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Idaho and the Salmon River

I can easily see why folks from Idaho are not impressed with Yosemite! Coming into Stanley I passed many meadows as high and lush as Tuolomne Meadows  and the Sawtooth Range is every bit as dramatic as the...

Yosemite and Sequoia, DU and Homeless Vets outreach

I’m at Mono Lake just now, having come down from three days at Tuolomne Meadows. I’m on my way to the Veterans For Peace convention in Portland, Maine to present a workshop on ending homelessness...

Success housing homeless vets

Recommended site: http://www.smmirror.com/#mode=single&view=18561 another story: latimes.com/ news/local/ la-me-homeless- vets-20100629, 0,754255. story   VA commits $20 million to convert West L.A....
Chapter 54 Depleted Uranium Project

Chapter 54 Depleted Uranium Project

Veterans Exposed to Depleted Uranium We are offering to help represent veterans who have been exposed to depleted uranium munitions, dust or radiation and are suffering from cancer or other side effects. We...
Memorializing For Change, Tom Scheff

Memorializing For Change, Tom Scheff

Professor Thomas J. Scheff is a member of Chapter 54 of Veterans For Peace and a key member of the DU Adjudication Project.  He regularly engages the public at the original Arlington West in Santa Barbara. ...

The End of War

The End of War What could bring an end to war as we know it? In Haiti the Cuban medical forces worked alongside U S military forces under the command of the United Nations.  Venezuelan assistance forces...

War, Affluenza and Gaia’s Response

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(mythology)    Hi friends,   It has always been my premise that war is a logical response to corporate consumer capitalism (CCC).  The American Way Of LIfe (AWOL), now...
LA Area VFP Connections

LA Area VFP Connections

While I’m here I am working with Long Beach VFP on ideas for us to work together as a region. We are considering something like Coffee Strong at Fort Lewis for San Diego area if all chapters would pitch...
VFP, Peace and Conventions

VFP, Peace and Conventions

We would have consensus,  I think, on the axiom that our wars in the middle east are due to our interest in the energy deposits there—primarily the light sweet petroleum of the Persian Gulf but to a lesser...
Transforming Militarism to Humanitarianism

Transforming Militarism to Humanitarianism

I got the idea of enjoying whats left from Ron Dexter’s film “On The Edge”. It was a remark of Ted Turner. Enjoying whats left while not being a part of the problem, indeed trying to be a...
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