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The
Defenders provide this Web page as a courtesy to the Virginia Anti-War Network.
The Virginia
Anti-War Network (VAWN)
... is a statewide alliance of 22
anti-war, community and labor organizations, plus many individual activists. Founded on Jan. 8, 2005, VAWN is dedicated
to supporting the right of all oppressed peoples to self-determination, as well as uniting the movement against U.S. wars and interventions with the struggles for
justice here at home.
If you agree with our Principles of Unity
(The Green Sheet) and would like to work to make them a reality, we invite
you to join us. Together, we can make this a better world for all its peoples.
MARCH
19, 2009
Anti-War
Demonstrations at VEC and Federal Reserve Bank -
4:30
pm - Virginia Employment Commission, 7th & E. Main Streets
5:30 pm - Kanawha Plaza in the shadow of the Federal Reserve Bank
building, plaza at 8th and Byrd Streets. Co-sponsored by Richmond Peace Education Center, RVA4Peace, Pax
Christi, Left Liberterian Alliance, Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality and the Virginia People's Assembly.
MARCH 20, 2009
Blacksburg
VA - Anti-Iraq War Protest - Friday, March 20, 2009 at
5:00 pm - Drillfield, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA - For more information contact marbarbou@aol.com.
MARCH 21, 2009
Plowshare
Silent Peace Vigil - Saturday, March 21, from noon to
1 PM in front of the City Market building, Campbell and Market in Roanoke. All are welcome. Plowshare is broadening the
concern of the vigil to include not only the Iraq War but the Afghanistan and Gaza Wars. Participants in the vigil are encouraged,
if they bring signs, that the signs ask all sides in these wars to cease the violence. As this is the sixth anniversary of
the Iraq war, we will have signs listing the names of American and Iraqi dead available for people to hold, too.
Lexington VA - 6th Anniversary
Vigil
On Saturday, March 21, 2009 from 1-2:00 pm, there will be a vigil
recognizing the 6th anniversary
of the war on Iraq. It will be held at the old county courthouse on Main St.in Lexington. Respectful signs are welcome. We
will be reading the names of U.S. soldiers who have died in this conflict. The vigil is sponsored by Rockbridge Response which
is a network of
residents in the Rockbridge County area formed in January 2003 to oppose the invasion of Iraq and to prevent
future wars of choice. For more information contact Kathy Fox at kathy.fox@hughes.net
RECENT EVENTS:
"IRAN: STOPPING THE NEXT
WAR BEFORE IT STARTS"
The 20th anniversary of the
day the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian civilian airbus in the Persian Gulf, killing nearly 300 men, women and children.
We will rededicate ourselves to working to prevent any U.S. military attack or sanctions against Iran. Presentation
- A group-reading of a letter written to Capt. Will Rogers of the USS Vincennes by Capt. Habib Ahmadzadeh of the Iranian Navy
on the 10th anniversary of the Iran airbus disaster. Members of the People’s Peace Delegation to Iran met Capt. Ahmadzadeh
during our journey to Iran. He asked us to share his letter with the people of the United States, in the hope that it would
lead to a world in peace, not war. Video: ‘BAM 6.6’ — In 2003, a devastating earthquake with a magnitude
of 6.6 leveled the southern Iranian city of Bam, killiing more than 30,000 people. "Bam 6.6" explores the aftermath of this
disaster through the story of two California tourists, one of whom is Jewish. The film strips away cultural and religious
differences to provide a glimpse of the deep humanity of the Iranian people. Introduced by Rostam Pourzal, U.S. President,
CASMII. Sponsored and presented by The Defenders for Freedom Justice & Equality.
STOP
THE WAR AT HOME & ABROAD - MARCH 19, 2008
VIGIL:
5:30 p.m., Broad Street side of Richmond City Hall - Sponsored by the Virginia Anti-War Network and Richmond
Peace Education Center.
