2007 Convention
HOT, HOT, HOT!
One
convention participant described this convention as hot, hot, hot! The
temperature was hot (100 degrees), the workshops were hot, the speakers were
hot, and IVAW was hot! Together with over 44 workshops and over 400
participants, that makes one amazing convention.
HIGHLIGHTS
Photos
Videos
News Media from Convention
Resolutions
passed
Awards
Presented
Independent Coverage [Bay Area activists join hundreds at St. Louis anti-war veterans march | Bay Area veterans join 400 more in St. Louis to plot end of war]
SEE
VIDEO OF IVAW'S ACTION - "War is not a game!"
Iraq Veterans Against the War confronted Army
recruiters at a St Louis expo.
Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) stood in mass company
formation and sounded off with "War is not a game" in front of an America's
Army game booth staffed with Army recruiters.
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See video on YouTube
MEDIA FROM THE CONVENTION
Former Enemies Find New Way Forward - Mike Ferner
Listen - Interview with Colonel Janis Karpinski and
Major General Barbara Fast - Belleville News
Democrat
Belleville East Grad Denies Approving Torture in Iraq - Belleville News
Democrat
Kucinich tells Veterans Group Bush is Jeopardizing
Troops by Provoking Iran - Earthtimes.org
Peace and Justice for Veterans Bring Peace and Justice
for all - OpEdNews.com
82 Year Old WWII Veteran Speaks about DU - International Action Center
Anti - War Veterans Protest at Black Expo - St.
Louis Post Dispatch
War Protest a Ho-Hum Event - St.
Louis Post Dispatch
Kucinich Draws Cheers from Veterans For Peace - St.
Louis Post Dispatch
Ann Wright and Sara Rich speak to the Lizz Brown show
about sexual assault in the military - WGNU Radio
*Listen to audio
The Art of War shown at VFP Convention - Fox
2 News
Colonel Janis Karpinski and Camilo Mejia speak to St.
Louis' Don Marsh - St. Louis on
the Air, NPR
*Listen to audio
Biking for Peace, Vets say it's Possible - The
Herald News, Joliet, IL
Combatants for Peace will Return - The Jewish Light, St.
Louis, MO
Former Soldier Takes Spiritual Side to VFP Convention - The
Pueblo Chieftain, Pueblo, CO
Interview with Dahlis Wasfi - By
VetNet at KDHX
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VETERANS WORKING TOGETHER FOR
PEACE AND JUSTICE THROUGH NON-VIOLENCE.
Veterans For Peace, 216 S. Meramec, St. Louis, MO 63105,
314-725-6005
www.veteransforpeace.org