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This article originally appeared at ptreyeslight.com. By Teresa Mathew. In his forthcoming documentary “The Boys Who Said NO!,” Christopher Colorado Jones hopes to educate Americans about the power of resistance. The film
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The celebrated Catonsville 9 draft-file-burning action as covered by Democracy Now! on its 50th anniversary, May 17, 2018 Fifty years ago today, on May 17, 1968, in the Baltimore suburb of Catonsville, Maryland, a group of
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Photo caption: The Catonsville Nine used homemade Napalm to set draft files on fire, May 17, 1968. This article was originally published on Common Dreams on Sunday, May 6, 2018. By Andrea Germanos Fifty years after they set
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PHOTO CAPTION: Jack Todd, who moved to Canada to avoid the Vietnam War, holds up his dog tags in his home Friday, April 17, 2015 in Greenfield Park, Quebec. Photo Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz by Jack Colhoun If Ken
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During America’s War in Vietnam, tens of thousands of American GIs and veterans opposed the war. They marched, refused to fight, and they deserted. They wrote and distributed hundreds of thousands of underground newspapers
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Click here for PDF of WagingPeace-Exhibit Ron Carver Campaigns for Social Justice Executive Director Labor Heritage Foundation’s Fasanella Public Domain Project Associate Fellow Institute for Policy Studies
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This article originally appeared on therollingstone.com. By Donald R. Katz He emerged from the plane smiling into the madness of the cameras. He looked through them for a moment, and seven long years were sucked into one tiny
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Greetings! I come here bearing greetings from Vietnam era deserters and draft resisters who happily remain living in Sweden. I bear greetings from thousands of Vietnam era deserters and drafts resisters who choose to remain
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This article originally appeared at dailypublic.com. By Bruce Beyer. In 1966, having been thrown out of a private military academy, I barely graduated from Bennett High School. My father insisted I attend college and I
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This article originally appeared at TheGlobeandMail.com. By ROY MacSKIMMING In 1971, when I was a partner in New Press, a Toronto publishing house in a ramshackle Victorian in the Annex, I noticed a succession of long-haired,
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49 years ago today (8/19/1968), 32 FBI agents, Federal Marshals, and Border Patrol officers, backed up by 100 local Buffalo cops stormed the doors of the Buffalo Unitarian Church and arrested Bruce Cline and I (Bruce Beyer) for
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This video originally appeared at THE NEW YORK TIMES, JUNE 4, 2016 “Shoot them for what? They never called me ******. They never lynched me.” Ali refused to be drafted into the armed forces during the Vietnam War.
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This article originally appeared at the TampaBay.com By Times Staff He was fast of fist and foot — lip, too — a heavyweight champion who promised to shock the world and did. He floated. He stung. Mostly he thrilled, even
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This article originally appeared at TheNation.com Ali was shaped by his times. But his death should remind us that he also shaped them. By Dave Zirin The reverberations. Not the rumbles, the reverberations. The death of
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This article originally appeared at the NYTimes.com By ROBERT LIPSYTE Muhammad Ali, the three-time world heavyweight boxing champion who helped define his turbulent times as the most charismatic and controversial sports figure
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This article originally appeared at The Rag Blog. Dave Zirin : When Muhammad Ali Took the Weight Muhammad Ali, the former Cassius Clay, was convicted by a U.S. federal court in Houston on June 20, 1967. Above, he is shown when
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For U.S. Marine Dean Walcott, his progression from hesitant soldier to being officially AWOL began in late 2004. During his two-month deployment to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in southwest Germany, Iraqi civilians, burned
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October 24, 2015 United Nations Day Dear Prime Minister-Elect Trudeau, Congratulations on the Liberal Party electoral victory on October 19, and your rising to Canadian leadership. I write as an admirer of your father, whose
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Dear Reader, Is this article intended to help people to think about the issues? Yes. Is this article intended to tell anyone what to do? No. People have to live with the consequences of their own decisions. If you are in the
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As a VFP member and website content provider, I have the honor and humble privilege to have correspondence with some incredible anti Vietnam activists who resisted the draft and war. I’m sharing a few historical items
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