Summary of Resolutions Passed at Veterans For Peace Conference 2008

ASVAB Testing & Protection of Student Privacy
Therefore Be It Resolved that all Chapters of Veterans for Peace be encouraged to contact school superintendents and high school principals, if pertinent, to urge all ASVAB-testing schools to use Option 8 to protect student privacy and publicize the use of Option 8 in all ASVAB testing scenarios.
Be It Further Resolved that the national office of Veterans for Peace, whenever possible, be encouraged to use its media publications and website to inform members of this resolution.
Veteran's Day
Therefore Be It Resolved that Veterans For Peace, Inc. urges its memberships to adopt the procedure of honoring peace by focusing on bell ringing on Armistice Day, November 11 and other solemn occasions.
Formation And Operation Incarcerated Member Chapter
Therefore Be It Resolved that Veterans For Peace encourage and facilitate the formation of Veterans For Peace incarcerated Chapters nationwide, with appropriate modified By-Laws peculiar to institutional settings and with identical purposes and goals as the non-incarcerated Chapters.
Be It Further Resolved that Veterans For Peace incarcerated members shall have their membership dues waived during that member’s physical incarceration, and shall remain so waived for a period not less than six (6) months, nor longer than one (1) year, upon that members parole or discharge from physical custody with that person then transferring their incarcerated membership to a dues-paying membership of a non-institutional Chapter in their area of residence.
Be It Further Resolved that Veterans For Peace, by recognizing and organizing veterans incarcerated, shall mobilize and assist the segment of the nation’s military veterans still paying the social, economic, and spiritual costs of war, adding their significant voice to the struggle of world peace.
The Defederalizing National Guard
Therefore Be It Resolved that Veterans For Peace endorses and supports the national campaign initiated by the Liberty Tree Foundation to defederalize the National Guard units, to petition the Governors of all the States of the United States to withhold permission to deploy their state National Guard troops and units to Iraq, and to urge the President and Department of Defense to recall National Guard troops and units now deployed to their stateside duties, unless and until the Congress of the United States issues a valid declaration of war against Iraq. 
Medical Discharges
Therefore Be It Resolved that Veterans For Peace urges its members, and Chapters, to work with the Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, and others, to improve medical and psychiatric care for returning disabled vets by advocating for medical discharges for all disabled Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom veterans, through Congressional representatives and our newsletters and email listserves.

Conscientious Objectors Change To UCMJ
Therefore Be It Resolved that Veterans For Peace supports changing the Uniform Code of Military Justice and other appropriate regulations so that active duty military personnel can declare themselves to be Conscientious Objectors to specific wars based on a religious, moral, or legal basis.
Justice for Vietnam’s Agent Orange Victims
Therefore Be It Resolved that Veterans For Peace calls on the U.S. Congress to appropriate and deliver to Vietnam sufficient funds to provide health care, education, vocational education, chronic care, home care and medical equipment, including support for family members who are caregivers for Agent Orange victims; to clean up the “hot spots” where dioxin remains in the environment; and to provide other services that may be needed.
Be It Further Resolved that the U.S. Congress simultaneously provide for health care and related services for the children and grandchildren of American veterans exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam and provide assistance to Vietnamese Americans affected by Agent Orange;
And Be It Further Resolved that Veterans For Peace calls upon Dow Chemical and Monsanto to assume their responsibility by allocating funds to make a significant contribution to meet the needs of victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam;
And Be It Further Resolved that we urge all VFP chapters and members to continue to support the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign and to work to gain U.S. government and corporate assistance for the victims of Agent Orange and to build solidarity with the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin.
Afghanistan
Therefore Be It Resolved Veterans For Peace calls on the government of the United States to immediately withdraw all military and intelligence forces from Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Be It Further Resolved that Veterans For Peace calls on the government of the United States to provide humanitarian aid directly to the people of Afghanistan, in non-coercive forms, to help the Afghan people rebuild their own nation and their lives in cooperation with other nations in the region; and to allow the people of Afghanistan to freely determine their own government without interference by the US.

Be It Further Resolved that Veterans For Peace renounces the claim that the war in Afghanistan is somehow the “right” war and reaffirm our position that war must be abolished.
Resolution On Prosecuting George W. Bush, Dick Cheney And Other Bush Administration Officials For War Crimes, Crimes Against Peace and Crimes Against Humanity
Therefore Be It Resolved that Veterans For Peace will take every appropriate measure on our own and in coalition with others to insure that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and responsible members of their administration are prosecuted for war crimes, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity before any court claiming jurisdiction in this country or abroad, for as long as they shall live.