Honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Moratorium and Mobilization
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October 11
9:30 a.m. Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana Cardinal Hall B; Vietnam Moratorium Committee 50th Anniversary (program here); livestream at 11:30 a.m. of David Harris keynote address here; Michael Doyle mwdoyle@bsu.edu
7:00 p.m University of Massachusetts, Amherst, E470 South College; Panel Discussion: Moral Injury and the Traumas of War (program here), final day of exhibit Waging Peace in Vietnam in the main lobby of the Integrated Learning Center; Chris Appy appy@history.umass.edu
October 15
3:45 pm Wayne State University, Detroit Community Room in Undergraduate Library; talk by Mel Small, author of numerous books on the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement; sponsored by Honors College, WSU; Fran Shor <drfran45@gmail.com> (248) 506-8128
7:00 p.m. Swords into Plowshares Peace Center & Gallery, 33 E. Adams, Detroit "Fifty years later: The antiwar movement then and now" Frank Joyce co-editor of the book, People Make the Peace: Lessons from the Antiwar Movement, recently translated and published in Vietnam; member of VPCC
November 11 - 15 50th Anniversary of the Mobilization
Chicano Moratorium
The Epiphany Peoples History Project in the Lincoln Heights barrio of greater East Los Angeles will post some of the chicano related developments of the October 15 moratoriums, especially in New Mexico that were covered by El Grito Del Norte Newspaper published in Albuquerque with articles appearing in other raza movement periodicals affiliated with the Chicano Newspaper Association.
The Peoples History Project may organize an event around the November 15, 1969 moratorium in San Francisco where several Chicano leaders spoke and later events and posting relating to some 25 Chicano Moratoriums against the Vietnam War from Dec 20, 1969 in East Los Angeles with some 2000 marchers leading up to the National Chicano Moratorium of 1970 where some 30,000 primarily Chicano and Latinos marched, rallied and were attacked viciously by local, state and national law enforcement and national security agencies along with much of the corporate media.
A 50th Anniversary Committee commemorating the event, background, aftermath and legacy is organizing events next year especially in the end of August and has built a growing group with much grass roots, community groups, organized labor and progressive elected officials y mas. Hopefully the history of the war and peace movement will be more widely projected to our nations and world peoples as a key part of the "Vietnam Syndrome" that helped end that war and is central part of the forces for peace and justice of our nation today.
-- Rosalio Munoz, director of the Epiphany Peoples History theProject and the steering committee of the 50th Anniversary Commemoration Committee of the August 29 1970 National Chicano Moratorium
Please add your event here.
October 11
9:30 a.m. Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana Cardinal Hall B; Vietnam Moratorium Committee 50th Anniversary (program here); livestream at 11:30 a.m. of David Harris keynote address here; Michael Doyle mwdoyle@bsu.edu
7:00 p.m University of Massachusetts, Amherst, E470 South College; Panel Discussion: Moral Injury and the Traumas of War (program here), final day of exhibit Waging Peace in Vietnam in the main lobby of the Integrated Learning Center; Chris Appy appy@history.umass.edu
October 13
6:00 p.m. The Orpheum Theater, 216 State St., Madison, WIsconsin, 40th Anniversary Benefit Screening of The War at Home, followed by panel discussion with Glenn Silber “The War at Home: Then & Now: Lessons of the Antiwar Movement”, details here
3:45 pm Wayne State University, Detroit Community Room in Undergraduate Library; talk by Mel Small, author of numerous books on the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement; sponsored by Honors College, WSU; Fran Shor <drfran45@gmail.com> (248) 506-8128
7:00 p.m. Swords into Plowshares Peace Center & Gallery, 33 E. Adams, Detroit "Fifty years later: The antiwar movement then and now" Frank Joyce co-editor of the book, People Make the Peace: Lessons from the Antiwar Movement, recently translated and published in Vietnam; member of VPCC
October 16
