Peace Movements: Yesterday And Today
Once again our country seems on the edge of engaging in yet another undeclared war. As W.W.I was the war to end all wars, the Vietnam conflict was supposed to be the last military action that our government could depend on the blind patriotism of it’s citizens. The reason the Vietnam war ended was because of the peace movements that were born in the early 1960’s and evolved into a national movement by 1970 that eventually ended the war.
The War Powers Act of 1973 was to limit the President from making war without a
‘declaration of war’ from Congress. Recently, Congress passed a resolution allowing the
President, at his will, to go to war with Iraq, removing the restraint intended in the act.
Can the example of the peace movements of the past serve as a road map for the present.
Will persons opposed to another war find the motivation and the conviction needed to actively protest any future war. Are there political similarities to what existed in the Vietnam conflict that can be used to argue against entering another war at the present time in Iraq.
The Vietnam veterans who organized and came out against the ongoing war made a large
impact on public opinion; will Gulf war veterans organize and speak out against a future or ongoing war with Iraq. Finally, are there organizations in existence today, whether still in existence from the Vietnam era or recently formed, to establish an effective antiwar movement.
This being an ‘Internet research paper’, I used the Internet to find sources from the Vietnam era peace movements that would shed some light on the level of organization and determination that were present to end that war. For the Vietnam anti war movemen...
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...t, to determine
for myself if an antiwar movement exist. With the positive turnout this weekend
in several major cities throughout the world and the very positive results I had
seeking out antiwar organizations on the Internet, I feel the ongoing ‘antiwar movement’
is alive and well.
Bibliography
Stanford Archives
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/vietnam.htm
Sixties Project
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary.html
Thinkquest
http://library.thinkquest.org/27942/index.htm
Stanford Archive 2
http://seas.stanford.edu/diso/articles/antiwarchronoshort.html
http://www.stanford.edu/group/peace/about.html
antiwar orgs
www.votenowar.org
www.notinourname.net
www.nobloodforoil.org
www.j-n-v.org
www.arrow.org
www.aawwi.org
www.veteransforpeace.org
www.vvaw.org
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