April 1 | Resist U.S. Endless Wars: Veterans, Families of Military service members, and Youth fighting Military recruitment speak out against war on Iran, Lebanon, Palestine

Resist U.S. Endless Wars: Veterans, Families of Military service members, and Youth fighting Military recruitment speak out against war on Iran, Lebanon, Palestine!
April 1 5p PDT/ 8p EDT

A collaboration of: Resist US-Led War Movement, Veterans for Peace, Honor the Earth, Juventúd Unida por la Independencia, Madres contra la Guerra and Flamboyán Theater.

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We are honored to announce our speakers:

• Krystal Two Bulls, Oglala Lakota/ Northern Cheyenne, U.S. Veteran and executive director of Honor the Earth
  
• Jon Marcantoni Rosa, Puerto Rican U.S. Army Veteran and founder of Flamboyán Theatre, Colorado
  
• Sonia Santiago, founder of Madres Contra la Guerra, Puerto Rico
  
• Coco, National Secretary General, Juventúd Unida por la Independencia, New York
  
• Gerry Condon, Vietnam era GI resister, Board of Veterans for Peace, US
  

The recent joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran expose the true nature of these campaigns as wars of aggression, not defense. Just as the 2003 Iraq invasion was built on the lie of "weapons of mass destruction," current threats against Iran rely on US lies. Leading up to the Feb. 28 strikes, the Trump regime spewed blatant lies about Iran's intention to develop nuclear weapons, in the same vein as the false pretense of "weapons of mass destruction" that was used to justify the 2003 war on Iraq. Trump also fear-mongered that the "Iranian regime seeks to kill" and is an imminent threat to the US.

This is not about protecting American citizens; it is about enforcing U.S. and Israeli dominance in the region through regime change, following a playbook that has already murdered millions of people in Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Libya, Lebanon and Afghanistan. The U.S. narratives of bringing "democracy" to Iran are paper thin - as Trump himself is saying he will decide who the new leader of Iran will be. Trump is appealing to other nations - from Kurdistan to Ukraine to try and wrangle soldiers to send as boots on the ground in another move of desperation. The U.S. has no grounds or right to intervene in, station its military bases in, or bomb other countries to pursue its agenda, using diplomacy as distraction tactics in Geneva to conceal its true, fascistic intentions. The U.S. government’s actions, from unlawful interventions in Venezuela to the blockade of Cuba, prove that it operates as the primary source of terror and instability in the world today.

Our anti-war movements have a clear stance: from veterans, to families of service members, to young people considering enlistment - we will not fight or die in U.S. wars for imperialism and Zionism. There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people in this utterly depraved and criminal US war against Iran, Lebanon and Palestine. Young people are organizing against enlisting in the military knowing full well that they will be used as expendable cannon fodder in these illegal wars. The crisis of our current systems causes extreme poverty, lack of education opportunities - creating a poverty draft and pipeline that funnels the desperate into uniform to die for the profits of foreign occupation of the US elite and war profiteers, especially exploiting Black, brown, migrant and Indigenous poor communities. U.S. veterans who have carried out America's wars from Vietnam to Iraq are campaigning to resist this dangerous and illegal war against Iran. There are legal mechanisms to request conscientious objection, and organizations that can guide those who decide not to participate in acts of war. Soldiers are already coming back to the US draped in American Flags in coffins. Veterans organizations are preparing and calling on GI's to resist illegal orders from Minneapolis to Tehran.

Hear from activists: GI's resisting illegal orders, Conscientious Objectors, Mothers Against the War and Anti-war Youth organizing counter recruitment speaking out against the war on Iran. Historically, these voices together in the anti-war movement have played a critical role to grow the popular dissent against US wars. Let us learn from these lessons and unite to Resist U.S. Endless Wars today!