Summer '68
Anti-Vietnam War Movement
"Draft resistance organizing in Boston, a Boston organizer's trip to North Vietnam -- a G.I. coffeehouse in Texas, Newsreel's take over of Channel 13 in New York -- following the production of the Rat's special issue on Chicago -- and Chicago during the Democratic Convention, the planning and carriage out of five days of protest. Each section focuses on an organizer central to each project -- the attempt is to define the nature of commitment to "the Movement" against a backdrop of 1968's summer activities." (Roz Payne Archive) <iframe width="640" height="470" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/112328836" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/112328836">SUMMER'68 - Newsreel</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user2384966">john douglas</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
Newsreel Films
Vimeo
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1968
film
Peoples War
Anti-Vietnam War Movement
"In the summer of 1969, Newsreel went to North Vietnam. From that trip came PEOPLES' WAR. This film moves beyond the perception of the North Vietnamese as victims to a portrait of how the North Vietnamese society is organized. It shows the relationship of the people to their government -- how local tasks of a village are coordinated and its needs met. It deals with the reality of a nation that has been at war for twenty-five years, that is not only resisting US aggression and keeping alive under bombing, but that is also struggling to raise its standard of living and to overcome the underdevelopment of centuries of colonial rule. Amid much publicity, the footage was confiscated upon its return to the US. Despite this attempt at suppression, PEOPLES WAR has become one of the most sought-after films on Vietnam. Blue ribbon at U.S.A. film festival in Houston, Texas, and the Golden Bear Award, Moscow, USSR." (Roz Payne Archive) <iframe width="640" height="480" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/75364308" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/75364308">Newsreel's PEOPLES WAR - 16mm - 1969 - 40 minutes</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user2384966">john douglas</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
Newsreel Films
Vimeo
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1969
film
Re-Elect the Dike Bomber???
Anti-Vietnam War Movement and Electoral Politics
Throughout the U.S. war in Vietnam, policy-makers debated whether to bomb the system of dikes in North Vietnam as a way to drive the Hanoi government to the peace table. In 1965 and 1966, American military and political leaders rejected the idea, but it was revived again during the early 1970s by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the Nixon Administration. The bombing of North Vietnamese dikes became a powerful propaganda tool for the North Vietnamese government seeking global sympathy in its war with the U.S., as well as among anti-war activists in America. This button, created during the 1972 election season, plays on this controversy.
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Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1972
Button
Physical Object
Vietnam, April 1975
Anti-Vietnam War Movement
This 1975 poster, by Cuban designer and filmmaker, Alfredo Rostgaard, commemorates the Fall of Saigon, when North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnam capitol, compelling an end to the Vietnam War. The poster was published by OSPAAAL, the Organisation in Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America, the main publisher of international solidarity posters in Cuba. Notably, these colorful propaganda posters were not designed to be posted on walls within Cuba, as others were. Instead, they were folded and stapled inside the magazine, Tri-Continental, where they were then distributed internationally. Rostgaard was the artistic director of OSPAAAL for nine years, beginning in 1966.
Alfredo Rostgaard
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1975
format
We Celebrate Women's Struggles, We Celebrate People's Victories
Women's Liberation
This poster was created by designer, Susan Shapiro, at Inkworks Press in Oakland, California, in 1975 and connects the growing women’s liberation movement with the reunification of North and South Vietnam. The text at bottom of the poster states, "The mountain is only so high... Our capacity is without limit. The stars move; our will is unshakable! / Inscription on the walls of a cell: Con Son Women's Prison, South Viet Nam (Liberated April 30 1975)."
Inkworks
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1975
poster
Viet Nam Shall Win
Anti-Vietnam War Movement
This poster was created by self-taught Cuban artist, Rene Mederos, as a tribute to North Vietnamese leader, Ho Chi Minh, and the Vietnamese people’s struggle against U.S. imperialism. It was published in the U.S. in 1972 by The Glad Day Press, an I.W.W. shop in Ithaca, New York, as a part of a fundraiser for Medical Aid for Indochina. The large text at the top of the poster reads, "Viet Nam". The text below reads, "Shall Win" in 13 different languages. "Mederos - Cuba/71" is in the bottom left corner of the illustration. "Price $2.50. Published by The Glad Day Press, Ithaca, N.Y. All proceeds go to N.Y.C Medical Aid to Indochina, a project of MCHR, 135 w. 4th St., N.Y., N.Y. 10012" is in the right bottom margin.
Rene Mederos
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1971
poster
Joint Treaty of peace Between the People of the United States and the People of South Vietnam and North Vietnam
Anti-Vietnam War Movement
The “Joint Treaty of Peace Between the People of the United States and the People of South Vietnam and North Vietnam” was developed by representatives of student peace organizations from the U.S. and Vietnam in December 1970. That month, a delegation sponsored by the National Student Association flew to Paris and then attempted to fly to Saigon to meet with students, but were turned away. In Hanoi, they met with student representatives from South
Vietnam and North Vietnam. The participants in the meetings hoped to foster peace by detailing key principles that all parties in the conflict could agree on. The treaty was endorsed by a number of politicians and celebrities, including Eugene J. McCarthy, Daniel Berrigan, Phillip Berrigan, Noam Chomsky, Charles E. Goodell, I. F. Stone, George Wald, Erich Segal, Rock Hudson, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the New University Conference and others.
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Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
December 1970
poster