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Philadelphia Says: On War and Peace
November 17, 2019 @ 2:00 pm
This Anthology centers its focus on the aspects of War and Peace, and how it has evolved alongside technology and ideology. Contributors will be reading their poems.The anthology will be for sale to the public.
In Tandem With:
Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans who Opposed the War
Featuring: Kenneth Campbell, Marine combat veteran; VVAW Activist, Associate Professor Emeritus, U of Delaware; Ron Carver and Barbara Doherty, Co-editors, Waging Peace in Vietnam; David Connolly, Member, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Poet, Author of Lost in America; Judith Chomsky, Co-Founder, Philadelphia Resistance; International Human Rights Attorney; W. D. Ehrhart, Vietnam Veteran, Poet Author, Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems; Lamont B. Steptoe, Vietnam Veteran; Poet; winner of an American Book Award and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts; Author of Uncle’s South Sea China Blue Nightmare
“No one did more to bring an end to America’s cruel and unjust war in Vietnam than the patriotic GIs and veterans who turned against it. This extraordinary history of their struggle should inspire all of us who seek to end the ongoing and interrelated threats of war, nuclear doomsday, and environmental catastrophe.”
–Daniel Ellsberg, The Pentagon Papers
Larry Robin, Host, Open Reading follows
