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Veterans Day: How is the War Economy Working for YOU?
We at Veterans Today strive to help those grassroots organizations that know how to connect the dots between America at War and the meltdown of the U.S. Economy do a better job. It is very timely that VT posted several aspects of this in War and Slaughter as Economic Stimulus
Veterans for Peace (VFP) has lauched a public education campaign in time for Veterans Day to remind American voters of the links between the costs of war and meltdown of the U.S. Economy.
“How Is The War Economy Working For You?” is a national campaign organized by Veterans For Peace. VFP will be asking Americans to ask themselves and their friends how the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and the expanding war in Pakistan are affecting our economy at home.
Posted on behalf of VFP by Robert L. Hanafin, Major, U.S. Air Force-Ret, GS-14, U.S. Civil Service-Retired, Veterans Issues Editor, Veterans Today News Network
“How is the War Economy Working For You?” is now an official VFP project!! Learn more to http://www.wareconomy.org/
VFP’s primary goals are to connect the cost of the ongoing US wars with the collapsing US economy and to present VFP membership and other peace organizations with a powerful and vital campaign to end the Middle East Wars. We will accomplish these objectives by providing both the inspiration and the needed resources to run an effective grassroots campaign along with recruiting new membership to strengthen and revitalize VFP.
The most important thing is to do something!
And there are many ways to be involved. The VFP campaign started with an idea, a question, and banner drop in Detroit on a cannibalized high rise building. After several banner hangings around the country, VFP arrived in Washington. DC at the One Nation Rally on October 2. It was here VFP and their national campaign took flight in the form of the VFP Peace Blimp and as part of the War is the Obscenity Banner Drop. VFP has also developed a new website, www.wareconomy.org to keep current with the campaign and actions developed by VFP members and Chapters across the country.
WAYS TO GET INVOLVED
- Write a letter to your Congressional representative
- Mail a post card to President Obama
- Call the White House
- Put a sign in your yard
- Buy or make a banner to display in your community
- Stick bumperstickers all over an abandoned school
- Hand out buttons at the local library
- Write a Letter to the Editor telling them the war economy is not working for you
- Add a video to YouTube
- Hold a leafleting action in front of City Hall, woman’s building, or library
- Print your own labels with “How is the War Economy Working for You?
- Ask your Representative to become a co-sponsor for HR 6045 – Responsible End to the War in Afghanistan Act, HR 5015 – To require a plan for the safe, orderly, and expeditious redeployment of United States Armed Forces from Afghanistan. and HR 5353 – The War is Making You Poor Act.
- Drop a banner
In final analysis, this is a grass roots campaign with many of the tools and resources already in place and more to be developed by anyone of us. The VFP Peace Blimp is available for Chapter use.
Don’t forget the Cost of War brochures which can be downloaded and handed out any time and to carry VFP brochures. Recruiting new members is an important part of this campaign. And please let us know what you are doing and send pictures too. All of our work is important!
Go to www.wareconomy.org for more info.
RECENTLY FROM “HOW IS THE WAR ECONOMY WORKING FOR YOU?” PROJECT:
> Read more about the project’s influence at the Thomas Merton dinner!
Veterans For Peace, 216 S. Meramec, St. Louis, MO 63105, 314-725-6005
www.veteransforpeace.org
Veterans For Peace encourage you to join our ranks.
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Posted by Robert L. Hanafin on Nov 9 2010, With 0 Reads, Filed under Economy, Peace. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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Seems like I am always thanking you Robert and Michael Leon for the timely and sound information put on VT web pages. Thanks
Thank you Archie for taking time to read and digest especially my articles that can get kind of long winded.
My writing style and habit would be much shorter if I simply took something someone else has done a half decent job writing, post it on VT with a link and presto DONE.
However, as a writer and analyst I have a preference for repeating what someone has said, if I agree with them or not, and commenting on where I agree and disagree and why.
