![]() ![]() ![]() We had a madman in the White House then, and an even madder one now. I can’t help but think of the historic parallels. The speakers included senators like George McGovern and famous activists like Coretta Scott King but the music by Peter, Paul, and Mary, Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger and the cast of Hair is what everyone listened to. The sheer brawn required to organize the two moratoriums in an age before cell phones and the web was nothing short of heroic. Thousands took to the streets, traveled the country, organized, gave speeches, and disrupted their everyday lives for many years to stop a war that they believed was unjust. Life magazine described it as “the largest expression of public dissent ever seen in this country.” America was on a cliff’s edge of a revolution. The Moratorium March on Washington came a month after the October 15 Peace Moratorium when 2 million people in cities and towns across the country took the day off to recite the names of the war dead, hold teach-ins and vigils, and march. ![]()
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