Veterans For Peace - Chapter 10

BNP is planning a fundraiser for Bradley Manning, on November 10, 2010 and Veterans for Peace, Chapter 10 is co-sponsoring this event. More inside. . . . The Kateri Tekakwitha Peace Conference was a splendid success and a most enjoyable day. The Veterans Healing Circle is the 2 and 4th Sunday, 6 PM at the UU Church on Washington Ave in Albany. Our next VFP meeting is Monday, September 20, 2010. We will meet at the VA Hospital. Our meeting this month will be in Room 806 and not on the 4th floor, Ann Wilson Lounge. It will be at 7PM. More to come soon and more inside . . . .

We had so much fun last year we are doing it all again, the second annual Tom Paine Winter Soldier Peace and Justice Awards Dinner on Thursday, October 14, 2010 at Evans Public House. . . . more inside

"War is A Bad Bet" and "Minnesotans join New York Protesters at Demonstration in Saratoga Springs" are two short articles about the VFP Action at Saratoga Race Course on opening Day. Thank you Kim Doss-Smith, Coleen Rowley, Jack Rossbach and other Minnesotans who were part of this action. Our spirits soared regardless of the rain. See WAMM's story and picture at http://www.worldwidewamm.org/home.html

The Sacred Peace Walk has been published in the Times Union. Message is simple: NO Nukes may be found at: Message is simple: No nukes -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=929117... - Cached A letter explanation and clarification to the Sheriff of Nye Country and our readers has been posted concerning the "A Grand Old Flag and the Sheriff of Nye County. My apologies for any misunderstanding this article may had inadvertently created. "Air Force paranoia spreading, first Creech now Hancock", a response to Creech Security is now posted. Waging Peace has an excellent new post by Linda Letendre at the Daily Gazette.

Nancy Gwin: A champion of peace and justice. To affirm Nancy and all of the prisoners of conscience, please call your representative at ask that they co-sponsor HR 2567 - Latin America Military Training Review act , a resolution which will help close the U.S. Army SOA/WHINSEC. It is time to end the reign of terror conducted by the School of Americas/Western Hemisphere Institute For Security Cooperation at Ft. Benning, Georgia. For more information please go to www.soaw.org. More inside . . . .

Is Hamas a terrorist organization or the rightful resistance to a brutal occupation? It is a question that the U.S government and the American media seriously need to reconsider if peace is to be negotiated in the Middle East. Written in 2008 after meeting with Hamas officials in Damascus,Syria, I wrote this article to provide some beginning insight into Hamas for those who are interested.

National Peace Conference, July 23-25, 2010, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albany, NY. The purpose of this conference is to bring together antiwar and social justice activists from across the country to discuss and decide what we can do together to end the wars, occupations, bombing attacks, threats and interventions that are taking place in the Middle East and beyond, which the U.S. government is conducting and promoting.

Inside are two articles, Protection or intimidation? and Ehud Olmert Comes to Union College. Both articles concern Ehud Olmert's visit to Union College. more inside

The Good Soldier movie and panel discussion at Proctors was a wonderful evening and powerful learning experience for all of us. Thanks to everyone who worked to make this happen and who attended the event. More inside. . . "War trauma lingers on for many" and may be read at: http://www.timesunion.com/ASPStories/Story.asp?StoryID=862454&LinkFrom=RSS See Linda LeTendres post,"A gift to all veterans for Veteran's Day" at http://www.dailygazette.com/weblogs/letendre/2009/nov/03/gift-all-vetera...