Byline: Tarron Lively, THE WASHINGTON TIMESThousands of anti-war demonstrators yesterday marched to the Pentagon to rail against President Bush and the Iraq war in a protest designed to evoke a similar march 40 years ago against the war in Vietnam.The demonstrators assembled just before noon ...
are just as important as demonstrations, strikes and other forms of collective action. Inspiration can be found in successful civil resistance movements from the past, such as Gandhi’s “Quit India” campaign in the 1930s, the anti-Vietnam War protests from the 1960s,...
antiwar protest movement in the United States from its beginning in the nineteen-sixties through to its aftermath in the nineteen-eighties and to work out its impact on the American foreign policy and society.§§First, the concept of protest movements will be outlined from a cultural perspective...
aVietnam's anti-China riots of distroying the business centre,smashing facilities and more than 100 of them were injured in the recent deadly violence against foreign company and citizens, including staff of China Metallurgical Group Corporation, leading the strong protest from the Diplomatic ...
and no one ever thought of going to live in an Algerian village to protect the people from French violence, or in a Vietnamese village. Thousands of Americans were doing that in the 1980s in Reagan’s terrorist wars. It’s now extended over the whole world. There’s an international so...
American folk music is rich with political commentary and protest songs. Because of thefolk music revivalin the middle of the 20th Century - and the socio-political climate in America in the 1950s and '60s (the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War era, etc.) many people these days conf...
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*Protest and Survive: Underground GI Newspapers during the Vietnam War*** by James Lewes *Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War by David Cortright Howard Zinn (Introduction) *** *Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home When South...
Michael Goldberg, author, journalist: I’d been in anti-Vietnam War protest events in the Polo Field, where the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane played, or Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin. When I was really young, I was at large events like that. This f...
Sweden was a ‘historical’ diplomatic partner for Vietnam, going back to the Vietnam War. Sweden was perceived to be a trusted partner by Government, and a natural partner to work on this agenda. However, Sweden has since discontinued bi-lateral aid to Vietnam. Although, with the exit of...