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...Edward K. Kaplan Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 Rethinking Religion Heschel at a meeting o f Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, c. 1968. Heschel & the Am erica has been...

...Edward Kaplan Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 Heschel on Vietnam Protest & Political Action by Edward Kaplan Abraham Joshua...

... on October 11, 1963. His courageous decision to withdraw from Vietnam was a final nail in his coffin. The president already knew the report’s withdrawal recommendations. He had written them. JFK had dictated the passages to General Victor Krulak in the White House, while Krulak’s Pentagon office team...

... an intact people. Identity as a hedge against assim ilation—this is a very m odern theme. For a large portion of 2 0 0 6 ,1 worked on a project for which I inter­ viewed people from seven different im m igrant communities in Hous­ ton. I spoke with Houstonians from Africa, Vietnam, Pakistan, India...

... to prominence when she immigrated to America and adapted her English sensibility to the open forms and speech idioms that had been championed by William Carlos Williams. Her passionate denunciation of the Vietnam War, her active participation in antiwar organizing and protests, and her subsequent work on behalf...

... public. Ellsberg faced jail, the end of his career, and let out. At some point we’ll learn the story of the threats to his life, but he accepted the risks once he understood courageous people inside the various intelligence fully the immorality of the Vietnam War and the lies...

... investigation almost invariably turned out to be working for the CIA.” The line of argument is that the CIA role in linking American influence to foreign drug operations is a constant in American foreign policy throughout the countries of the global South, whether it be Vietnam and Laos in the 1960s and 1970s...

... in the world. war in Vietnam. I had long since understood that the phrases The charge against them by Stalin, that Jews were “cosmopoli­ “national security” and “national defense” were used by the tans” was exactly what I thought the great virtue of Jews. U nited States governm ent to justify...

... on the solitary, contemplative life, those in the 1960s were socially engaged with issues of racism, the Vietnam war, the nuclear bomb, worldwide poverty, and the Holocaust. He also wrote about other religions, especially Buddhism. Early in Fox’s important book we learn that in 1967, shortly after joining...

... by the U.S. government for their roles in opposing the war in Vietnam. Ali, knowing he would die from Parkinson’s disease, planned his memorial ahead of time and decided to invite Lerner to represent the American Jewish community at his memorial service, which took place June 10, 2016 in Louisville, Kentucky...

... reflections. We follow Berrigan as his understanding of the Bible leads him to N e l l Pa in t e r has w r it t e n o n e o f t h e m o st challenge the war in Vietnam, cofound and chair Clergy and Laity Concerned important books ever on the social construction of the About Vietnam...

... conviction that one could not be free while peasants in Vietnam were not free, or while black people in Mississippi were not free, or while women forced to resort to illegal abortions were not free. Steve Schapiro Is the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s best understood as an early manifestation...

... insight shortly after the presidential election last November. I went back in a reverie to the 1960s and remembered how the horrors of the Vietnam War made the appearance of everyday normalcy seem ghastly and surreal. How did we maintain our sanity then? What came to me was this: Our musicians saved us...

..., notwithstanding the fall of Nixon and in part because of the end of the Vietnam War. Revanchist claims, made broadly by a rising, vastly funded right but vigorously supported by hawkish Democratic Party hacks and top labor bureaucrats, led the way to Ronald Reagan’s election and political survival amidst scandals...

... partner) on peacemaking and nonviolent movement-building trips, not only in the US, but all over the world: Cuba, Vietnam, Kosovo, Mexico, Yugoslavia, Germany’s “Checkpoint Charlie,” Russia, the Philippines, Palestine and elsewhere, often risking his own life to participate in local movements. Through...

... in Vietnam, and the growing crises in the natural environment. More recently, they have created posters about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, homelessness, racial profiling, mass incarceration, immigrant rights, and more. In the last two decades, the Los Angeles-based Center for the Study of Political...

.... cess, teach-ins against the war in Vietnam, in the compassion of Jesus and the most At UC Berkeley, police in full riot gear were and (within three years) the historic, pro­ radical traditions of liberation theology. As particularly and gratuitously violent, and democracy student...

...: publicized elsewhere before our maga­ torial board member reminded us of Dear Jeremy, I ju s t w ant you to zine comes out) and have invited how the liberals who ended the war know that I am resigning m y m em ­ Jeremy Ben-Ami to speak at our June in Vietnam often distanced them­ bership...

... others) and linked to protests for Black power and against the Vietnam War, became, for many Latinos, the apex of opposition. To affirm collective traditions, to remain loyal to the immigrant culture, was deemed the crux of political virtue. How things have changed. Led by feminist writers...

..., and the sanctity of anti-communism — they were unable to mount a full-throated alternative. The war in Vietnam was the turning point. By the late sixties, deficit spending to finance the war had weakened the American economy, and in the next decade industry was squeezed by the revival of Western Europe...