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Preparing for Spring: Kent State / Jackson State / National Student Strike

Excerpted from the October 45th Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee’s e-newsletter sent by John McAuliff, VPCC Committee member Kent State University has a year long program of events culminating with the fiftieth

October 7, 2019 • 50th Anniversary Dates To Commemorate, Call To Action, Events, Student Protests • Views: 74

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The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969: A new oral history of “Bloody Thursday”

The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969 commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most searing conflicts that closed out the tumultuous 1960s: the Battle for People’s Park. In a Counterpunch review, Ron Jacobs

July 13, 2019 • Books, Student Protests • Views: 235

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The Cauldron: Columbia ’68

In April 1968, students at Columbia University occupied five campus buildings and for one week brought that prestigious institution to its knees. Fighting both the Vietnam War and university racism, the Columbia Revolt riveted

March 12, 2019 • Connections to Today, Film, Student Protests • Views: 326

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The 1968 Democratic Convention Protests – 50 Years Ago

A melee breaks out between police and demonstrators near the Conrad Hilton Hotel on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue during the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 28, 1968., photo: Bettman / Getty Images // In These Times

August 31, 2018 • Blast From The Past, Connections to Today, Featured, Student Protests • Views: 850

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Peace Studies conversation with Doug Rawlings

The Peace Studies conversation with Doug Rawlings is now posted on PeaceWorks’ YouTube channel. It is 55 minutes, concludes with 2 poems: The Girl in the Picture(for Phan Thi Kim Phuc) and Unexploded Ordnance: A Ballad.

August 11, 2018 • Connections to Today, Featured, Student Protests, Veterans & Families, Video • Views: 755

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Do Youth Still have the Power to Shape Politics?

This op-ed first appeared on the Our Future blog on June 5, 2018. By Richard Eskow Fifty years ago, in the dust and fire of global youth activism, everything seemed possible. The political world was a cloud filled with chaos and

June 18, 2018 • Blast From The Past, Connections to Today, Featured, Student Protests • Views: 744

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Leslie Cagan’s Half-Century of Activism

PHOTO: Leslie Cagan, a leader in the Peoples Climate Movement NY – Peoples Climate Movement 2018 Kick-off event in a city-wide organizing meeting on learning how you can get more involved in climate campaigns. Credit: Erik

June 1, 2018 • Blast From The Past, Connections to Today, Student Protests • Views: 891

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Spirit of 1968 Inextinguishable 50 Years Later

Photo: Indignados protest, 2011. (Credit: Fotomovimiento/Flickr. CC-BY-2.0) By Hilary Wainwright Capitalist adventurer Richard Branson and cultural and political rebel Tariq Ali were both shaped by the experiences of 1968 –

May 16, 2018 • Connections to Today, Student Protests • Views: 684

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May 4, 1970: 48 Years. Never Forget.

CAPTION: In this Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, taken by Kent State photojournalism student John Filo, Mary Ann Vecchio can be seen screaming as she kneels by the body of a slain student. This post originally appeared at

May 5, 2018 • Featured, Student Protests • Views: 1124

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50 Years Later: The History of the Columbia ’68 Protests

Photo: Students during protests at Columbia University in April 1968. Credit: Patrick A. Burns/The New York Times Additional coverage around the Columbia 1968 fiftieth anniversary: • See RAT underground newspaper’s 1968

April 23, 2018 • Blast From The Past, Student Protests • Views: 1251

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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 — which is being commemorated during this decade with a series of 50th anniversary events. Full Disclosure represents a clear alternative to the Pentagon’s current efforts to sanitize and mythologize that war, and to thereby legitimize further unnecessary and destructive wars.

This Month in History: 1969

November – Solidarity actions with the Vietnam Moratorium are taken by GIs in Long Binh, Pleiku, and Da Nang (Đà Nẵng), Vietnam.

