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CNN
February 24, 2018
... incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command." In the "Winter Soldier" hearings organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War, a transcript of which was later entered into the Congressional Record by Sen. Mark Hatfield, soldiers testified,ÃÂ ...
Gainesville Sun
February 11, 2018
The former Goldwater Republican quietly surrendered his service medals to his senator, joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War, worked for President Jimmy Carter, and became executive director of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. But he remained haunted by Tet, and felt compelled to go back.
The Ledger
February 10, 2018
The former Goldwater Republican quietly surrendered his service medals to his senator, joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War, worked for President Jimmy Carter and became executive director of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. But he remained haunted by Tet, and felt compelled to go back.
WUWM
February 8, 2018
“There were a lot of articles about Vietnam veterans against the war, VA support for returning veterans, there was also a lot of content regarding drug dependency, there was a renter and eviction advocacy for the east side." It also included political cartoons and promotion of music festivals, he adds.
Brooklyn Rail
February 7, 2018
What birthed the idea of the truck was catering a Memorial Day dinner, a barbeque for the Iraq Veterans Against the War and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. I realized that like, “Oh my god the hands that are making this kabab, the fists that are shaping the lamb, are hands that were also making a fistÃÂ ...
Creative Loafing Tampa
February 1, 2018
In St. Petersburg, she quickly got involved with the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War, she said, and remembers cooking for them at the Unitarian Universalist Church of St. Pete, which sits by Mirror Lake downtown. As a former northerner who moved south of St. Pete's Central Avenue — which inÃÂ ...
People's World
January 26, 2018
Jim Baldridge, holding the flag in the center, marches with a Vietnam Veterans Against the War contingent at a demonstration in Washington, D.C. opposing the war in Afghanistan, Dec. 16, 2010. | Vetspeak. Memories are our footprints on Earth: On the passing of an activist. Recently the progressiveÃÂ ...
hngnews.com
January 25, 2018
He joined the anti-war movement and Vets for Peace at the UW-Madison campus and Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He participated in several anti-war marches, including one in April 1971 in Washington, D.C., with several other veterans. Among the organizers of that march was John Kerry, futureÃÂ ...
TIME
January 19, 2018
That's what gave rise to the organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War and what inspired Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to congress, to lead 5,000 women in a march to the Capitol. A financial brokerage house, Paine Webber, Jackson & Curtis, went so far as to run an ad saying that peaceÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 15, 2018
(He eventually joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War and grew his hair past his shoulders.) While Mr. Leepson was overseas, a different sort of battle had been brewing in the United States. The civil rights movement had been underway for years, achieving landmark federal laws and Supreme CourtÃÂ ...
New York Times
October 24, 2017
Returning soldiers formed Vietnam Veterans Against the War, some tearfully confessing to atrocities committed there. Organizers distributed antiwar literature at military bases, opened coffeehouses nearby to attract antiwar soldiers and helped G.I.s publish antiwar newsletters. Draft resisters had inspiredÃÂ ...
Minnesota Public Radio News
September 26, 2017
John Kerry speaks to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. John Kerry, 27, a former Navy lieutenant, speaks to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 22, 1971. Henry Griffin | AP 1971ÃÂ ...
New York Times
April 18, 2017
In November 1967 our new group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, placed an ad in The New York Times, titled “Viet-Nam Veterans Speak Out.” Signed by 65 veterans of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines, the statement said in part: “We know, because we have been there, that the American publicÃÂ ...
Broadway World
December 31, 1999
Above, in the second floor oval room, will be a tribute to Philadelphia antiwar activists, particularly Philadelphia-based members of the VVAW movement (Vietnam Veterans Against the War). Covering the walls in paintings and the ceiling with interlocking canvases, Irish will consider how 20th-CenturyÃÂ ...
CSU Pueblo Today
December 31, 1999
Trujillo is a member of an organization called, “Vietnam Veterans Against the War.”. Trujillo said there was nothing to win from being in Vietnam. Trujillo explained that the Chicanos were honored to fight for the U.S., and they gave an extraordinary effort to prove themselves to other, non-Hispanic, soldiers.
InfoTel News Ltd
November 13, 2017
I also helped lead the Vietnam Veterans Against the War movement at the University of Florida after leaving the Air Force. I share this only for ...
The Daily Progress
November 12, 2017
... and a lifetime member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He is the author of “…and a hard rain fell: A G.I.'s True Story of the Vietnam War.
Eureka Times Standard
November 11, 2017
Adding to my disenchantment were the invasion of Cambodia, Kent State, Woodstock, Vietnam Veterans Against the War's Winter Soldier ...
