BOARDWATCH: Veterans for Peace continues to criticize CPS militarization, planning Memorial Day work...'we attended the [2013] Memorial Day Parade expecting to see a somber tribute to those killed in wars. We were shocked to see that the majority of the parade was youth in military uniforms...'
[Editor's Note: The following remarks were prepared for delivery to the Chicago Board of Education's May 25, 2016 meeting by Arny Stieber, of Veterans for Peace. They were provided to us by the speaker and . . .
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BOARDWATCH: Vets for Peace continues challenge to Board's militarism, quoting Martin Luther King... '...A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on the military than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death...'
[Editor's Note: The following statement was delivered to the January 27, 2016 meeting of the Chicago Board of Education by Arny Stieber of Veterans for Peace. It was provided to us by the veterans and . . .
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BOARDWATCH: Veterans for Peace continues to remind Rahm's Board of Education of the obscenity of CPS militarism
[Editor's Note: The following statement was delivered to the February 25, 2015 meeting of the Chicago Board of Education by Arny Stieber, a Vietnam veteran, who has repeatedly spoken at Board meetings in opposition to . . .
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BOARDWATCH: Vets for Peace against militarization of Chicago public schools... 'The military is about turning off your brain and doing as you are ordered. The military has no place in a school system. ..'
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The following statement was prepared for delivery on behalf of Vets for Peace at the Chicago Board of Education's meeting of May 28, 2014. Although the Board cut off the speaker despite his . . .
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Vets for Peace asks Chicago Board of Education to 'de-militarize' CPS
[Editor's Note: At the September 25, 2013 meeting of the Chicago Board of Education, Vets for Peace asked the Board during public presentation to "demilitarize itself." Substance practice is to ask selected speakers at public . . .
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