Members of the three veterans groups who were told they couldn’t march in last year’s 11th Annual Long Beach Veterans Day Parade because they didn’t “fit the spirit of the parade”–Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out and Veterans For Peace–now … fit the spirit of the parade.
Weird, huh? Actually, it’s pretty good [...]

Excluded veterans will walk in Martin Luther King Jr. event, possibly Veterans Day Parade

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An adviser to Lt. Gov. John Garamendi—a veteran whose grandfather was a Superior Court judge in Long Beach—says that pacifist veterans groups excluded from last November’s Long Beach Veterans Day Parade in North Long Beach will likely be [...]

Lieutenant governor’s office weighs in on 2007 Veterans parade controversy

Remember the 11th Annual Long Beach Veterans Day Parade? So do a lot of people, especially members of the three veterans groups–Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out and Veterans For Peace–who were told they couldn’t march in the Nov. 10 parade. Organizers said [...]

The Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins reports today on the testimony members of three veterans groups gave Tuesday night to the council, after the veterans groups–Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out and Veterans For Peace–were denied the right to march in last Saturday’s 11th Annual Veterans Parade.And LBPost.com chimes in, with a cheery parade [...]

At the first Long Beach City Council meeting since Saturday’s 11th Annual Long Beach Veteran’s Day Parade, the council got an earful from members of three veterans groups which were denied the right to march in the parade.

If you missed any portion of the recent struggle between organizers of the 11th Annual Long Beach Veterans Day Parade and members of the three veterans groups they excluded from Saturday’s parade–Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out and Iraq Veterans Against the War–tonight’s Long Beach City Council meeting is your chance to catch up.
Members [...]

Pat Alviso of Military Families Speak Out called to tell us how it went for her at Saturday’s Long Beach Veteran’s Day Parade. Alviso’s group was one of three excluded from participating in the parade by organizers who said they were concerned that the groups just wanted to stir up trouble by protesting the war [...]

When the 11th Annual Long Beach Veterans Day Parade makes its way down Atlantic Avenue this Saturday, members of three veterans groups will be missing in action: Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace, and Military Families Speak Out. All have been told by parade organizers that they can’t be in the parade–technically because [...]

It sounds fantastic when you think about it–fantastic like cities on the moon and flying cars–but the 11th Annual Long Beach Veterans Day Parade is an a-political event. And yet … .

The Press-Telegram reports today that three groups have been denied access to march in Saturday’s 11th Annual Long Beach Veteran’s Day Parade. Those groups–Veterans For Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War and Military Families Speak Out–were excluded from the parade because, organizers said, they did not “fit the spirit of the parade. The spirit being [...]