Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam
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Direct Action Lessons From Three Historic Days of Protest May 1971
Largest civil disobedience detention in U.S. history—12,000 in all, including 7,000 people on May 3, 1971 alone. Reflections by Steve Early.
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam Revisited
It’s worth revisiting the value of this book’s singular contribution to the knowledge about what the US did in and to Vietnam and its people.
America, Please Don’t Forget the Victims of Agent Orange
Forty-six years have passed since the Vietnam War ended, yet the wounds of Agent Orange victims still demand attention.
Peace and Planet News launches beautiful new online hub
On this May Day, a day that has long been a symbol of the international struggle for justice, we are delighted to announce that Peace and Planet News is now...
Half an Antidote to the Netflix Docu-Fiction “Chicago Seven”
Rennie Davis on the the trial of the Chicago 8, including two newly resurrected historical video interviews he recorded with the defendants.
Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers sowed Nixon’s downfall
How Richard Nixon’s obsession with Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers sowed the seeds for the president’s downfall.
VFP 160 helps renovate Quang Tri Blind Center, provides bikes
US veterans gave bicycles to children affected by floods and funded new kitchen and bathrooms at the Quang Tri province’s Blind Center.
The Full Disclosure campaign is a Veterans For Peace effort to speak truth to power and keep alive the antiwar perspective on the American war in Viet Nam — with a series of 50th anniversary events now occurring. It represents a clear alternative to the Pentagon’s current efforts to sanitize and mythologize the Vietnam war and to thereby legitimize further unnecessary and destructive wars.
Upcoming Events
“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.”
— Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Important
Our “Anti-Warriors Chronology of the American War in Vietnam” updated
Complete with multiple perspectives, including that of the Vietnamese resistance, the anti war movement, and US servicemembers.
Agent Orange & UXO in Vietnam, VFP 2020 Nat’l Convention
Watch the full video presentations by Susan Schnall, Paul Cox, Namaya, Chuck Searcy, and Heather Bowser.
‘Da 5 Bloods’: Vietnamese Lives, American Imperialist Views
Viet Thanh Nguyen, NYT review: A lesser Spike Lee film whose characterizations of Vietnamese people are inextricable from its political failures.
“An Other War Memorial” asks “How do nations remember wars?”
Vietnamese writer Viet Thanh Nguyen (who we quote for this website’s tagline) has created, along with his students, a new website of peoples’ memories of the war.
Introducing “Peace and Planet News”; Order today!
We’re very excited to show you the front page of a new 24-page publication by the same editorial team that brought you Peace in Our Times for five years.
Memorial Day 2019
PLEASE WRITE A LETTER TO THE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL (THE WALL) When then-president Barack Obama announced his government was willing to spend $63 million on a series of commemorations of the American War in Viet Nam stretching over a decade, we in Veterans...
Second Volume of “Letters to the Wall” Now Available
Order via lulu.com The second volume has been put to print and will soon be available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. We have added a few new touches for this collection of letters delivered to The Wall in 2017 and 2018 — for one, we have provided detailed...
28-page Full Disclosure – Truth About America’s War in Vietnam Vol. 2
The paper is especially important in relation to the upcoming Burns/Novick documentary about the Vietnam War, which will not present the war as the massive U.S. crime based on lies and betrayals that it was. This paper clearly, definitively and very articulately,...
LETTERS TO THE WALL Book Now Available
A second edition of LETTERS TO THE WALL is now available at a 30% discount price. This edition includes two added features — an authors’ index and a reference index for names on The Wall that letter writers addressed. This book is made up of 187 or so letters written...
Our “Anti-Warriors Chronology of the American War in Vietnam” updated
Complete with multiple perspectives, including that of the Vietnamese resistance, the anti war movement, and US servicemembers.
Agent Orange & UXO in Vietnam, VFP 2020 Nat’l Convention
Watch the full video presentations by Susan Schnall, Paul Cox, Namaya, Chuck Searcy, and Heather Bowser.
‘Da 5 Bloods’: Vietnamese Lives, American Imperialist Views
Viet Thanh Nguyen, NYT review: A lesser Spike Lee film whose characterizations of Vietnamese people are inextricable from its political failures.
“An Other War Memorial” asks “How do nations remember wars?”
Vietnamese writer Viet Thanh Nguyen (who we quote for this website’s tagline) has created, along with his students, a new website of peoples’ memories of the war.
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