RIP: David Harris: Anti-Vietnam War Protest Leader. -also- Joan Baez, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Jane Fonda, Mark Rudd, Country Joe McDonald, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, David Gilbert and Norman Mailer.

David Victor Harris (February 28, 1946 – February 6, 2023) was an American journalist and activist. After becoming an icon in the movement against the Vietnam War, organizing civil disobedience against military conscription and refusing his own orders to report for military duty, for which he was imprisoned for almost two years. Husband of Joan Baez. They Performed together at Many Anti-war Protest Marches. 

There Was Fifteen Years of Peace Following the End of The Vietnam War. WE WOKE UP! Americans Refused to Participate in Bogus Wars for Corporate Profit.

There Was Fifteen Years of Peace Following the End of The Vietnam War. WE WOKE UP! Americans Refused to Participate in Bogus Wars for Corporate Profit.

Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended the USA. NOT EVEN ONCE. All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex. 

Who REALLY Won the Vietnam War? Dow Chemical and Hughes Aircraft... They Sold Napalm, Agent Orange and Helicopters... 
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A Brief History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" - During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world.
During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "the Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. CRAZY TALK!

Looking Back it's Obvious that the Vietnam War was an Astonishingly Stupid Idea... BUT... At The Time... Many People Thought It was Wonderful... Remember that The CIA Had Perfected Brainwashing and Over Half of the Country was in a Mind Control Twilight Zone... Robots that would Do What They Were Told To Do Without Question... Thankfully, These Anti-War Protest Leaders Helped Americans WAKE THE F*CK UP and Notice Reality... and as we all found out eventually, Being "Woke" is an Excellent Way to Live... 

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Joan Baez: American Folk Singer and Wife of David Harris. Sang many Protest Songs at Anti-War Protest Marches.
"Where have all the Flowers Gone?"

"Blowing in the Wind"

Abbie Hoffman: Leader of The YIPPIES! a Sixties Political Party in Favor of Freedom, Revolution and the Building of Woodstock Nation. He Organized the Levitation of the Pentagon at an Anti War Protest in Washington DC. Documented in the Book Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer... and Organized the Chicago 1968 Riots at the Democratic Convention... [CHANT] The Whole World is Watching! [CHANT] 

Jerry Rubin: Partner of Abbie Hoffman... Major force for Revolutionary Street Theater! Like the Dollar Bill Shower at the New York Stock Exchange... a MOCKERY of Corporate Greed!
He Wrote the book DO IT! Scenarios of the Revolution!

Jane Fonda: American Movie Star and Political Activist... STILL WORKING TODAY in 2023! Fire Drill Fridays... Protesting Against Climate Change. 

Jane Fonda in Hanoi, Vietnam
She is Known for Risking her Life during the Vietnam War to go Visit the North Vietnamese Soldiers and Have a Newspaper Photo Taken. To Show that it was Possible to be Friends. VERY Effective Protest as it Makes Pro-War People Angry to this Day! It was entirely possible that they would hold her hostage but... somehow... Everything Worked out Great! THANKS JANE!

She made Many Great Movies Including Barbarella, The China Syndrome and 9 to 5... 
Jane Fonda Workout Video
She invented the Genre of Exercise Videos... 

Mark Rudd: Speaker at Anti-War Protests at Columbia University - Forever Remembered as the Character "Megaphone Mark" in the Doonesbury Comic Strip. 
He was a Part of The Students for a Democratic Society and The Weatherman... Mostly Known for Bombing Corporations In the USA That Were Profiting from the Vietnam War...  "You Don't Need to be a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows." Lyric by Bob Dylan. 

Country Joe McDonald. Sang "Fixing to Die Rag" at Woodstock.  Performed at Many US Berkeley Anti-War Protest Marches. 


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Interesting book: Autobiography of David Gilbert of SDS and The Weather Underground...

It Documents the anti Vietnam War protests from Columbia University to a nationwide movement. Students for a Democratic Society. "You don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" Lyric by Bob Dylan. He also explores what they did after the Vietnam War was over. Basically, they took a year off and got jobs... then continued the revolutionary struggle to liberate the peasants... and the proletariat... they were in love with the philosophy of Marx and Lenin. I never was impressed with Karl and Vladimir but was totally impressed with Groucho and John. ALL HAIL MARX-LENNON!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)

After resurfacing above ground and having all charges dropped, Gilbert had a child with Kathy Boudin and they were building a family... Then he decided to team up with the Black Liberation Army and work on the problem of racism. The BLA and Gilbert's Weatherman friends robbed a Brink's truck stealing millions of dollars and Killing Four People. This got Gilbert a very long sentence in NY prison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brink's_robbery_(1981)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gilbert_(activist)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Boudin


http://www.amazon.com/Love-Struggle-Weather-Underground-Beyond/dp/1604863196

http://notmytribe.com/solidarity/political-prisoners


http://lanternsofliberty.us/themachine/index.cfm?Entry=D6EF3503-123F-7491-A47778C555AAD2D3
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