VFP and Counter-recruiting

Veterans for Peace has a long and diverse history of Counter-recruitment

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Madison Veterans For PeaceVeterans for Peace has been an important contributor to the history of counter-recruitment groups and individuals raising public concerns about the culturally militarizing effect that Pentagon recruitment efforts have on our youth. VFP speaks with authority to young people from personal experience and unapologetically raise their voices against the moral corruption of our war making complex.

Below are links to examples of VFP/Counter-recruitment around the country and an article archive of VFP community outreach related to demilitarization of our communities and schools:

 

VFP Counter-recruitment pages

  • Veteran's for Peace U.S. National Truth in Recruitment Page
  • CVP Education Not Militarization
  • Veterans For Peace Corvallis - Truth in Recruiting
  • VFP Chapter 92 Counter Recruiting Action Team
  • VFP UK Don't Join the Army

 VFP  Counter-recruitment News Reports

  • Madison Veterans for Peace display Memorial

VFP Chapters in the National Directory

  • CNY Veterans For Peace
  • Veterans for Peace Chicago - Chapter 26
  • Veterans for Peace Detroit Metro - Chapter 74
  • Veterans For Peace Corvallis - Chapter 132
  • Veterans for Peace Nashville - Chapter 089
  • Veterans for Peace Madison - Chapter 25
  • Veterans for Peace Traverse City - Chapter 50
  • Veterans For Peace National USA
  • Veterans For Peace National GB

 

VFP Collaborations:

  • War Resisters' League Counter Recruitment
  • Veterans Unite with Poor People's Campaign
  • NNOMY 2017 VFP Workshop

 

 

  • How Ann Wright, Former US Army Colonel and Diplomat, Became a Peace Activist

    How Ann Wright, Former US Army Colonel and Diplomat, Became a Peace Activist

    Dimitri Lascaris - Story Transcript DIMITRI LASCARIS: This is Dimitri Lascaris reporting for The Real News Network from the port in Naples, Italy. I’m seated here with Ann Wright, in front of the one of the ships to Gaza on the 2018 Freedom Flotilla. Ann is a retired United States Army colonel. She’s a former United States diplomat who resigned in protest over the war in Iraq. And she is a peace ...

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  • San Diego Military Community's Reaction to President's Controversial Russia Comments

    San Diego Military Community's Reaction to President's Controversial Russia Comments

    Alex Presha and Brie Stimson - President Trump answered this question: "Is Russia still targeting the U.S., Mr. President?" with "Thank you very much, no." President Trump is facing a backlash from c ...

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  • Veterans for Peace wants to wake people up to the insanity of war

    Veterans for Peace wants to wake people up to the insanity of war

    Anthony Douglas - We love comfort. Do we love peace? That’s the question Ed Flaherty poses. You’ll have seen Flaherty at the downtown Friday Peace Rally, which has been happening nearly weekly for 14 ...

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  • Richard Czaplinski: What kind of peace?

    Richard Czaplinski: What kind of peace?

    Editor’s note: This commentary is by Richard Czaplinski, of Warren, a U.S. Navy veteran who is the recently elected president of Will Miller Green Mountain Veterans For Peace, Chapter 57. “I’m for pe ...

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