“Safe Return” explores war resister amnesty movement

New book by veteran Michael Uhl dives into effort for amnesty for  war objectors who sought refuge abroad during the Vietnam War.

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Biden Is the Latest President To Tout the Vietnam War as Proud History

When Joe Biden flew out of Hanoi last week, he was leaving a country where U.S. warfare caused roughly 3.8 million Vietnamese deaths.

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Biggest Vietnam War story that we don’t talk about

South Korea’s government is finally being held to account for the carnage its mercenary troops inflicted on Vietnamese civilians.

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Henry A. Kissinger, Still a War Criminal

Even as a centenarian, his “relevancy” remains intact, and his influence, I’d argue, as malevolent as ever.

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Daniel Ellsberg, from the NY Times Obituary

Ellsberg went to a War Resisters League meeting at Haverford College and was moved by an anti-draft speaker who was about to go to prison.

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Making Art Out of Bombshells and Memories in Vietnam

Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s videos and sculptures uncover haunting artifacts and stories from the Vietnam War. They are coming to New York.

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Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam

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Lighter than Orange

November 21, 2013

Lighter than Orange

Lighter than Orange is a brand new film. Our screening a world premiere, so very few people have had a chance to see it yet. It feels foreign relative to the...

Sir No Sir!

November 21, 2013

Sir No Sir!

Sir! No Sir! seems almost light in comparison, joyous and celebratory, though it also has tear-jerking moments, my favorite being the Rita Martinson solo,...

Hearts and Minds

November 21, 2013

Hearts and Minds

Hearts and Minds is incredible the way the clips are juxtaposed and braided together to make one of the strongest antiwar statements you will ever see. But be...

November 21, 2013

Another Brother

ANOTHER BROTHER is a moving biographical mosaic of one ordinary yet extraordinary man, Clarence Fitch. An African American veteran of the Vietnam War,...

The Collapse of the Armed Forces

November 20, 2013

The Collapse of the Armed Forces

G.I. Resistance to the Vietnam War originally posted on Counter Punch by KEVIN KEATING An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He...

November 20, 2013

Dave Cline Is Dead

Originally posted on Fire On the Mountain by by Jimmy Higgins Dave Cline died last night at his home in Jersey City, NJ. In one sense it comes as no surprise...

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 — with a series of 50th anniversary events now occurring. 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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50 Years of GI Resistance, In and Out of Uniform

2019 is the year that we acknowledge and honor the courage, sacrifice, and moral strength of those who resisted.

Original Podcasts

Produced by Courage to Resist in collaboration with the Vietnam Full Disclosure effort of Veterans For Peace.

On the Burns/Novick PBS Documentary

Critical responses to the 10-part PBS series by Ken Burns, The Vietnam War (2018)

Philip Jones Griffith's Viet Nam

Highly recommended photo exhibit available to local community arts centers, galleries and schools.

“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

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