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