Vietnam War Protests

Johnny Cash & Vietnam

Doug Bradley | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Music, Country and Western, Vietnam War, Johnny Cash, Vietnam War Protests, Johnny-Cash, Culture News

Black and white, rich and poor, officer and draftee, rural and urban -- Vietnam soldiers loved Johnny Cash and his music. For them, Cash stood for hard work, tough times, resilience, and honesty.

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Ali, Frazier, Jackson, Stallone: Of Image, Race, Politics, and Myth

William Bradley | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Islam, Civil Rights, Jesse Jackson, Vietnam War, Joe Frazier, Boxing, Black Power, Arnold Schwarzenegger, '60s, Sylvester Stallone, Muhammad Ali, Rocky, Vietnam War Protests, Video, Politics News

Monday's Philadelphia funeral for former heavyweight boxing champ Joe Frazier brought some old but still very salient issues back to the fore. Frazier's sudden death from liver cancer has reminded many of some uncomfortable truths.

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For the Wall Street Protesters, Is the Answer Blowing in the Wind?

Sarwar Kashmeri | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Occupy Wall Street, Vietnam War Protests, Wall Street Protests, 60s Protests, Zuccotti Park Protests, 1960s Protests, War Protests, Peter Paul and Mary, Recession Protests, New York News

As I made my way down to Zuccotti Park, I had clearly misjudged the mood of the moment and the pent-up feelings of frustration that the Occupy Wall Street movement has unleashed.

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Who We Fight for and Why it Matters

Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Right, Tea Party, Wisconsin, ACT UP, Marines, Labor, Jamie Bell, Libertarianism, Conservative, Tatum Channing, Vietnam War Protests, Unions, Liberal, Restrepo, Fox News, The Eagle, Left, Aids, Indiana, Wisconsin Protests, Politics News

I saw The Eagle this weekend, and thought Tatum Channing acquitted himself remarkably well, considering how contemporary he might have seemed in a his...

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Coming to Grips with "The Technicality Generation"

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conscientious Objector, Vietnam War Protests, Bp, Independence Day, Larry-Pressler, Vietnam War, Cognitive Dissonance, Military Draft, Albert Einstein, Politics News

If we continue to be "technically correct" without being morally centered as well, I can't help but recall with dread the old proverb: If we don't change our direction, we're liable to get where we're headed.

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How Two Teenagers Beat the Secret Service

Paul Raeburn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tareq and Michaele Salahi, White House Gate Crasher, Secret Service, Gop, Vietnam War Protests, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Robert Kennedy, Desiree Rogers Social Secretary, Vietnam War, Politics News

Tareq and Michaele Salahi are not the first gate-crashers to discover that the Secret Service isn't so tough.

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Who are These Tea Party Protesters?

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Rights, GOP Contract With America, Vietnam War Protests, Women's Lib, Pres. Carter, Hillary, Fox News, Health Care Reform, Racism Charges, Gay Rights Pro-Life Movement, Pres. Obama, Tea Party, Politics News

What do you mean when you say "we want our country back?" Who are the "we" and what do you want to go back to?

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What a Long, Strange, Thoroughly Obnoxious Trip It's Been 2: Battle Lines

Chez Pazienza | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vietnam War Protests, Vietnam, Baby Boomers, Woodstock, Politics News

The 60s kind of activism doesn't really work anymore -- mostly because the political power structure in this country doesn't fear the individual anymore. It fears numbers.

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Anniversary: Chicago '68

Michael Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Police Brutality, Vietnam War Protests, Riot, 1968, Chicago, Yippies, Convention, Chicago News

All things converged to one night: tonight, forty-one years ago. The police found the fuse and lit it.

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40 Years After Woodstock: An Extraordinarily Different America

Brent Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vietnam War Protests, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Sharon Tate, Charles Manson, Woodstock 40th Anniversary, Woodstock, Lyndon Johnson, Harvard, Lsd, Entertainment News

Woodstock means little until you place it in larger context of a society unraveling around the newest generation of young adults, a dominant and dominating cohort of malcontents.

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Dream Big Dreams -- a Song for the Ages

Rondi Charleston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ambition, Vietnam War Protests, Oliver Sacks, Dreams, President Obama, Rondi Charleston, Amazing Grace, Obama "Dreams of My Father", Inspiration, Chicago, Civil Rights Movement, Hyde Park, Musicophilia, Politics News

While no one yet knows what impact the Obama presidency will have on the world, it is important that we put our bodies, minds and spirits to work to help make this administration a success.

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Oil-Free President Network Politics, Street Corner St Louis

Virginia Gilbert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet Campaigns, Vietnam War Protests, Barack Obama Presidential Campaign, Barack Obama Campaign 2008, MoveOn.Org, Obama Campaign Rally, Young People Interest Politics, Obama Campaign Voluteer, Barack Obama 2008, Internet-Age Politics, Political Volunteers, Word of Mouth, Home News

The gathering here is an example of the way politics is changing, as supporters both use and bypass mainstream media and traditional political groups, mixing online networking with old-style street demonstrations.

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