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Peace Not Terror includes essays by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Dave
Dellinger, Staughton Lynd, William Sloane Coffin, H. Bruce
Franklin, David Cortright, David Harris, and others, including
veterans of the Gulf War and the Iraq War. Many of these writers
contributed to her earlier book, Against the Vietnam War: Writings
By Activists (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). The argument of the
book is that a peaceful solution to the problems caused by the
attacks of September 11, 2007 can be found. The hope is that there
are so many people who are willing to contribute to a book such as
this one, and who are doing such wonderful work. They span the
generations. The peace demonstrations all over the world before the
war against Iraq testify to people's wishes, people's feelings.
This is the hope for the future.
Peace Not Terror includes essays by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Dave
Dellinger, Staughton Lynd, William Sloane Coffin, H. Bruce
Franklin, David Cortright, David Harris, and others, including
veterans of the Gulf War and the Iraq War. Many of these writers
contributed to her earlier book, Against the Vietnam War: Writings
By Activists (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). The argument of the
book is that a peaceful solution to the problems caused by the
attacks of September 11, 2007 can be found. The hope is that there
are so many people who are willing to contribute to a book such as
this one, and who are doing such wonderful work. They span the
generations. The peace demonstrations all over the world before the
war against Iraq testify to people's wishes, people's feelings.
This is the hope for the future.
For some, it was a movement for peace. For others, it was a war
against the war. In the eyes of certain participants, the movement
was cultural and social at its core, a matter of changing society.
Still others defined their protests as political and sought out the
economic root causes of the war. What many would agree upon was
that it was a time when a remarkable generation came of age and a
great nation was shaken to its very foundations. The protest
movement in opposition to the Vietnam War was a complex amalgam of
political, social, economic, and cultural motivations, factors, and
events. Against the Vietnam War brings together the different
facets of that movement and its various shades of opinion. Here the
participants themselves offer statements and reflections on their
activism, the era, and the consequences of a war that spanned three
decades and changed the United States of America. The keynote is on
individual experience in a time when almost every event had
national and international significance. A foreword by Staughton
Lynd considers the events of the Vietnam War in the context of the
present war in Iraq.
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