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By and For GIs
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What do newspapers and coffeehouses have to do with the Vietnam War? It turns out they were critical tools in the GI anti-war movement. You’ll hear the stories of GIs who got around military restrictions to publish 300 anti-war newspapers, often having to distribute them covertly. The episode also highlights the role of GI coffee houses as safe havens and organizing centers for soldiers. GIs, and their civilian supporters faced intimidation, legal challenges, and violence from military and local authorities. But despite the military’s attempts to suppress them, GIs and their civilian supporters went to great lengths to express their dissent and offer counter-narratives to the official military and government propaganda about the Vietnam War. We’ll also look at the parallels to free speech movements today in the United States.
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