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Veterans For Peace Drop Antiwar Banner at D.C.'s Newseum
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Today at 1:30 pm, U.S. military veterans hung an enormous banner on the front of the Newseum here, wrapping their message around the First Amendment chiseled in five stories of...
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Antiwar Veterans Plan Dec. 16 Civil Resistance at White House
Antiwar veterans, led by Veterans For Peace, will converge on the White House December 16 for what they hope will be the largest veteran-led civil resistance to wars in recent history. Citing World War...
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131 Arrested at Veteran-Led Civil Resistance to Wars at the White House Dec. 16
After a 10 a.m. rally in Lafeyette Park featuring Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, retired CIA officer Ray McGovern, Dr. Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Program, and...
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113 Antiwar Protesters Arrested at White House Fence
Some 1500 activists rallied in Lafayette Park and marched to the White House fence today, where 113 were arrested. Chanting “Stop the wars, expose the lies, free Bradley Manning!” the protesters...
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Protesters Arrested at Quantico Marine Base Rally for Bradley Manning
350 activists rallied and marched and some 30 were arrested at the U.S. Marine Base at Quantico in Virginia March 20 demanding freedom for PVC Bradley Manning, who is accused of leaking secret U.S....
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Protesters Greet Obama in Harlem
Harlem Fightback Against War at Home and Abroad sponsored a demonstration against President Barack Obama March 29 at the Harlem State Office Building. Obama was in town for a $30,000/plate fundraising...
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Exploring Israeli Apartheid
Ana Nogueira helped found The Indypendent in 2000. Later, she worked as a producer at Democracy Now!. Most recently, she and her partner Eron Davidson completed work on their first feature-length film,...
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Seen at the Silent March Against Stop-And-Frisk in New York City (Photos)
On Sunday, June 17, thousands of New Yorkers marched down Fifth Avenue in a silent protest against police brutality and in particular the NYPD's use of stop and frisk to criminalize and terrorize...
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The War at Home
PEACE, OUT: Mike Hastie, Vietnam War Army medic (1970-71), was among 25 arrested for being at Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza after its official closing time Oct. 7. Veterans were at the memorial to...
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Review: Bidder 70
Directed and produced by Beth Gage and George Gage / 73 minutesOn December 19, 2008, Tim DeChristopher walked into a controversial Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease auction in Utah and...
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Marching for Bradley Manning
Ninety-five degree temperatures did not deter hundreds of protesters from marching in the blazing sun at Ft. Meade, Md., on June 1 to support WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning. “Any day that we...
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Veterans Assert 1st Amendment Rights on Opening Day of NYC Trial
Fourteen veterans and their allies who were arrested last October 7 at New York’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza went on trial July 8.The defendants in the trial are using the case to challenge the...
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Defendants Testify at Veterans’ Trial for Peaceable Assembly
Defendants took the stand July 10 at the third day of a trial of veterans and their allies arrested at New York City’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza last October. They are using the case to push back...
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Veterans’ Free Speech Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict, Followed by Dismissal of...
Judge Robert Mandelbaum covered all his bases with his verdict July 12 in the case of 12veterans and their allies arrested last Oct. 7 at New York City’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza. Rejecting the...
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A Hunger for Justice
The hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay prison passed the six-month mark in early August, with more than 50 prisoners still participating. Meanwhile, a hunger strike at Pelican Bay Prison in California for...
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Veterans Arrested at Their Own Memorial on 12th Anniversary of Afghanistan War
Nineteen military veterans and their allies were arrested Oct. 7 at New York City’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza for refusing to leave the park at the 10 pm closing time. The date marks 12 years of...
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Warm Welcome for Veterans Delegation in Palestinian Village of Al Walaja
The six-member Veterans Peace Team delegation to Palestine hit the ground with, as Mike Hastie put it, “our track shoes on.”We had come to Palestine to participate in the struggle against the...
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Football and a Faceoff in Al Masra
The Veterans Peace Team delegation in Palestine came face to face with the Israeli Defense Forces in the West Bank village of Al Masra today.The group of three men and three women is in Palestine to...
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Al-Azaria’s House of Hope Lives Up to Its Name
Ellen Davidson is accompanying a delegation of U.S. military veterans in the West Bank. On the fourth day of their trip, they went to see the House of Hope, a Christian peace and education project in...
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Fridays in the Frontline Villages: Palestinians and Internationals Join in...
Ellen Davidson is accompanying a delegation of U.S. military veterans in the West Bank. On Nov. 15, the delegation took part in the weekly demonstrations against the apartheid wall in the village of...
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