May 11, 1961:Kennedy authorizes American advisers sending 44 Special Forces Troops and other military advisers to aid South Vietnam against the forces of North Vietnam. The rally was largely attended by people from the Bay Area Ukranian community, but others joined in solidarity, including those from the local Russian community. She doesn't want to see the war escalate but she thinks Ukrainians have a right to defend their country from invasion and need the world's help to do it. [NYT, 5/23/65], The State Department is invited to send a representative, but declines. Donate to ANSWER San Francisco; Donate to ANSWER Los Angeles; Donate; Sat. ", View video of Arthur Sulzberger (NYT publisher) and Daniel Ellsberg on the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg Talk at Berkeley, March 23, 2007 (part I), Daniel Ellsberg Talk at Berkeley, March 23, 2007 (part II), Daniel Ellsberg: Secrets - Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, Listen to Nixon telephone conversations concerning the Pentagon Papers, The Pentagon Papers: Secrets, Lies, and Audiotape, New York v United States, June 26-30, 1971, Listen to excerpt from a 1970s Jane Fonda talk at UC Berkeley, Text of Nixon's "Peace with Honor" speech, Nixon resignation speech - audio and text, Nixon's farewell to the Whitehouse - audio and text, Photo of Ron Kovic at the Democratic convention, View video of press conferences at conclusion of Westmoreland trial, View various 1985 video clips concerning Agent Orange suites. Both protests were called by the ANSWER Coalition. [wikipedia]. Thousands are expected to march in New York, San Francisco and other North American cities in parades that will be part party, part protest. They allegedly blocked Market Street and refused to disperse, resulting in what police described as some minor physical confrontations. The first street protest in San Francisco by large numbers of self-identified homosexuals was an anti-war demonstration. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California and is married to actress Barbara Williams. Facebook Twitter Email. From Russia to the U.S., people are protesting Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine. On May 10, former Senator and Democratic contender for the presidency Eugene McCarthy calls upon Congress to impeach of Nixon. We owe it to future generations to explain why. January 14, 1967: The first "Human Be-In" (aka "A Gathering of the Tribes") is held in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Hayakawa calls in the police, who bust heads and arrest hundreds in an attempt to restore control of the campus. His platform called for free medical care, the legalization of abortion and marijuana, a guaranteed minimum income for families and the immediate withdrawal of all American troops from foreign countries. June 9, 2003:The Supreme Court announces its decision inDow Chemical Co., et al. All of this in the midst of the most anguishing domestic crisis since the Civil War. (Text of Johnson's speech:New York Times, April 8, 1965) [UC Berkeley users only), May 1965:The Gallup Poll shows that only 48% of the USrespondantsfeel that the US Government is handling the Vietnam conflict effectively; 28% feel that the situation was being handled badly; the balance have no opinion. The National Guard are called in by Governor Ronald Reagan. In 1971 the Supreme Court would refuse to allow objection to a particular war (Gillette v. United States). By clicking Sign Up, I confirmthat I have read and agreeto the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Source: Harvey Richards Media Archive. Anti-war protesters in Oakland call for U.S. to stop arming Ukraine, Public File for KBCW-TV / KBCW 44 Cable 12. [Bailey, 2003], October 21-22, 1967:Massive march on Washington, D.C., initiated and organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, a loose coalition of 150 activist groups. [LAT, 11/15/69;LAT, 11/16/69], "The organizers of this demonstration had received praise from Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of North Vietnam. At the Consulate General of Ukraine in San Francisco, the consul general says calls are coming in. [24], In addition to anti-war activism, ANSWER is involved in advocacy for rights for undocumented immigrants, believing that all immigration should be legal. But none of us, on either coast, had any idea how huge the turnout would be that day. ", Recordings courtesy ofThe Freedom Archives, On June 7, shortly after this "Declaration of War", a bomb rips through police headquartes in New York City. [NYT, 6/20/66], June 30, 1966:Three army privates from Fort Hood, Texas, James Mora, James A. Johnson, and David A. Samas (the "Fort Hood 3"), refuse to ship out to Vietnam on the grounds that the war is "illegal and immoral." When the demonstrators are barred from the hearing room, a loud scuffle breaks out. The producers offer the same opportunity to Nixon's opponent, Hubert Humphrey, but he declines. