Save the Date: VFP National Board Meetings / Dinner in Los Angeles 1/30 – 2/1
The Veterans For Peace National Board will be in Los Angeles for their next face to face meeting from January 30 – February 1, 2015.
Please consider attending open board meetings on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday at the Four Point Sheraton Hotel (near LAX) 9750 Airport Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045 in the
Malibu Room
(parking is available for $12 or there is street parking just north on Airport Blvd
and surrounding streets)
Also come for a mixer including dinner with VFP Board Members and Executive Director hosted by the John Day Chapter in Los Angeles On Saturday night Jan. 31 at the Peace Center – 3916 Sepulveda Blvd, Culver City, CA 90230.
6-9 pm on Saturday, January 31, 2015 at The Peace Center:
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230 RSVP: hernandezkathleen@hotmail.com
or (310) 339-1770
There will be time to visit them as well at Arlington West Santa Monica
(North side of Santa Monica Pier) on Sunday afternoon 1-3 pm.
More details to follow… http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
Nonviolent Direct Action in Georgia – Crossing the Line
FROM http://www.soaw.org/
On Sunday, November 23, Eve Tetaz, an 83-year-old author, veteran peace and justice activist and retired public schoolteacher from Washington, DC, crossed through a side entrance onto the Fort Benning military base in a solitary nonviolent witness, carrying with her a poster of one of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa, disappeared in Mexico, and the prophetic Isaiah verse, “they shall beat their swords into plowshares.” After the procession at the main gates concluded, longtime SOA Watch activist Nashua Chantal, a 62-year-old human rights defender from Americus, Georgia, carried a ladder to the fence which military police erected to keep our peaceful message from entering the base. This is the third arrest at Fort Benning for Nashua, who previously served a three-month sentence in 2005 and six months in 2013 for crossing the line.
Alternative Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=897rca4fgVw&feature=youtu.be
CODEPINK presents SHUT DOWN CREECH AFB
An invitation to join with CODEPINK on March 4 -6, 2015 to
SHUT DOWN CREECH AFB.