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The Chief of the National Guard said that outright. An announcement was made of action to be taken on Vietnam Moratorium Day November 15, Support Independent Media. PRA Archive :. We have to show the American people that their sons and their husbands are being victimized by American imperialism. And in order for the anti-war movement to be effective, it has to link up with the struggle for black and brown liberation in this country with the struggle of exploited white workers.

Animal Lib. EMBED for wordpress. And I think that the liberation struggle here sheds a lot of light on what's happening in Vietnam. They did not resist. They are victims too and they have to be shown that their true loyalty's ought to be with us in the liberation struggle here and with the Vietnamese people in their liberation struggle there.

Masai Hewitt. And if you analyze the war in Vietnam, first of all it ought to become obvious that if the United States Government pulled its troops out of Vietnam that that repression would have to crop up somewhere else. But I think we have to talk about the political content. Date Recorded on:. And we have to say that Bobby Seale's mother who learned that he had been chained and gagged and that he had been sentenced to four years for contempt of court is no less grieved than an American woman who finds out that her son has been captured in Vietnam, I think we have to say that, that Erica Huggins and Yvonne Carter were no less grieved when they found that their husbands Bunchy and John [inaudible] liberation, then an American wife would feel about her husband there, but there is a different political consciousness involved and this is what we have to show the American people today.

Now there has been a lot of debate in the left sector of the anti-war movement as to what the orientation of that movement should be. We can't talk about protesting the genocide of the Vietnamese people without at the same time doing something to stop the genocide that is -- that liberation fighters in this country are being subjected to. What happens if suddenly the troops are pulled out of Vietnam?

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Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. This is what's happening inside the anti-war movement, but we have to take it further. Maybe Hitler was right. It shows us that we can't just push for peace in Vietnam, that we have to talk about also recognizing a revolutionary government.

Now I think there's something perhaps more profound that we ought to point to. Now Bobby Seale once made a statement at a peace conference in Montreal that the frontline of the battle against racism was in Vietnam. There ought to be also recognition of the revolutionary government in South Vietnam and I think this is perhaps most important, we ought to demand the release of political prisoners in this country.

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