January 1 |
Mountain Home AFB - 125 active-duty air men and women and their civilian supporters participated in a “Vigil For Peace” |
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January 8 |
Fairborn - Over 250 people, half of them active duty airmen and women or veterans, gathered in Fairborn's Central Park to hear speakers and to march to Wright Patterson AFB. Travis AFB - 100 active duty airmen and women supported by 100 dependents and community people participate in 24 hour vigil in protest over the escalation of the air war in Vietnam/ |
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January 15 |
USS Coral Sea - Secretary of the Navy is greeted on the USS Coral Sea with an antiwar demonstration and a petition signed by 36 sailors. The petition included demands for immediate U.S. withdrawal from Southeast Asia, acceptance of the DRV's 7-point peace plan in order to gain release of American POW's, amnesty for deserters and draft resisters, and freedom for all political prisoners in the U.S. The petition concluded with these words: ''The violence and oppression aimed at the people of Southeast Asia is too often felt by individuals in the military who dare to oppose current policies. Despite this very real hazard, we the undersigned implore proper consideration be given this statement." |
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February 29 |
KPFK devotes 2 hours to GI movement, first hour has program composed of letters and articles by military dependents and women in the military. Second hour has recording of FTA show. |
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March 24 |
St. Louis - Midwestern GI Movement Conference |
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April |
USS Nitro - 47 sailors out of a crew of 200 sign petition protesting unsafe conditions. |
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April 7 |
Westover AFB - GI-civilian antiwar demonstration. |
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April 8 |
Mountain Home AFB - GI-civilian Vigil Ruby Dorsey resigns from the military because of widespread racism and sexism among the military in Germany. |
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April 13 |
Fort Dix - 100 GIs at Fort Dix, and McGuire AFB, sign petition protesting air war. |
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April 15 |
Fort Sam Houston - About 300 active duty GIs attend concert for GI conscientious objectors, then join candlelight demonstration for 10 GI organizers arrested day before. Hanscom AFB - VVAW/GI organized antiwar march and rally. Travis AFB - Vigil held across from main gate, speaker from USS Coral Sea Stop Our Ship movement. Wright Patterson AFB - Active duty airmen, veterans and civilians demonstrate at base gates for 14th straight week. |
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April 20 |
Wright Patterson AFB - GIs and civilian demonstrators attempt to block gates. |
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April 22 |
Tokyo - 9 GIs from Iwakuni, Yokota, Yokosuka, and Misawa hold press conference to voice "opposition to the continuation and escalation of the Indochina war effort by the United States.". |
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April 23 |
USS Nitro - Sailors from USS Nitro, join picket attempting to block munitions from being loaded aboard ship. |
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May |
Schweinfurth, West Germany - 100 GIs demonstrate on Memorial day, demanding "Peace Now". Hundreds of GIs in Germany sign petition calling for Nixon's impeachment. |
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May 5 |
Yokota AFB - Japanese antiwar activists shut the airbase down with kites. |
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May 6 |
Tokyo - Lance Cpl. Ronald McMiller and Lance Cpl. Phillip Walker read statement condemning racism at Iwakuni NAS at a press conference. |
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May 1 |
Seattle - VVAW members occupy King County Republican Headquarters. |
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May 13 |
Seattle - VVAW led demonstration to protest mining of Haiphong Harbor. |
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May 14 |
Yokohama - At a press conference, Seaman Ted Short reads letter from sailors stationed in Japan with the 15th Destroyer Squadron, to President Nixon appealing to him to bring the Vietnam war to an end, not through escalation but through negotiations. |
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May 19 |
Berlin - GIs from bases all over Berlin attend "People's Unity Dance", organized by GI paper Forward. |
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May 20 |
Armed Farces Day festivities: Cherry Point MCAS - GI-civilian antiwar demonstration. Great Lakes Naval Training Station - GI-civilian antiwar demonstration. Fort Bragg - GI-civilian antiwar demonstration (150 GIs). Fort Campbel - GI-civilian antiwar demonstration (150-200 GIs). Fort Devens - GI-civilian antiwar demonstration. Fort Dix/McGuire AFB - GI-civilian antiwar demonstration. Fort Hood - GI-civilian antiwar demonstration. Fort Ord - GI-civilian antiwar demonstration (400 GIs). Mountain Home AFB - GI-civilian antiwar demonstration (200 GIs). Pease AFB - GI-civilian antiwar demonstration. Portsmouth NAS - GI-civilian antiwar demonstration. Westover AFB - GI-civilian antiwar demonstration. Wright Patterson AFB - GI-civilian antiwar demonstration (350 GIs). |
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June 5 |
Newport - 6 sailors from the USS Davis get sanctuary at Channing Memorial Church. |
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July 8 |
Washington DC - GIs picket Court of Military Appeals in support of Billy Smith. |
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July 15 |
San Clemente - MDM/VVAW antiwar demonstration. |
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August 18 |
1200 vets and supporters participate in cross-country caravan that ended at the Republican national Convention in Miami to "protest the coronation of King Richard". |
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September |
Camp Hague, Okinawa - VGI stage one day strike. |
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September 5 |
Monterey - VVAW Trial of the Military. |
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September 6 |
Monterey - VVAW Free Billy Smith demonstration and march. |
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September 9 |
Travis AFB - Free Billy Smith Rally. |
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October |
Subic Bay - 800 sailors and civilian supporters demonstrate in effort to halt deployment of USS Newport News to Vietnam. |
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October 1 |
Hiroshima - Iwakuni MCAS Chapter of VVAW organize "peace tour" of the A-Bomb memorial Peace Park. |
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October 14 |
Yokosuka - Navy Day celebrations disrupted by anti-military demonstration calling for the release of SA Doug Weaver, who had been court martialled for "participating in political activities in a foreign country". |
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October 15 |
Yokosuka - GI rights demonstration. |
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October 23 |
San Francisco - VVAW Veterans Day parade. |
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October |
31 sailors petition Senator Alan Cranston to investigate working and living conditions, harassment and racial prejudice on ships in the Seventh Fleet and on the Naval Base at Subic Bay. |
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October 28 |
Frankfurt - GI-civilian demonstration in support of Vietnamese liberation and against US imperialism. |
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November 3 - 4 |
USS Constellation - 80 black sailors demand Captain's Mast. When he refused to meet with them, other crew members joined them and they all staged a sit-down demonstration that lasted through the night and into the next day. At one point, there were over 300 sailors, including whites, sitting in protest. |
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November 9 |
USS Constellation - 132 Sailors refuse to return to USS Constellation in San Diego. |