USPC Greets the Veterans for Peace 27th Annual Convention with Message of Solidarity

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August 6, 2012

To President Leah Bolger:

The members of the US Peace Council send their warmest greetings of solidarity to our
Comrades and friends of Veterans for Peace.

You exemplify the finest of service to our country, realizing that contributing to the good and
welfare of our people, to peace at home and abroad, requires commitment far beyond the
mere call to duty. You have rejected the simplistic and narrowness of jingoistic patriotism, of
imperialist design, and dedicated your organization and yourselves to the difficult goal of
peace among nations and peoples.

Like you, the US Peace Council is committed to the right of all to determine their own destiny,
to fashion their own sovereignty. Like you we consider ourselves citizens of one global family,
determined to struggle together in peace, overcoming differences through negotiations and
assisting the less developed. Like you we feel a deep responsibility to our people and nation
as one among many.

We look forward to the results of your deliberations, fully confident that they will lead to
concrete contributions for joint campaigns of actions: to reduce the military budget for
human needs, for a Middle East Free Zone of Nuclear Weapons and Weapons of Mass
Destruction, for cessation of interference in the Syrian crisis; for the elimination of the
imperialist military bloc, NATO, among other issues.

Please accept our hands in solidarity.

Yours in peace,

Alfred. Marder
President, US Peace Council

Company M, 14th Infantry Regiment, 71st Division
Bronze Star

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Open Letter to the Government of the United States and the United Nations

Open Letter to the Government of the United States and the United Nations

Mr. Joseph R. Biden Jr.
President of the United States

Mr. António Guterres
Secretary General of the United Nations

The global spread of COVID-19 has exposed the illegal and immoral practice of imposing unilateral coercive measures (economic sanctions) by the United States government against more than thirty nations. The government of the United States is now using the public distraction caused by the pandemic to intensify its military actions against the targeted nations.

The economic war against those nations had already resulted in unimaginable suffering of the people in the targeted nations even before the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the devastation of the global pandemic, the targeted countries — especially Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Syria and Zimbabwe — are finding it prohibitively difficult to protect and save the lives of their citizens in the face of the ongoing global emergency. These sanctions constitute crimes against humanity.

As a concerned citizen of the world, I call upon the United States government to:</p>

End its economic sanctions against all targeted countries immediately.
Unfreeze the financial assets and bank accounts of the targeted countries so that they can purchase and receive the necessary food, medicine and medical equipment and supplies needed to combat the pandemic.
Stop all military threats and actions against the targeted countries, including the removal of U.S. Navy warships dispatched to Venezuela under the false pretense of “War on Drugs.”
Drop the baseless charge of “Drug Trafficking” against the President Nicolás Maduro and other officials of the government of Venezuela.
Respect the call issued by the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, for a global ceasefire.

I call upon the Secretary General of the United Nations and the leading bodies of the United Nations to invoke the articles of the UN Charter to demand respect for international law by the government of the United States.

I also call upon the UN Security Council to lift all UN-imposed sanctions against the targeted countries as well.

**your signature**

Sign the USPC Petition: Cut the Runaway Military Budget!

CUT THE MILITARY BUDGET!
REDIRECT FUNDS TO GREEN JOBS AND TO OUR COMMUNITIES!

We are appalled by continues pouring of our national treasure into the wasteful and destructive military budget. Throwing our resources into promoting war and militarism steals resources needed for ourselves, our neighbors and our communities and prevents creating jobs that produce goods and services desperately needed by the American people.

We call on Congress to fully reject this military budget. We call on Congress to reverse course, to significantly reduce the military budget, ensure the livelihood of workers in the war industries and redirect the money saved to all human needs — green jobs, health care, education, food security, clean air and water and veterans benefits, among others.

**your signature**