Fighting for Peace: Veterans and Military Families in the Anti-Iraq War Movement Lisa Leitz
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Oct 25, 2012 - Ten years ago today, the two of us were an hour into the first big coalition meeting to oppose the impending U.S. War against Iraq, surrounded by dozens of leaders of a wide array of movements: peace, civil rights, women's rights, would have wanted us to get back to work quickly in this historic task, so after 15 minutes, we went back to creating what would become the broad, overarching coalition to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: United for Peace and Justice. Jul 8, 2008 - The need now is to take these proposed dates to local antiwar coalitions; labor groups, especially U.S. Labor Against the War; veterans and military families organizations: the faith community; Black, Hispanic, Asian, Arab, Muslim and the nation's most prominent antiwar coalitions — UFPJ, ANSWER and TONC — as well as leaders and representatives of U.S. Oct 15, 2011 - Workers' Weekly Internet Edition: Article Index : The Anti-War Assembly. Afghanistan and the War on Terror - Ten Years On movements, students intelligentsia, small business people, unemployed, military personnel and their families, people with differing political, religious and other views united together to oppose the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. "One Guard member improperly called into federal service to fight a war - that's a real problem. Feb 11, 2009 - Going on its seventh year, the Iraq war has taken its toll on not only the US military, but also on the states's National Guar Iraq. Ironically, in the '80s, when the Taliban was fighting the Soviet Union, the U.S. 3 days ago - The recent release of Taliban prisoners of war from the Guantanamo base in Cuba has whipped up hysteria among the media and politicians alike, both of whom have been all too quick, once again, to equate the Taliban with al-Qaeda. Brian Willson, Vietnam Veteran -Wages Unconditional Peace against U.S. Nov 29, 2013 - Military veterans who live to tell the other side of the war coin are speaking out in droves, and the state fears that if they are given a big enough platform, they will be able to sway public opinion and susceptibility to state-run war propaganda away from “More than 1,000 former servicemen and their families are fighting to win £20million compensation from the Ministry of Defence after being made 'guinea pigs' for postwar nuclear tests in the South Pacific and Australia. Imperialism www.addictedtowar.com/dorrel.html. Labor Against the War, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace, and Military Families Speak Out. Supplied the group with stinger anti-aircraft missiles and other military supplies. Www.hijackingcatastrophe.org and foreign policy. National groups like Military Families Speak Out, Veterans for Peace and Peace Action have worked through their local chapters to communicate with legislators. Hijacking Catastrophe places the Bush Administration's original justifications for war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by neo-conservatives to dramatically increase military spending while projecting American power and influence globally by means of force. The Anti-War Movement Must Base Itself on the New in Society to Oppose the Old Arrangements. Now a growing state-level movement is working to keep the Guard at home.