Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee
Webinar: The Women: Our Impact on the Vietnam Antiwar Movement
The ultimate success of the movement to stop the war in Vietnam was due to the mobilization of multiple segments of society, such as students, academics, businesspeople, lawyers, religious activists, unions, veterans, and humanitarians. Not least of these were traditional women's peace organizations such as the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom and Women […]
Webinar: Opposition in Australia, Japan, and South Korea to the U.S. War in Indochina
During the 1960’s and early 1970’s sustained popular opposition to U.S. intervention in Indochina developed in countries thought of as U.S. allies. U.S. bases in Australia, Japan and South Korea supported the war effort. Australia and South Korea sent troops. In the case of Australia, opposition advanced beyond forms of verbal dissent to include a […]
Webinar: Agent Orange: An Unfinished War Legacy
The U.S. military used more than 12 million gallons of Agent Orange and 8 million gallons of Agents White, Blue, Purple, Pink and Green in Indochina between 1961 and 1971, an act of ecocide with devastating medical consequences for local populations, American veterans and their children. After years of unconscionable denial, the US government has […]
