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GI's Against Fascism which formed in mid-1969, becoming the first organized resistance group in the Navy. They began by protesting "intolerable" living conditions, but formulated a more generalized opposition to the war and to institutional racism, which they exposed in their underground newspaper Duck Power .
The G.I. movement was the resistance to military involvement in the Vietnam War from active duty soldiers in the United States military. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Within the military popular forms of resistance included combat refusals, fragging , and desertion .
Jeff Sharlet, linguist, U.S. Army Security Agency, 1963–1964. Jeff Sharlet (1942–1969), a Vietnam veteran, was a leader of the GI resistance movement during the Vietnam War and the founding editor of Vietnam GI.
The book covers the GI and veteran resistance to the Vietnam War from the very early stages of the war until the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973. It has essays and contributions from members of every branch of the U.S. military, from enlisted and officer, from women and men, from those of many skin colors and walks of life, from the famous and the unknown, from highly decorated ...
Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War, book about soldier & sailor resistance during the Vietnam War; Stop Our Ship (SOS) anti-Vietnam War movement in and around the U.S. Navy; The Spitting Image - book dispelling the myth of the spat-on Vietnam veteran; Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Waging Peace in Vietnam; Winter ...
The Presidio mutiny was a sit-down protest carried out by 27 prisoners at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco, California on October 14, 1968. It was one of the earliest instances of significant internal military resistance to the Vietnam War.
In January 1969 he started the GI Help office in downtown San Francisco as a service to soldiers resisting deployment to Vietnam. [10] This office, in the Mission District at 483 Guerrero Street, was the first of its kind in the U.S. [ 11 ] Hirsch had recognized and been an early part of a rapidly expanding expression within the U.S. military ...
Cover page for The Short Times G.I. underground newspaper published in Columbia, South Carolina from 1969 to 1972 by GIs United Against the War in Vietnam. In the late 1960s, Fred Gardner, a Harvard graduate, editor at Scientific American, ex-Army reservist and antiwar activist, began studying and writing about the emerging GI antiwar movement.