The vigil was followed at 7:00 p.m. by a PUBLIC FORUM at Asbury United Methodist Church, 324 N. 29th St. in the Church Hill neighborhood of
East Richmond - Sponsored by the Virginia Anti-War Network: "Stop the War at Home and Abroad: How Our Struggles Here
at Home are Affected by the War" featuring a panel of community and labor activists: LILLIE BRANCH-KENNEDY - Founder & Director, Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged (R.I.H.D.),
a Richmond-based prisoner advocacy organization; JOANNE
DAVIS - City Worker & Union Organizer with the Petersburg
City Employees Association - UE Local 160; DIEYAH RASHEED - Richmond-based Community Organizer with the Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality;
SIMIN ROYANIAN - Former Union Official & Co-founder
of Women for Peace & Justice in Iran (Fairfax); and TERECITA
JACINTO – Member of immigrant rights organization Mexicanos Sin Fronteras (Prince
William County).
download Mar. 19 event flier
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THE PEOPLE'S PEACE DELEGATION
TO IRAN
Co-sponsored by the Virginia
Anti-War Network &
The Richmond Defender
newspaper
July 20-30, 2007
Tehran - Shiraz - Yazd
- Esfahan - Qom
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| Carlos Arredondo with his mobile shrine to his son, Lt. Alexander Arredondo, Richmond VA, 7/21/07. |
Cindy Sheehan Impeachment Caravan in Richmond
Carlos Arredondo, who lost his oldest
son to a sniper in Iraq, peers through the window of his mobile shrine to his son - a pick-up truck outfitted with a flag-draped
coffin, his son's military portrait, his boots and dogtags, as well as a waffle (his son's favorite food) and a small pile
of stones, representing the power of the small and determined over the large and seemingly inconquerable. Mr. Arredondo was
traveling with the Cindy Sheehan impeachment caravan which stopped in Richmond Va on July 21, 2007.
Click here to read an analysis of the counter-demonstration at the March 17, 2007, March on the Pentagon.
VAWN takes a stand against U.S.-Israeli aggression in Lebanon -- click here for flier for Aug. 12 march in D.C.
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Sep. 24, 2005 March & Rally in DC
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Organizations
that have formally affiliated with VAWN
Augusta Coalition for Peace and Justice
Black Campus Progressives (Hampton University)
Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) Charlottesville Center
for Peace & Justice
Coalition for Justice (Blacksburg)
Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality (Richmond)
Green Party of Virginia
Hampton Roads Indy Media Coalition
Hampton Roads Peace & Justice Coalition
Little Flower Catholic Worker (Louisa
County)
New River Independent Business Association (Blacksburg)
Pax Christi - Richmond
The People United
Plowshare Peace Center (Roanoke)
Prosser-Truth Division #456 UNIA-ACL (Richmond)
Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged (R.I.H.D.) (Richmond)
Richmond Food Not Bombs
Richmond Independent Media Center
Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project
Tidewater Peace Alliance
United Electrical Workers Union Local 160 (statewide)
United Parents Against Lead National, Inc. (Richmond based)
VAWN Steering Committee Members
Junaid Ahmad, Hampton Roads Amnesty International, Yorktown *
Seamus Allman, Twin Oaks Community, Louisa *
Margaret Breslau, Blacksburg Indy Business Association, Blacksburg
Rain Burroughs, Richmond Green Party, Code Pink * Gary Sandman, Plowshare Peace Center, Roanoke Thomas
Cleary, Pax Christi Richmond, Chesterfield County
Ana Edwards, Chair, Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project, Defenders
for Freedom, Justice & Equality, Richmond
Muna Hijazi, Richmond Independent Media Center, Richmond
Jonathan Hutto, Appeal For Redress, Norfolk
Ruth Kaufman, Augusta Coalition for Peace and Justice, Staunton
Jen Lawhorne, Richmond Independent Media Center, Richmond
Allen Layman, President, UE Local 160 and Western State Hospital Chapter, Staunton
Linda Lisanti, Code Pink: Women for Peace *; Charlottesville Center for Peace & Justice
Tyla
Matteson, Board Member, Richmond Peace Education Center *; Conservation Chair, Virginia
Chapter of the Sierra Club, Richmond *
Marian Mollin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg *
Tom Palumbo, Veterans for Peace *, WildGrassroots Collective/RegimeChanger.com, Norfolk *
Rostam Pourzal, U.S President, Campaign Against Sanctions & Military Intervention
in Iran (CASMII)
Jerry Tenney
Representative, Prosser-Truth Division #456 UNIA-ACL, Richmond
Garrie Rouse, Unitarians for Peace and Justice, Aylett *
George Waksmunski, Organizer, UE Local 160, Waynesboro
Phil Wilayto, Editor, The Richmond Defender
Ann Williams, Hampton Roads Indy Media Coalition, Hampton Roads Peace &
Justice Coalition, Virginia Beach
* Organization listed for identification purposes only
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