If we want other people to show up for us, we have to stand in solidarity with them. Racial justice should not be thought of with a zero-sum mindset.
Reflections
“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.
50th Commemoration of Gibbs-Green Virtual Town Hall
Watch Jackson State University’s Margaret Walker Center and the Gibbs-Green 50th Commemoration Commission’s discussion, held via Zoom, on May 14th.
Jackson State Killings 50 Years Ago: A Tragedy Widely Forgotten
“We had had several nights of protests … every campus in this country was in an uproar about the war in Vietnam.”
Kent State Massacre: The Shootings Changed the Country
The shootings at the Vietnam War protest was seen “as an indication that things in the U.S. — on and off campus — were spiraling out of control.” NBC News Report
To the Men and Women Lost in the Vietnam War
“He is close in age with many of you … My friend is currently stationed in Kansas, and patiently awaiting his deployment to Afghanistan.”
Fifty Years Later, the Gunfire at Kent State Still Echoes Through America
By Michael Winship: “This was the sort of thing that happened in South American dictatorships—student protestors gunned down for speaking out against the government. Not here.”
Letter from Viet Nam on the 45th Anniversary of the End of the War
I want you to know the truth about what could have been, an alternative and viable path of history that both countries could have trod together for mutual benefit.
Shootings at Kent State, May 4, 1970
Jon Oplinger was wounded in Vietnam and came home to pursue a doctorate in sociology at Kent State. This is his account of the massacre .
Bob Chenoweth’s anti-war activism as a POW
Was he brainwashed in Vietnam? Maybe, he said. But no more so than he had been by American culture before he went to war.
1968 and Today: The Nature of War, Prospects for Change, and Strategies of Resistance
This intergenerational conversation took place at the 2018 Veterans For Peace convention in St. Paul, Minnesota:...
My Lai Memorial Exhibit Now Available for Online Viewing
In 2018-2019, the My Lai Memorial Exhibit was hosted by Veterans for Peace chapters in 16 cities. The tour wrapped up...
John Prine, Presente!
Popular folk singer-songwriter John Prine died yesterday at the age of 73. A survivor of heart disease and cancer, his...
In a Fallen, Violent World
by Emma Paradis. There are not many prominent figures whose message is so aggressively stifled and twisted as Jesus Christ. Would you list him alongside anti-capitalist, anti-cis-hetero-patriarchy revolutionaries?
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