Veterans For Peace celebrates 30 years of waging peace in 2015. This slideshow was presented at the 2015 National Convention in San Diego, CA. https://youtu.be/k_rfiHcbVDo Veterans For Peace Published on Aug 24, 2015 Media for the people! Click here to help Rise Up Times continue to bring you essential news you won’t find in the More
The US Peace Memorial Foundation has awarded its 2015 Peace Prize to The Honorable Kathy F. Kelly for inspiring nonviolence and risking her own life and freedom for peace and the victims of war.
Kelly: What are the true costs to society of fossil fuels? According to a recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) study, fossil fuel companies are benefiting from global subsidies of $5.3tn (£3.4tn) a year, $10 million per minute, every minute, each and every day. The Guardian reports that the $5.3tn subsidy estimated for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments.
A commemoration of the War in Vietnam begins this year to thank and honor veterans. While it is right to remember those who were asked to sacrifice, it is wrong to use it as cover to lie us into further wars.
[youtube=http://youtu.be/8avSGnZlnaY] Rise Up Times dedicates this song to Veterans for Peace, Chapter 27, Minneapolis, Minnesota Published on Jan 10, 2013 Sarah Jarosz's acoustic performance of "Ring Them Bells" for Vanguard and Sugar Hill Record's The Americana Sessions recorded and taped at Minutia Studios in Nashville, TN. Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! More
Military recruiting is at the root of this university, and is the root of its relationship to the military. The same act that allowed the U of M[innesota] to establish itself as a so-called “land-grant university,” the 1862 Morrill Act, also laid the groundwork for what was to later become the Reserve Officer Training Corps More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/GY0nIvK2Eks] Posted on the Veterans for Peace, Chapter 27 (Minnesota) Update, 10/1/2014 Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Rise Up Times is also on Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr. Find us on Twitter at Rise Up Times (@touchpeace).
[youtube=http://youtu.be/A7kpzT8Sr5E]At the Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Peace Bridge with Veterans for Peace, Chapter 27 Bell RingingWalking Across the bridge with flags unfurledColeen at the bridge with peace signs on the anniversary of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact
“We are not worth more. They are not worth less.” —S. Brian Willson By Cindy Sheehan July 3, 2014 Aw…the 4th of July! Picnics, cookouts, hotdogs, watermelon, barefoot American children burning their feet on discarded sparkler wires, three-day weekend, FIREWORKS! Did I miss anything? Oh, yeah! Today we are allegedly celebrating our Declaration of Independence from an More
“We are not worth more. They are not worth less.” —S. Brian Willson By Cindy Sheehan July 3, 2014 Aw…the 4th of July! Picnics, cookouts, hotdogs, watermelon, barefoot American children burning their feet on discarded sparkler wires, three-day weekend, FIREWORKS! Did I miss anything? Oh, yeah! Today we are allegedly celebrating our Declaration of Independence from an More
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