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Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans who Opposed the War Tens of thousands of active duty GIs opposed America’s war in Vietnam, marching, signing petitions, writing underground newspapers for their fellow
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I said, "This is fucked up.” And he said, “You’re just having a little thing.” And I said, “No, it’s not okay.” I said, “We don’t belong here.”
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On organizing with the American Serviceman's Union: "I thought, what could I be doing that's more effective than helping the GIs organize to stay out of this war."
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Above: Draft-age Americans being counseled by Mark Satin (far left) at the Anti-Draft Programme office on Spadina Avenue in Toronto, August 1967. The front room was so crowded at the time that the counseling session here is
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"Four of us from the same platoon deserted together, which is the ultimate military crime," shares Ward Reilly, US Army Vietnam era GI resister
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This post originally appeared at www.rebeccaruetten.com On July 21, 1954, Vietnam was divided into two sections, the communist North and the capitalist South. The United States responded by sending more and more of its sons to
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"It's very hard for people to believe that their country would try to kill them," explains former National Guard member Zels Johnson.
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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (pp. 207-10) Greg Grandin The Confederate battle flag and other symbols of white supremacy, including the Klan hood and the burning cross, were
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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. CHRISTIAN G. APPY Image: Aftermath of the Tet Offensive in Saigon, 1968 / manhhai This post
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This post originally appeared at historynewsnetwork.org. by James W. Russell James W. Russell teaches political science at Portland State University. His most recent book is Social Insecurity: 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis.
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This post originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. Posted by James Carroll Call it strange, but call it something. After all, never in history had there been such active opposition to a war before it began. I’m thinking,
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Photo: 1973 in Saigon (Credit: Saigoneer) This post originally appeared at Justice Initiative.com. By HEATHER GRAY May 26, 2019 Justice Initiative (Link to article) Introduction This is the 2019 Memorial Day weekend and it is,
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Photo: An anti-government protester dressed as Lady Liberty, wearing the colors of Venezuela’s flag, hugs a fellow protester during a demonstration near La Carlota airbase in Caracas, Venezuela. Opposition leader Juan
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"I told my command officer that I wasn't going to, I was refusing my orders to Vietnam ... In his rage, he thought if he court-martialed me, he'd have to stay in the Army past his discharge date."
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This article originally appeared on thenation.com. Fifty years after the first US troops came ashore at Da Nang, the Vietnamese are still coping with unexploded bombs and Agent Orange. By George Black On a mild, sunny morning
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This post originally appeared at the aspeninstitute.org MARCH 26, 2019 • THE AGENT ORANGE IN VIETNAM PROGRAM On March 26th the governments of the United States of America and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, in
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Ho Chi Minh City exhibition recalls how American GIs organized protests, published underground newspapers and served jail time in their efforts to bring peace to Southeast Asia.
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Speech by John Catalinotto at an art installation in Manhattan on March 22 that exposed the U.S. war crime known as the My Lai massacre.
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Photo: RENEW-NPA all-female field clearance team and four female ambassadors, front row (from left to right Deborah Paul, Canada; Wendy Matthews, New Zealand; Grete Løchen, Norway; and Beatrice Maser Mallor, Switzerland). Hai
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From 16 to 21 April 2019, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, the most senior member of the U.S. Congress, led an official bipartisan US Senate delegation of nine Senators to visit Vietnam during the Senate’s April recess.
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