Tag Archives: Vietnam War

MIT’s Anti-War Protests 1967-1972

Posted on February 27, 2020 by

“The protests that erupted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1960s were an important part of the wider student unrest that shook the US in this period. Noam Chomsky has often talked sympathetically about these protests, which … Continue reading →

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Presidio mutiny

Posted on February 21, 2020 by

“The Presidio mutiny was a sit-down protest carried out by 27 prisoners at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco, California on October 14, 1968. The stiff sentences given out at court martials for the participants (known as the Presidio 27) … Continue reading →

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Chicago Seven

Posted on February 11, 2020 by

“The Chicago Seven (originally Chicago Eight, also Conspiracy Eight/Conspiracy Seven) were seven defendants—Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner—charged by the federal government with conspiracy, inciting to riot, and other charges related … Continue reading →

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I.F. Stone’s Weekly

Posted on February 9, 2020 by

“I. F. Stone (Isidor Feinstein Stone, December 24, 1907 – June 18, 1989) was a politically progressive American investigative journalist, writer, and author. He is best remembered for I. F. Stone’s Weekly (1953–71), a newsletter ranked 16th among the top … Continue reading →

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South Vietnam Had an Antiwar Movement, Too

Posted on February 7, 2020 by

Students marching in an anti-American protest in South Vietnam, in 1965. “The year 1967 was a watershed for antiwar protest in the United States, from bold statements like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Riverside Church speech in April … Continue reading →

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Thích Trí Quang

Posted on February 2, 2020 by

“Thích Trí Quang (21 December 1923 – 8 November 2019) was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk best known for his role in leading South Vietnam‘s Buddhist population during the Buddhist crisis in 1963, and in later Buddhist protests against subsequent … Continue reading →

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Peace March, 1966

Posted on January 22, 2020 by

“March 31, 1966. I live on 103rd Street near Central Park West, one of the very few whites in a block of Negroes and Puerto Ricans. Garbage strews the streets and children play in it. Their elders view the scene … Continue reading →

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