![]() ![]() Protests at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas organized by the RA Student Peace Union. First coordinated nationwide protests against the Vietnam War included demonstrations in New York City (sponsored by War Resisters League, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Committee for Non-Violent Action, the Socialist Party of America, and the Student Peace Union and attended by 1500 people), San Francisco (1000 people), Minneapolis, Miami, Austin, Sacramento, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington D.C., Boston, Cleveland, and other cities. One of the speakers bitterly spoke out against Johnson's use of force in Vietnam, comparing it to violence used against blacks in Mississippi. White and black activists gathered near Philadelphia, Mississippi for the memorial service of three civil rights workers. Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley defends the right of students to carry out political organizing on campus. Twelve young men in New York publicly burn their draft cards to protest the war – the first such act of war resistance. The May 2nd Movement was the PLP's youth affiliate. These protests were organized by the Progressive Labor Party, with help from the Young Socialist Alliance. Smaller demonstrations took place in Boston, Madison, Wisconsin and Seattle. Hundreds of students demonstrate on New York's Times Square and from there went to the United Nations. The Internal Protector published a pledge of draft resistance by some of these organizers. A conference at Yale plans demonstrations on May 4. WRL among other groups turn out 300 pickets against a speaking engagement by Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City. protest against the Vietnam War and "anti- Buddhist terrorism" by the U.S.-supported South Vietnamese regime with a demonstration at the US Mission to the UN in New York City. War Resisters League organizes first U.S. Anti-Vietnam war protests in England and Australia. involvement in Vietnam, 1,100 Quakers undertook a silent protest vigil-the group "ringed the Pentagon for parts of two days". We expressed our fear that in so doing, America would back into a war." For example, in May, "just after the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu, the Service Committee bought a page in The New York Times to protest what seemed to be the tendency of the USA to step into Indo-China as France stepped out. American Quakers began protesting via the media.merchant ships to transport European troops to "subjugate the native population" of Vietnam. involvement in Vietnam were in 1945, when United States Merchant Marine sailors condemned the U.S. ![]() The majority of the protests were in the United States, but some took place around the world. The protests were part of a movement in opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Protests against the Vietnam War took place in the 1960s and 1970s. Protest against the Vietnam War in Amsterdam in April 1968
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