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The New Mobilization Committee Against the War in Vietnam (New Mobe) publishes a two-page 8 ½ x 11 flyer outlining the activities of a March Against Death November 13-15, 1969 involving upwards of 45,000 protesters each carrying the name of a slain U.S. soldier or a village destroyed in Vietnam.

The two-day protest began at Arlington Cemetery, wound past the White House where each demonstrator carrying a single candle called out the name of the dead and then proceeded to the Capitol.

The event involved more than 45,000—one for each U.S. soldier that had been killed in Vietnam up to that point in time. The march was done by state with each state having at least as many marchers as soldiers who were killed in Vietnam from that state.

The March Against Death was part of the second Moratorium against the war—where a nationwide strike involving several million people across the country took place.

Following the two-day procession, 500,000 people marched in Washington to protest the war.

Mass protests against the war ultimately turned U.S. policy toward withdrawal of troops, although it took demonstrations from 1965 until 1973 before all combat troops were withdrawn.

North Vietnamese and allied southern militia units ultimately defeated the South Vietnamese government April 30, 1975 and reunified the country.

For a PDF of this 8 ½ x 11, two-sided flyer, see washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1969-1...

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Original held in the American University Library -- Special Collections. Local Identifier SC_Frazier_F_0018a

The New Mobilizer (1969-70) was the newsletter of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, a national umbrella anti-Vietnam War coalition.

The organization was first organized as the Spring Mobilization Committee in 1966 and organized several antiwar and anti-draft rallies and demonstrations, including organizing attendance at the large April 1967 New York city march.

The group sought permanence by replacing its name “Spring” with “National” and organized the large October 1967 March on the Pentagon and April 1968 protests against the draft, among other activities.

A split in the antiwar movement occurred later in 1968 over whether to focus on a single demand (End the War) or to include social justice demands as well. Differences also included whether to condone civil disobedience as a tactic.

These two tendencies were later reflected as the National Peace Action Coalition and the 1969-70 New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, which was later reconstituted that year as the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice. While both coalitions reflected a broad base and many disparate organizations and individuals, the old left Trotskyist Social Workers Party supported NPAC while the Communist Party supported New Mobilization/PCPJ.

For PDFs of the New Mobilizer, see

No. 1 – Sept. 5, 1969 – washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1969-0...
No. 2 – Sept. 25, 1969 – washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1969-0...
No. 3 – Oct. 8, 1969 – washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1969-1...
No. 4 – October 28, 1969 – washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1969-1...
No. 5 – Unavailable
No. 6 – Jan. 1970 -- washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1970-0...
No. 7 – Feb. 1970 -- washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1970-0...
No. 8 – Feb. 1970 -- washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1970-0...
No. 9 – Mar. 1970 -- washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1970-0...


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Issues 1-4 and 5-8 from the Wisconsin Historical Society. Issue 9 original held in the Jeffrey T. Goldthorpe collection

An undated Suggestion Sheet for Mobilization Marshals outlines the peacekeeping, communications and record keeping role of march marshals.

The document could be from any of a number of anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in Washington, D.C. sponsored or co-sponsored by either the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam or the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam Fall 1967- Dec 1969..

For a PDF of this 8 ½ x 11, one-sided document, see washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/11zon_...

For more information and related images, see

March on Pentagon: 1967 - flic.kr/s/aHsk5q4pim
Counter-Inaugural: 1969 - flic.kr/s/aHsjDuSPyF
Moratorium: Oct. 1969 - flic.kr/s/aHskaFJjgQ
Moratorium: Nov. 1969 - flic.kr/s/aHsk9riRMa
DC antiwar: 1970 - flic.kr/s/aHskzBFDnn
DC Antiwar: 1971 - flic.kr/s/aHskzGvKBo
Largest Anti-Viet War Protest: 1971 - flic.kr/s/aHskffQSp9

Mayday 1971:

May 1 flic.kr/s/aHsk5GV1JM:
May 2: flic.kr/s/aHsk5CKtKq
May 3: flic.kr/s/aHsk5bjYqk
May 4: flic.kr/s/aHsk64GugT
May 5: flic.kr/s/aHsk8e3sU3

DC Anti Vietnam War: 1972 - flic.kr/s/aHsjw6vLke
Inauguration Protests: 1973 - flic.kr/s/aHsjDuVNcT

Donated by Robert “Bobbo” Simpson

The Student Mobilization Committee publishes a flyer for anti-Vietnam War volunteer activities to build for a mass April 24, 1971 march on Washington, D.C. and a March 24, 1971 training session for those who wish to become antiwar activists.

Hundreds of thousands would march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. April 24, 1971 in the largest anti-Vietnam War demonstration of the era.

Crowd estimates varied from 200,000-500,000 participants.

The week before the massive rally, Vietnam Veterans Against the War staged a weeklong series of demonstrations culminating in a protest at the U.S. Capitol where veterans threw back their service medals.

During the weeks following the April 24 protest, massive civil disobedience was conducted attempting to shut down the U.S. government during the People’s Coalition for Peace & Justice and Mayday demonstrations.

The Student Mobilization Committee began as the student arm of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, but became a separate organization where the Socialist Workers Party, the dominant Trotskyist organization at the time, and its youth arm the Young Socialist Alliance had considerable influence.

For a PDF of this 8 ½ x 11, two-sided flyer, see washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/11zon_...

For more information and images related to April 24, 1971, see www.flickr.com/gp/washington_area_spark/h8X454

For more information and images related to the Mayday protests, see

May 1: flic.kr/s/aHsk5GV1JM
May 2: flic.kr/s/aHsk5CKtKq
May 3: flic.kr/s/aHsk5bjYqk
May 4: flic.kr/s/aHsk64GugT
May 5: flic.kr/s/aHsk8e3sU3

For more information and images related to the 1971 Dewey Canyon III VVAW protests, see flic.kr/s/aHskfY238e

Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson

Tennessee Tough by Mobe Oner (Eric Bass).

