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- Rally for Gun Safety – Sunday, August 25th
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- Dr. Nathan Barrick speaks on “How to Best Combat Terrorism.”
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- Stand Down Success!
- Time Is Running Out, Urgent Indeed!
- FLVCS Thomas Paine Award Winner, Desmond Meade, Honored by Time Magazine
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- Florida House Representative Margaret Good files Gun Safety Bill
- Panel discussion by FLVCS Viet Nam vets reflecting on aspects of the Viet Nam War at the December meeting.
- Thomas Paine Birthday Dinner Celebration Feb 2, 2019
- Letter to the Editor – Sarasota Herald Tribune Dec. 8, 2018
- Letter to the Editor – Sarasota Herald Tribune Dec. 7, 2018
- Letter to the Editor – Sarasota Herald Tribune Dec. 10, 2018
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- Civic Engagement by FLVCS – Active Democracy
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- Thomas G. “Skip” Hannon
- New Climate Change Report – April 2018 – Urgency and Action: Drawdown to Reverse Global Warming
- Green Path Fun Farm Day (For details click read more)
- FLVCS Guest Column to Ban Assault Weapons
- FLVCS Resolution Opposing Haspel Nomination
- FLVCS joins Ban Assault Weapons Protest- March 24 Sarasota
- March For Life – End Gun Violence
- FLVCS Editorial: End Profligate Pentagon Spending
- 2018 Thomas Paine Party Photos (by Dave Taylor)
- Thomas Paine Birthday Party – Sat Feb 3
- 100% Renewable Energy News Release
- Ian Ruskin/Thomas Paine Performance photos
- Ian Ruskin/Thomas Paine performance Dec 7, 2017
- Active Democracy – FLVCS meeting Nov 16
- Thomas Paine lives through Ian Ruskin’s dramatic performance – Dec 7, 2017
- Update to FLVCS Climate Change Report: Urgency and Action
- Legal Services Available for Veterans at Bay Pines in Pinellas County
- Lucky’s Market Supports Veterans and Green Path Veterans Farms: Sarasota Store Grand Opening: Party
- Boston University Honors Veterans for Common Sense Executive Director
- Veterans for Common Sense Successes in Washington
- Memorial Day: May 29, 2017: Remembering Harry Stimmel
- FLVCS Climate Change Report May 2017 Update
- Pres. Trump Escalates the Wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen etc.
- FLVCS Letter ref Proposed Defense Budget Increase in The Herald Tribune
- FL Veterans For Common Sense Climate Change Report 2nd Ed
- Celebrate the Defeat of Amendment One!
- Veterans and military personnel should consider their vote carefully
- War Is A Lie: Event Sponsored by FLVCS
- FLVCS Position on US ISIS Strategy
- Veterans Farm Project Underway
- Approve the Iran Deal–Don’t Risk More War
- Victory for Democracy
- Report: Stand Down for Homeless Veterans and More
- FL Women Veterans Conference a Huge Success
- Investigate the Justifications for the Iraq Invasion
- Climate Change a National Security Threat
- Thomas Paine’s 278th Birthday (2015) Print Out Your Paypal Receipt: It Will Be Your Ticket
- Happy New Year
- Meeting Notice and Torturers are not Patriots
- Lecture about Transformation Guerillas.
- FLVCS President’s Veterans’ Day Talk 2014
- Upcoming FLVCS Events in November 2014
- Rhana is well on the way to Tallahassee
- Congress Fails to Support the Troops
- Climate Change: a National Security Threat
- Resolution to Amend Constitution to Abolish Corporate Personhood
- FLVCS Respondes to Call for Military Intervention in Syria and Iraq
- FLVCS at Sarasota Veterans National Cemetery Dedication
- Why the Four Freedoms Matter, Professor Harvey Kaye
- FLVCS President comments on VA Waiting List Issues
- SARASOTA HOMELESS VETERANS STAND DOWN REPORT
- The Fight for The Four Freedoms and The Greatest Generation
- FLVCS Resolution to Amend the U.S. Constitution
- Hard Truth Behind America’s Avoidable War: Iraq
- George W. Bush to Speak in Sarasota, Florida
- Moral Injury: a cost of aggressive, unnecessary war
- Help our Fellow Veterans at Haley VA Hospital, Tampa
- Extremist in Congress Would Weaken America
- A Resolution in Opposition to United States Military Intervention in Syria
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- PTSD Panel and Flag Day Celebration
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- FLVCS Objects to Democracry Award for Henry Kissinger
- Richard E. Arnold-A Sense of Duty
- How to Stop Nuclear Proliferation: Start at Home
- Letter to the Editor by Former POW and FLVCS VP, Mike Burns
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- Former CIA Analyst and Author, Melvin Goodman, to Speak
- Double Whammy in the name of energy independence Posted by Professor William “Coty” Keller March 9, 2013
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- Veterans Die Waiting For Benefits As VA Claims Backlog Builds
- MEMBER TAKES ACTION ON PENTAGON WASTE
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- Notes From Talk By Marine Maj. Gen. Jarvis Lynch (ret.)
- Thomas Paine’s 276th Birthday (2013)
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- GOP/Romney Deny Reality which Weakens America
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- Blogging Rules
- Open Letter to Senator Nelson (D-FL) ref Iran
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- Afghan War: Troops Fight on Despite Futile Result
- Consequences of Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
- Guest Column in HT
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- In Memoriam
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