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Attention: GI's Under Attack
Attention: GI's Under Attack
TitleAttention: GI's Under Attack
CreatorGI-Civilian Alliance for Peace
Publisher/AffiliationGI-Civilian Alliance for Peace
Place of PublicationUnited States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Date1969
NotesAlternative title: Attention GI's Under Attack... Presidio Trials at Ft Lewis... Support GI Rights... We Need Your Help... Join Us at Ft Lewis... Attend the Antiwar Basic Training Days

Announces: Daily car pools to Ft. Lewis "from the AFSC parking lot at 4001 9th NE at 7 and 11 AM, and at 1 PM, every day beginning Wednesday the 19th."

Calls for: "We call on all students and civilians to join us in daily car pools to Ft. Lewis... We will attend the trials to express our support for the men, and we will issue information releases on the trial... We will use the case to build the defense of the Presidio GI's and to build antiwar movement so that we can defend them even more."

Background information: "Perhaps the single best known event of the domestic GI movement was the October 1968 mutiny at Presidio prison in California... twenty seven men attempted a sit-in-style demonstration at morning formation to protest harsh conditions and the recent killing of an inmate [by a prison guard.] Tried as mutineers, the protestors were given severe punishments, and a long legal battle ensued." (Moser, R.R. (1996). The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam Era. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. p. 74)
Intended PurposeMobilization
Event publicity
Issue AreaVietnam protests - general
Human rights - general
Freedom of Speech
Civil liberties
Subjects (LCTGM)Civil rights--United States
Human rights--United States
Freedom of speech--United States
Subjects (LCSH)Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975--Protest movements
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--Washington (State)
Fort Lewis (Wash.)
Geographic CoverageUnited States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Digital CollectionVietnam War Era Ephemera Collection
Digital ID NumberVTN074
RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository CollectionDS559.62 W3 Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection, Box 7/4
Object TypeFlier
Physical Description27.5 x 21.5 cm
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from original text at 400 dpi in color, saved in JPEG format and resized to 600 ppi horizontal. Saved at compression rate 3. 2004.
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