I highly recommend this video. It will warm your hearts & provide some hope ❤️

[ Vietnam has fought and defeated countless Goliaths to achieve its liberation.

While our people in Palestine are still fighting their own Goliath, we wanted to learn, how did the Vietnamese do it? And what happens once this Goliath is taken down? What does a national identity built on liberation and resistance look like when the country’s at peace? And is Vietnam really at peace?

We traveled to Hanoi in the north and Ho Chi Minh City Saigon in the South to explore Vietnam’s story of liberation, and the story it's writing now. ]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HBECSvK0c-I

Hosts: Salem Barahmeh and Khuyến Bùi
Production: Booncha Studio
Editor: Tala Kaddoura

Special thanks:
Doan Nho
PTA
Vu Quan
Mess

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1967: The War on #Vietnam Heats Up — Along With Public Opinion.

According to a 1979 essay by #political scientists Peter Sperlich and William Lunch, “1967 was the year of the hawk.” Indeed, most Americans preferred escalation — likely because they thought doing so would expedite the conflict's end. Meanwhile, preference for withdrawal fell.

Pictured:

Counter protesters show their support for the war during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration in New York City, 1967.
Harry Benson/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

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Prominent #CivilRights leaders and #activists would come out against the US war on #Vietnam as the decade wore on. In 1967, #MartinLutherKingJr. told the Harlem Riverside Church congregation that:

“It would be very inconsistent for me to teach and preach nonviolence in this situation and then applaud violence when thousands of thousands of people, both adults and children, are being maimed and mutilated and many killed in this way.”

Fewer than two weeks later, King would lead a 125,000-person #protest against the war.

Photo from Getty Images.

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New York's Columbia University had descended into civil war over issues related to both the Vietnam War and civil rights.

For eight days, two different protest groups — one rebelling against Columbia's plans for a segregated gym and its encroachment into Harlem, the other against Columbia's recently revealed connections to a Department of Defense-affiliated weapons think tank — battled with both student counter-protestors and the police, who eventually moved in with tear gas to put an end to this round of demonstrations.

Tragedy struck again at a domestic level in May 1970. Early that month, Kent State University students congregated to protest President Nixon’s recent expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. The protests brought thousands of people to the Ohio university campus, as well as the National Guard.

After days of demonstrations, dozens of National Guard members would open fire on demonstrators, killing four students and wounding nine.

In court, guard members said they shot out of fear for their lives. Of the four students killed that day, the closest stood 225 feet away from the guards. Two were walking to class.

In response to the Kent State shootings, students around the country participated in a nationwide campus protest. According to a National Student Association spokesman, students from more than 300 campuses boycotted classes in early May 1970.

In California, demonstrations grew so raucous that then-governor Ronald Reagan shut down the entire California university system for a week.

1. Photo of clashes.
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2. Kent State Massacre
Wikimedia.

3. An anti-war demonstrator at the University of California, Berkeley throws a tear gas canister at police.
Bettmann/Contributor via Getty Images.

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#AntiWar #Activists in #Wichita, #Kansas, 1967.
Protesting the US war on Vietnam (& Cambodia).
Credit: U.S. National Archives.

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Please boost if you're in BC or have a lot of BC connections!

Join us as we build a #CODEPINK chapter in #Vancouver and greater #BritishColumbia! In this first virtual meeting we'll get to know each other and discuss goals for a local #PeaceMovement.

#RSVP for Zoom link.

WHEN: Tuesday, Oct 22 at 6pm PST.

Contact: Jasmine -> [email protected]

https://www.codepink.org/vancouverinterest

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Jacob Berger is a #JewishAmerican actor, #influencer and #MediaPersonality. He joined us to pod to talk about why he's pro- Palestine.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=ezIKHpP2NnUPm8j4&v=CrwNIwZKg40&feature=youtu.be

Check out his work:
https://m.youtube.com/@JacobBergerActor

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