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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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Howard Zinn shall be missed

A few days ago I was staying at the home of my friend (and now IVAW ED) Jose Vasquez. We often rehash our many years in IVAW, telling our "war stories" and wondering where we shall be tomorrow. Therefore it would be no...
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Marc Hall petitions federal court

[2/17 Update]Courage to Resist Press Release Action Alert: Army moves Marc Hall's court martial to Iraq The U.S. military plans to extradite stop-lossed Iraq veteran and fellow member, Marc Hall, to Iraq "within a few...
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Super Bowl Parties with a purpose

Are you planning to watch the Super Bowl with family and friends this year? Why not raise awareness and funds for your local chapter at the same time by hosting an IVAW Super Bowl party on February 7th? Militarism is...
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Stop-lossed soldier sits in Jail

After over a month of confinement, Army Specialist Marc Hall still sits incarcerated in the Liberty County Jail near Fort Stewart, GA.  The U.S. Army jailed Hall on December 11, claiming that the lyrics of his hip-hop song...
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2009 Top 10 Lists

TEMPORARILY DOWN Top 10 Viewed Member Blogs in 2009 Retroactive stop-loss payments $500/month... by Geoff on 10/24/2009 Why I Fell in Love with the Marine Corps... by Adam on 05/08/2007 WE ARE...
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Two Stories of GI Resistance

Ryan Jackson hails from IVAW's Savannah, GA chapter. He joined the U.S. Army and served in South Korea until 2007. After reading the words of visionaries like Dr. Martin Luther King and Gandhi, Ryan decided he could no...

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