Veterans For Peace May Be First Anti-War Group to Demand a New 9/11 Investigation
Anti-war groups have long been regarded as deliberate gatekeepers to the 9/11 Truth (and anti-war) movement. But in 2009 VFP membership mushroomed with savvy new members who realized it wasn't enough to protest the war if you didn't protest the government lie that allowed it to happen. And most VFP members know the "Tonkin Resolution" was a deliberate lie – aka: "False Flag".
By 2008, an international team of scientists had published volumes of conclusive evidence for “explosive demolition” of the Twin Towers and WTC-7. This hard evidence and admissions by the 9/11 commission that they were "set up to fail" moved VFP members and leadership to pass a resolution to press for a new 9/11 investigation during their 2009 annual meeting.
THE RESOLUTION:
Resolution Source:
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Convention_resolutions_2009.vp.html
VFP Overview from their website:
Veterans For Peace (VFP) is a national organization of anti-war veterans and supporters founded in 1985. VFP maintains a role as an official Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) represented at the United Nations.
The organization includes men and women veterans of all eras and duty stations spanning the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), World War II, the Korean, Vietnam, Gulf and current Iraq wars as well as other conflicts. Our collective experience tells us wars are easy to start and hard to stop and that those hurt are often the innocent. Thus, other means of problem solving are necessary.
Veterans draw on our personal experiences to raise public awareness of the true costs and consequences of militarism and war - and to seek peaceful, effective alternatives.
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Way to go, VFP!
Thanks for posting this.
Add another anti-war group: enduswars.org
Scroll down to section, “WAR PROPAGANDA: To understand how to end wars, we must understand how they are started.”
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It is simply an honor to unite with those who understand sacrifice and love of country to risk one's life, while not losing sight pf their oaths to defend and uphold principles of the US Constitution. Perhaps with this Resolution more of those protesting illegal wars will join us in exposing the lies that led to recent wars abroad, and loss of freedom and health at home.
This following essay, Space for Peace and September 11 shares why Flyby News switched from its main focus in stopping the escalation of the arms race, to exposing the depths of betrayal in the events of September 11, 2001 and aftermath.
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US and european peace movement is demanding 9/11 truth
the often repeated argument that the peace movement rejects to demand a new 9/11 investigation is a myth
the following declaration - war-is-illegal.org - is online since the end of 2007 - now in 14 languages
but it seems like most 9/11 groups never really want to post it - or mention it
http://www.war-is-illegal.org
the main demands are:
1) Prosecution by the International Court of Justice of G. W. Bush, R. Cheney and other officials from various countries
for waging wars of aggression contrary to international law and committing crimes against humanity.
2) International investigation of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. They are used as the central justification
for the "War on Terror", but well documented evidence shows that the official explanation of 9/11 cannot be correct.
International personalities in science, politics, and culture, including high-ranking military veterans,
have called for a new investigation.
3) Immediate military withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq, and no attack against Iran.
International prohibition of war as a means of conflict resolution. Military intervention and export of weapons should be criminalized.
In a civilized society torture must be prohibited in any form.
4) Conversion of military industries to civilian purposes and the development of ecological and sustainable energy resources.
According to the UN environmental agency, a fraction of the annual global defence expenditure could ensure that all humans
have access to clean water and a basic supply of food and healthcare.
