E46: The movement against the Vietnam war, part 4

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Society & Culture, Education, History

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🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Third of our four-part miniseries on opposition to the Vietnam war in the US, in conversation with five former participants in the movement. This week we look at anti-war organising with US prisoners of war, labour organising, increasing militancy of the movement, the end of the war and lessons for today.
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0:54.4	everything secure. Hi, and welcome back to the concluding part of our four-part miniseries
0:59.3	on opposition to the Vietnam War in the US. If you haven't listened to Parts 1 to 3 yet,
1:04.1	I'd go back and listen to those first.
1:16.4	Okay. As part of her anti-war activism,
1:19.9	Cora White was involved in a truly groundbreaking piece of work,
1:23.1	building links with U.S. prisoners of war, POWs.
1:29.8	Different groups of people had different strategies and did engage in different things.
1:37.6	I was strictly with Women's Strike for Peace, and I did things with the women, and we were careful not to do anything that our children couldn't join us in, except one thing.
1:46.3	We did lay down on, I think, Park Avenue, a very elegant street in New York in our finest clothing.
1:54.1	And we lay on the street and did a lion with signs on our bodies, with the names of the dead Vietnamese, dead Americans.
2:06.1	That was one protest that we did.
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