Vigil - every Wednesday at the National Guard Armory 4:30 - 6:00 pm Liberty Road and Teaneck Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666 Sponsored by Military Families Speak Out, Bergen County, Teaneck Peace and Justice Coalition, Veterans for Peace, Chapter 21 NJ www.http://vetsforpeace21.blogspot.com Click here to see photos of the most recent vigils. |
| Please take time to look at Aliya's cool audio-video page. click here |
| MFSO members at the January 27, 2007, March on Washington. Click here to see more photos from the March. |
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| Billboard in Teaneck, NJ - January 10-February 10, 2008 Click on the billboard to find out about the billboard campaign. |
| Military Families Speak Out Military Families Speak Out is an organization of people opposed to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan who have relatives or loved ones in the military. Formed by two families in November of 2002, we have contacts with military families throughout the United States, and in other countries around the world. Our membership currently includes over 4000 military families, with new families joining daily. As people with family members and loved ones in the military, we know that it is our loved ones who are, or have been, or will be on the battlefront. It is our loved ones who are at risk, who have been injured or who have died as a result of this war. It is our loved ones who are returning scarred from their experiences, who are suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). If you have family members or loved ones in the military and you are opposed to this war, JOIN us by sending an e-mail to mfso@mfso.org Click here to read an interview of MFSO co-founder, Nancy Lessin. |
| To contact any Senator, call 800-459-1887. For contact information about Congressional reps, click here |
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| icasualties.org To see the number of U.S. and Coalition deaths, suicides, and troops wounded, click here. |
| Estimates of Iraqi people killed vary. The John Hopkins study estimated over 655,000 dead more than 1 year ago! Click here to read about the Johns Hopkins study. Iraq Body Count has different information. Click here to see the number and names of Iraqi people according to Iraq Body Count. |
| The BBC has an analysis of the number of deaths in the Iraq occupation. click here |
| To see our December 19, 2007 vigil on NY 1 TV, click here or go to audio-video (then audio-video 2) click here to see August 20, 2009, 4th anniversary vigil on NY 1 |
Click here to see photos of some past vigils, the 2nd Annual Memorial Week demonstration, and the Peace Contingent of the 4th of July parade in Teaneck,NJ Click here to see vigils and actions from Dec.- May, 2009. Click here to see actions from June to present. |
| Great News From Military Families Speak Out! MFSO members at The White House On the heels of a very successful National Assembly we have more exciting news to share with you! August 21, 2009, a delegation from Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) was invited to the White House for what we hope will be the very important first step to a deepening relationship with the Obama Administration and the opportunity to share our voices as Military Families and to bring our families’ realities of these wars to light. The delegation of MFSO members met with Tina Tchen, Director of the Office of Public Engagement, and two other officials from that office. The meeting, in the West Wing of the White House, had been swiftly pulled together by MFSO member and chapter leader Paula Rogovin, working with her Congressman Steve Rothman (NJ). At the hour-long session, representatives of MFSO were able to share their personal stories and the unique history of the organization. Paula Rogovin, from Bergen County New Jersey, spoke of her son a Marine who has been deployed twice to Iraq. Gilda Carbonaro, from Bethesda, Maryland, spoke of the horror of witnessing the death of her only child, her son, who died from burns suffered in Iraq. Emiko Ortega, from Baltimore, Maryland, talked about her son who has served one deployment to Iraq. Celeste Zappala and her son Dante both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, spoke about the death of her son and Dante’s brother during a mission searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after it had been determined by inspectors that there weren’t any. Charley Richardson, co-founder of MFSO, talked about his son who served in Iraq as a member of the military and in Afghanistan as a contractor. Charley also outlined the mission and work of MFSO. The group highlighted the very serious problems facing troops and veterans and their families, physical and mental health, legal issues, and other problems that will impact us all as well as our country for many decades to come. The request for an opportunity to meet with President Obama and/or First Lady Michelle Obama in the near future was made to share our urgency in ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan NOW. They brought MFSO’s message to the White House that the only way to prevent the deaths and injuries, the suffering from health and mental health trauma caused by these wars and from repeated deployments is to BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW! Many thanks to Paula Rogovin for getting MFSO’s “foot in the door” to the White House. We look forward to follow up visits and having a seat at the table where our members can share first hand the knowledge we have gained from our experiences, with the hope that our inside view can deepen President Obama’s understanding and move his policies toward an immediate end to these wars. We have much work ahead of us and many exiting projects to pursue. If you would like to volunteer your talents, or have strategic ideas or suggestions, we want to hear from you! Your participation and involvement is vital to our efforts! This article is from www.mfso.org |
NO NEW JERSEY NATIONAL GUARD IN IRAQ - IT’S THE LAW! KEEP NEW JERSEY SAFE! Click here to get information about the campaign. Click here and here to see youtube videos about the bills in the NJ State Legislature! |
| URGENT MFSO needs to raise $15,000. Funds will honor MFSO Charley Richardson, who is struggling with cancer. Click here to see how you can help. www.mfso.org |
| Teaneck Vigil awarded Lee Reid award by the Bergen County, NJ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Committee. Januar 18, 2010. To see photos of the event, click here. |
MFSO, VFP member, Nancy Nygard - standing at a Wednesday vigil. Nancy's son served in Afghanistan. He was stop-lossed and extended. He was out of the army, at home with his 2 babies. He was attending college under the GI bill. 14 hours after President Obama's speech about the surge, Joe was called off the IRR list. He will be redeployed in March, 2010. |
