Moratorium 50th Anniversary Survey

A Call to Remember and to Act

October 15, 2019, is the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam Moratorium, the largest most diverse nationwide peace demonstration in US history. Some two million people took action in hundreds of locations.

In the same spirit of grassroots initiative and spontaneity, we call upon members of the Vietnam Generation as well as their millennial grandchildren, and the generations between, to create appropriate events in their own communities between October 12th and 19th to

1) Remember, discover and honor what happened in our towns, cities and campuses to end an unnecessary and unjust war that claimed the lives of 56,000 Americans and more than 3,000,000 Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodians. Even five decades later the effects of that war are borne daily by veterans of all sides and civilian victims of land mines, unexploded ordnance and Agent Orange.

2) Recognize the moral and political continuity of organizing against the human suffering of present day endless wars in Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen; and of forestalling wars with Iran and Venezuela.

3) Challenge the domestic scourge of gun violence (both mass shootings and police indiscipline) and the waste of national resources on excessive military spending.

Past experience does not transfer simply to current struggles, but cross generational dialog and engagement contributes to essential national debate and action preceding the elections of 2020.

Please complete as much as is applicable to you then click "Submit" (and feel free to share this form with others).

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Please check how you were personally involved

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If you were involved in the October 15 and/or November 15, 1969 Moratoriums and the Mobilizations in Washington and San Francisco, where were you living and what did you do?

How can you take part in commemoration of the 1969 Moratorium?

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If you are thinking about creating a local program and already have ideas about what you might do, please share them here:

Local history of the Moratorium and other anti-war activities

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Funding to make the above possible

Please check all aspects of the anti-war movement in which you were significantly involved:

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Moratorium/Mobilization 50th Anniversary