GI Press Service, October 1971, vol. III, no. 7
Anti-Vietnam War Movement
The GI Press Service was established in 1969 by the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam and headquartered in New York. Published in October of 1971, this issue includes a call to participate in a mass protest of the Vietnam War on November 6th. Also in this issue is a statement from the National Peace Action Coalition about the need for an end to U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, a petition to engage in peaceful protests against the Vietnam war, a comic strip mocking President Richard Nixon and "Vietnamization", as well as an article about the first International Military Rights and Antiwar Convention in San Francisco, California, hosted by Bay Area Concerned Military organization.
Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
1971
underground press
Third World People Unite Against the War
Anti-Vietnam War Movement
This poster, published by the Third World Committee of the Student Mobilization Committee quotes Malcolm X: “What America is doing in South Vietnam is criminal... we see where the problem of Vietnam is the problem of the oppressed and the oppressor... Our action will be one of unity and in the unity of oppressed people is actually the strength, and the best strength of the oppressed people…” The Student Mobilization Committee was a member of the National Peace Action Coalition.
Third World Committee - Student Mobilization Committee
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. late-1960s
poster