more than 3500 signatories from around the world - among them many within the US-peace movement
numerous german and international politicians
Cynthia McKinney US Presidential Candidate, Green Party 08 USA runcynthiarun.org
Elizabeth Kucinich Wife of Congressman Dennis Kucinich - Ohio, USA Kucinich.us
Janice Matthews Mother, 9/11 Activist - Kansas, USA www.911truth.org
Barrie Zwicker Author, "Towers of Deception" - Toronto, Canada web
Cindy Sheehan American Peace Worker - California, USA cindysheehanssoapbox.blog
Peter Dale Scott author, former diplomat and English Professor - USA website
Garlic & Grass Tony Brasunas, Publisher-San Francisco/USA www.garlicandgrass.org
Rock Creek Free Press editor M. Sullivan - Wash. DC USA- RockCreekFreePress.com
Harold Saive Gainesville, Florida www.gators911truth.org
Jason King Graphic Designer - Boston, USA www.boston911truth.org
Michael Wolsey 9-11 activist - Greeley Colorado, USA www.visibility911.com
Mia Hamel 9/11 activist - Tampa, FL USA www.tampa911truth.org
Lou Stolzenberg Coordinator, Religious Leaders for 9/11 Truth - USA www.rl911truth.org
Elizabeth Woodworth Coordinator, Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth pl911truth.com
David Swanson Co-founder Impeachment Coalition USA www.afterdowningstreet.org
CODEPINK Women for Peace co-founder Gael Murphy USA www.codepinkalert.org
Green Party of Washington State Maryrose Asher, Chair USA www.wagreens.us
Jonah House Community/Nonviolence/Resistance Baltimore, USA jonahhouse.org
Fr. Daniel Berrigan , S.J. peace activist, priest, poet - New York City, USA website
Desert Greens Green Party of Utah The Peace Party UT USA www.desertgreens.org
Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry - NM USA www.foodnotbombs.net
Americans Against the War France www.aawfrance.org
Nebraskans for Peace Statewide peace & justice organization-Lincoln - NE USA web
William Blum Author - Washington, DC, USA www.killinghope.org
Joe Kincheloe Professor (McGill University) - Montreal/Canada Freire Project website
Grassrootsamerica4us Founder Tina Richards - USA grassrootsamerica4us.org
Autonomedia Jim Fleming, Editor & Publisher -New York, USA www.autonomedia.org
Prof. George Katsiaficas Peace Island Foundation - Gwangju, Korea eroseffect.com
Green Party of Delaware David A. McCorquodale, Treasure - USA www.gpde.us
Coalition to Reaffirm & Extend the Geneva Conventions Eugene, OR/USA website
ADDICTED To WAR Frank Dorrel, publisher - California, USA www.AddictedtoWar.com
Magid Shihade Professor - Oakland, California, USA www.resistancestudies.org
Women Against Military Madness Polly Mann - MN, USA www.worldwidewamm.org
Terry Buckenmeyer Solidarity/Peace - St.Augustine/USA www.solidarityandpeace.org
DareToDreamNetwork Barbara & Dan Williams- USA daretodreamnetwork.net
Peace NO War Network Lee Siu Hin - Los Angeles, CA/USA PeaceNOWar.net
Consumers for Peace Peekskill, New York/USA www.consumersforpeace.org
Derrick Jensen Autor - Crescent City, CA/USA www.derrickjensen.org
Charleston Peace Anna Shockley - Charleston, SC, USA www.charlestonpeace.net
Think Again Artist/Activist collaborative - Los Angeles/Boston/USA www.agitart.org
Brian Willson USAF VN Vet, Veterans For Peace - CA/USA brianwillson.com
Joel S. Hirschhorn Activist Writer - Maryland, USA www.delusionaldemocracy.com
Christina Kraich-Rogers Reelect Kucinich Campaign, Ohio, USA www.kucinich.us
Vermont Town Petition to arrest Bush/Cheney Kurt Daims, Brattleboro, VT/USA
Environmentalists Against War Gar Smith, co-founder - SF, CA/USA website
Middle East Children\'s Alliance Barbara Lubin - Berkeley,CA/USA mecaforpeace.org
Felicity Figueroa educator, activist, OCEC, Advocates for Peace & Justice - Irvine, CA/USA
Martha's Vineyard Peace Council Tisbury MA/USA
David Agnew educator - Cape Cod/USA www.capecodpeaceandjustice.org
Maryland United for Peace & Justice Annual Peace Conference - USA www.mupj.org
Portland Radio Authority Alternative Radio - Portland, OR/USA www.praradio.org
Fr. Bernard Survil Pax Christi Greensburg - Pennsylvania/USA
Hartford Catholic Worker Community Christopher J. Doucot -Hartford CT/USA
MJ Muser Human Rights Activist -Cleveland Ohio,USA ohioworldcantwait.blogspot
Mike Ludwig Chapter 39, Veterans For Peace - Cleveland, Ohio/USA
Malachy Kilbride President Board of Directors, USA www.washingtonpeacecenter.net
Lauren Bernofsky composer - Indiana, USA www.laurenbernofsky.com
