Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam
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50 Years Ago: The Burglary That Exposed COINTELPRO
50 years ago, activists staged a stunning act of defiance. They broke into an FBI office and exposed the secret Counterintelligence Program.
Sorkin’s “Trial of the Chicago 7” Sentences American Radicalism to Oblivion
How Hollywood Neuters the 60s: In cross-examination, many glaring historical inaccuracies aren’t just little academic flubs. By Dave Clennon.
From colonialism to Covid: The rise of anti-Asian violence
Anti-Asian racism is on the rise around the world. The Pulitzer-winning author reflects on his own experiences as a Vietnamese American – and the dark history...
Martin Luther King Jr. and the US War in Vietnam
The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but forgotten it today. by Christian Appy at...
The MLK Speech We Need Today Is Not the One We Remember Most
“Beyond Vietnam” is a much more dangerous and disturbing speech, which is why far fewer Americans have heard of it.
National Reading of Dr. King’s Speech “Beyond Vietnam: Breaking the Silence”
An inspiring program with panel discussion, offering perspectives about the relevance of Dr. King’s speech to peace and justice work today.
“After the Bombings” by Teresa Mei Chuc
This poem is based on a true story of a Buddhist village in a Vietnam countryside that was bombed multiple times.
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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