Veterans End 40-Day Fast with Protest Demanding U.S. Stop Arming Israel

Veterans End 40-Day Fast with Protest Demanding U.S. Stop Arming Israel

Here in New York, police arrested at least 28 people Monday as they ended a 40-day fast outside the United States Mission to the United Nations by escalating their protest. Among those arrested was former Navy corpsman and Veterans for Peace organizer Mike Ferner, who poured animal blood on the mission’s entrance to condemn U.S. support for Israel’s military.  Mike Ferner: “Here, United States, have some blood! You like shedding it all over the …

Veterans’ fast demands food for Gaza, no weapons to Israel

A Veterans For Peace-sponsored “Fast For Gaza” of veterans and allies ended June 29 with a press conference and march from the United Nations to the nearby Israeli Consulate. A civil disobedience action followed that blocked the street in front of the offices of this U.S.-armed and -financed, outlaw, apartheid . . . Continue reading Veterans’ fast demands food for Gaza, no weapons to Israel at Workers.org