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together." [LAT, 11/11/67] In December 1965, Hayden, along with professors Staughton Lynd (Yale) and Herbert Aptheker (American Institute for Maxist Studies) had made a private trip to Hanoi on a "fact finding mission." [NYT, 9/18/71];15 October 1971:: The bombing of William Bundy's office in the MIT research center. The memorial is criticized by some veterans for not bearing an inscription identifying the war. Reagan reiterated that such a ceremony 'would be so indecent as to border on the obscene'. In San Francisco, around 156,000 march--the largest such rally to date on the West Coast. Ochs had also had a long history of mental problems and alcoholism. [NYT, 5/5/70]. Shortly after Israel invaded Lebanon two weeks later, ANSWER along with the National Council of Arab Americans and the Muslim American Society initiated a call for protests on August 12, 2006, against the "U.S.-Israeli War on the People of Lebanon and Palestine." November 22, 1963:President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Anti War Protest 2010 San Francisco, Civic Center San Francisco City California, City Hall of San Francisco "This is against international law. Although the language of the UFPJ Steering Committee statement makes the break appear definitive, they have published similar statements (rejecting future work with ANSWER) in the past, only to later agree to united demonstrations. Los Angeles Times,Apr 22, 1970. p. 1 (2 pages), The Berkeley crowd enthusiastically applauded U.C.L.A. 2003:Filmmaker Errol Morris's documentaryFog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamarais released. We are the history and the future. Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. The group said any fines would be without legal basis, and they would appeal if fines were imposed. [LAT, 4/15/67], April 24, 1967:Abbie Hoffman leads a group in a guerrilla theater gesture against capitalism and the war at the New York Stock Exchange. The organization's national headquarters are in Washington, D.C. ANSWER's first major action was a September 29, 2001, "Anti-War, Anti-Racist" political rally and march in Washington, D.C., primarily in protest of the impending U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. [See alsoJanuary 26, 1968][NYT,10/18/67;LAT10/21/67;Rorabaugh, pp: 116-120], October 16, 1967:Hundreds of anti-war demonstrators protest outside of the Selective Service Office in San Francisco; 119 are arrested, including folksinger Joan Baez, her sister Mimi Farina, and Ira Sandperl, co-founder with Baez of the Institute For The Study Of Nonviolence in Carmel, California. 108-109], Senator John Stennis (D-Miss) comments about the Pentagon march: "It is clear from the evidence that I have that this is a part of a move by the Communists, especially of North Vietnamese government, to divide the American people, disrupt our war effort, discredit our government before the entire world. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's Disease for several years. The attack comes after six months of covert U.S. and South Vietnamese naval operations. Two students at the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque) are wounded by police buckshot. When Senator Abraham Ribicoff delivers a speech nominating George McGovern for President (the anti-war candidate), he infuriates Daley by saying, "with George McGovern as President of the United States, we wouldn't have Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago. Arnoni(philosopher, writer, political activist); Edward Keating (publisher,Ramparts Magazine); Felix Greene (author and film producer);IsadoreZifferstein(psychologist); StanleyScheinbaum(Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions); Paul Jacobs (journalist and anti-nuclear activist); Hal Draper (Marxist writer and a socialist activist); Levi Laud (Progressive Labor Movement); SiCasady(California Democratic Council); George Clark (British Committee on Nuclear Disarmament); RobertPickus(Turn Toward Peace); Bob Parris and Bob Moses (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee); Jack Barnes (National Chair of the Young Socialist Alliance); MarioSavio(Free Speech Movement); Paul Potter (Students for a Democratic Society); and MikeMeyerson(national head of the Du Bois Clubs of America). In 1972, he ran in the US presidential election as People's Party candidate. One person throws a rock through a bank window, which instigates mass destruction of property. I am going to read a declaration of a state of war. He said one employee moved her bedroom from the second floor to the first. ANSWER was not the primary organizer of the initial large protests in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Dallas in late March and early April, but endorsed them. 866 UC Berkeley seniors and graduate students sign an oath and affirm it publicly before the assembled group: "Our war in Vietnam is unjust and immoral. On March 25-26, Johnson also constitutes an advisory body of current and retired presidential advisors (later known as the "Wise Men"), including generals Omar Bradley and Matthew Ridgway; State Department pundits Dean Acheson, George Ball, and McGeorge Bundy. No convictions or arrests of any military or law enforcement officer result from these hearings. ", All Pacifica Radio Archives recordings are copyright by Pacifica Radio. 