Vietnam war
Today in labor history: Chicano draft resistance
September 16, 2013Muñoz decided - like thousands of other young people n the US - that if drafted, he would refuse to go fight in Vietnam. He was UCLA's first Chicano Student Body President, and started organizing in...
Read moreToday in labor history: The Fort Dix stockade rebellion
June 5, 2013On June 5th, 1969, more than one hundred imprisoned soldiers rose up against deplorable and inhumane conditions at the Fort Dix stockade in New Jersey.
Read moreToday in labor history: Vietnam war protests, draft card burned
October 15, 2012On Oct. 15, 1965, a young Catholic Worker activist, David Miller, burned his draft card in protest of the U.S. war in Vietnam, becoming the first antiwar activist to challenge a law banning the act.
Read moreThe courage of David Cline
October 26, 2007The death of Veterans for Peace leader David Cline on Sept. 15, 2007, in Jersey City, N.J., touched off an outpouring of tributes from his fellow veterans that continues to this day. Cline was one of...
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