STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:

We, having dutifully served our nation, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace. To this end we will work, with others

(a) To increase public awareness of the costs of war
(b) To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations
(c) To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons
(d) To seek justice for veterans and victims of war
(e) To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.

“The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst war in American history…. Our military men and women…were not called to defend America but rather to attack Iraq. They were not called to die for, but rather to kill for, their country. What more unpatriotic thing could we have asked of our sons and daughters…?” — William Sloane Coffin

Veterans For Peace - William Ladd Chapter
P.O. Box 927, Brunswick, ME 04011

Veterans For Peace - William Ladd Chapter is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolition of war.

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NEXT MEETING — May 31 at the McClellan Building, 85 Union Street, Brunswick ME , 7 pm. - Map

Minutes from March 29, 2012, USM Lewiston-Auburn — Here

Minutes from past meetings Here

A few photos from the retreat at Point Lookout from Peter Woodruff Here.

Maine VFP Chapter 1 loses a dear friend. Tom Sturtevant: In Memoriam.

Eulogy for Tom Sturtevant written by Doug Rawlings and delivered at Tom's Memorial Service on January 14, 2012 Here.

Maine VFP Chapter 1 and many friends in Monument Square, Portland on Veterans Day. A few photos Here.
New photos from Peter Woodruff Here.

Doug Rawlings is elected to VFP National Board of Directors — Here

A collection of media from the Blue Angels' protest on Saturday, August 27, 2011, at the Cooks Corner entrance of Brunswick Executive Airport (old BNAS) — Click Here

Global Network 19th Annual Space Organizing Conference — June 17-19, 2011, North Andover, Massachusetts — Click Here

New VFP commercial from Portland Channel 5 featuring members of Maine Chapter 1 — Click Here

Symposium on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Military Sexual Trauma, April 23, 2011 — Abromson Center, University of Southern Maine, Portland. — Details