Ten key issues identified by the movement organizers are: Unity, Spiritual Values, Education, Economic Development, Political Power, Reparations, Prison Industrial Complex, Health, Artistic/ Cultural Development, Peace[1] In an "Open Letter on the Millions More Movement," Minister Louis Farrakhan stated in part, For the first time in our history, those of us of different ideologies, philosophies, methodologies, denominati ...

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The growing anti-war movement alarmed many in the US government. On August 16, 1966 the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began investigations of Americans who were suspected of aiding the NLF, with the intent to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupted the meeting and 50 were arrested. On 1 February 1968, a suspected NLF officer was summarily executed by General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, a South Vietnamese National Police Chief. Loan shot the suspect in the head on a public street in ...

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These protests are said to be the biggest global peace protests before a war actually started; the peace movement is compared with the movement caused by the Vietnam War. Protests against the 2003 Iraq war - January 16 2002. Protests were held worldwide in opposition to a war with Iraq, including in Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan, Japan, Belgium, the Netherlands, Argentina, and the United States, where Americans attended a rally in Washington, DC. The U.S. Park Police, which oversees activities on The Mall, stopp ...

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Protests against the Vietnam War - 1966. Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) refused to go to war, famously stating that he had "got nothing against no Viet Cong." The governor of Illinois called Ali "disgusting". The governor of Maine said that Ali "should be held in utter contempt by every patriotic American." In 1967 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison, but was released on appeal. Protests against the Vietnam War - 1967. On June 1 Vietnam Veterans Against the Wa ...

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The marchers were cleared and their camps were destroyed by federal cavalry troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, in a probable violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. Dwight D. Eisenhower, as a member of MacArthur's staff, had strong reservations about the operation, and George Patton was also ordered to take part in the operation. Troops with rifles and tear gas were sent into the Bonus Army's camps. President Hoover did not want the army to march across the Anacostia River into the protesters' largest encampment, bu ...

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The DC Anti-War Network (DAWN) sponsored a mass rally and march at Malcolm X Park (Meridian Hill Park) to protest the inauguration of President George W. Bush. Following a number of speeches, the group marched south on 16th Street NW and west on H Street NW to McPherson Square. Speakers included: Amy Goodman - Democracy Now Father Gerard Jean-Juste - former Haitian political prisoner Reverend Graylan Hagler - Civil Rights leader, Plymouth Congregational Church Stan Goff - Military Families Speak ...

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Protests against the 2003 Iraq war - March 20 2003. The day after the invasion of Iraq had begun, protests were held in cities around the world. In some U.S. cities, protesters attempted to shut their respective cities down. In Germany, students staged a massive walkout. In London, a massive demonstration was held in front of the Houses of Parliament. Protests against the 2003 Iraq war - March 21 2003. Demonstrations were organized for a second day in a row in various US cities ...

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These protests are said to be the biggest global peace protests before a war actually started; the peace movement is compared with the movement caused by the Vietnam War. Protests against the 2003 Iraq war - January 16 2002. Protests were held worldwide in opposition to a war with Iraq, including in Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan, Japan, Belgium, the Netherlands, Argentina, and the United States, where Americans attended a rally in Washington, DC. The U.S. Park Police, which oversees activities on the Mall, stopp ...

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Millions More Movement - National Co-Conveners partial list. Mrs. Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change Dr. Benjamin Chavis Muhammad, Hip Hop Summit Action Network Rev. Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner, Skinner Leadership Institute Dr. Dorothy Height, National Council of Negro Women Dr. Conrad Worrill, National Black United Front Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz, New Black Panther Party Charles Steele, Southern Christian ...

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On April 22, 1971, John Kerry became the first Vietnam veteran to testify before Congress about the war, when he appeared before a Senate committee hearing on proposals relating to ending the war. He spoke for nearly two hours with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in what has been named the Fulbright Hearing, after the Chairman of the proceedings, Senator J. William Fulbright. Kerry presented the conclusions of the Winter Soldier Investigation, where veterans ...

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See also: Kent State shootings "The draft" initiated protests when on October 15, 1965 the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States. At that time, only a fraction of all men of draft age were actually conscripted, but the Selective Service System office ("Draft Board") in each locality had broad discretion on whom to draft and whom to exempt where there was no clear guideline for exemption. The charges of unfairness led to the inst ...

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Protests against the 2003 Iraq war - April 12 2003. Protests sponsored by A.N.S.W.E.R. were held in Washington, D.C. [30], San Francisco, and Los Angeles to demonstrate against the Iraq War three days after the fall of Baghdad. In Washington, the march route took the group of 30,000 past offices of several mass media organizations, and companies such as Bechtel and Halliburton. [31]

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See also: Protests against the Vietnam War The U.S. became polarized over the war. Many supporters of U.S. involvment argued for what was known as the Domino Theory, which held that if the South fell to communist guerillas, other nations, primarily in Southeast Asia, would succumb in short succession, much like falling dominoes. Military critics of the war pointed out that the conflict was political and that the military mission lacked clear objectives. Civilian critics of the war argued that the government of South Vietnam lac ...

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The Bonus Army massed at the United States Capitol on June 17 as the U.S. Senate considered the Patman Bonus Bill, which would give World War I veterans certain benefits. Most of the Bonus Army camped in makeshift camps (similar to Hoovervilles) on the Anacostia Flats, a swampy, muddy area across the Anacostia River from the federal core of Washington. The protesters had hoped that they could pressure Congress to change the law and make immediate payments, which would have provided relief for the marchers, many of whom were unemployed due to the Great Depression. The bill had passed the House of Repres ...

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