Gold Star Families for Peace

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Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP) is a United States based organization founded in January 2005 by individuals who lost family members in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and are thus entitled to display a Gold Star. It is considered an offshoot of Military Families Speak Out. Gold Star Families for Peace now includes more than 65 families of soldiers killed in Iraq.

Joining with organizations including Veterans for Peace, United for Peace and Justice, Code Pink, Military Families Speak Out, the Crawford Peace House and others, GSFP is actively protesting American military action in Iraq. They have used speaking engagements, congressional testimony and protests throughout the United States.

GFSP regards the administration's reasons for those operations as falsehoods and grounds for impeachment of the president.

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[edit] Protest in Crawford, Texas

Gold Star families and Veterans for Peace bring "Impeachment Tour" bus to Crawford, Texas, August, 2005
Gold Star families and Veterans for Peace bring "Impeachment Tour" bus to Crawford, Texas, August, 2005

On August 7, 2005, the group arrived in Crawford, Texas in a bus provided by Veterans for Peace, painted red, white and blue with the words "Impeachment Tour" on it and demanded to yell at President Bush. Prior to arriving at Crawford, the group had been in Dallas attending a Veterans for Peace convention.

[edit] GSFP founding members

As of 2005 Gold Star Families for Peace, now includes 65 family members of soldiers killed in Iraq. [3]

[edit] GSFP mission statement and purpose

  • The group's mission statement reads as follows:
  • GSFP Purpose statement:
    • To bring an end to the occupation of Iraq.
    • To be a support group for Gold Star Families.

Membership:

  • Anyone who has had a relative killed as a result of war.
  • Primarily, but not limited to the invasion/occupation of Iraq.

GSFP web site[4]

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