San Diego Vets for Peace Install ‘Duty to Disobey Illegal Orders’ Billboard

The San Diego Veterans For Peace, Hugh Thompson Memorial Chapter #91, is very pleased to announce that a billboard reminding Active Duty Troops that they have a duty to disobey illegal orders, has been installed on the NE side of Harbor Drive going north, between 32nd and 28th Streets in San Diego.  This billboard is part of a national program by Veterans For Peace, with many similar billboards now being posted across the United States.

The San Diego billboard will be up for one month ending in early April.

Please see the VFP website: https://www.veteransforpeace.org/take-action/service-member-support

Background

Veterans For Peace has launched a campaign to remind our brothers and sisters, sons and daughters and grandchildren, who have joined the military, that they have the right and the responsibility to refuse illegal orders, and that we will support them when they do.

Illegal Order would include:

• Orders to unconstitutionally deploy to US cities in support of racist ICE attacks or to suppress peaceful protests;
• Orders to participate in illegal regime-change wars, such as against Venezuela and Iran;
• Orders to ship weapons to Israel while it is conducting a genocide of Palestinians.
• Order to attack civilians or to torture and kill prisoners of war.

Trained counselors who can speak to concerned military members and families about their legal options can be found on the website. https://www.veteransforpeace.org/take-action/service-member-support

For more information, or to obtain an interview about the VFP national program and/or this billboard in San Diego, please contact US Navy Veteran Octavio Sifuentes, at sifuenthusiast@gmail.com or 619-851-2637 or US Navy Veteran Barry Ladendorf at bdlvfp@gmail.com or 619-997-2772.