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Kennebunkport, ME Protest
August 25, 2007
Veterans For Peace Convention, St. Louis
August 16-19, 2007
"March to the Arch!"
MassVFP holding Smedley banner under the Arch
2005 Gloucester Massachusetts Horribles Parade - Chapter 45 - Samantha Smith,
Chapter 9 - Smedley Butler Brigade and the North Shore Coalition for Peace and Justice
2005 Rockport Firemen's Parade
Veterans For Peace Massachusetts Chapters
Chapter 9 - Smedley D. Butler Brigade - Greater Boston, Concord - Email: info@massvfp.org
Chapter 41 - Cape Cod Chapter, Wellfleet -Email: veterans4peace@comcast.net
Chapter 45 - North Shore Samantha Smith Chapter, Ipswich - Email: vfpch45@yahoo.com
Chapter 95 - Wally Nelson Chapter - Western Mass. - Shelburne Falls
Veterans For Peace, Inc. is a national 501(c)(3) educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war.
Veterans For Peace has four chapters in Massachusetts. The North Shore Samantha Smith Chapter is Chapter 45. The Smedley D. Butler Brigade forms Chapter 9 of the Boston area. Cape Cod Chapter 41 and Western Mass Wally Nelson Chapter 95 are formed by members in those areas. You are able to designate a chapter when you sign up at National for membership in the organization. Chapters are able to have fundraisers, public events and dues, although none are refused entrance or prohibited from membership for lack of funds.
We welcome you to join and participate.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
We, having dutifully served our nation, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace.
To this end we will work, with others,
(a) Toward increasing public awareness of the costs of war
(b) To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations
(c) To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons
(d) To seek justice for veterans and victims of war
(e) To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.
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.
We urge all people who share this vision to join us.
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