Rising Up Angry Newspaper

Front page of Rising Up Angry's newspaper May 14, 1972.  The escalation referred to was the bombing of Hanoi and the mining of Haiphong Harbor.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ITSb--T7pGix1xc0A4BtwF2fWh2PAcqL/view?usp=sharing

War Is Over 1975

May 11, 1975  War is Over concert in Central Park, NYC.  Saigon was liberated days before....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqrkPP_g8Xs

I write about another celebration in College Park, MD...in my book Daydream Sunset...

The Christmas Bombings of Vietnam 1972

I was 17 years old in 1972 and I was pissed off.  It was getting near Christmas and every day that I turned the news on the radio I would hear about another flurry of bombing raids on northern Vietnamese cities by hundreds of US bombers.  Hospitals were being bombed.  Civilian neighborhoods were being destroyed and Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger and the rest of the war pigs were getting ready for their particular holidays.  I recall going to a protest in downtown Frankfurt against the bombings.  Particularly galling was the targeting of the hospitals.  Indeed, Bach Mai hospital was attacked more than once, killing more than 25 doctors and an unknown number of patients.  Here is a recollection from Vietnam Veteran Against the War Barry Romo, who was in Hanoi during the bombings.
http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=2204

The October 1973 War

It was this war that arguably made it clear to Israel that their actions would be backed by Washington, no matter what... It also precipitated an oil embargo and an increase in gas prices, among other changes that affect our current situation....

here is the NSA set of reports, etc.
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB98/

Chilean Musician Victor Jara Killed by Chilean Military in 1973

On September 15, 1973, the Chilean musician Victor Jara was tortured and murdered by the Fascist military under the direction of dictator Augusto Pinochet.  Pinochet took power in a military coup against the popularly elected socialist government of Salvador Allende.  The White House, CIA, Anaconda Copper and ITT were intimately involved in the coup and the economic and political disruption leading up to the overthrow.  Jara's supposed killer was found guilty in a Florida courtroom in July 2016.  However, the major architects of the coup in the Chilean military, finance and political systems got away with Jara's murder and the murder and torture of thousands of others.  In addition, those in the US who were involved, including Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, have never answered for their crimes.  Nixon, of course, is dead.  Kissinger's death will draw few tears.

A tune from Victor Jara...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q2_zOfuGcA&list=PLjGY1Q5b_IbnNWuinaSrPNaKFTwyQPhwW