People for Peace and Justice of Utah grassroots movement - UT/USA utahpeace.org
Alice Slater Nuclear Wage Peace Foundation -NYC, NY/USA www.wagingpeace.org
Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace A. H. Matlin, M.D., Cofounder, USA gvcp.org
Lynn Meadows Green Party, Interfaith Council for Peace. - Chelsea, MI, USA
Bruce K. Gagnon Coordinator Global Network - Bath, ME USA www.space4peace.org
Friendship and Peace Society President Ellen Rosser -USA friendship-and-peace.org
Christian Tutschka Boston, Mass. USA www.impeachment-sunday.org
Marie Kullman Coordinator Buffalo War Resisters League - Buffalo, NY, USA
Bob & Adele DellaValle-Rauth Missionaries to Haiti, Coord. Pax Christi Virginia - USA
Nancy O’Byrne Coordinator, Pax Christi Northeast Florida - St. Augustine, USA
Rosemarie Pace Director Pax Christi Metro New York - New York, NY, USA
Joseph A. Volker Pax Christi LBIC - Point Lookout NY, USA
John Downing Pax Christi Pentagon Area -Arlington, VA, USA Paxchristimetrodc.org
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility Chair R. Larson -USA oregonpsr.org
P.R.E.S.S. Resident Petition f. Environmental Safety & Security Ohio -USA nnwj.com
Reza Shirazi Radio Producer - Fairfax, VA, USA www.fcac.org
Patricia Constantino Pax Christi Metro New York - New York, NY, USA
Peter Thottam Peace/Global Activist, Attorney - LA, CA USA peterthottam.com
Kathryn Kuppers North Carolina GREEN PARTY treasurer - Midland, NC USA
Gloria Tatum member Georgia Peace & Justice Coalition.- USA www.georgiapeace.org
1% a Peace Army Grass Roots Peace Army - MA, USA onepercentapeacearmy
Merrimack Valley People for Peace Lou Bernieri - Merrimack, NH, USA website
We the People Network Director Paul Fisher - VI, USA WeThePeopleNow.org
RANT collective movement trainers collective - Austin, TX, USA rantcollective.net
S. Wolf Britain Human and Civil Rights Advocacy - USA www.wolfbritain.com
Paul J. Landis Tuckahoe/NY/USA www.wethepeoplewethemedia.com
Wilbur Ince Founder - Anti-War Salon - Minneapolis, MN USA antiwarsalon.us
PeaceMajority Report Bill Scheurer, Editor - USA www.PeaceMajority.org
Harold Taggart Activist, Chicago Mayday Coalition - Skokie, Il. USA website
Janice Beier Northwest Indiana Chapter of Code Pink - Merrillville, IN, USA
Sheila Ryan Counselor - Women in Black - Phoenix - Phoenix , AZ, USA
Kathleen Pequeno Portland, OR, USA www.nov30.org
Steven Argue Editor Liberation News, Cool Earth Party - CA, USA
Global Art Project for Peace Katherine Josten - Tucson, USA www.globalartproject.org
Buffalo Mountain Food Cooperative Hardwick, VT USA buffalomountaincoop.org
Grandmothers Against the War Joan Wile, Founder, New York City, USA website
Iowa Peace Network Nonviolent Direct Action - USA www.iowapeacenetwork.org
Sonda Gabriel People for Peace and Justice - St. Augustine, FL, USA
Mato Atom Director - New York, USA www.matoatom.net/champions
Mike Maggio Poet, Writer and Activist - USA www.mikemaggio.net
Arla Larson People for Peace and Justice - St. Augustine, Florida, USA
Deanna Taylor co-founder, Green Party Peace Network (GPPN) - Utah, USA website
Michael Andregg University professor - St. Paul, Minnesota, USA www.gzmn.org
Bob Meola War Resisters League - Berkeley, CA, USA
Todd Boyle antiwar all the time - Kirkland, WA, USA www.rosehill.net
CAMS Coalition Against Militarism in our Schools - LA, USA militaryfreeschools.org
Northeast Impeachment Coalition Susan Paine Serpa - MA, USA neimpeach.org
Barbara Wickham Guilderland Neighbors For Peace - Guilderland, NY, USA website
Rev. Dr. Kelley Elkins Vietnam veteran - Dona Ana, New Mexico, USA anextstep.org
Peace Network of the Ozarks Springfield, Missouri, USA www.ozarkpeace.net
Sean Gibbons Board Secretary, Jeannette Rankin Peace Center - MT USA jrpc.org
Ellen Thomas Proposition One Committee - Washington, DC, USA website
John LaForge co-director Nukewatch - Wisconsin, USA www.nukewatch.com
Lewis D. Wheeler Film producer, actor - Boston, MA www.LeadingToWar.com
The Welfare Poets Musicians - Harlem, New York USA www.welfarepoets.com
Kathleen Desautels, SP 8th Day Center for Justice - Chicago, IL USA 8thdaycenter.org
Ellen Thomas Director, Proposition One Committee - Washington, DC, USA prop1.org
Mary Madsen Collateral Repair Project co-director - OR, USA collateralrepairproject.org
Elisabeth Leonard Peace and Justice Orgainzer - Philadelphia, PA, USA www.wilpf.org
