2021 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Leonard Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 18:01:57 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] My book
 

Please excuse the self-promotion and accept my apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. - Lenny

 

February 27, 2021

The Pacific Studies Center is pleased to announce the publication of DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia—1965-1975, by Lenny Siegel (ISBN: 978-0-578-80396-8). The book is available for purchase from your favorite online bookseller as well as in Kindle format from Amazon.

In the 1960s, Stanford University was already known as one of America’s “great research universities.” Less known to outsiders, it was an essential cog in the U.S. war machine during the Vietnam War. From the mid-1960s through the end of the Indochina War in 1975, a dedicated, evolving group of students and other members of the Stanford community challenged that role and the leadership of the university itself.

Lenny Siegel tells the inside story of the Stanford radical, anti-war student Movement, how activists used research, education, political activity, and direct action to win over their campus cohort, alter Stanford’s direction in the world, and lay the foundation for what became known as Silicon Valley.

As the U.S. appears to be embarking upon a new era of progressive militancy, the Stanford Movement’s experiences provide important lessons for new generations of activists. Though organizers today have at their thumb-tips communications tools that sixties activists never dreamed of, the fundamental principles of student and community organizing have not changed.

At times, Siegel and his fellow protesters broke rules, laws, and even windows. But they believed and continue to insist that what they did was justified by the imperative of halting the extreme violence and gross violations of international law visited upon Southeast Asia in their names.

 


Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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