Antiwar/Antimilitarism
Feingold Afghanistan timetable amendment gets 18 votes
Submitted by Staff on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 2:39pm
Only 17 other Senators joined Wisconsin's Russ Feingold Thursday in voting to require a timetable to get US troops out of Afghanistan. The vote on Feingold's amendment to a supplemental appropriations bill, which included another $30-billion for the Afghanistan war, was 18-80. Just Foreign Policy has more. Here are the heroic 18 "yes" votes:
Feingold Afghanistan timetable amendment fails
Submitted by Staff on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 2:22pmOnly 17 other Senators joined Wisconsin's Russ Feingold Thursday in voting for an amendment calling for a timetable to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan. The vote, on a Feingold amendment to a supplemental appropriations bill, was 18-80 with two absent. Here are the heroic 18 "yes" votes:
2010/05/25: Isthmus: You're welcome -- a Madison vet reflects on a belated welcome home at Lambeau
Submitted by Staff on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 5:25pm
Richard Chamberlain, a member of the Madison chapter of Veterans for Peace and author of a memoir, "Hitchhiking from Vietnam: Seeking the Ox," about trying to make sense of his life after Vietnam, attended LZ Lambeau last weekend with his wife, and offers his impressions of the somewhat controversial event in an Isthmus article.
Chamberlain found the event less militaristic than he expected.
WNPJ Blog: 'I want to live with my family'
Submitted by Staff on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 8:08am
Kathy Kelly and Josh Brollier of Voices for Creative Nonvolence, a WNPJ member group, report from Pakistan on the WNPJ Blog: Islamabad--Abir Mohammed, a refugee from Bajaur, says that the battles which raged in his home province since 2008 have dramatically changed his life.
Report from Pakistan: Drones and democracy
Submitted by Staff on Tue, 05/18/2010 - 9:28pm
Kathy Kelly and Josh Broillier of Voice for Creative Nonviolence, a WNPJ member group, report from Pakistan, where they have been for the past two weeks on another peace mission. Josh, left rear, and Kathy, centered, are pictured sharing a snack with friends.: Islamabad--On May 12th, the day after a U.S. drone strike killed 24 people in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, two men from the area agreed to tell us their perspective as eyewitnesses of previous drone strikes.
Mark Foreman of VFP on LZ Lambeau
Submitted by Staff on Sat, 05/15/2010 - 9:52pm
Mark Foreman of the Milwaukee chapter of Veterans for Peace says LZ Lambeau, billed as a welcome home tribute to Vietnsm vets, became "an advertisement for the military." The L-Z Lambeau event might have some valuable parts to it, he says, but the scheduled flyovers and display of military equipment he feels glorifies the military and is an affront to the veterans who are still struggling to come to terms with their role in the military action. See his interview on WDJT-TV.
WNPJ Blog: Pressured from all sides in Pakistan's Swat Valley
Submitted by Staff on Fri, 05/14/2010 - 4:45pm
WNPJ members Kathy Kelly and Joshua Brollier of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, and Simon Harak of Marquette's Center for Peacemaking, report from Pakistan's Swat Valley on the WNPJ Blog. They left for Pakistan on May 4.
LZ Lambeau: Welcome home or a glorification of war?
Submitted by Staff on Wed, 05/12/2010 - 12:22pm
LZ Lambeau, planned for May 21-23 at Lambeau field in Green Bay and billed as a "welcome home" for Wisconsin's Vietnam veterans, has now attracted criticism from veterans who are concerned that the event could be used by the military to glorify war and recruit youth into the military. The event, whose name plays on the Vietnam-era term for a Landing Zone where helicopter-borne troops were brought into battle, is sponsored by Wisconsin Public Television and state veterans agencies and organizations. But Veterans for Peace has gotten a cold shoulder from event organizers, who prohibited the group's Memorial Mile - a display of more than 5,000 tombstones representing U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan - from appearing at the event. VFP member Will Williams (left) says authorities
