December 30, 2015 | News, Photos, Reports, Views
First Dispatch, 5 December 2015 Friends, you’re a diverse group. Some of you totally “get it”, as I so imperially insist I do. Others of you, for various reasons, aren’t obsessive about “it” as I, or maybe are little aware of what...
February 1, 2014 | Events, Reports, Videos, Views
Presentation on Inside Occupied Palestine in Brunswick by Tarak Kauff, Ellen Davidson and Yonatan Shapira Two Veterans For Peace activists and an activist former Israeli Air Force Blackhawk pilot describe, and illustrate with dramatic photos, the impossible situation...
September 1, 2009 | News, Reports, Views
By Seth Koenig, Times Record Staff Published: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 BRUNSWICK — The recent presence of an unmanned military aircraft at Brunswick Naval Air Station generated disapproval among local peace advocates, who decry any future testing of the “drones”...
November 11, 2006 | Armistice / Veterans Day, Photos, Views
First of all let me thank the city of Portland on behalf of Veterans For Peace for their City Council’s commitment to making this year’s Veterans Day ceremonies inclusive of all veterans, regardless of their political positions on the war in Iraq....
November 11, 2006 | Armistice / Veterans Day, Photos, Reports, Views
On October 8th, 1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued a proclamation changing Armistice Day to Veterans Day. Within that proclamation he stated “…let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not...
May 29, 2006 | Action, Events, Memorial Day, Photos, Views
Photos courtesy of Peggy Akers, Dud Hendrick and Carole Whelan Valor at My Lai On this Memorial Day, Maine Veterans for Peace commemorate the rare courage of a single individual acting from conscience, compassion and sense of humanity to save innocent civilian lives....