VFP CONVENTION: Safeguard the Guard
Date:
August 25, 2010 -August 29, 2010
Location:
Portland, Maine
Full Description:
Mark your calendars now for the 2010 Convention, which will celebrate VFP’s 25th anniversary and look ahead to the unfinished work of promoting peace and progressive politics in a time of global war and economic retrenchment. The meeting will be held from August 25-29 and, fittingly, in Maine, the birthplace of Veterans For Peace in 1985.
In particular, make plans to attend the "Safeguard the Guard, Safeguard Democracy" workshop led by Rep. Michael Fisher, VFP National VP Leah Bolger, and Liberty Tree's Steve Burns. Since January of 2008, Veterans for Peace, together with other veterans, military families, peace, and pro-democracy organizations, has worked to build a national movement to reform state national guard law, making it more difficult for state national guard units to be called up for use in wars of aggression. Beginning first in Vermont, spreading to a few states from there, and now active in much of the country, this movement addresses the disproportionate costs borne by guard members, their families, and communities, and offers an effective short-term strategy for hastening the end of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as a long-term strategy for reducing the likelihood of future wars of aggression through the democratization of our national military.
Learn more about the legal basis for this movement, its long-term objectives, and how it has grown and sometimes overcome obstacles it has met in its first few years of organizing.
Additional Information:
http://www.vfpnationalconvention.org/
Areas of Focus:
Defense Reform (Bring The Guard Home),
Democratizing Defense (Liberty Tree),
History of the Guard (Bring The Guard Home),
War Resistance (Bring The Guard Home)
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