Tatiana Guerrero Young Democratic Socialists - NJ, USA
Stephen Fournier Attorney, Co-chair, Green Party of Connecticut - USA www.stepfour.com
Frank Cordaro Catholic Worker - Iowa USA DesMoinesCatholicWorker.org
Christian Stalberg Organizer Blackwater Watch - North Carolina, USA blackwaterwatch.net
Paul Troyano Pax Christi New Orleans - Louisiana, USA paxchristino.org
Max Obuszewski Baltimore Nonviolence Center - Baltimore, MD USA website
Luci Murphy Gray Panthers of Metropolitan Washington - DC USA
Pete Perry Board member of the Washington Peace Center - Washington, DC USA
Raymond Graap Co-Chair, Democracy for America - Tucson, Arizona, USA website
Dick Kaiser Co-Chair, Democracy for America - Tucson, Arizona, USA website
Dr. Michael D. Knox Chair, US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc. - Tampa FL USA uspeacememorial.org
National Priorities Project Resource for Peace - Portland, OR USA PeaceResource.org
Mary Nichols-Rhodes Progressive Democrats of America - USA www.pdamerica.org
Fred M. Mendiola PDC Steer Committee - Kent, OH USA portagedemocraticcoalition.org
Stacey Fritz Coordinator, No Nukes North - Fairbanks, Alaska USA nonukesnorth.net
Chris Lugo Nashville Peace Coalition - TN USA tnimc.blogspot.com
Barbara Lubin ex. Director Middle East Children\'s Alli - Berkeley CA USA mecaforpeace.org
Jeff Nall writer, organizer, Humanists for Peace, W. Palm Beach, FL USA HumanistsforPeace.com
Mike Caggiano President, San Mateo Peace Action - CA USA www.sanmateopeaceaction.org
Prof. William Ayers University of Illinois at Chicago - USA www.billayers.org
Michael Carano Progressive Democrats of America, Ohio PDA State Co-Coordinator - USA
Jeanie Keltner Professor emeritus, editor of Because People Matter - CA USA bpmnews.org
Nada Khader Executive Director WESPAC Foundation - NY USA www.wespac.org
Father Benjamin J. Urmston, S.J., PhD Peace & Justice Programs, Xavier Univ. - Ohio web
Rev. Dr. Richard Curtis Philosopher, Theologian - Seattle, WA, USA www.RichardCurtisPhD.com
Munich American Peace Committee Marie Voss - Munich, Germany www.mapc-web.de
Terry Howcott Proponent for acknowledgment of the African Holocaust - USA terryhowcott.com
Rev. Bookburn Radio Volta - Philadelphia PA USA reverendbookburn.com
Global Coalition for Peace Bethesda MD, USA www.globalcoalitionforpeace.net
THE SPARROW SINGS Don Timmerman & Roberta Thurstin - Park Falls WI USA web
Third Paradigm Radio Thinktank Tereza Coraggio - Santa Cruz, California USA thirdparadigm.org
Bob Ficalora RDP/Democratic-Republican Party™ - Washington State, USA republicandemocracy.us
Chris Lugo Nashville Peace Coalition - TN USA www.nashvillepeacecoalition.com
Jeannette Rankin Peace Center Missoula, MT, USA www.jrpc.org
Alexander Hast Pastor / Musician / Journalist - Los Angeles, CA USA chocr.com
Prof. Amy Sabatini Hannon Department of Philosophy, (CUNY) City University of New York - USA
see the whole declaration
http://www.war-is-illegal.org
here it seems to be a wide coalition between 9/11 and the peace movement
http://www.enduswars.org/signatures/
I'm on it
I have just posted it:
http://www.theprogressivemind.info/?p=32243
Thanks very much for posting
Thanks very much for posting this; but when you say: ' it seems like most 9/11 groups never really want to post it - or mention it,' I have to recapitulate what Barrie Zwicker noted following the conference in Boston in January, namely that it is antiwar groups (or more specifically, their leaders) who have ostracized and marginalized the cuase of 9/11 truth, not the other way around.
The very fact that this statement includes a strong position regarding 9/11 would likewise be sufficient for its signatories to find themselves marginalized by those same antiwar groups, regardless of their antiwar credentials (yes, even Cindy Sheehan). That there has been and continues to be an aversion within much of the peace movement towards questioning the 9/11 official story and recognizing the importance of this issue to the cause of peace is no 'myth.'
On a more positive note, I find it especially good to see Fr. Daniel Berrigan, author William Blum, and a co-founder of Code Pink among the signatories. Their presence on this list could help to counter the negativitivy towards 9/11 truth among many antiwar activists and politicial leftists, as was most recently demonstrated at the conference in Boston.