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Is Peace Activism Feminist?

published by Alejandra Rishton on 12/14/12 11:40pm

This is a short video I created for my Feminist Online Spaces at Pitzer College. The video is the culmination of my semester long interaction with Iraq Veterans Against the War, and is a tribute to their work:

For this video I took my daughters to the Arlington West Memorial on Santa Monica beach. The memorial consists of crosses placed on the beach for each soldier killed in combat from sunrise to sunset every Sunday. Upon its conception the memorial placed one white cross up for every death, but it has now exceeded its spatial capacity and has had to replace white crosses with red crosses that symbolize ten deaths each. It is a project of Veterans for Peace, and is now in its eighth year of existence. The trip proved itself to be safe for our purposes, and I found it to be very much in line with feminist ideology, albeit lacking in the vernacular of feminist discourse. The video itself follows us through Arlington west as we take in the memorial and interact with the Veterans for Peace members. Spliced into our adventure are images from World War II Army propaganda films (produced by the Signal Corps, of which I was part of for three years), and images from the documentary “The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children.” It asks whether or not all peace activism is feminist by default.

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Iraq Veterans Against the War Colorado Chapter statement on the Aurora shooting

Iraq Veterans Against the War Colorado Chapter statement on the Aurora shooting The Aurora movie theatre shooting has left a hole in our Colorado Community. We are disgusted by this hopeless act of violence. We have...

The Unfinished Story of Iraq's Oil Law: An Interview with Greg Muttitt

Check out this new piece on Iraq with an in-depth interview on Iraqi oil, and the little known victory of Iraqi organizing against a dangerous privatizing 'oil law' by Ali Issa posted on Jadaliyya. The Unfinished Story of...

JUST RELEASED: Voice of Art Documentary Series Part 3 (Conclusion) Featuring Tom Morello, Rev. Jesse Jackson, & the Historic Returning of GWOT Service Medals

Please donate to help IVAW continue our important work. Voice of Art, the new documentary series on Pharrell Williams' I Am Other YouTube channel, is releasing Part 3 (the conclusion) of its new episode entitled “Iraq...

Help Save Lily Washington's Home

Allies in the Home Defense Legue are fighting for a military mother's home and are asking for our help. Arizona Mother and Homeowner Lilly Washington returned home from visiting her injured son in a US Military Hospital in...

Moral Injury and American War

This is a repost from Tom Dispatch. Find the orignial post can be found here: Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Moral Injury and American War Mad, Bad, Sad   What’s Really Happened to America’s Soldiers  By Nan Levinson "PTSD...
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Just feeling a little fed up..

Our system is broken.  Our politicians are bought and paid for.  Our media only tells us what their corporate backers allow them to tell us.  Our citizens are struggling to pay the bills, unable to get work.  Our veterans...

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