Ua tauaaoina e le US Peace Memorial Foundation lana 2016 Peace Prize i Veterans For Peace "I le amanaiaina o taumafaiga totoa e faʻaalia mafuaʻaga ma tau o taua ma puipuia ma faʻamutaina feteʻenaʻiga faaauupegaina."
Michael Knox, Taitaifono o le Faalapotopotoga, na tauaaoina le faailoga ia Aukuso 13 i le taumafataga a le malo o Veterans For Peace, na faia i le Iunivesite o Kalefonia, Berkeley. I lana saunoaga, na fai mai ai Knox, "Faafetai, Veterans For Peace, mo lau galuega le faavaivai, fatufatuaʻi, ma le taʻitaʻiga. O la outou faalapotopotoga o se musumusuga i tagata e alolofa i le filemu i le lalolagi atoa.”
O le Peace Prize na talia e Michael McPherson, Veterans For Peace Executive Director; Barry Ladendorf, Peresitene o le Komiti Faatino o Faatonu; ma e Doug Rawlings, o le VFP Founder, i le patipati leotele mai le aofia e tusa ma le 400.
Na saunoa Peresitene Ladendorf, "Mo le 31 tausaga, Veterans For Peace ua na o le pau lea o le faalapotopotoga a le au matutua na taitaia pea le filemu i se taumafaiga e soloia taua, iu ai ina aveesea auupega faaniukilia, faʻaalia tau moni o taua, tutu i le lotogatasi ma tagata matutua ma tagata ua afaina i taua, ma ia taofia lo tatou atunuu mai le faalavelaveina ma le faalilolilo i mataupu a isi atunuu. O lenei faʻailoga o se faʻaaloalo sili mo Veterans For Peace ma o se molimau i le vaʻavaʻai, poto ma le faʻamaoni o tatou faʻavae ma le faitau afe o sui o le VFP i le lalolagi atoa oe na taʻitaʻia i tatou i la tatou tauiviga le faʻaleagaina mo se lalolagi filemu. Matou te matua faʻafetai ma faʻamamaluina i le mauaina o le 2016 US Peace Memorial Foundation Peace Prize."
Va'ai ata ma fa'amatalaga atoa ile: www.uspeacememorial.org/PEACEPRIZE.htm.
I le faaopoopo atu i le mauaina o lo tatou mamalu maualuga, o le 2016 Peace Prize, Veterans For Peace ua filifilia a Sui Faʻatonu a le US Peace Memorial Foundation. Latou te faʻatasi ma i latou na mauaina muamua le Peace Prize Kathy F. Kelly, CODEPINK Women for Peace, Chelsea Manning, Medea Benjamin, Noam Chomsky, Dennis Kucinich, ma Cindy Sheehan.
O tagata iloga Amerika ma fa'alapotopotoga ta'uta'ua a le atunu'u o Amerika na filifilia ma iloiloina mo le fa'ailoga i lenei tausaga e aofia ai le Center for Global Nonkilling, Lynn M. Elling, Colman McCarthy, ma Psychologists for Social Responsibility. E mafai ona e faitau e uiga i gaoioiga antiwar / filemu a tagata uma e mauaina ma sui filifilia i la matou lomiga, le US Registry File.
O le US Peace Memorial Foundation o loʻo faʻatonuina se taumafaiga a le atunuʻu e faʻaaloalogia tagata Amerika o loʻo tutu mo le filemu e ala i le lolomiina o le US Registry File, tu'uina atu o le Taui o le Filemu faaletausaga, ma fuafuaga mo le US Peace Memorial i Uosigitone, DC. O nei galuega faatino e fesoasoani e siitia ai le Iunaite Setete agai atu i se aganuu o le filemu e ala i le faamamaluina o le faitau miliona o tagata Amerika mafaufau ma lototetele ma faalapotopotoga a Amerika ua faia se tulaga lautele e tetee atu ai i se tasi po o le sili atu o taua a le US pe ua tuuto atu o latou taimi, malosi, ma isi punaoa e saili ai. fofo filemu i feeseeseaiga faavaomalo. Matou te faʻamanatuina nei faʻataʻitaʻiga faʻataʻitaʻiga e faʻamalosia ai isi tagata Amerika e tautala faasaga i taua ma galulue mo le filemu.
Faamolemole fesoasoani mai ia matou faaauauina lenei galuega taua. Ia tumau lou igoa i le filemu e ala i le auai i le lisi o tagata taʻitoʻatasi, faʻalapotopotoga, ma tagata e mauaina le Peace Prize. Tagata na faavaeina. O loʻo lisiina i luga o la matou upega tafaʻilagi, i la matou lomiga le US Registry File, ma mulimuli ane i le US Peace Memorial.
Afai e le'i avea oe ma se Sui Faʻatonu pe faia lau 2016 saofaga, faamolemole ia faia i le asō! Faafetai tele mo la outou lagolago.
Lucy, Sale, Jolyon, ma Michael
Komiti Faatino o Faatonu
