Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam
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UMass creates Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy
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The Movement and the “Madman” Documentary now in Production
The first feature documentary to chronicle the untold story of the mass movement that helped limit and end the long and brutal war in Vietnam.
Podcast: “Arrested dozens of times, two years in prison” – Jim Albertini
“We need the next generations of activists to carry forward, to complete the work that we can’t get done in our lifetime.”
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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“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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