What You Can Do to Help Veterans
BECOME
EDUCATED ABOUT TRUTH IN RECRUITING: Many organizations now
exist to help young men and women understand what is involved when they
sign up to join the military.
For a complete list of Truth-in-Recruiting/Counter Recruitment
organizations and resources, visit
www.nnomy.org.
Other resources include:
Center on
Conscience:
http://www.centeronconscience.org/;
Iraq
Veterans against the War
-
http://ivaw.org/truth;
Veterans
for Peace
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/take_action.vp.html
American
Friends Service Committee Youth and Militarism Project.
http://www.afsc.org/Youth&Militarism/..
FIND HELP FOR SOMEONE IN THE MILITARY:
---G.I.
Rights Hotline: 877-447-4487
http://www.girightshotline.org/.
This is a network of nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations who
provide free and confidential information to service members about
military discharges, grievance and complaint procedures, and other civil
rights to include a toll free phone hotline (1-877-447-4487).
---Join
the Veterans for Peace “Bring the Guard Home” Campaign
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Bring_national_guard_home.vp.html
LEARN
ABOUT VETERANS:
--National Coalition for Homeless Veterans:
http://www.nchv.org/facts.cfm. The list below is what
individuals can do to help homeless veterans in their community.
·
Support emergency shelters
·
Volunteer as mentors, counselors
or legal aides
·
Raise funds for programs
·
Volunteer at Stand Down programs
·
Develop Homeless Veteran
Burial
--House
of Peace. One High Street,
Ipswich,
MA 01938;
978 356-9395 Visit and see what you can do to help. John Schuchardt, one
of our readers, is the founder.
--Veterans
Northeast outreach center - Offer to help in this Haverhill program.
http://www.northeastveterans.org/
--Iraq war
veterans association.
Learn about ptsd (post traumatic stress disorder).
http://www.iraqwarveterans.org/ptsd.htm
(this is a military based organization; not peace related)
You
can do a lot: Join an
organization, stand in front of a recruiting station, get involved in
presenting alternative information in the schools, talk to your family
member or neighbor who is about to enlist! Protest the wars in
Iraq
and Afghanistan,
call your legislators, demand better rights for veterans, learn about
ptsd. Follow veterans’ legislation in the House (http://veterans.house.gov/)
and Senate (http://veterans.senate.gov/index.cfm).