antiwar movement 
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/6/2022
Don Luce, Activist Against Vietnam War, Dies at 88
Luce helped expose the torture and human rights abuses carried out by the government of South Vietnam, and campaigned against the war after being expelled from South Vietnam as an aid worker.
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12/4/2022
Farewell, Brother Staughton
by Carl Mirra
Staughton Lynd was always in the trenches fighting for a better world, and for that he remains a “admirable radical” and, for that matter, a beautiful person.
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SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
10/21/2022
Screaming Past Each Other at Christmas: Debating the End of the Vietnam War
by Ryan Reft
In December 1972 the United States launched a massive bombing campaign, notionally to force the North back to the bargaining table and secure an "honorable" peace. The fierce debate between Anthony Lewis and Robert Conquest over the merits of that reasoning would resonate for years.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
10/17/2021
Seeing the Future When No One Believes You
by Rebecca Gordon
The recollections and rehabilitations occasioned by the 20th anniversary of the War on Terror are, predictably, giving short shrift to the voices of dissent who questioned the ability of American military power to resolve political conflicts. Like their mythical namesake, those denounced as Cassandras in 2001 were right.
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6/13/2021
The Night Vietnam Veterans Stormed Bunker Hill
by Elise Lemire
The Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775 was a military defeat for the Continental Army but a coup for morale. In 1971, Vietnam Veterans Against the War won a nonviolent battle at the site for the allegiance of the working class residents of Charlestown.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/28/2021
Vietnam Veterans Transformed Memorial Day Weekend into a Holiday about Peace
by Elise Lemire
"By the time the law went into effect on Jan. 1, 1971, many returning service members decided to reject not only the commercialization of Memorial Day, but also the holiday’s traditional premise that it was noble to die fighting a war."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/19/2021
The Girl in the Kent State Photo
by Patricia McCormick
Mary Ann Vecchio's life was forever changed by being pictured in the famous photograph with Kent State shooting victim Jeffrey Miller; she became a lightning rod for a nation's anger at age 14.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/10/2021
Marshall D. Sahlins, Groundbreaking Anthropologist, Dies at 90
Marshal Sahlins was an innovator in the practice of campus "teach-ins," developed as a way for he and colleagues to protest the war in Vietnam without disengaging from contact with their students.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/1/2021
‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ is the Film to Help Us Understand 2021. Here’s Why
by John Beckman and Theo Zenou
Abbie Hoffman used his conspiracy trial as a guerrila theater stage, the peak of his career as an activist who used absurdity and wit to expose the hypocrisies of American society.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/3/2021
Rennie Davis, ‘Chicago Seven’ Antiwar Activist, Dies at 80
Mr. Davis was most famous as an organizer of the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago which led to his trial for conspiracy and inciting riot.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/16/2021
Alan Canfora, Who Carried Wounds From Kent State, Dies at 71
After being wounded by National Guard fire at Kent State, Canfora worked tirelessly to ensure that the violence would not be erased from the university's or the nation's history.
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SOURCE: Current Affairs
10/22/2020
The Real Abbie Hoffman
by Nathan J. Robinson
While The Trial of the Chicago 7 is sympathetic to Hoffman, it also softens him in a way that ultimately amounts to historical fabrication.
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SOURCE: The Nation
10/21/2020
Aaron Sorkin Sanitizes the Chicago 7
by Jeet Heer
According to Jeet Heer, "Sorkin takes many liberties with the facts, most of which are designed to make both the New Left and its conservative opponents more palatable to contemporary liberal viewers."
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SOURCE: Miami Herald
10/19/2020
After Chicago 7 Trial, Mrs. Jean Fritz Helped Change the Course of History
A look back at the Chicago 7 conspiracy trial through the eyes of one of the jurors reveals an America that was less completely polarized than one might think.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/6/2020
Nixon Did Call the Military on Protesters. He Just Covered It Up.
by Lawrence Roberts
The antiwar movement had already helped turn public opinion against Mr. Nixon’s conduct of the war. He was determined to deny activists a victory that could cause further political damage.
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SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
5/4/2020
On the 50th Anniversary, America’s Still not Fully Recovered from the Wounds of Kent State
by Will Bunch
Historian Thomas Grace argued that, contrary to the perception of student protesters as Ivy League elites, movements at Kent State built on family histories of labor unionism and the perception that working class kids' path to a better life was being short-circuited by the war in Vietnam.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
5/1/2020
How 13 Seconds Changed Kent State University Forever
As the 50th anniversary of the Kent State killings passed this week, the University had been advancing along a difficult path to acknowledge the events and introduce new students to the campus's tragic history.
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5/3/2020
50 Years After Kent State: Four Deaths Shocked a Nation and Thrust Me into Student Activism
by James Thornton Harris
An HNN Contributing Editor reflects on how the Kent State killings pushed him to student activism and the legacy of protest fifty years later.
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SOURCE: Portside
4/27/2020
Fifty Years Ago This Spring: Millions of Students Struck To End a War in Vietnam
by Steve Early
1970 Student Strike participant Steve Early reflects on the massive college student walkouts and their relevance to today's political climate.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Ed.
5-13-13
Penny Lewis: Hard Hats, Hippies, and the Real Antiwar Movement
Penny Lewis is an assistant professor of labor studies at the Joseph P. Murphy Institute for Work Education and Labor Studies in the School of Professional Studies at the City University of New York. This essay is adapted from her new book Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory, published by Cornell University Press.Decades after its conclusion, the U.S. war in Vietnam remains an unsettled part of our collective memory. Members of the military, veterans, scholars, journalists, and artists continue to revisit and reinterpret the war, assessing its historical significance while seeking meaning for wars fought today. Despite the efforts of our political elites to put the ghosts of Vietnam to rest, the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have prolonged these discussions. Books and articles with titles like "Is Afghanistan Another Vietnam?" abound. The economic and political imperatives that drive U.S. foreign policy, the appropriate use of force, the domestic costs of war, the treatment and trauma of veterans, whether today's wars are "winnable" or "worth it"—appropriate or not, those are some of the many points of comparison and concern.
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