On May 1, 2012, activists from Veterans For Peace were arrested for the first time defending the right to assemble at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in New York City. Since then, on October 7, 2012, October 7, 2013, and April 4, 2014, veterans and their allies have been arrested at the same site. This video tells the story of this campaign to assert our First Amendment rights and our right to speak out against U.S. wars around the world. It was made by Susan Modaress of PressTV.
Full Disclosure: Toward an Honest Commemoration of the American War in Vietnam
Below are two videos by Crystal Zevon of the April 26 New York City kickoff event for the VFP campaign to counter the U.S. government’s campaign to rewrite the history of this war of empire.