Veterans for Peace

Here is how you can participate in the website/DVD/Video production of the Veterans For Peace Roadtrip to Boston this July.

Please forward this to national websites, organizations, businesses and personal contacts that you think would be interested in participating.

Hard copies will be available at the Chapter 22, 56, meetings and at the Boonville campout.

First things first. Have you looked at the Video/DVD/Web treatment?

http://homepage.mac.com/gordonsoderberg/Personal21.html

We are planing to produce several different products that will includie; interviews of vets on the bus, VFP members and business owners who support our roadtrip to Boston, and the people we meet along the way. These interviews will be posted to the website as we travel to Boston. During the trip we will be communicating with teachers, students, and media via the internet , video, radio and cell phone in order to draw attention to our efforts in each area of the country we pass through. Once the trip is over this content will be included in the DVD and Video and archived on the internet for ongoing disussions and educational purposes.

The process of creating the interviews will start by each participent creating a bio. In order to participate, please read and sign the talent release from and create a bio that includes a photograph.

Send to:
Veterans for Peace Roadtrip 2004
1106 L Street #1
Eureka. Ca, 95501

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Talent Release Form

Talent Name: (Please Print) ________________________________

Project Title: "Veterans For Peace Roadtrip 2004"

I hereby consent for value received and without further consideration or compensation to the use (full or in part) of all videotapes taken of me and/or recordings made of my voice and/or written extraction, in whole or in part, of such recordings or musical performance for the purposes of illustration, broadcast, or distribution in any manner.

(Recording Location(s)

at __________________________

(Month(s) (Day(s) (Year)

on ________________________ 20_______

(Producer) by: Gordon Soderberg

(Producing Organization) for: Veterans For Peace


Talent's signature_________________________________________

Address _________________ City _____________________

State ____________________ Zip code _____________

Date: ____/____/____

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If the subject is a minor under the laws of the state where modeling, acting, or performing is done:

Legal guardian _________________________ ___________________________

(sign/print name)

Address _____________________________ City ________________________

State ______________________ Zip Code ___________

Date: ____/____/____

Please include your biography of yourself or business:

Sample Bio:
http://homepage.mac.com/gordonsoderberg/Personal27.html

Birth place; citizenship; schooling; marital status; military history; any injuries sustained in or from your service; dates or area of service; locations; branch of service; reasons for joining, supporting, or opposing the goals of Veterans For Peace:

Please include a photograph with your release and Bio:

Bio: (Use extra pages as required)



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Treatment:
http://homepage.mac.com/gordonsoderberg/Personal21.html

Budget:
http://homepage.mac.com/gordonsoderberg/Personal28.html

Individuals, Media, and Businesses that want to contribute to this project should contact:

Gordon Soderberg
1106 L Street #1
Eureka, Ca 95501
gordonsodebrerg [at] mac.com

Veterans For Peace (Statement of Purpose)
Veterans Working Together for Peace & Justice Through Non-violence. Wage Peace!

We, having dutifully served our nation, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace and justice.  Americans will be secure at home only when there is peace and justice abroad.  To this end, we will work, with others:

#1 toward increasing public awareness of the costs of war,

#2 to restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in
the internal affairs of other nations,

#3 to end the arms race and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons, and

#4 to abolish war as an instrument of international policy.

To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is democratic.

Veterans for Peace, Inc. (VFP) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war.  VFP was founded in 1985 by ex-service members committed to sharing the horrors they experienced.   

Our membership is comprised of veterans from all wars spanning from The Spanish Civil War to the Gulf War.  These members are distributed amongst 86 nationwide chapters, and dozens of international affiliations.

Our international activities include working with our affiliations in El Salvador, Russia, Canada, Japan, Guatemala, Viet Nam, the Netherlands, Chiapas (Mexico), France, England, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vieques (Puerto Rico), and numerous others.  A member of the Nobel-Peace Prize winning Coalition to Ban the Sale and Use of Landmines, VFP has been undertaking arduous tasks since its inception.  From bringing medical aid to Central American nations, to evacuating wounded children from war-torn Bosnian hospitals and securing medical treatment elsewhere around the globe, or just sitting down with American high school kids so that they may make choices for themselves based on reality, and not myth.  We remain firmly committed to the abolition of war.

We know the consequences of American foreign policy because once, at a time in our lives, so many of us carried it out.  We find it sad that war seems so delightful, so often, to those that have no knowledge of it.  We will proudly, and patriotically, continue to denounce war despite whatever misguided sense of euphoria supports it.

Wage Peace!

Once these bios are posted, poeple visiting the website will be able to read the bios and post questions to the authors. We are going to encurage teachers, students, local and international media to participate in the online forum.

The goal of this project it to bring attention to the effects of war on vets their families and the long term damage done to our society when, as a country we are unable to create peace through peaceful means.