International Uranium Film Festival

International Uranium Film Festival Comes to Asheville

March 23 & 24

Brought To Western North Carolina By 

Physicians for Social Responsibility

Sponsored by Veterans For Peace

Details Below 

 

Memorial Day Observance: Monday, May 29, 2023

We will gather at the Western North Carolina Veterans Memorial* on 

Monday, May 29, 2023 at 10:30AM to grieve ALL fellow humans around the 

world and through all time who have died because of war.

*74 College Street, Asheville

PEACE TALKS in WNC! - Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 7PM-9PM

PEACE TALKS in WNC! - Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 7PM-9PM

@ Land of the Sky United Church of Christ,

15 Overbrook Place, Asheville, NC

Veterans For Peace - Western North Carolina is excited to invite you to

the first of our quarterly symposiums intended to educate and promote

action associated with issues that impact our ability to achieve peace

in our world. There are so many such issues that it should be obvious that

not just “peace people” are invited, but all who yearn for the just peace

that underpins genuine peace and all those who want to know and do more.

Each symposium will focus on just one main topic of concern with video,

readings, discussion and action planning, but there will be more to each

symposium than that.

Our main topic for the first symposium is titled,

"The Monroe Doctrine, Revisited: How 200 Years of U.S. Policy Have Helped

to Destabilize the Americas.”

Beyond the focus of our main topic we intend to include time for broadening

and deepening our community’s lived commitment to achieving peace

through reporting on our actions, results, plans, and celebrating all that

makes our corner of the world a place that nurtures a peace that catches

on well beyond our beautiful mountains.

Throughout the rest of 2023 at each symposium we will be celebrating

ourselves, Veterans For Peace Chapter 099, in observance of

our 20th anniversary in existence… and we will do that with CAKE!

Please join us, bring anyone you want to enjoy a world at peace with,

and spread the word about this. Any questions, please let me know.

Any assistance you’d like to offer is appreciated.

Bruce Carruthers/Save Our VA Initiative Gets Radio Time.

The Veterans Administration healthcare system outperforms most hospitals in the private sector. Why then do privatization efforts of VA healthcare continue? Join our guest Bruce Carruthers as we try to separate fact from fiction. Bruce is a US Army veteran and serves on the steering committee of the Veterans For Peace National Save Our VA Project.

More interviews at abetterworldcommunity.com

Handout for WNC Veterans for Peace Chapter 099 vigil on February 21, 2023

Veterans Challenge Islamophobia
 

Veterans Challenge Islamophobia is a broad based call to all veterans to defend the values of religious freedom, equality and individual rights. These are the very same values embedded in our Constitution that many of us believed we were defending when serving in the military. The campaign is initiated and coordinated by Veterans For Peace.

A promise of diversity, openness, and compassion for people of all faiths are the fundamental values we risked our lives to serve. These values for which so many of our sisters and brothers rendered the ultimate sacrifice, must be the foundation of our nation's future. Fear-mongering in the form of politicized and weaponized rhetoric has been used to cultivate a culture of fear, hatred, and animosity, allowing for a state of violence and perpetual warfare to persist at home and abroad.

Our values, as a nation, cannot abide and will not long endure amidst the divisiveness of hate speech and Islamophobia. Therefore, we call upon all in the United States and around the world to let their voices be heard and to stand up for the values of tolerance, respect, and love for all people and all faiths.


To join Veterans for Peace, or to sign up for VFP e-News, go to: https://www.veteransforpeace.org
Western North Carolina Website: www.vfp099.org /  Facebook: Veterans for Peace
Western North Carolina Chapter 099                   Email: president@vfp099.org
Mailing address: VFP Chapter 099, PO Box 1024, Asheville NC 28802

Handout for WNC Veterans for Peace Chapter 099 vigil on February 14, 2023

 The Doomsday Clock is Still Ticking

 The Doomsday Clock that the atomic scientists came up with in the late 1940s and still use today provides us with a fascinating way to look at our world in 2023.

If the stroke of midnight represents the end of civilization as we know it, then the closer the minute hand creeps to that moment, the worse off we are.

What’s moving that mechanism?  Our propensity to assemble nuclear weapons and our willingness to use them.

We should immediately sign on to international treaties that ban the creation and testing of nuclear weapons; we should denounce first-use policies; we should take the decision to use nuclear weapons out of the hands of one individual; and we should divert our tax dollars from the military’s inflated treasury into domestic infrastructure projects.

To join Veterans for Peace, or to sign up for VFP e-News, go to: https://www.veteransforpeace.org
Western North Carolina Website: www.vfp099.org /  Facebook: Veterans for Peace
Western North Carolina Chapter 099                      Email: president@vfp099.org
Mailing address: VFP Chapter 099, PO Box 1024, Asheville NC 28802

Handout for WNC Veterans for Peace Chapter 099 vigil on February 7, 2023

 VFP Iraq Water Project

     Clean water is an essential for any nation pretending to care about its people. Iraq at one time was well along the road to providing this necessity, but a whirlwind of conflict sucking up Iraq, Iran and the United States swept all this progress away in a matter of a few years. Politics is murky, but the consequences upon people are not: life for most Iraqis went to hell. Safe drinkable water became a luxury, and the poor, the aged and infants suffered the worst.  These many years later precious few can even now count on something so simple as a safe cup of tap water.

     VFP's Iraq Water Project has supplied small water purification units, ultraviolet and reverse osmosis, to various public institutions throughout Iraq, primarily hospitals, clinics and schools. These devices, pricing out somewhere between $1000 and $1500, are affordable for us so long as contributions keep coming in. 

    All the same, Iraq is still a war zone---of our country's making, to a large degree. IWP can only look forward to the day when a more stable Iraq will once again provide for its own water needs without us.

To join Veterans for Peace, or to sign up for VFP e-News, go to: https://www.veteransforpeace.org
Western North Carolina Website: www.vfp099.org /  Facebook: Veterans for Peace
Western North Carolina Chapter 099        Email: president@vfp099.org
Mailing address: VFP Chapter 099, PO Box 1024, Asheville NC 28802