1967:A group of American independent filmmakers and photographers forms a collective in NY to document and chronicle politically significant events of the time. Even among the protesters, there was a difference of opinion. March 19th saw a revival of the direct action movement in the Bay Area. [NYT, 11/28/65], January 7, 1966:Time Magazinenames General William Westmoreland"Man of the Year. He came into office when the forces of history were moving America from a position of dominance to one of leadership. The Hell's Angels motorcycle gang appears, rips down banners, and attacks protestors, yelling, "Go back to Russia you fucking communists!" March 26, 1964:In an hour-long speech, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara forcefully rejects "withdrawal", "neutralization", or "peace at any price" in the war Vietnam. The goup helps set up coffee houses and performs it work with the goal of establishing a dialog with soldiers regarding their participation in the war. Protests raged all over the country. The question for the antiwar movement is this: are we building a movement that comprehensively challenges imperialism or are we opposed only to certain tactics employed by imperialism such as overt, unilateral military invasion? [See also:Chicago 8] In January 1968, the Yippies issue a "Statement from Yip" urguing activists to come to the Chicago Democratic convention. On the third day, 10,000 protesters arrive, this time retreating in orderly fashion but also successfully blocking streets as they depart. At the same time, we don't believe that criticism of Israeli government policies should be labeled as anti-Semitism any more than criticism of U.S. government policy should be labeled as anti-American. [20] The Stephen Roth Institute has said "Anti-Israel and antisemitic content has marked some ANSWER events. Johnson is furious and fumes: "The establishment bastards have bailed out!" [LAT, 10/15/69a], Vietnam Moratorium Rally, UC Berkeley, October 15, 1969, November 15, 1969:More than 250,000 protesters gather in Washington, D.C., in the largest anti-war demonstration to occur during the Vietnam war. All rights reserved. [See alsoMarch 10, 1970]. ANSWER was more prominent in the promotion of a May Day "Day Without An Immigrant" strike and boycott, because this call was controversial within the immigrant rights movement, contributing to a growing division between its left-wing advocates and moderates who believed a strike and boycott would be counterproductive. April 30, 1967: King delivers a sermon entitled "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" at Riverside Church in New York. I opened the rally, speaking into a mike from the center of that stadium. Street battles fill Paris and are broadcast nationally live over the radio. 1990:Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden divorce. He said his company is helping employees move to western Ukraine, which is closer to NATO ally territory and safer. I have initiated a plan of action which will enable me to keep that pledge. Informed that Safer wasn't a Communist, just a Canadian, he comments, "Well, I knew he wasnt an American." May 7, 2022 / 7:00 PM The name of the group was taken from a line in Bob Dylan's song "Subterranean Homesick Blues," which was quoted in an influential article that had appeared earlier in the SDSnewsleter(New Left Notes). [LAT, 5/28/67], May 31, 1967: 600 facaulty members at California colleges and universities, including 138 faculty and staff at UC Berkeley, sign a "declaration of conscience" in which they pledge "full and active support" to "all who determine that they will not participate in this war." September-December 1964:UC Berkeley student activists, many of whom had recently returned to college from a summer of civil rights activities in the South, come into conflict with university administration over the right to use university facilities for political advocacy. January 1, 1967: In an article written for the Chicago Defender, Martin Luther King, Jr. openly expresses support for the antiwar movement on moral grounds ("War is obsolete. By Lance Iversen/The San Francisco Chronicle, PROTEST21158_LI.JPG April 1993:Harvard scholar Stephen Morris discoveres a document in a Soviet archive indicating that Vietnam may have misled Americans about the numbers of P.O.W.s it held at the war's end. Chretien describes this as "disorienting for the movement. [6], ANSWER called national antiwar demonstrations in San Francisco and Washington, DC for September 15, 2007. 1973:After being released from prison in 1972, Bobby Seale renounces political violence and concentrates on conventional politics. [See AlsoJanuary 1, 1969][NYT4/11/69], April 10, 1969:At Harvard University 300 to 400 students clash with over 400 policemen who have been called in by the University President to quell a 17-hour takeover of the campus administration building. Tickets available: NYC bus to the March 18 national anti-war protest Feb 22, 2023. Full text of Nixon's "Silent Majority" speech. The battle lasts about an hour. Make no bones of this. Text and audio segment of Agnew's address, R.G. [NYT, 10/22/81;NYT5/4/84], October 31, 1981:Max Scherr, publisher of the influencial underground newspaperThe Berkeley Barb, dies at age 70. These protests were organized by a number of groups unrelated to ANSWER as well. Later came repeated pushes for gay rights and other liberal causes.
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