University Review, no. 28, April 1973
New Left
University Review was ;published was published by Entelechy Press in New York City. “Entelechy” is a term coined by Aristotle that has come to mean a force propelling one to self-fulfillment. According to the magazine front-matter, "UR. Universal Ragout. Ultimate Repast. Worldly in taste, stellar in ingredients, intergalactic in appeal... Food for thought. Month after month. Whet your appetite." This issue includes letters to the editor; an editorial on Allen Ginsburg, Pete Seeger and Groucho Marx; Weather Underground Communique #13; film review of Charlotte’s Web; an interview with Bernardo Bertolucci; Bobby Seale’s mayoral campaign; women in prison;
Food fads; a music review of Mahavishnu Orchestra, Bob Marley and the Wailers, David Bromberg, the Moody Blues and a set of new blues records; book reviews about drugs, Our Bodies, Ourselves, Vietnam and several books about film.
University Review
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
GI Rally October 26
Anti-Vietnam War Movement
This button was made for the first GIs for Peace march and rally held in Chicago in 1968. Military veterans and civilians were invited to exchange views on the war in Vietnam. The event took place at the Midland Hotel from 4pm to midnight. A flyer from the same event lists: entertainment, refreshments, active duty GI speakers, open microphone for all servicemen, Vietnam veterans, rock bands, Pete Seeger, clergy, films, speakers from the antiwar movement, speakers from black liberation movement and free antiwar literature. The organizers of the event were Chicago GI Weeks Committee, which included a coalition of groups, like Veterans for Peace in Vietnam, Student Mobilization Committee, the Chicago Peace Council, National Mobilization Committee, High School Students Against the War, Chicago Area Draft Resistors and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Chicago Branch)
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Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1968
Button
en-US
Physical Object
ca. 1967
Moratorium
Anti-War Movement
The October 15, 1969, Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam was a massive, nationwide anti-war demonstration and teach-in organized by a coalition of organizations, including the National Mobilization Committee to End the War. Millions of people are estimated to have participated in cities across the country and around the world, with the largest turn-out in Boston, where more than 100,000 listened to a speech by Sen. George McGovern. One month later, on November 15, 1969, more than 500,000 people attended a second huge moratorium demonstration in Washington, D.C. The rally was preceded by the March Against Death, where over 40,000 people paraded silently down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, each carrying a placard with the name of a dead American soldier or a destroyed Vietnamese village. The march concluded in front of the U.S. Capitol Building, where the placards were placed in coffins. At one point at a rally in front of the White House, folk singer, Pete Seeger, led the crowd in a version of John Lennon’s new song, “Give Peace a Chance,” interjecting, “Are you listening Nixon?” “Are you listening Agnew? “Are you listening Pentagon?” Later, President Richard Nixon remarked, "Now, I understand that there has been, and continues to be, opposition to the war in Vietnam on the campuses and also in the nation. As far as this kind of activity is concerned, we expect it; however under no circumstances will I be affected whatever by it."
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Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1969
Button
Physical Object
Resist Vietnam War Taxes
Anti-War Movement
One tactic that anti-war activists used during the Vietnam War was to refuse to pay taxes, arguing that those monies went to support what they saw as an unjust war. Founded in 1965, the No Tax for War in Vietnam Committee campaigned for people to resist paying their 1964 federal income taxes. The campaign continued through 1967 and the group was successful in getting about 500 to refuse to pay taxes. After the Johnson Administration successfully pressed Congress to levy a 10% telephone tax to pay for increased troop levels in Vietnam, Chicago Catholic Worker activist, Karl Meyer, wrote the influential “Hang Up on War” pamphlet, which was distributed by national peace groups and became the basis of a War Resisters League national tax resistance campaign. In 1967, Gerald Walker of The New York Times organized Writers and Editors War Tax Protest. About 528 writers and editors pledged to refuse to pay the 10% Vietnam War tax surcharge, but only three publications — the New York Post (Jan. 30, 1968), the New York Review of Books (Feb. 15, 1968), and Ramparts magazine (Feb. 1968) — agreed to publish an ad publicizing the campaign. The New York Times did publish an early article about the protest on Sept. 17, 1967. In 1969, the National War Tax Resistance was organized and a press conference to announce the group was held in New York, featuring Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger, Kennett Love, and Bradford Lyttle. The group, which lasted until 1975, published a newsletter, two handbooks and established chapters across the country. Dr. Benjamin Spock was also a well-known tax resister during the Vietnam era.
The poem, "The Money Missing from Our Paychecks," by Stephen Wing, explored the issue of tax resistance:
We who eat
lest we go hungry, we who
lie down to sleep
because we know to the minute
what time we rise,
a bomber is blinking
across our bathroom mirrors that does not sleep,
a sentry walks the perimeter of our dim bedrooms
till the alarm rings
and we reach out to stop it
A truckload of soldiers comes leaping out
into smoke and noise when we
tear open our paychecks every Friday in the bar,
a bomb drops away from the black wing
even while we curse with ritual laughter the government
which has siphoned our blood in the night again
to fuel helicopters and tanks
A distant flame is casting those faint shadows
on the TV screen, a burning
that does not stop for Happy Hour,
while the bodies untangle from the pileup
and the referee bends to retrieve a fumble,
the family scattered
by an American bomb does not get up
The bodies are brown
as the football
waiting at the scrimmage line, but broken
like the field they farmed
they are too busy giving their
blood back to the soil
to blame us, but it is our battle they fight
for every breath, the money missing
from our paychecks every Friday has bought us
the pumping of their hearts to dip our
chips in and wash down
with our beer
it is our war
and only our waking hands can reach out
to stop it.
No Tax for War in Vietnam Committee
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Button
en-US
Physical Object
ca. 1960s