People and Events

​Stand up for Peace!

NEW HOURS
Fridays: 4:30 to 5:30 pm
at the intersection of Iowa Avenue
and Clinton Street
on the University of Iowa Pentacrest in Iowa City

Dear Friends,
  Please come to the Peace Rallies Fridays 4:30-5:30 at the Clinton St. entrance to the Pentacrest.  Give 10 minutes or an hour, but ADVOCATE for Peace & Justice.  The weather promises to be mild, there will b​e hundreds of UI students walking, and there will be handouts and signs.  AND, invite a friend to join you, maybe someone who has never done this. Sponsored by Veterans For Peace #161 and PEACE Iowa.

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Iowa City VFP Activists meet in support of the Iowa City postal workers at the end of August, 2020

Veterans for Peace 161 gather on Armistice Day, November 11, 2018

Dave H, John C, Jim Bradley, Louie, Ron McCall, John Fyotek, and Ed Flaherty participated in the June 16, 2018 Gay Pride Parade. Thanks to Tom Jacobs for the photo.

Photo by Master Sgt. Joshua Kowalsky On Friday, March 15, 2019, VFP 161 member, Linda Fisher was handed the baton to direct the U.S. Air Force Concert Band at the Hancher to conduct Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever in a rousing finish to the nights outstanding full house performance. Chief Master Sgt Stacy Newbrough Ascione, an Iowa City native, performed a classy flute improvision. Linda had been a former member of the Women's Air Force Band, serving with the WAF Band from 1960-1961. She even marched in the Inaugural Parade for President John F. Kennedy!

In 1958, four peace lovers sailed the 30' Golden Rule from California, bound for the Marshall Islands, where another above-ground nuclear bomb test was scheduled. They got arrested in Hawaii, and the boat got sold. It was found in 2010, a wreck. Some VFP folks who knew its story restored it. Here it is, in San Diego bay last week, for the national VFP convention, in conjunction w/the 70 year commemoration of the A-Bomb devestation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Atmospheric nuclear bomb tests were banned world-wide in 1963. The Marshall Islands are suing the nuke bomb holding countries now to make them honor the intent of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to reduce and get rid of all nuclear weapons. Orion Sherwood, one of the 1958 crew, was at the VFP convention, as determined a peace-maker now as then.