In fact, right now I’m working with a group of college professors who just happen to be Vietnam Vets, shared similar experiences with me when we went to college during or after Vietnam. Most of these folks I interact with hold a polar opposite from me on the current wars (a few are Republicans even if they don’t admit it – it takes one to know one, and I was a conservative a lot longer than I’ve been a born again liberal).
They asked me to review two books they’ve written and propose as textbooks to educate college and university admin, professors, staff, and non-Veteran students on the many problems young Vets face who decide a military career is not for them (though they may have done a few tours in Iraq and Afghanistan) and go to or return to college.
Point: There are beliefs in their books that I strongly disagree with – the primary being that folks cannot separate support for the troops from support for the political decisions that sent them in harms way (support for the wars). Their text starts off rather biased toward conservative or right-wing Vets who neither question or opposed the wars feeling uncomfortable around other students and professors who hold opposite political views. They want legal protections and sanctions against faculty, staff, and fellow students who question or are against the wars.
These are turns off that I could simply shake my head, blow them off as right-wing nuts and move on to focus again on ending the wars. However, the approach I’m taking is to be as respectful as I can to counter views (not only in this case but many related to the wars) and try to meet these folks half way by explaining why I believe they are WRONG about certain premises mostly because they overestimate the degree to which Americans support the wars. Their premise leads to the misconception that most Americans support the wars and thus support our troops, when reality is that most Americans do not support the wars and are RELUCTANT to blame our troops.
Bobby Hanafin
Get over the Jews, if it was not for them, you would still be wiping your arse with a corn cob. We have the highest standard of living in the history of the world, we stay warm, cool, and safe and Americans of the Jewish faith had as much input as anyone.
david
without german culture, jews would be herding goats
American Veteran,
We have an unofficial policy here at Veterans Today among the editors and writing staff that is based on a few facts that most readers most likely misunderstand unless they get to know us (even those who disagree with us).
1. Except for a very small paid staff, everyone on the editorial board and writing staff is a volunteer. The collective we do not get paid to do this but make and take the time and effort to make Veterans Today what it is well TODAY. None of us really has all the time in the world to read, digest, agree with or disagree with what the other 50 plus writers are up to.
2. We tend to be have a narrow focus on that which we can handle, so we do not bite off more than we can chew. Example: Mike Leon and myself usually maintain focus on Veterans Issues or related issues, and our primary focus in the foreign policy realm is on ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (nothing more nothing less). Though Mike and I may share similar opinions on the role played by Israel (and the Israeli lobby that has an undue influence over our government. We are not as focused as Gordon Duff and other writers on our staff and board that place all focus on the politics of the Middle East and SW Asia. That does not mean than Mike and I know nothing about those regions. Hell, I’m a former military intelligence officer, so take my work for it I know how to keep up to speed on happenings in those regions – I’m just not an expert nor want to be.
3. You say that your posts have been deleted from Senior Editor Duff’s article(s), but ones like this below (that criticize Israel and Zionist) get left up.
American Veteran,
Simply put Gordon decides which comments stay on his articles as does every other writer on VT who follows up on what folks have to say about OUR OPINIONS.
I frankly can disapprove or remove your focus on being Pro-Israeli or Anti-Israeli (I’m not sure which it is) simply for being OFF TOPIC.
My thread is about How is the War Economy Working for YOU?
May I ask American Veteran how exactly what you’ve said has anything to do with connecting the dots between the U.S. deficit and the War Economy? Do you believe there is no War Economy? Do you believe there is one and you benefit from it? If so, how do you fiscally benefit from the wars?
Does Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait or any of the other nations allied to US fiscally benefit from the wars?
How do you suggest we pay for the wars in such a way to bring down the national deficit and pay off our war debts to China and other international competitors?
Do we raise war taxes? Where is the money going to come from to raise war taxes? Well, they could be offset a little by repealing the Bush tax cuts for those who fiscally benefit most from the wars without commitment in blood or money to them – the American elite.
Bobby Hanafin
BTW, I’m not removing your comment, because it has created too much exchange. I’m only trying to get the discussion focused back on the fiscal cost of wars, because I’m a fiscal conservative before I’m a liberal or even an anti-Zionist.