November 3 – President Nixon delivers a major TV speech asking for support from “the great silent majority of my fellow Americans” for his Vietnam strategy. “…The more divided we are at home, the less likely the enemy is to negotiate at Paris…North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.” He articulates his “Vietnamization” strategy of protracted withdrawal of American ground troops and increased training of the South Vietnamese army along with continued air support. “Vietnamization” is Nixon’s alternative to what he terms “precipitous withdrawal.”

November 5 – Judge Julius Hoffman sentences Bobby Seale to four years in prison for 16 counts of contempt, each count accounting for three months of his imprisonment, because of his loud protests during the Chicago 8 Conspiracy trial, after he and seven others were indicted on March 20 for alleged actions at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

November 9 – 1,365 active-duty GIs sign a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for an end to the war.

November 11 – 100 GIs hold a Veteran’s Day antiwar demonstration in El Paso, Texas.

November 13-14 – GI Defense Organization organizes a National Conference on GI Rights in Washington D.C.

November 15 – The “Mobilization” peace demonstration draws an estimated 500,000–1 million demonstrators to Washington, D.C., for the largest antiwar protest in U.S. history (up to that point). The protest is organized by the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (New Mob) and the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (SMC). Over 500,000 demonstrators gathered across from the White House for a rally where they were led by Pete Seeger in singing John Lennon‘s new song “Give Peace A Chance” for ten minutes or more. His voice above the crowd, Seeger intersperses phrases like, “Are you listening, Nixon?”, “Are you listening, Agnew?”, “Are you listening, Pentagon?” between the choruses of protesters singing, “All we are saying … is give peace a chance.” This massive Saturday march and rally was preceded by the March against Death, which began on Thursday evening and continued throughout that night and all the next day. Over 40,000 people gathered to parade silently down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. Hour after hour, they walked in single file, each bearing a placard with the name of a dead American soldier or a destroyed Vietnamese village. The marchers finished in front of the Capitol building, where the placards were placed in coffins. The vast majority of demonstrators during these days were peaceful; however, late on Friday, conflict broke out at DuPont Circle, and the police sprayed the crowd with tear gas. The people of Washington, D.C., generously opened schools, seminaries, and other places of shelter to the thousands of students and others who converged for this purpose. A daytime march before the White House was lined by parked tour buses and uniformed police officers, some flashing peace symbols on the inside of their jackets in a show of support for the crowd. Solidarity events by GIs, including whole units, were held throughout South Vietnam.

President Richard Nixon’s response to the march: “Now, I understand that there has been, and continues to be, opposition to the war in Vietnam on the campuses and also in the nation. As far as this kind of activity is concerned, we expect it; however under no circumstances will I be affected whatever by it.”

Activists at some universities continued to hold monthly “Moratoria” on the 15th of each month.

November 16 – For the first time, the U.S. Army publicly discusses events surrounding the My Lai massacre.

November 16 – Soldier’s Liberation Front forms at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

November 19 – In Washington, D.C., a military judge throws out solicitation charge against Roger Priest. [On July 22, the Navy Seaman was charged with soliciting men to desert, disrespect toward Gen. Earl Wheeler, J. Edgar Hoover, and Melvin Laird (for publishing a headline in his paper, Om: “TODAY’S PIGS ARE TOMORROW’S BACON”), intending to interfere with, impair and influence the loyalty, morale and discipline of the military and Naval Forces of the U.S.] The judge is overruled by Rear Admiral George Koch, Commandant Washington naval District.

Vietnam Full Disclosure

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Preparing for Spring: Kent State / Jackson State / National Student Strike

The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969: A new oral history of “Bloody Thursday”

The Cauldron: Columbia ’68

The 1968 Democratic Convention Protests – 50 Years Ago

Peace Studies conversation with Doug Rawlings

Do Youth Still have the Power to Shape Politics?

Leslie Cagan’s Half-Century of Activism

Spirit of 1968 Inextinguishable 50 Years Later

May 4, 1970: 48 Years. Never Forget.

50 Years Later: The History of the Columbia ’68 Protests

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