Sponsoring Organizations:

Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) is a group of veterans from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. We are committed to saving lives and ending the violence in Iraq by an immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces. We also believe that the governments that sponsored these wars are indebted to the men and women that were forced to fight them and must give their Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Airmen the benefits that are owed to them upon their return home.

Citizen Soldier is a GI/veterans rights advocacy group founded during the Vietnam war. They have recently provided legal defense and public advocacy for Gulf War refusers.

Military Families Speak Out is an organization of people who are opposed to war in Iraq and who have relatives or loved ones in the military. We were formed in November of 2002 and have contacts with military families throughout the United States, and in other countries around the world.

Veterans For Peace includes men and women veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, other conflicts and peacetime veterans. "Our collective experience tells us wars are easy to start and hard to stop and that those hurt are often the innocent. Thus, other means of problem solving are necessary."

Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc. (VVAW) is a national veterans' organization that was founded in New York City in 1967 after six Vietnam vets marched together in a peace demonstration. "We will do all we can to prevent another generation from being put through a similar tragedy and we will continue to demand dignity and respect for veterans of all eras."

Other Veterans Groups:

Veterans Against Iraq War is a coalition of American veterans who support our troops but oppose war with Iraq or any other nation that does not pose a clear and present danger to our people and nation.

Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) is dedicated to global security and reducing the worldwide threat posed by war and conflict through programs that promote justice and freedom.

Veterans for Common Sense: In August 2002, recognizing the U.S. could be moving toward war against Iraq, several Gulf War combat veterans became concerned and then met to discuss these troubling developments. They agreed the experienced voice of Gulf War veterans was absent from the debate. They also agreed to form an organization so the concerns of veterans would be raised and discussed in public before the bullets started flying again.

The National Gulf Veterans and Families Association is an organization for British veterans of the 1991 Gulf War, and now the invasion of Iraq, "to provide immediate and ongoing support to those persons who are, or have been, suffering medical or psychiatric disorders since their service in the Persian Gulf Conflict 1991 & 2003, to secure and enhance their quality of life and assist in prevention of repeat events." Much useful information.

Resources for Troops:

GI Rights Hotline is a network of nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations who provide information to servicemembers about military discharges, grievance and complaint procedures, and other civil rights.

National Lawyers Guild Military Law Task Force (NLGMLTF) is an excellent legal support project for military and military families to protect their constitutional rights, particularly the right to speak out.

Depleted uranium (DU) is extensively used in military munitions. It volatilizes on impact and mixes with dust that people breathe. DU is poisonous and radioactive. Another source of information on depleted uranium is the Uranium Medical Research Center.

The National Gulf War Resource Center is an international coalition of advocates and organizations providing a resource for information, support, and referrals for all those concerned with the complexities of Persian Gulf War issues, especially Gulf War illnesses and those held prisoner or missing in action.

Info on the War:

United for Peace and Justice is the broadest antiwar organization in the country. High quality web site with plenty of info. Very political.

Occupation Watch is an excellent source for keeping up with every aspect of the US occupation in Iraq.

Truthout is a news and editorial weblog that has tons of access to information not covered in the mainstream media.

Center for Defense Information : CDI's mission is to "educate the public and inform policy-makers about issues of security policy, strategy, operations, weapon systems and defense budgeting, and to produce creative solutions to the problems of today and tomorrow." A good source of technical information on the military.

The Institute for Southern Studies has a page that gives you the skinny on multi-billion-dollar war profits. Bechtel, Halliburton, MCI and other companies have landed lucrative Iraq "reconstruction" contracts – which include hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds– despite sordid histories of financial fraud, cost over-runs, and devastation in local communities across the globe.

Iraq Photos dot com is a news blog on the war in Iraq. It is well updated, and pulls no punches. They also archive many high quality photographs that are not available anywhere else, and we have used many of them (under Fair Use, of course) in our "What's Up?" section.

Links for background and commentary on US military operations in Afghanistan:

http://www.cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm
http://www.theconversation.org/47quest.html
http://www.thedebate.org/thedebate/afghanistan.asp
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/PHI205A.html