Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq

New From Sir! No Sir!

HELP MAKE A NEW FILM AND A DIFFERENT FUTURE

This year, a scrappy, determined band of soldiers and veterans turned this country on its head.
On March 13-16, Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) held Winter Soldier/Iraq and Afghanistan in Washington, DC. Over one hundred active duty soldiers and veterans publicly testified—from their own experience–about what they consider to be the immoral and illegal nature of those wars. They demanded immediate and unconditional withdrawal, and intend to force this issue onto the national stage.
Displaced Films and Northern Light Productions are producing the only documentary film that will be made about this historic moment, and the intense battle leading up to it. If you liked Sir! No Sir! you will love this new film. Winter Soldier/Iraq and Afghanistan will answer the question “Can a new GI Movement happen today?” with a resounding “Yes!”
he Winter Soldier Investigation was by any account a powerful, explosive, and controversial antiwar event, timed to mark the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq five years ago. No one who witnessed it could come out the same. But just as importantly, it transformed everyone involved in profound and unexpected ways. That transformation, both large-scale and deeply personal, is the subject we explore in our film.

WE NEED YOUR HELP

We are in a desperate race to make the film and have it in the world by September this year, right in the height of the election campaign. We cannot make it without your financial support, and the more money we raise the faster the film can be completed. Every donation of $50 or more will get an advance copy of the DVD when it is available. Donations of $1,000 or more will be credited in the film.
But don’t limit yourself. This is a chance to play a direct, critical role in making history and forging a new future.

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Sir! No Sir! (A Review)

Sir! No Sir!

A film about G.I. resistance in Vietnam.
Kebele social centre. 14 Robertson road, Easton, Bristol. BS5 6JY.
7:30pm start.

"It sends the wrong message to our troops." George Bush

Does it ever! By chronicling the little-known story of war resistance within the American military during the Vietnam War, our guys and gals being shipped to Iraq could get some seditious ideas. Resist! Tell the Republican gang in Washington, "We don't want your fucking war!" just as many Vietnam GIs did.
What will surprise everyone seeing this film, including those with a vivid memory of the 1960s and 1970s US anti-War movement, is how much protest there was by people in uniform. As early as 1966, when most at-home Americans hadn't thought much about Kennedy and then Johnson leading us into Southeast Asia, some in the military were already saying "No" to combat. Dr. Howard Levy, a physician serving in Vietnam, was being sent to three years in prison because, appalled by the murder of civilians, he stepped away from his duties. Already in 1966, the leftist American magazine, Ramparts, had a cover story on a disillusioned Green Beret, Donald Duncan, above the banner headline, "I quit!"
Sir! No Sir! uncovers a national chain of GI coffee houses near military bases, where soldiers and marines could read alternative weeklies, listen to protest music, and chat about the lousy war under posters of Che Guevara and Huey Newton. Soldiers started their own underground papers and distributed them clandestinely on the bases. This documentary makes the startling claim that there were 300 of them! And who today remembers the battles within military jails between incarcerated soldiers, who had refused to be shipped to Vietnam, and prison authorities, who viewed these inmates as traitors? Sir! No Sir! makes clear that protesting the War from within the military wasn't taken lightly. It could be viewed as mutiny, a most serious charge leading those convicted to years in prison.
Ziegler doesn't hide the film's radical politics. America's invasion of Vietnam was horrendous and immoral, a barely hidden genocidal plan to erase the Communist-led North Vietnamese from the earth. The 1968 My Lai Massacre, in which American troops murdered about 500 innocent Vietnamese, was not an aberration but a typical action ordered by the neo-Fascist US military. No wonder our unhappy soldiers, sickened to be in Vietnam, resorted to "fragging"; offing their own officers with grenades. Probably two-dozen ex-soldiers are interviewed, now middle-aged and paunchy, and all speak of what turned them against the Vietnam War, and how they protested after. These are ordinary people who dared to speak out from within, and against the war machine.