largest military installation tell their stories on demanding the right to heal. The Operation Recovery Fort Hood report. Please share it out: http://www.ivaw.org/fort-hood-testimonies
Operation Recovery: Fort Hood Soldiers and Veterans Testify on the Right to Heal | Iraq Veterans... With 3 years of outreach at Fort Hood; more than a thousand conversations with soldiers, veterans and their families; and 31 in-depth testimonials Operation Recovery: Fort Hood Soldiers and Veterans Testify on the Right to Heal (or 'the Fort Hood Testimony Report') is a hard look at the what the co…
04/11/2014
Veterans For Peace Vietnam Tour 2014: Follow Bill Creighton's journey through Vietnam.
VFP VietNam 2014 Tour: 4 Hue, Duc Son Orphanage Hue, VietNam, April 5th, 2014, Duc Son Orphanage The Kids run out the to entrance and we greet each other with giggles, laughter, high-fives knuckle-taps and "hello". One kid entertains us with h...
03/16/2014
The US Really Has No Clue How to Withdraw from Afghanistan
http://t.co/thaKGtUbuV
The US Really Has No Idea How It'll Withdraw From Afghanistan | VICE News It's unlikely that the process of US forces pulling out will be any less agonizingly stupid or confusing than what has preceded it.
02/20/2014
Help us support the rights of service members, and military families while challenging war and militarism by supporting the GI Coffeehouse Tour.
02/04/2014
help fund an ivaw member being put up for a court martial for going awol after coming back from deployment and now the military is seeking the harshest penalty for her status as an ivaw board member.
http://www.gofundme.com/6nv99s
Click here to support General Court Martial/Legal Fees by Sara Beining After deploying to Iraq in 2006 and spending a year as an analyst in Baghdad, my (now EX) husband and I went AWOL, suffering from PTSD. My ex-husband received an other than honorable discharge after he was apprehended in 2010. I am now facing charges and General Court Martial - the highest level...
10/16/2013
"While Hadley’s role in the Bush administration was always noted, there was no mention of his ties to Raytheon, manufacturer of Tomahawk cruise missiles, which likely would have been fired from Navy destroyers stationed in the eastern Mediterranean in strikes against Syria. Hadley has been on the board of directors of Raytheon since 2009 and, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing from June included in the new report, owned 11,477 shares of Raytheon stock, now worth about $875,000."
Media analysts in Syria debate have ties to defense contractors Military analysts who made frequent media appearances during the recent debate over a possible U.S. strike on Syria have ties to defense contractors and other firms with stakes in the outcome,...
10/11/2013
"Department of Veterans Affairs physicians told a House subcommittee today that hospital administrators regularly pressured them to prescribe highly addictive narcotic painkillers to patients, even those they had not personally examined."
VA doctors tell House lawmakers of pressure to prescribe veterans opiates | The Center for... Department of Veterans Affairs physicians told a House subcommittee today that hospital administrators regularly pressured them to prescribe highly addictive narcotic painkillers to patients, even those they had not personally examined.
10/03/2013
Interesting.