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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 early period of soldier resistance to the Vietnam War involved mainly individual acts of resistance. Some well publicized incidents occurred in this period. The first incident was in November 1965 when Lt. Henry H. Howe, Jr was court martialed for legally participating in an antiwar demonstration, while off-duty and out of uniform, in El Paso. [8]
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 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.
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 court-martial of Susan Schnall, a lieutenant (junior grade) U.S. Navy nurse stationed at the Oakland Naval Hospital in Oakland, California, took place in early 1969 during the Vietnam War. [1] Her political activities, which led to the military trial, may have garnered some of the most provocative news coverage during the early days of the ...
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 ...
Concerned Officers Movement first leaflet issued for GI Rally for Peace and Justice in Washington, DC March 14, 1970. COMs genesis sprang from the participation of Marine Captain Bob Brugger in the November 1969 March on Washington against the Vietnam War.