Prep+for+Antiwar+Collage

=Preparation for Antiwar Collage---being done with Erika, Victoria, and Grace= Why people started protesting... 1. The draft upset many people because they did not have a say in not wanting to go to war, and they found it unethical and wrong that they were forced to serve. Violation of libert, freedom is taken away. Some men went to college, and could get out of the draft. People did many other things to get out of the draft. 2. People thought that the Vietnam war was not a war that the US should have been involved in, and the US should not have gotten involved with such a corrupt country. 3. After seeing the Tet Offensive on television, the nation was shocked and very upset because LBJ had just tried to tell the US that the war was coming to an end, and then the Viet Cong staged this massive attack on the US. 4. As the war was put on tv, parents and kids were watching battles during dinnertime, making them dislike what is going on in the war and the battles. 5. War in general is wrong. People would not go to war because they said it was contrary to their beliefs. It was inhumane. 6. The war was expanded when it went to Cambodia. 7. People thought people were torturing Vietnamese people. 8. Chemical warfare was wrong.

Methods of protesting... 1. People got involved in teach-ins, which was a combined protest of education and they were sometimes festive. 2. Some protested violently, and they would go through draft resistance training. 3. Protesters joined together and demonstrated that it was possible for people to live and stay together in peace and happiness. 4. Music was a big part of protest.

People and groups who protested... 1. Yippies were a loose group of antiwar protesters who incited riots. They were a little more forceful and they protested against rules in general. 2. Hippies were involved in the counterculture movement, and they believed that people could live together peacefully, and they wore birght colors and beads. 3. College students. 4. Some Vietnam veterans protested once they got back.

Lyrics from antiwar songs... 1. "go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend, do it in the name of heaven, you can justify it in the end. there wont be any trumpets blowing come the judgement day, on the bloody morning after, one tin soldier rides away." --Coven's One Tin Soldier 2. "how many deaths will it take before he knows that too many people have died"--Bob Dylan's Blowing in the Wing