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with Bruce Franklin, Doug Hostetter, Arnold Isaacs,

For speaker bios, resources & youtube link, click here.

Two members of VPCC met with Vietnam's President Nguyen Xuan Phuc during his visit for the United Nations General Assembly. Second from the left is Susan Hammond of the War Legacies Project, next to

Nguyen Phuong Nga, President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO). John McAuliff of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development is to the right of the President who is holding a copy of "The People Make the Peace: Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement". Also participating were Susan Schnall of Veterans for Peace, Dick Schmitt of The Landon Carter Schmitt Memorial Fund; plus Merle Rattner and Ngo Thanh Nhan of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign.

June 13, 2021 The 50th anniversary of the Release of the Pentagon Papers

Special attention to the contribution of Anthony Russo. Presentations by *  Dan Ellsberg *  Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman *  Gar Alperovitz *  Barbara Myers For the program, speaker bios, resources and youtube links, click here

April 30, 2021 April 30, 1975: The Day the War Ended Eyewitness accounts with photos from Hanoi by John McAuliff, representing the American Friends Service Committee and the Indochina Peace Campaign, and from Saigon by Nayan Chanda, reporting for the Far Eastern Economic Review, and Claudia Krich, AFSC Resident Co-director Program information and speaker bios here Watch the Youtube video of the zoom by clicking here.

April 29, 2021 Mayday Then and Now A VPCC webinar with organizers and writers remembering and reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the historic Mayday civil disobedience demonstrations and mass arrests of 12,000. For program, speaker bios, resources and video link, click here Watch the video here.

April 26, 2021 The Historic Vietnam Veterans Protest in Washington: Lessons for Today The 50th anniversary of Dewey Canyon III Program link here. Video link here.

April 19/20, 2021 Peoples Peace Treaty 2: The Vietnam Dimension Speakers who were part of meetings between Vietnamese and US students in Saigon and Hanoi; previously unknown history. Two country video on youtube here; program and speakers bios here

April 4, 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Beyond Vietnam / Breaking the Silence"

March 22, 2021 "Religious Action for Peace and Justice" on youtube here. Program and bios are here.

March 16, 2021 "The Whistleblower of My Lai" on youtube here. Program, bios, resources and a link to watch the film are here.

February 27, 2021 Peoples Peace Treaty 1: U.S. organization and implementation on youtube here. Program, bios, Treaty text and other resources are here.

November 20, 2020  "Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8" with film maker Jeremy Kagan. For program, speaker bios, resources and youtube link, click here.

October 23, 2020 "The Trial of the Chicago 7"  

Defendants and family members speak on the Democratic Convention protest, the trial and the movie by Aaron Sorkin. For program, speaker bios, resources and youtube link, click here.

October 18, 2020 Non-violence and civil disobedience   

Civil Rights, May Day and anti war movement, Black Lives Matter, Women's issues, Labor, Environment, Post election democracy defense. Click here for program, resources and youtube link

July 6, 7 and 13, 2020 Normalization of relations between the US and Vietnam

Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Normalization from the Ground Up in Both Countries, The Contribution of NGOs and Peoples Organizations from 1975 to 1995 For program, speakers and youtube links, click here

May 9 and 16, 2020 50th Anniversaries of the National Student Strike, Kent State, Jackson State and the Chicano Moratorium  For the program, speaker bios, resources and youtube links, click here

November 13, 2019 "The War Comes Home: Moratorium and Mobilization, 1969"

A panel at George Washington University on the 50th anniversary of the largest peace demonstration in US history For program, speaker bios, resources and youtube link, click here.