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spazzmann

(748 posts) Fri Sep 21, 2012, 11:44 AM Sep 2012

Today in Peace and Justice history on September 21, 1963

The War Resisters League organized the first American anti-Vietnam War demonstration in New York City. The League, founded in 1923, was the first peace group to call for U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, and played a key role throughout the war, organizing rallies, the burning of draft cards . . . http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm

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Today in Peace and Justice history on September 21, 1963 (Original Post) spazzmann Sep 2012 OP

I remember visiting that office one evening in the early 1970s. leveymg Sep 2012 #1

leveymg

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1. I remember visiting that office one evening in the early 1970s.

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Fri Sep 21, 2012, 12:08 PM

Sep 2012

A lot of history made in that big loft off-Broadway.

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