Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 11:30pm
Des Moines members of the Veterans for Peace Iowa Chapter 161 solidarity vigil with national VFP DC Witness, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m, followed by visits to Senator's Harkin and Grassley's DM Offices
DM based members of the Veterans for Peace (VFP) http://www.veteransforpeace.org/ will join the weekly Thursday Peace Vigil at Nollen Plaza http://wikimapia.org/6076/Nollen-Plaza in a solidarity vigil for the National VFP planned civil resistance at the White House Dec. 16. http://www.stopthesewars.org/
Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers; Mike Ferner, Veterans For Peace National President; Leah Bolger, Veterans For Peace Vice-President and retired Navy Commander; Mike Prysner, Iraq vet and co-founder of March Forward!; Ray McGovern, retired CIA official; and many more plan to take the below message to the White House and refuse to leave until their demands that current immoral, unjust and illegal US lead wars are ended.
Nollen Plaza
3rd and Locust
Des Moines,
IA