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

Above: National guard troops confront a protester at Peoples Park in Berkeley, 1969. Photo: Ted Streshinsky/Courtesy of the Streshinsky Family The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969 commemorates the fiftieth

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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: 239

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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: 684

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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: 627

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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: 604

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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: 705

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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: 574

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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: 904

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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: 1067

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Mission statement

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 now approaching a series of 50th anniversary events. 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.

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This Month in History: 1969

July 1969, date unspecified:

At Camp Lejeune, the display of “peace symbols” is outlawed.
Home Front coffeehouse in Colorado Springs loses its lease after the FBI visits the landlord.
The New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam (New Mobe), is formed at a conference held in Ohio, hosted by the Cleveland Area Peace Action Council.
At Fort Ord, California, Private Benny Amos attempts self-immolation in protest against the war (he does not sustain serious injuries).

July 2: Wrightstown, New Jersey—Sgt. Harold Hariston (McGuire AFB), Specialist 4 Hal Muskat (Fort Dix) and 2 staff members of the Fort Dix coffee house file a $1,000,000 damage suit against the commanding general of Fort Dix and state and local officials for harassment of employees and patrons of the coffeehouse.

July 4-5: First national antiwar conference involving GIs is convened in Cleveland.

July 8: The very first U.S. troop withdrawal occurs as 800 men from the 9th Infantry Division are sent home. The phased troop withdrawal will occur in 14 stages from July 1969 through November 1972.

July 9: At the invitation of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam, Dave Dellinger arrives in Paris to arrange the release of three American POWs.

July 15: President Nixon, through a French emissary, sends a secret letter to Ho Chi Minh urging him to settle the war, while at the same time threatening to resume bombing on November 1 if peace talks remain stalled. [Come August, Hanoi will respond by repeating earlier demands for NLF participation in a coalition government in South Viet Nam.]

July 16: Peace activist David Harris is arrested for refusing the draft. [Harris ultimately served a 15-month prison sentence; Harris’ wife, prominent musician, pacifist and activist Joan Baez, toured and performed on behalf of her husband, throughout the remainder of 1969, attempting to raise consciousness around the issue of ending the draft.]

July 17: Secretary of State William Rogers accuses Hanoi of “lacking humanity” in the treatment of American POWs.

July 20: At Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, a brawl between white and black marines at an enlisted men’s club spreads over the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines barracks area. The fighting leaves fourteen injured and one Marine dead.

July 22: The New York Times reports that, at a pretrial hearing for Navy seaman Roger Priest, the Pentagon admitted that they had 25 military agents assigned to his case, that attempts had been made by these agents under assumed names to receive copies of his paper, and that special arrangements had been made with the Washington, D.C. Sanitation Department to collect his trash and deliver it to Naval Intelligence. Priest is charged with soliciting men to desert, disrespect toward Gen. Earl Wheeler, J. Edgar Hoover, and Melvin Laird (a result of a headline in this 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., and that “Roger Lee Priest, journalist seaman apprentice, U.S. Navy, did, at Washington, District of Columbia, on or about 1 June 1969 in the June issue of a pamphlet entitled “OM The Liberation Newsletter” wrongfully used contemptuous words against the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, L. Mendel Rivers.”

July 25: The “Nixon Doctrine” is made public. It advocates U.S. military and economic assistance to nations around the world struggling against Communism, but no more VietNam-style ground wars involving American troops. The emphasis is thus placed on local military self-sufficiency, backed by U.S. air power and technical assistance to assure security.

July 30: President Nixon visits U.S. troops and President Thiệu in Vietnam. This is Nixon’s only trip to Vietnam during his Presidency.

July 30: At a press conference called by the GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee, Bob Kukiel (who had been discharged from the Marine Corps on July 1, three months early, after requesting permission to distribute GI paper Head-On! at Camp Lejeune) refuted Rep. Mario Biaggi’s attempt to use clashes at Camp Lejeune between blacks and whites as an excuse for a witch hunt attack on all dissent in the military. Kukiel, who became opposed to the war while fighting in VietNam, described the unlawful harassment meted out to him and other antiwar Marines and to anyone found with a copy of Head-On!

July 30: A hundred soldiers demonstrate against the war at Qui Nhon (Quy Nhơn).

July 31 The New York Times publishes the results of a Gallup poll in which 53 percent of respondents approve of Nixon’s handling of the war, 30 percent disapprove, and 17 percent have no opinion.

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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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Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue

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Commemorating Violent Conflicts and Building Sustainable Peace

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Philip Jones Griffiths’ Viet Nam

This Month in History: 1969

2016 National Book Award Finalist, Viet Thanh Nguyen:

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Philip Jones Griffiths’ Viet Nam

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