VIRGINIA RESOURCES
The 757 chapter of Veterans For Peace, a network of military veterans working to affirm their greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace. To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace.
NATIONAL RESOURCES
A women-led grassroots organization fostering mutual aid and peace through direct action and community organizing. They coordinate anti-war initiatives, solidarity campaigns, and mutual aid networks while building power through nonviolent resistance, peace education, and creating spaces for collective action against militarism and for global justice.
A network of post-9/11 military members and veterans organizing to end a foreign policy of permanent war and the use of military weapons, tactics, and values in communities across the country. As people intimately familiar with the inner workings of the world’s largest military, they use their knowledge and experiences to expose the truth about these conflicts overseas and the growing militarization in the United States. (Formerly known as Iraq Veterans Against the War.)
The Center on Conscience & War is a non-profit organization that advocates and works to extend and defend the rights of conscientious objectors (COs), those who oppose their participation in war, including members of the US military who, following a crisis of conscience, seek discharge as conscientious objectors.
The GI Rights Hotline provides accurate, helpful counseling and information on military discharges, AWOL and UA, and GI Rights.
The National Lawyers Guild Military Law Task Force includes attorneys, legal workers, law students and “Barracks lawyers” interested in draft, military and veterans issues. It is a standing project of the National Lawyers Guild. MLTF assists those working on military law issues as well as military law counselors working directly with GIs. It trains and mentors counselors and beginning military law attorneys in all aspects of military law through training materials and direct communication. It tracks changes in military law and policy and publishes a quarterly practictioner’s journal On Watch.
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