Announcements
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National Call-In day for Korea Peace Tuesday, October 8, 2019 Dear friends, Unfortunately, a hoped-for diplomatic breakthrough failed to materialize this past weekend when working-level US-North Korea talks broke down. But we can’t give up! Although the impeachment fight dominates politics in Washington, the next few weeks will be a very critical time to push
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Congressional Bulletin This new feature of some mailings will indicate some pending Congressional initiatives on issues of concern to participants in H-PAD, along with recommended actions. Most Immediate: A House-Senate conference committee on the 2020 National Defense Authorization bill is beginnings its work. There are three key provisions in the House bill that are especially
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Dear friends of Historians for Peace and Democracy, We’re very excited to announce a new series of short H-PAD videos, titled Liberating History. In the age of social media, we believe that short, accessible audiovisuals are vital to reaching the public. So a few months ago we hired a professional videographer to help us
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest "Reflections on 'Peace' in Afghanistan: Leaving a Misguided War and Choosing Not to Look Back" By Andrew J. Bacevich, TomDispatch.com, posted September 10 On parallels between the US wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan.The author is a retired US Army colonel and an emeritus professor of history and international relations at Boston
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “A GI Rebellion: When Soldiers Said No to War” By Steve Early, Portside.org, posted August 24 A review-essay on the just-published book Waging Peace in Vietnam (Village Press), edited by Ron Carver, David Cortright, and Barbara Doherty, including first-person accounts by fifty grassroots activists in the GI antiwar movement
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In recent years, Israel has been placing increasing restrictions on the ability of international scholars to work at Palestinian universities in the West Bank and Gaza. These restrictions have resulted in a sharp decrease in the number of international academics in Palestinian universities, and threaten to hinder Palestinian students’ access to quality higher education. H-Pad has joined Palestinian, Israeli, and international
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “There Are No Lone Wolves” By Juliette Kayyem, Washington Post, posted August 5 “White-supremacist terror is rooted in a pack, a community.” The author is a former assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security. “The Yakima Terror: Ninety Years Ago in Washington, a Wave of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
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“How America’s Wars End (Messily): And the Afghan War Will be No Exception” By Danny Sjursen, TomDispatch.com, posted July 28 The author is a retired U.S. Army major who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and is a former history instructor at West Point. “White Nationalists and the Legacy of the Waffen-SS from Postwar Europe to
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Few people today even know that there was a robust GI Movement, or that it had grown so large by 1971 that the Pentagon felt it was necessary to begin pulling ground troops out. The book and the exhibit, both called Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans who Opposed the War, is much more
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Dear Friends, We are sending you three links regarding the abuse of immigrants on the Southern border and a group of journalists and scholars that has formed to mobilize against it. The first is an article calling on academics to engage in nonviolent actions to shut down the Trump-sponsored detention camps for immigrants https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/09/call-action-journalists-academics-urges-americans-use-all-nonviolent-means-necessary. Join us