From The Veteran Art Movement Joins Iraqi Artists in Calling on MOMA to Divest from Toxic Philanthropy by Kevin Basl:

In February, 45 veterans from the emerging Veteran Art Movement (eVAM) sent an open letter to Museum of Modern Art PS1 (MoMA PS1) calling on its board of trustees chairman, Leon Black, and board member Larry Fink, to divest from "toxic philanthropy." Black holds ties to defense contractor Constellis Holdings, formerly Blackwater, the US mercenary group responsible for the massacre of 17 Iraqi civilians in Nisour Square in 2007. Fink's corporation, BlackRock, is heavily invested in the two largest US private prison companies, GEO Group and Core Civic. The veterans' open letter was written as a gesture of solidarity with 37 artists featured in an exhibition at MoMA PS1, Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991 to 2011, who sent their own open letter to MoMA, in January. The 37 artists, many of whom are Iraqi, offered an important critique in the letter: [...]this war has been invisible and far from the attention and concerns of most Americans... Read More

In This Issue:

1. We Must Continue the Fight for a Better World! by Bill Branson
2. Update: The VVAW Thanh Binh School Library Project by Chuck Theusch
3. Purple Heart: The Shrapnel Inside My Heart (poem) by r g cantalupo
4. Notes from the Boonies by Paul Wisovaty
5. Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
6. Public Misled on Afghanistan War by John Ketwig
7. Revenge? You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet. (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
8. Wounds of War by Denny Riley (reviewer)
9. I'm A Vet, But Not A Hero by Jack Mallory
10. Coming Home Again by Dan New
11. Our VA is Threatened by John Ketwig
12. A VA Excursion During Lockdown by John Zutz
13. VVAW Patches by Barry Romo
14. The Waiting Devastation of Landmines by Paul Nichols
15. The History of VVAW National Newspapers by Barry Romo
16. Memories of Operation RAW by Joseph Bangert
17. Life in the VVAW National Office by Pete Zastrow
18. Snapshot: Saigon 1994 by Marc Levy
19. The Medic At Dawn (poem) by Marc Levy
20. The Veteran Art Movement Joins Iraqi Artists in Calling on MOMA to Divest from Toxic Philanthropy by Kevin Basl
21. Wag the Dog (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
22. The Wall (poem) by Dennis Serdel
23. Federal Veterans' Benefits Located At The Washington DC Mall - Winter 1971(poem) by Jim Murphy
24. Almost Dust by Jim Wohlgemuth
25. Parva Mundi by Marc Levy
26. The Flight Home by Teri Saya
27. Portrait of the Artist as Political Prisoner by Billy X. Curmano
28. The Little Girl at My Door by Jack Mallory
29. Photos from the Archives by VVAW
30. Flowers are STILL Better Than Bullets by Laurel Krause
31. Live Rounds by Donald McNamara
32. Off to War (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger
33. Tin Soldiers and Nixon's Coming by Bonnie J. Caracciolo
34. Kent State Laments by Chuck Aswell
35. I Will Never Forget by Philip J. Zamora
36. Changing a Vote by Susan R. Dixon
37. Who'll Stop the Rain by John Ketwig (reviewer)
38. No Where Man by John Zutz (reviewer)
39. The Mountain Song by Bonnie J. Caracciolo (reviewer)
40. The Empty Shield by John Bromer (reviewer)
41. Flashback by John Ketwig (reviewer)
42. US Military: Incompetence, Hubris, and Denial by Ed White (reviewer)
43. Obama's Unending Wars by Ed Hagerty (reviewer)
44. Donny Dump Draft Dodger 1966 by Bill Johnston
45. Oxy, the Wise Bomb (cartoon) by Billy X. Curmano
46. The Roots of VVAW - Part 1 by Jan Barry as told to Richard Stacewicz
47. a military mythology (poem) by Larry Kerschner
48. More Photos from the Archives by VVAW
49. 2015: At Vietnam's 40th Anniversary of Independence Day Parade (poem) by r g cantalupo
50. From Pennridge to Vietnam: What I Knew and Didn't Know by W. D. Ehrhart
51. Young Man Goes To War by Allen Leonard Meece
52. Lethal Betrayal: The Purple Heart We Never Got (poem) by Mike Hastie
53. Kill Today, So Tomorrow Will Not Come (excerpt) by r g cantalupo
54. Invisible Wounds - Part 1 by Joseph Giannini
55. What Are the Odds? by Patrick Finnegan
56. America First! (cartoon) by Jeff Danziger