U.S. Army Specialist Daniel Birmingham has been successfully honorably discharged as a conscientious objector, averting a deployment to Afghanistan. Read more.
With the video of Marines in Afghanistan urinating on dead bodies circulating around the world, veterans and active-duty troops put the incident into context. Read more.
Yesterday evening the command at 4/9 Infantry bowed to public pressure and the action of soldiers within the unit, and ended their inhumane lockdown of Charlie Company. After six long days, soldiers were finally reunited with their families. Watch the television coverage of the March Forward! campaign to end the lockdown. Read more.
A statement written by current and former soldiers in 4/9 Infantry, currently being circulated by soldiers, veterans and supporters calling on everyone to pressure the commander at 4/9 Infantry to end the unfair and senseless lockdown of the barracks. Read more.
The March Forward! National Veterans Center is set to launch in early 2012 to fight for the rights of veterans and active-duty service members, expand the campaign against military suicides, and provide much-needed services to those who have served or are serving in the military. Find out how you can be a part of this work. Read more.
Your help is needed! March Forward! co-founder Mike Prysner was among the hundreds arrested in the massive police assault against Occupy LA in the early hours this morning. Mike, Doug Kauffman from ANSWER LA, and the others are still in jail. Their bail is $5,000 each. Read more.
More than 500 veterans and their supporters marched from Occupy Oakland, turning a day of traditional patriotic parades into a strong protest. Read more.
On Veterans Day, young Iraq and Afghanistan veterans attempted to occupy the Veterans Memorial Park in protest of lack of services and VA mismanagement. Read more.
In August, zero troops were killed in Iraq for the first time since 2003. In contrast, Afghanistan had the highest troop fatalities in the entire war. Read more.
Specialist Danny Birmingham learned first-hand what the war in Iraq is all about. Now he's refusing to take part in the Pentagon's wars ever again. Read more.
Staff Sergeant Jared Hagemann, an Army Ranger in 2/75th Ranger Regiment at Ft. Lewis, Wash., was found dead from suicide just weeks before he was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan—for a 9th combat tour. Read more.
Taking the reins is Leon Panetta, fresh from his position as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. We did not have to wait long to see what this new boss would bring; he revealed much on his first trip to Iraq as secretary of defense. Read more.
Obama's announcement on June 22 means nothing will change; more deployments, more deaths, more crippling wounds, more psychological trauma, for years and years to come. Read more.
Soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan are suffering the highest rates of psychological problems since 2005. Similarly, troop morale is down the drain. Read more.
March Forward! remembers the civilian and military casualties of the U.S. wars, and active-duty infantrymen speak out about the suicide of a fellow soldier. Read more.
I have always found the Creed to be not a source of pride, as it is for many of my fellow shipmates, but a constant reminder of how our imperialist polices have not helped build democracy around the world, but have in fact undermined true democracy wherever and whenever it was about to take root. Read more.
As the U.S. government launched hundreds of million-dollar cruise missiles into Libya, it was seconds away from denying us pay because there is “not enough money.” Read more.
On April 2, U.S. Army Staff Sergeants Quadi Hudgins and Christian Garcia were killed by indirect fire while Robert Gates indicates occupation could be permanent. Read more.
On March 19, the 8th anniversary of the unprovoked war of aggression against the people of Iraq, March Forward! members took action in the streets across the country. Read more.
Last year, on the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Spc. Derrick Kirkland killed himself after being neglected and abused by the U.S. military. Read more.
New data revealed in the March 4 Washington Post showed a massive increase in injured soldiers—the “signature wound" being the loss of both legs from the knee or higher-up. Read more.
In one of the most shocking massacres of the nearly decade-long war in Afghanistan, nine children between the ages of nine and 15 were killed March 2 in a NATO airstrike. Read more.
A new report published by New York University calls into question one of the central premises justifying the United States war on the people of Afghanistan. Read more.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is putting forward a plan that would freeze health care funding for the Department of Veteran affairs and cutting $4.5 billion in disability to military veterans. Read more.
As of January 2011, the unemployment rate among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans was 15 percent. That is nearly double the national unemployment average of 9 percent. Read more.
Ron Flanagan, a Vietnam veteran, was in the final preparations for receiving stem cell treatment for bone marrow cancer when he found out that he had been dropped by his health insurance carrier for a two-cent error in an electronic premium payment. Read more.
