Vietnam war
Today in people’s history: 1199 opposes the Vietnam War
February 24, 2015Fifty years ago, on this day in 1965, District 1199 Health Care Workers became the first labor union in the United States to formally oppose the Vietnam War.
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Today in labor history: end of the “Vietnam era”
May 7, 2014On May 7, 1975, President Gerald R. Ford formally declared an end to the "Vietnam era."
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Today in labor history: Chicano draft resistance
September 16, 2013Muñoz decided - like thousands of other young people n the US - that if drafted, he would refuse to go fight in Vietnam. He was UCLA's first Chicano Student Body President, and started organizing in...
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Today in labor history: The Fort Dix stockade rebellion
June 5, 2013On June 5th, 1969, more than one hundred imprisoned soldiers rose up against deplorable and inhumane conditions at the Fort Dix stockade in New Jersey.
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Today in labor history: Vietnam war protests, draft card burned
October 15, 2012On Oct. 15, 1965, a young Catholic Worker activist, David Miller, burned his draft card in protest of the U.S. war in Vietnam, becoming the first antiwar activist to challenge a law banning the act.
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