Zoom for educators and organizers re The Movement and the "Madman"

Watch on youtube our zoom discussion for educators and organizers on how to collaborate with local PBS stations and other film related projects

Created on March 5, 9 p.m. ET , 6 p.m. PT

Watch it by clicking here https://youtu.be/Ba32QVEwFng

Stephen Talbot, director of the film

Robert Levering, producer (also of “The Boys Who Said No”)

Dr. Carolyn (Rusti) Eisenberg, Professor Hofstra University, author "Fire and Rain" 

Dr. Michael Doyle, Specialist in local historiography, Ball State University Moratorium commemoration

John McAuliff, Fund for Reconciliation and Development (moderator)

Please review regularly the page for educators and organizers here

https://vnpeacecomm.blogspot.com/2023/02/educators-and-organizers-guide-for.html

Dr. Michael Wm. Doyle is an associate professor of history emeritus at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he taught and directed the Public History Program and the Oral History Workshop from 1996-2019. He holds a bachelor's degree in history and history of culture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and did his graduate work at Cornell University. Doyle's research focuses on American cultural radicalism during the Vietnam War era. He also specializes in public history, the interpretation and application of historical knowledge created along with and for the benefit of the general public that is typically programmed in non-academic spaces. In Oct. 2019 he helped organize a 50th Anniversary commemorative conference on the Vietnam Moratorium Committee at Ball State, which included a reunion of alumni antiwar activists and was keynoted by David Harris. With over four decades of experience as an oral historian, he and his students have recorded interviews with dozens of Vietnam veterans. Doyle lives today with his family in Winona, Minnesota where he serves as vice chair of the city's Heritage Preservation Commission and conducts oral histories at Winona State University.

STEPHEN TALBOT is an Emmy, DuPont and Peabody award-winning filmmaker who has produced, written or directed more than 40 documentaries for public television, primarily for the PBS series Frontline and KQED (San Francisco). His Frontline films include The Best Campaign Money Can Buy, The Long March of Newt Gingrich, Justice for Sale and News War: Whats Happening to the News. He directed the PBS history special, 1968: The Year that Shaped a Generation, as well as producing and writing PBS biographies of authors Dashiell Hammett, Ken Kesey, Carlos Fuentes, Maxine Hong Kingston and John Dos Passos. He was the co-creator and executive producer of the PBS music specials, Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders. Talbot also served as the series editor for Frontlines international series, Frontline World: Stories from a Small Planet, and the senior producer of documentary shorts for the PBS series Independent Lens. As a student at Wesleyan University, he made his first documentary film about the November 1969 anti-war protests in Washington, DC.

Robert Levering is an Executive Producer and Advisor to the Boys Who Said NO! a recently completed film about draft resistance during the Vietnam era. (boyswhosaidno.com)  He is currently working on a documentary entitled  The Movement and the Madman about the impact of the 1969 Moratorium and Mobilization demonstrations in preventing Nixon from escalating the war (movementandthemadman.com)  A draft resister himself, Robert was a full-time antiwar organizer for six years during the Vietnam War. A long-time journalist, he wrote an article on the current controversy about registering women for the draft: https://wagingnonviolence.org/2020/05/activists-fought-military-draft-conscription-congress-women-register/

Carolyn Rusti Eisenberg is a Professor of US History and American Foreign Policy.at Hofstra University. Her new book Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger and the Wars in Southeast Asia ( Oxford University Press) will become available in January 2023.  Carolyn's prize-winning book, Drawing the Line: the American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944-49 (Cambridge University Press) traces the origins of the Cold War in Europe. Professor Eisenberg is a co-founder of Brooklyn for Peace, and a Legislative Coordinator for Historians for Peace and Democracy.

Moderator John McAuliff is the executive director of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development and coordinator of the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee.  As a student at Carleton College, he organized support for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and participation in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964.  After serving in the Peace Corps in Peru, he became the first President of the Committee of Returned Volunteers, leading its participation in the Vietnam anti-war movement, including the demonstration at the Chicago Democratic Convention.  He represented CRV in national antiwar coalitions and the U.S coalition at international conferences in Sweden.  For ten years he directed the Indochina Program in the Peace Education Division of the American Friends Service Committee, traveling on its behalf to Hanoi with a delegation from the Indochina Peace Campaign that arrived on April 30, 1975, the last day of the war.  In 1985 he founded the Fund for Reconciliation and Development to continue his AFSC work for normalization of relations with Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.  After that was accomplished in 2005, he refocused most of his work on a similar goal with Cuba.  He was "detained" at the March on the Pentagon and the Mayday civil disobedience action and while demonstrating against George Wallace during his Presidential campaign in New York. 

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