2020 has been an incredibly isolating and difficult year, to say the least, but also a year of coming together for mutual aid and galvanizing people power to reject expanding fascism. We know that regardless of election results and new administrations we face an uphill...
SIGN THIS STAND DOWN LETTER TO THE TROOPSOver 700 veterans have signed an open letter urging activated National Guard troops to do the right thing and refuse to help in suppressing righteous protest demanding racial justice. Add your name and share!FLYER AND WHEAT-PASTEDesigns and how-to...
Relatives,Today is always a complicated day for me and I hope you will join me for a moment of reflection. As you may know, I am Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne from the Pine Ridge and Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservations. As a Native American woman,...
Los Veteranos de About Face condenan vehemente e inequívocamente el papel de Estados Unidos en facilitar y apoyar el golpe de estado del presidente socialista boliviano electo democráticamente Evo Morales. El presidente Morales fue derrocado el 11 de noviembre por el ejército boliviano y su...
Declaración en español aquíThe Veterans of About Face vehemently and unequivocally condemn the U.S. role in facilitating and supporting the coup d’état of the democratically elected Bolivian Socialist President Evo Morales. President Morales was ousted on November 11 by the Bolivian military and its right-wing...
By Amanda MadisonU.S. Army combat veteran warns: “stoking fear of the ‘other’ is the president’s best weapon, and Congresswoman Omar is the perfect villain in his story.”On April 15, 2019 I attended a rally in support of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar held during President Donald Trump’s...
Uniformed soldiers and police have blocked off the streets. People are fleeing the city center, and gunfire sounds. The now-infamous coup is underway. While jets come screeching down and bombs drop, rebel soldiers take control of what remains of the presidential palace. The coup has...
As an organization made up of post-9/11 veterans, the events over the last month are all-too familiar to us. We remember a time when another president sold the American public on a lie that our national security was under threat. That make-believe crisis resulted in...
About Face: Veterans Against the War is an organization of thousands of post-9/11 veterans and service members taking action to end a foreign policy of permanent war and the use of military weapons, tactics, and values in communities across the country. As people intimately familiar...
Today on Thanksgiving, I wanted to take a moment to further introduce myself and a conversation that drives the work I do. I am an Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne woman and veteran. I was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and raised on...