Vets Fight Hate: Gold C.A.P.E Award & 3x Cannes Shortlists
Racism and discrimination are haunting America’s conscience. Over the past year, we have seen racism and hate against immigrants on the rise in our country, but few of the “haters” realize that approximately 11% of all U.S. veterans come from an immigrant background. Veterans are one of the most respected and honored groups of people in the country, which is why Southern Poverty Law Center partnered with Vets Fight Hate, a campaign to urge people to think twice before judging people whose stories they don’t know.
Through Vets Fight Hate, veterans who served with or are immigrants responded to hateful tweets by sending an inclusive message of peace and unity to positively impact our fractured society, infiltrate pop culture and fight back against those spreading hatred.
The Sleepout For Homeless Veterans
To address the alarming rate of veterans facing homelessness, the Student Veteran Society of Columbia College Chicago for the past four years has been sleeping outdoors in the blistering Chicago outdoors to end veteran homelessness. To date, it has raised over $40,000 for Chicago veteran non-profits and garnered national news attention for the homeless veteran cause.
Published Veteran Poet
I Remember: Chicago Veterans of War weaves together the memories of fifty veterans of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Throughout the book, each veteran speaks in a series of “I remember” statements labeled by a number, not a name. This anonymous structure foregrounds the similarities of all wars. The effect is of one veteran speaking of the shock and scale of every modern war.
