Chicago Veterans for Peace – Jane Addams / Joe Powers Chapter 26: Chicago

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The author is a vet. Article is about moral injury. ...
Beyond the Battlefield - TheHumanist.com
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Research in America is parsing the depths of psychological trauma, revealing invisible injuries beyond the traditional diagnosis of PTSD. This has important applications for healthcare workers caught up in the COVID-19 pandemic. Amid myriad tragic stories accompanying the COVID-19 outbreak, one that...
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CALL TO STAND DOWN

Veterans For Peace calls for the immediate withdrawal of the Minnesota National Guard. We are appalled to see military weapons, vehicles and equipment once again deployed in U.S. cities to control community members who are reacting to a long history of state-sanctioned violence. When an already embattled community is subjected to militarized intimidation, by design, their environment becomes a war zone. We call on all those who are serving with the National Guard to refuse to serve violent and racist interests.

TAKE ACTION

Please join Veterans For Peace in appealing to U.S. Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft to support the Secretary General’s call for a GLOBAL CEASEFIRE! sign up here

Soldiers of Peace sung by Steve Nelson

Watch Chicago Veterans for Peace’s own Steve Nelson perform “Soldiers of Peace”

Earth Day is 4/22.

Take a look. The Chapter has signed up to be a Partner. More Info

Stop Another War

War, climate crisis, and all other calamities have a common source. Read “Dark Money” by Jane Mayer for the details. Enlightening and depressing at the same time – but knowledge brings change.

“The 2020s Has To Be the Decade We Stop Climate Change—Not Start Another War” read the In These Times report