Nashville, Tennessee.

Tennessee Tough by Mobe Oner (Eric Bass).

Nashville, Tennessee.

Tennessee Tough by Mobe Oner (Eric Bass).

Nashville, Tennessee.

The Washington Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam issues an appeal for the housing of demonstrators coming into the city for the October 21, 1967 march on the Pentagon.

The demonstration, in which 100,000 or more marched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon in the largest D.C. antiwar protest to date, came at a turning point in the war.

Gen. William Westmoreland informed the administration that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong were essentially defeated but he requested 150,000 more troops to supplement the over 500,000 that were already in Vietnam in order to mop up the resistance.

Though not a majority, antiwar sentiment was on the rise.

President Lyndon Johnson ultimately rejected Westmoreland’s request. The North Vietnamese and National Liberation Front troops launched the Tet Offensive early the next year destroying the credibility of those who thought the communist-led forces were defeated.

Johnson then announced he would not seek re-election.

From that point on, the U.S. essentially admitted defeat, but continued seeking an “honorable peace” until the Paris Peace Accords in 1973—with thousands more dead and wounded on both sides.

The forces of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam ultimately defeated the U.S. allied Republic of Vietnam in 1975, ending the war for the Vietnamese that began against the Japanese at the outset of World War II.

For a PDF of this one-sided 8 ½ x 11 flyer, see washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1967-1...

For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsk5q4pim

Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson

The Washington Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam publishes a calendar of events for the fall of 1968 and stated, “It’s purpose is to illegitamize the presidential election which offers no opportunity to vote for peace.”

The handout also contained the personal accounts from three people who attended the August 1968 demonstrations at the Chicago Democratic Convention and subsequent police riot.

For a PDF of this 7-page handout, see washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1968-1...

For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskcMVRWh

Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson

Berlin-Schoeneweide, 05.02.2012, Konzert des suedafrikanischen Komponisten und Musikers SAM TSHABALALA im Moving Poets Berlin (MoBe).
© Bernd Sauer-Diete

Berlin-Schoeneweide, 05.02.2012, Konzert des suedafrikanischen Komponisten und Musikers SAM TSHABALALA im Moving Poets Berlin (MoBe).
© Bernd Sauer-Diete

Berlin-Schoeneweide, 05.02.2012, Konzert des suedafrikanischen Komponisten und Musikers SAM TSHABALALA im Moving Poets Berlin (MoBe). Foto: An den Fuessen hat Sam suedafrikanische Percussion-Instrumente befestigt, mit denen er den Rhythmus zu seinen Songs spielt.
© Bernd Sauer-Diete

Berlin-Schoeneweide, 05.02.2012, Konzert des suedafrikanischen Komponisten und Musikers SAM TSHABALALA im Moving Poets Berlin (MoBe). Foto: An den Fuessen hat Sam suedafrikanische Percussion-Instrumente befestigt, mit denen er den Rhythmus zu seinen Songs spielt.
© Bernd Sauer-Diete

Berlin-Schoeneweide, 05.02.2012, Konzert des suedafrikanischen Komponisten und Musikers SAM TSHABALALA im Moving Poets Berlin (MoBe). Foto: An den Fuessen hat Sam suedafrikanische Percussion-Instrumente befestigt, mit denen er den Rhythmus zu seinen Songs spielt.
© Bernd Sauer-Diete

Berlin-Schoeneweide, 05.02.2012, Konzert des suedafrikanischen Komponisten und Musikers SAM TSHABALALA im Moving Poets Berlin (MoBe).
© Bernd Sauer-Diete

Berlin-Schoeneweide, 05.02.2012, Konzert des suedafrikanischen Komponisten und Musikers SAM TSHABALALA im Moving Poets Berlin (MoBe).
© Bernd Sauer-Diete

Berlin-Schoeneweide, 05.02.2012, Konzert des suedafrikanischen Komponisten und Musikers SAM TSHABALALA im Moving Poets Berlin (MoBe). Foto: An den Fuessen hat Sam suedafrikanische Percussion-Instrumente befestigt, mit denen er den Rhythmus zu seinen Songs spielt.
© Bernd Sauer-Diete

Castelnou 2020

The Mourning Dove was the newsletter of the Washington Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, a broad coalition that sponsored local peace demonstrations as well as organizing for national demonstrations like the October 1967 march on the Pentagon and the August 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention.

The local group was most active in 1967 and 1968 and served as the local arm of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, often called the Mobe.

It grew out of the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam that was organized to build for a large anti-Vietnam War demonstration in New York City in April 1967.

The newsletter was mimeographed on 8 ½ x 11 paper. Issues currently available are:

No. 1 - May 1967 - washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1967-0...
Vol. 1 No. 2 – June 9, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-06-09-th...
Vol. 1 No. 3 – (mis-numbered as No. 2) – June 23, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-06-23-th...
Vol. 1 No. 4 – July 8, 1967 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1967-07-08-th...
Vol. 1 No. 5 - July 21, 1967 - washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1967-0...
Vol. 1 No. 6 - circa August 1967 (missing pages 1-2) - washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/1967-0...

For other alternative periodicals, see washingtonareaspark.com/contributors/periodicals/

For documents of the Spring and Washington Mobilization Committee, see the Vietnam War section of our documents page: washingtonareaspark.com/contributors/

For related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskVENBnt or flic.kr/s/aHskcMVRWh or flic.kr/s/aHsk5q4pim

Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson