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IVAW: Providing a Safe Space for Women and People of All Colors

published by Alejandra Rishton on 10/17/12 11:48am

When viewing the IVAW.org community through a feminist and anti-racist lens, one will find a positive and equal environment for people off all genders and colors. The content of the site allows for information to be collected that falls way out of the public discourse, enabling the most repressed voices of our time to speak. The victims of our permanent war economy are typically not afforded the luxury of Internet access, a reality that IVAW.org confronts daily. While IVAW.org cannot fix the issues of access for those living in warzones, they can allow for members to represent ideas that raise concern for the victims of war.

Iraq veteran’s themselves have been placed in a subordinate media position in the United States and elsewhere. They are misrepresented and under-represented in the dominant media structures. Only 1% of the US population serves in the military, and this leaves a gap in the understanding of most Americans that allows for the marginalization of veteran’s issues. Veteran’s today face homelessness and suicide on a scale that has never been recorded before. The mental health issues of men and women in service are not properly addressed by government that chooses to send them to war.

The issues of women in the military, an even smaller minority of the US population, are represented greatly on the site. This site allows for a horizontal creation and management by all of its members, which has created a feminist and anti-racist space through the codification of the site. Good Job!

NYC Home of "Ground Zero"- Treatment Towards Veterans?

I've lived from coast to coast and visited most of the in-between. I've come to notice quite the pronounced difference in how I've been looked at and treated from state to state, once my war veteran status was known. Oddly...

Send letters to Ft Hood Iraq War Resister Rodney Watson in Canada!

"Mail just like in jail is highly appreciated" Please send letters to Rodney Watson a Ft Hood Iraq war vet/ resister who is seeking sanctuary in Canada. We can't forget about those that resisted the Iraq war and are still...

VSO responds to War is Trauma Portfolio

Writen by Adam Maley (VSO Member) in response to the War is Trauma Portfolio show in Omaha, Nebraska. Hippies. Hipsters. Draft dodgers. Cowards. Scallywags. These words I use to generally describe the anti-war crowd. Such...
Gore Vidal with his Naval Attache, Fabian Bouthillette - Nimes, France - May 2009.

Gore Vidal: Anti-war Veteran Extraordinaire

     I entered the United States Naval Academy in 1999 thinking that I would one day become an Admiral. After realizing the imperial nature of our government and armed forces, I left the Navy in 2005. The transition to...

Veteran Against the War

Great video about Steve Acheson thoughts going into the NATO Summit.

Sign the Petition: Let Ali and Abdulai in the United States

Last summer, Jacob George and I, two Afghanistan veterans, returned to the war-torn country as unarmed civilians to visit the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul. The two members we spent most of our time with were Abdulai and...

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