Organizational Links

Connect with organizations mentioned in Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs

Veterans For Peace

veteransforpeace.org

A global organization of military veterans and allies whose collective efforts are to build a culture of peace by using our experiences and lifting our voices.

Swords to Plowshares

swords-to-plowshares.org

A San Francisco Bay Area-based nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting all veterans every step of the way. “We’re vets, helping vets.”

About Face: Veterans Against the War

aboutfaceveterans.org

Post-9/11 service members and veterans organizing to end a foreign policy of permanent war and the use of military weapons, tactics, and values in communities across the country.

Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

quincyinst.org

QI’s staff and non-resident experts expose the costs and consequences of an unaccountable, overly militarized U.S. foreign policy and present alternative approaches.

Courage to Resist

couragetoresist.org

Courage to Resist supports the troops who refuse to fight, or who face consequences for acting on conscience, in opposition to illegal wars, occupations, the policies of empire abroad and martial law at home.

Common Defense

commondefense.us

Grassroots membership organization of progressive veterans standing up for our communities against the rising tide of racism, hate, and violence.

Costs of War Project

watson.brown.edu/costsofwar

A university-based team of over 50 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians who document the human, economic, and political costs of post 9/11 wars and other U.S. military interventions.

Vietnam Veterans of America

vva.org

VVA promotes and supports the full range of issues important to Vietnam veterans and the subsequent generations of war veterans as well.

American Federation of Government Employees

afge.org

The largest federal employee union, with more than 300,000 members at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other government agencies.

Eisenhower Media Network

eisenhowermedianetwork.org

EMN provides mainstream media outlets with expert commentary from military veterans and other national security experts who are not part of the “Military Industrial Congressional Complex.

Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute

veteranspolicy.org

A non-partisan think tank that empowers veterans and provides clear, fact-based information to decision-makers that leads to better healthcare outcomes for veterans.

Veterans for Common Sense

veteransforcommonsense.org

An advocacy group with a special focus on improving VA and programs and services for veterans and military service members dealing with toxic exposure issues.

Veterans for Social Change: Communications Workers of America

cwa-union.org

A union-based network that does political education and organizing training, engages in grassroots campaigns with community allies, increases awareness of veterans’ issues among fellow union members and helps provide essential resources to veterans.

National Nurses United

nationalnursesunited.org

The union representative of more than 20,000 VA nurses and, along with AFGE, an active campaigner against VA privatization.