For more information and Tickets:
(562) 928-7447
navavets@gmail.com
PRIZES
FACE PAINTING
BINGO
Yet again women are assaulted and the perpetrators get either a slap on the wrist or nothing at all. Sinclair was fined $20,000. Period.
Los Angeles
April 12, 2014
10 am – 6 pm
Location: Peace Center, 3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City, CA 90320
This year’s organizing committee planning a regional conference is to network and find ways to strengthen our efforts as a VFP region not necessarily to educate ourselves on the issues about which we already know.
Overview
• Morning Brunch – mingle and check out chapter displays
• Present state of our VFP chapters.
• Presentation by VFP National – Casey Steinmetz
• Lunch is provided
• MLK music powerpoint – Mr. Lanny Kaufer
• Breakout clusters by similar interest groups to network and collaborate
• Report out from breakout clusters
• Cleanup
• Dinner at nearby location
Please pass along to all of your VFP friends. We are looking info free overnight housing.
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RSVP:
Kathleen Hernandez
310-339-1770
hernandezkathleen@hotmail.com
or
Jim Summers
619-339-1827
poozles@hotmail.com
“Make no mistake. The Pentagon’s proposal to transform the military is a smoke and mirrors plan. It does not represent a dismantling of the military-industrial complex but a chilling morphing of it, and will advance American imperial power and further enrich war profiteers even as it cuts out the troops. How Washington plans to screw military veterans.”
READ FULL ARTICLE: http://evergreenedigest.org/pentagon’s-vision-covert-and-endless-war
A Former CIA Analyst’s Perspective
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/13/why-cia-director-john-brennan-must-resign/
Set aside for a moment whether the U.S. government has too much or too little money. It’s spending the money it has destructively.
Fifty-seven percent of discretionary spending going into the military is too much.
by Katherine Klingseis, DM Reg March 15 2014
About 100 protesters rallied against drone warfare and U.S. overseas military occupation in Des Moines on Saturday morning.
Protesters from across the country gathered at the Iowa Air National Guard Base in Des Moines, 3100 McKinley Ave., to participate in the rally. Des Moines Catholic Worker and the Des Moines Veterans for Peace chapter organized the rally.
The protest took place at the Iowa Air National Guard Base in Des Moines because the Iowa Air National Guard’s 132nd Fighter Wing will be involved in a mission piloting and controlling armed Reaper Drones.
Opening arguments began in a court martial case Friday in which a US Army general is accused of sexually assaulting a female US Army captain. The case comes as a procedural vote in the US Senate killed a bill, deeply opposed by the Pentagon, which would have removed the prosecution of sexual assault cases from the military commanders of the accused and put them in the hands of independent military prosecutors. Read full article: http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/03/08/army-m08.html
3/6/14
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand came up short Thursday in her yearlong campaign to overhaul military sexual-assault policies, falling five votes short of the 60 needed to overcome a filibuster.
The New York Democrat’s bill, which would have removed the chain of command from prosecuting sexual assaults and other major military crimes, was derailed in the Senate on a55-45 vote, closing out one chapter in a debate that divided the Senate but not along typical partisan lines.
Darren Samuelsohn is a senior policy reporter for Politico Pro; Juana Summers is a defense reporter for Politico Pro; and Anna Palmer is a senior Washington correspondent for Politico.
Read Article: http://evergreenedigest.org/kirsten-gillibrand’s-sexual-assault-bill-derailed
Spies of Mississippi is a journey into the world of informants, infiltrators, and agent provocateurs in the heart of Dixie.
The film tells the story of a secret spy agency formed by the state of Mississippi to preserve segregation and maintain “the Mississippi way of life,” white supremacy, during the 1950s and ‘60s. The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission (MSSC) evolved from a predominantly public relations agency to a full-fledged spy operation, spying on over 87,000 Americans over the course of a decade.
The Commission employed a network of investigators and informants, including African Americans, to help infiltrate some of the largest Black organizations like National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). The MSSC was granted broad powers to investigate private citizens and organizations, keep secret files, make arrests, and compel testimony for a state that, as civil rights activist Lawrence Guyot says in the film, “was committed to an apartheid system that would make South Africa blush.” Read More: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/spies-of-mississippi/
Democracy Now: http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/25/spies_of_mississippi_new_film_on
FROM The Private Manning Support Network
February 26, 2014
Army whistle-blower Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning took a huge personal risk when she decided to show Americans the true cost of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other foreign policy decisions.
For her bravery, she was honored at Oxford University on February 17th, when former CIA officers chose her for the annual Sam Adams Integrity in Intelligence Award.
Read More http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/chelsea-manning-acceptance-statement-of-sam-adams-award-for-integrity-in-intelligence
