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. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harris_(activist)

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!

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

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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Links:

Wikipedia Articles about American Patriots: 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. 

If you remember any MORE NAMES... Tell me in the Comments Section or Email: gregvan(at)yahoo(dot)com

Joan Baez: American Folk Singer and Wife of David Harris. Sang many Protest Songs at Anti-War Protest Marches.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSE03QVnXg0

"Where have all the Flowers Gone?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWx_txS6lVc

"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] 

He also wrote Steal this Book! and Revolution for the Hell of It! 

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. 

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... 

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

Great Documentary Movies: Ken Kesey's Magic Trip - Earth First! Biography - Orange Sunshine LSD - Tower Records - Earth Liberation Front - Festival Express - The Weather Underground SDS - Biosphere 2 and Many More

MAGIC TRIP: A portrait of author Ken Kesey’s freewheeling road trip across America with his “Merry Pranksters,” immortalized in Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" 

https://tubitv.com/movies/505394/magic_trip?utm_source=google-feed&tracking=google-feed

"Who Bombed Judi Beri?" She Was An Earth First! Activist - Film by Darryl Cherney - Great Song: FBI Stole My Fiddle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Bombed_Judi_Bari

"If a Tree Falls" Biography of The Earth Liberation Front -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_Tree_Falls

"Festival Express" - Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Sha Na Na and Ian and Sylvia Take A Train Trip Across Canada. Playing Concerts in 1970.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Express

"The Weather Underground" Movie - SDS Radicals - Anti Vietnam War Protest... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343168/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground

"The Last Mountain" - Environmentalists Fight Coal Mining... West Virginia Mountaintop Removal - Bobby Kennedy Junior
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Mountain

"All Things Must Pass" - History of Tower Records
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Things_Must_Pass:_The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Tower_Records

"The US vs John Lennon" - American History - Deportation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_U.S._vs._John_Lennon

"An Inconvenient Truth" - Al Gore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth

"Disturbing the Universe" Biography of William Kunstler Lawyer for The Chicago 8 Yippie Anti Vietnam War Protest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kunstler:_Disturbing_the_Universe

"The Brainwashing of My Dad"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brainwashing_of_My_Dad

"The Sunshine Makers" - Biography of The Men That Made Orange Sunshine LSD - Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunshine_Makers_(2015_film)

Spaceship Earth - about Biosphere 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship_Earth_(film)
Spaceship Earth is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Matt Wolf about the 1991 experiment that saw eight individuals spend two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth's ecosystem, dubbed Biosphere 2. 

Oddly... On April 1, 1994 a severe dispute within the management team led to the ousting of the on-site management by federal marshals serving a restraining order, and financier Ed Bass hired Steve Bannon, [Yes, THAT Steve Bannon... The White House Chief Strategist for Donald Trump] then-manager of the Bannon & Co. investment banking team from Beverly Hills, California, to run Space Biospheres Ventures.^[65] Some biospherians and staff were concerned about Bannon, who had previously investigated cost overruns at the site. Two former Biosphere 2 crew members flew back to Arizona to protest the hire and broke into the compound to warn current crew members that Bannon and the new management would jeopardize their safety.^[66]

Book: Mount Analogue by René Daumal
https://www.amazon.com/Mount-Analogue-Non-Euclidean-Symbolically-Mountaineering/dp/1585673420
(A Tale of Non-Euclidean and Symbolically Authentic Mountaineering Adventures) - Daumal's symbolic mountain represents a way to truth that "cannot not exist," and his classic allegory of man's search for himself embraces the certainty that one can know and conquer one's own reality.

Book: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R. Buckminster Fuller
https://www.amazon.com/Operating-Manual-Spaceship-Buckminster-Fuller/dp/3037781262/ref=pd_lpo_14_img_1/145-8463145-2441321
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time.

You Don't Need to Be A Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows... American History: SDS - Weather Underground - Anti Vietnam War Protests

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/movement.html

Initially formed as a splinter group of the Students for a Democratic Society which believed that peaceful protests were ineffective, the Weathermen were widely criticized for their use of violence as a means of social and political change. Some accused the group of terrorism, while others accused it of giving all activists, both militant and more mainstream, a bad name.

But for the Weathermen, violent action was nothing short of necessary in a time of crisis, a last-ditch effort to grab the country’s attention. And grab attention they did—in March 1970, just days after Bernardine Dohrn publicly announced a “declaration of war.” When an accidentally detonated bomb killed three Weathermen in the basement of a Manhattan townhouse, the group suddenly became the target of an FBI manhunt, and members were forced to go into hiding. The bomb had been intended to be set off at a dance at a local Army base.

How did the Weathermen arrive at this point? Some of the group’s former members, interviewed in THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, cite the murder of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in a December 1969 Chicago police raid as a turning point. What many believed to be a government-sanctioned killing in an effort to wipe out militant groups such as the Panthers was, for the Weathermen, the final straw.

In 1960, nearly 50 percent of America’s population was under 18 years of age. This surplus of youth set the stage for a widespread revolt against the status quo: against previously upheld structures of racism, sexism and classism, against the violence of the Vietnam War and America’s interventions abroad. At college campuses throughout the country, anger against “the Establishment’s” practices turned to protest, both peaceful and violent.

As the decade continued, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an organization founded by Martin Luther King, Jr. in order to promote nonviolent protest, grew increasingly militant—as did the mostly white, middle-class “New Left,” which took cues from the civil rights movement, protested policies both home and abroad, and sparked factions like the Weathermen. By the late 1960s, activist movements had also mobilized among Asian Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos and Puerto Ricans, as well as a second wave of activism among women, gay and lesbians and the disabled.

1962: Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, holds its first convention in Port Huron, MI, calling for progressive alliances among activist groups. 1964: The Civil Rights Act passes, while America’s involvement in the war in Vietnam escalates. 1965: Berkeley Free Speech Movement spurs massive student protests against the Vietnam War. The first SDS anti-war march in Washington attracts 15,000 people. 1966: Huey Newton and Bobby Seale form the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California. 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy are assassinated. Anti-war demonstrations turn violent at the Chicago Democratic Convention and shut down Columbia University. 1969: Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark die in a Chicago police raid. The Weathermen form. 1970: March: Three Weathermen are killed when bomb manufacturing goes awry. The organization becomes the Weather Underground as key players including Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers and Kathy Boudin go into hiding. Bernardine Dohrn gives a tour of her underground hideout on the San Francisco Bay View Video June: New York City police headquarters are bombed and the Weathermen take credit, issuing a communiqué from underground. July: Thirteen Weathermen are indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to engage in acts of terrorism. A New York bank is bombed in retaliation. September: Timothy Leary issues a statement from the underground after escaping from prison with the help of the Weathermen. 1971: 50,000 anti-war protesters march on Washington, D.C. 1973: Cease-fire accord in Vietnam. 1977: Weathermen Mark Rudd and Cathy Wilkerson emerge from years of hiding and surrender to the police, receiving two years of probation and three years in prison, respectively. 1980: Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers resurface from the underground, pleading guilty to bail-jumping charges from a 1969 anti-war protest. Dohrn is fined $1,500 and given three years’ probation. 1981: The unofficial end of the Weather Underground occurs when Kathy Boudin resurfaces to participate in an armed robbery in Nanuet, New York, which results in the shooting deaths of three men. Boudin is sentenced to 22 years in prison, and is released in 2003.