An alternative look at the history of the 1970s by Ron Jacobs
Showing posts with label VVAW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VVAW. Show all posts
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqrkPP_g8Xs
I write about another celebration in College Park, MD...in my book Daydream Sunset...
Labels:
1975,
antiwar,
Cambodia,
counterculture,
Kissinger,
Patti Smith,
Vietnam,
VVAW
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Winter Soldier Investigation January 31 - February 2, 1971
Labels:
1970s,
1971,
anti-imperialism,
antiwar,
imperialism,
New Left,
Richard Nixon,
Vietnam,
VVAW
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
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
http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=2204
Labels:
1970s,
1972,
anti-imperialism,
antiwar,
GIs,
imperialism,
Kissinger,
Richard Nixon,
VVAW,
war and killing
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Takeover of Bureau of Indian Affairs....Mutiny on the USS Constellation: November 1972
On November 2, 1972, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs building in Washington , DC.
https://washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/native-americans-take-over-bureau-of-indian-affairs-1972/
Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, sailors were staging a mutiny on board the USS Constellation. This was after a riot on board the Kitty Hawk a couple weeks earlier....
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B01dj5QyuLDeWXJvWXl4SE9KZEU/view?usp=sharing
https://washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/native-americans-take-over-bureau-of-indian-affairs-1972/
Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, sailors were staging a mutiny on board the USS Constellation. This was after a riot on board the Kitty Hawk a couple weeks earlier....
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B01dj5QyuLDeWXJvWXl4SE9KZEU/view?usp=sharing
Monday, August 22, 2016
August 23, 1972: Last Official US Combat Troops Leave Vietnam
Although the combat troops had left, there were still several tens of thousands of troops in country, not to mention CIA mercenaries, Special Forces, and others. In addition, the bombing would go on for years, including the Christmas bombings at the end of 1972--some of the heaviest bombing raids in the history of bombing raids. I thought I would link to this pamphlet written by Overseas Weekly writer Richard Boyle describing GI resistance to the war....Overseas Weekly was an unofficial newspaper written for GIs and sold in the PX alongside the official Stars & Stripes.....The resistance Boyle writes about is part of the reason the war was Vietnamized and US troops were slowly removed from in country....while the killing dragged on....
https://libcom.org/history/gi-revolts-breakdown-us-army-vietnam
https://libcom.org/history/gi-revolts-breakdown-us-army-vietnam
Monday, April 25, 2016
The Spring Offensive Against the War in 1971--Noam Chomsky Checks In
From the New York Review of Books (when it was a leftish journal)
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1971/06/17/a-special-supplement-mayday-the-case-for-civil-dis/
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1971/06/17/a-special-supplement-mayday-the-case-for-civil-dis/
Friday, April 22, 2016
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