[johniegrad]

VETERANS FOR PEACE
Veterans Working Together for Peace & Justice Through Non-violence. Wage Peace!

VFP is a 501(c)3 organ-
ization. All contributions
are tax deductible.

Veterans for Peace
Wilson "Woody" Powell
National Administrator
World Community Center
438 North Skinker
St. Louis MO 63130
(314) 725-6005 A new publication by the SOAW (School of the Americas Watch) is just off the presses.

"From Warriors To Resisters" is the often painful, always illuminating stories of eleven veterans (Laura Slattery, Jeff Moebus, Bill McNulty, Jack Gilroy, Peter Demott, Wayne Wittman, Ellen Barfield, Charles Litkey, Roy Bourgeois, and Bill and Lillian Corrigan) who awoke to the reality of US foreign policy, changed their thinking and their lives and became dedicated and effective resisters of war and its terrors.

You will read your own story in theirs, gain further validation for your actions on behalf of Peace and Justice. This is a must read for all Veterans For Peace members and a wonderful tool for influencing prospective members.


Smedley Butler, a two-time Medal of Honor winner, Marine Corps General and self-confessed "thug for the United Fruit Company", is quoted in the center section: He warned us all when he said, in a 1933 speech, that, "War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses."
The book is selling for $6.00 and is obtainable from SOAW, Washington, DC (202) 234-3440.

This book is available from the National VFP office. They can be ordered from the VFP Products Page and will have them at the convention.

[Tailback]

I'm gonna throw out a wild guess here that this guy was drafted and didn't volunteer for military service. Another reason why we don't need to bring back the draft.

[tgslTakoma]

On December 13, 1980 Peter DeMott, former seminarian and Vietnam veteran from Jonah House, entered the General Dynamics Electric Boat (EB) shipyard in Groton, Connecticut during the launch ceremony for the "USS Baltimore" fast attack submarine. Noticing an empty EB security van with keys in it, he got into the van and repeatedly rammed the Trident "USS Florida" denting the rudder. Security guards then broke into the van and arrested him. He was tried by a jury in New London Superior Court and convicted of criminal mischief and criminal trespass. He was sentenced to one year in jail.

Stealing a van and ramming a submarine with it doesn't sound too peaceful and non-violent to me...