IVAW’s TJ Buonomo resigns from Board

Somehow, I missed that TJ Buonomo resigned from the IVAW Board of Directors in protest over the Carl Webb issue and to his credit, he’s petitioning the Board to change their Code of Conduct;

The petition is simple: if you agree that the Board of Directors should amend the Code of Conduct to prohibit the “encouragement or expression of support for the use of violence in pursuit of IVAW’s mission, goals and objectives” then respond to this email accordingly with a ‘yes’. If you disagree then you are not required to do anything.

If I cannot obtain the minimum number of signatures I am seeking I will likely resign from the organization and would encourage you consider doing the same. This decision would pain me, having been a member for over two years and having served in the National Office and on the Board with people I deeply admire and respect, but I am not willing to associate myself with what I regard to be a group of extremists who, in their pursuit of justice, are willing to embrace a set of morally dubious values.

So now even the members of IVAW who didn’t go to the war and are members of the International Socialist Organization are opposing Carl Webb. I wonder if Webb considers Buonomo a conservative, too.

Thanks to one of our IVAW refugees for the heads up.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Iraq Veterans Against the War