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Veterans for Peace, Inc. Records
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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Veterans For Peace, Inc. (VFP) was incorporated in Portland, Maine in 1985 as a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war. The organization was located in Portland, Maine (1985-1996), in Washington D.C. (1997-2003) and in St. Louis, Missouri (2004- ). VFP iss comprised primarily of veterans of the United States military, but non-veterans may also join as associate members. VFP's statement of purpose (as of 2010) states that their mission is: "To increase public awareness of the costs of war; to restrain the U.S. government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations; to end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons; to seek justice for veterans and victims of war; to abolish war as an instrument of national policy". VFP members pledge to use nonviolent, democratic means to achieve these aims. Veterans For Peace has over 120 chapters across the United States, and is an official Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) represented at the United Nations. The organization Iraq Veterans Against the War was founded at a VFP convention in 2004, and is legally a subsidiary of the national group. Veterans for Peace, Inc. is not the same group as Veterans for Peace in Vietnam, which was founded in 1965.
This collection includes VFP, Inc. administrative files, correspondence, financial and fund raising files, out reach materials, files on VFP projects, resources about some VFP branch activities and reference files.
This collection is unprocess and remains in the order in which it was received.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers/records.
Gift of Veterans for Peace, Inc., 2011 [Acc. 11A-021, Acc. 11A-082].
This collection is unprocessed. This finding aid was created by Declan White, May 2011; and Thomas Fortuna, December 2011-January 2012.
- Posters
- Photographs
- Slides
- Newsletters
- Periodicals
- Audiovisual recordings [DVDs]
- Memorabilia [original artwork]
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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None.
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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