Rockford Register Star
November 10, 2017
I returned in 1988 with the second Vietnam Veterans Against the War Friendship Tour. There were five of us, ranging from a truck driver with ...
Martinsville Bulletin
November 10, 2017
... and a lifetime member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He is the author of “…and a hard rain fell: A G.I.'s True Story of the Vietnam War.
Galesburg Register-Mail
October 28, 2017
There was a particularly poignant segment that showed Vietnam Veterans Against the War throwing their medals over a fence at the Capitol.
Jacobin magazine
October 27, 2017
How a group of researchers helped strengthen and scale up the anti–Vietnam War movement. Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW)Â ...
Eyes on the Ties
October 24, 2017
Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) marches through the streets around 1970. VVAW and NARMIC both worked together and played a ...
New York Times
October 24, 2017
Returning soldiers formed Vietnam Veterans Against the War, some tearfully confessing to atrocities committed there. Organizers distributed ...
Minnesota Public Radio News
October 18, 2017
... Lt. John Kerry, testified on April 22, 1971, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, representing Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
The Advocate
October 17, 2017
In his eloquent address to Congress, war hero John Kerry, a spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, said, “Someone has to die, ...
Salon
October 16, 2017
There are those sequences where Vietnam veterans against the war speak out. So you do hear some of that from them. If you have military ...
Common Dreams
October 3, 2017
Veterans For Peace, (VFP) founded after the prominent days of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), featured in the series, has actively ...
Common Dreams
September 27, 2017
And by 1972 Vietnam Veterans Against the War was a highly visible, major force across the country. The widespread picture of a military full of ...
Minnesota Public Radio News
September 26, 2017
... Senate Foreign Relations Committee on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 22, 1971.
Salt Lake City Weekly
December 31, 1999
The documentary includes footage of the 1971 Vietnam Veterans Against the War protest when a young John Kerry testified before the Senate ...
Truthdig
December 31, 1999
In Episode 9, John Kerry, representing the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, offers riveting congressional testimony that identifies specific war ...
Salt Lake Tribune
December 31, 1999
Civil protest included VVAWs (Vietnam Veterans Against the War) who protested by marching on the White House and throwing their war ...
Newsworks.org
October 4, 2017
The UVUS members all spoke out against the war, side by side with Vietnam Veterans Against the War from 1972 until 1975. I continue to workÃÂ ...
Common Dreams
October 3, 2017
Veterans For Peace, (VFP) founded after the prominent days of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), featured in the series, has activelyÃÂ ...
Common Dreams
September 27, 2017
And by 1972 Vietnam Veterans Against the War was a highly visible, major force across the country. The widespread picture of a military full ofÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
September 27, 2017
... suicide, and ultimately evolves into an anti-war activist and member of the organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War (V.V.A.W.). One ofÃÂ ...
Minnesota Public Radio News
September 26, 2017
... speaks to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.,ÃÂ ...
The Union Leader
September 24, 2017
Steve Shurtleff was serving in an outpost in Vietnam in this photo taken in December 1967, about a month before the Tet Offensive. ShurtleffÃÂ ...
Workers World
September 23, 2017
16 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. VVAW was formally formed on June 1, 1967, by sixÃÂ ...
Movie City News
September 22, 2017
The release of the Pentagon Papers, testimony of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and coverage of the My Lai Massacre left no excuses forÃÂ ...
HuffPost
September 22, 2017
Would the most successful (and last) anti-war group, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, have become so honored if that was true?
Lawrence Journal World
September 16, 2017
It was an alienation that prompted him to join in the Vietnam Veterans Against the War when he got home, rather than the wider peaceÃÂ ...
The American Prospect
September 15, 2017
... senator who testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the early 1970s as a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
WXXI News
September 7, 2017
At one point, Levin was a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. But he supports the U.S. military. "I'm anti-war, but that doesn't meanÃÂ ...
Newsroom America
September 5, 2017
Vietnam Veterans Against the War, already focused on demanding better care from VA hospitals, began educating veterans about their AgentÃÂ ...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
August 15, 2017
The name “Winter Soldier” is from Thomas Paine's “The American Crisis” and an organization of Vietnam Veterans against the war.
The Washington Spectator (blog)
August 8, 2017
The former Mississippi state coordinator for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, who took leave from his job as a sociology professor in order toÃÂ ...
Hartford Courant
August 8, 2017
"I became active in the anti-war movement as a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. I thought I could help the anti-war effort and myÃÂ ...
The American Conservative
July 28, 2017
... he was) and nobody alive would remember that he was a leading spokesperson for Vietnam Veterans Against the War (which he also was).
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