7:00 p.m. Bundy Museum annex, 129 Main St., Binghamton NY showing the film "Sir!No Sir!" about the anti war GI movement; fundraiser for Vets for Peace chapter November My Lai exhibit at the public library; Rick Sprout <sproutr15@gmail.com> (607) 238-6892; Rick was the high school representative speaker at the 1969 moratorium in Binghamton. Sponsors: Broome Tioga Green Party/ Midstate Council Occupational Safety & Health/ Broome Peace Action/ Friends of MORENA
7:00 p.m. Bundy Museum annex, 129 Main St., Binghamton NY showing the film "Sir!No Sir!" about the anti war GI movement; fundraiser for Vets for Peace chapter November My Lai exhibit at the public library; Rick Sprout <sproutr15@gmail.com> (607) 238-6892; Rick was the high school representative speaker at the 1969 moratorium in Binghamton. Sponsors: Broome Tioga Green Party/ Midstate Council Occupational Safety & Health/ Broome Peace Action/ Friends of MORENA
October 18
12:00 p.m., Columbia University School of International Affairs, Room 1512, 420 W. 118 Street, NY Waging Peace book launch with activist veterans; speakers here
November 11 - 15 50th Anniversary of the Mobilization
Waging Peace in Vietnam, George Washington University
An imaginative multi-dimensional program begins on Veterans Day at the
Elliott School of International Affairs. (available here) In summary
* November 11 Opening of the Waging Peace exhibit, launching of the
companion book on U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War.
* November 12 "Sir! No Sir!" documentary screening with filmmaker David
Zeiger
* November 13 The War Comes Home: Moratorium and Mobilization, 1969, a VPCC
panel (speakers here); peace poetry workshop and open
mic
* November 14 Screening of fine cut of The Boys Who Said No with filmmaker
Bill Prince, Re-
enactment of the Cortright v Resor court court case,Screening of The
Whistleblower of My Lai with
filmmaker Connie Field
* November 15 Full day symposium "The American War in Vietnam: Then and
Now" with panels on The History of Diplomatic and Peace Movement Initiative to
Bring About Peace in Vietnam, Teaching the American War in Vietnam, Mitigating
the Legacies of War (Agent Orange, Unexploded Ordnance); Keynote addresses by
Christian Appy and Cora Weiss; Candlelight vigil with re-enactment of March
Against Death from GWU to the White House with comments by Rep. Jamie Raskin,
(For information about the week and the walk to the White House, contact Terry
Provance here.)
Chicano Moratorium
The Epiphany Peoples History Project in the Lincoln Heights barrio of greater East Los Angeles will post some of the chicano related developments of the October 15 moratoriums, especially in New Mexico that were covered by El Grito Del Norte Newspaper published in Albuquerque with articles appearing in other raza movement periodicals affiliated with the Chicano Newspaper Association.
The Peoples History Project may organize an event around the November 15, 1969 moratorium in San Francisco where several Chicano leaders spoke and later events and posting relating to some 25 Chicano Moratoriums against the Vietnam War from Dec 20, 1969 in East Los Angeles with some 2000 marchers leading up to the National Chicano Moratorium of 1970 where some 30,000 primarily Chicano and Latinos marched, rallied and were attacked viciously by local, state and national law enforcement and national security agencies along with much of the corporate media.
A 50th Anniversary Committee commemorating the event, background, aftermath and legacy is organizing events next year especially in the end of August and has built a growing group with much grass roots, community groups, organized labor and progressive elected officials y mas. Hopefully the history of the war and peace movement will be more widely projected to our nations and world peoples as a key part of the "Vietnam Syndrome" that helped end that war and is central part of the forces for peace and justice of our nation today.
-- Rosalio Munoz, director of the Epiphany Peoples History theProject and the steering committee of the 50th Anniversary Commemoration Committee of the August 29 1970 National Chicano Moratorium
Memories of the Moratorium
https://vnpeacecomm.blogspot.com/2018/11/memories-of-moratorium-october-15-1969.html
https://vnpeacecomm.blogspot.com/2018/11/memories-of-moratorium-october-15-1969.html
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