COMHK Manila, Philippines. Back Home Movement. GI's in Asia demonstrate, demanding their return home. See 6th. Lawrence, Mass. Striking textile workers are stopped from marching by riot control GI's. See 12th. CALENDER FTA FTN FTMC FTAF Paris, France. Back Home Movement. GI's in Europe march, demanding the government end its plans to send them to Asia. See 7th. Manila, Philippines. Back Home Movement. GI's in Asia demonstrate, demanding their return home. See 6th. Lawrence, Mass. Striking textile workers are stopped from marching by Tacoma, Wash. People's Trial of the Army. A jury of GI's and a WAC hear testimony from a veteran riot control GI's. See 12th. of Hamburger Hill. See 21st. JAN UARY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY GI ORGANIZATIONS AND GI 1781. Penn. First verified fragging. 1920. Palmer Raids. 10,000 PAPERS STARTED THIS MONTH Continental soldiers off a Captain. workers, mostly immigrants, are thrown into jail by the federal Vietnam GI, International, 1968; police under the direction of Attor GIs United, Ft Jackson, 1969; ney General Palmer and his aide, Napalm, Ft Cambell, 1969; Short J. Edgar Hoover, for being "reds". Times, Ft Jackson, 1970; Your Military Left, Ft Sam Houston, 1970; Forward, W. Germany, 1970; GI Alliance, Ft Lewis, 1971. NEW YEAR'S DAY 1 I970. Vietnam. Sp/5 Robert Law 1937. Flint, Mich. Employing the I946. Philippines. Back Home I946. Back Home Movement. I946. Saipan. Back Home Move I946. Back Home Movement. rence, Armed Forces Vietnam sit down tactic to a degree unequal Movement. GIs in Pacific Occupa 20,000 GIs demonstrate in Philip ment. 6,000 GIs wire President 18,000 GIs march in Guam, 15,000 newscaster, broadcasts his protest led in American history, auto- tion Forces seize jeeps, tour island pines. 3,500 in Guam, 3,000 in protesting slowdown in demobil in Honolulu, 5,000 in Calcutta. At of Army censorship in news pro workers seize 4 GM plants where calling for mass demonstrations. France. Thousands more march in ization of Pacific Forces. Andrews AFB, 1,000 GIs and gramming. The Brass retailates by they work and hold them for 44 That night thousands of GIs gather Japan, Korea, Hawaii, Alaska, Eng WACs shout down a general sending him to the boonies. days until the owners recognize to demand return home and an land and Germany. speaking for Asian occupation. the UAW. end to government plans to oc GIs in France march on IG, 20 ar cupy Asia. rested for "disorderly conduct". 8 1946. Philippines . Back Home 1912. Lawrence, Mass. 23,000 I946. France. Back Home Move 1971. Vietnam. In observance of I970. Ft Gordon, Ga. GIs form Movement. Representing 139,000 workers, mostly women and child ment. 500 GIs meet in Paris to Martin Luther King's birth, 40 "War Crimes Commission", 4 ar GIs, 106 delegates from Manila ren, walk off their jobs when tex write "Enlisted Men's Magna Black GIs march in Saigon. rested for "arousing disloyalty Soldiers Committee vote to nego tile owners lower wages. GIs are Carta" (Bill of Rights),demanding and disaffection". tiate with Brass for immediate ordered in to harass the strikers, an end to officer privilege and re I970. El Paso, Tex. 80 Ft Bliss GIs .return home. but after 3 months the workers form of military courts. picket speaking engagement of win. Westmoreland. ._... 10 11 12 13 15 16 I946. "Supreme Commander" 1970. Tacoma, Wash. People's Trial 1946. Birmingham, Al. 100 Black Eisenhower calls Back Home of the Army. A jury of 12 GIs and veterans march on the State Court Movement "hysteria", and issues 1 WAC find the Brass guilty of house demanding the right to vote. order banning GI demonstrations. "crimes against humanity" and sen tence them to death. „^ 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1863. The Union Army needs man I9I9. Ft Leavenworth, Kan. 2,300 I968. Vietnam. Vietnamese free 24 power, so the government estab GIs held in stockade refuse to dom fighters launch Tet Offensive, lishes the 54th Regiment with all work until prison conditions are totally disrupting Pentagon's mili Black EM and all white officers. improved. tary strategy. US bombers level several cities in retaliation. I936. Akron, Ohio. Thousands of striking Firestone workers sit down on job. This was the first big use of the sit-down tactic. They won! 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 }>' BACK HOME IN THE STATES, NEGROES ARE\ AT THE END OF THE LINE, BUT HERE Greensboro, N.C. Beginning the sit-in movement, four blacks refuse to leave F.W. Wool- worths' lunch counter. See 1st. FEBRUARY West Germany. Black and Brown GI's march to protest the burning of KKK cross by lifers. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY GI ORGANIZATIONS AND GI 1968. As GI deaths in Vietnam 1971. Detroit, Mich. Winter Sol 1932. 500,000 working people 1919. Seattle, Wash. Workers from PAPERS STARTED THIS MONTH mount. Pentagon responds by dier Investigation. 150 Vietnam around the country demonstrate every union in the city walk off raising funeral allowances from veterans end 3 days of testimony on National Unemployment In their jobs as America's first gen A Four Year Bummer, Chanute $300 to $500. A funeral costs at on war crimes, exposing the US surance Day. eral strike begins. GIs from Ft AFB, 1969; GIs United, Ft Bragg, least $1,500. government's policy of total and Lewis are sent in to subdue the 1969; Great Lakes MOM, Great deliberate destruction of Indo workers' rebellion. Lakes" NS, 1970; We Got the 1960. Greensboro, N.C. 3 Blacks china. BrASS, W. Germany, 1970; Navy sit in at F. W. Woolworth's "whites Times Are Changin, Great Lakes only" lunchcounter and demand to NS, 1970; Voice of the Lumpen, be served. Within 10 days the sit in W. Germany, 1971; Chessman II, movement spreads to 15 other MCAS Beaufort, 1971. cities. 1 1971. Under cover of a news 1969. Ft Sam Houston, Tex. 56 1955. US government agrees to 1968. Ft Jackson, S.C. 5 GIs hold blackout Nixon orders invasion of WACs march on post IG to pro train puppet Saigon troops. an on-post pray-in for Vietnam Laos using Saigon puppet troops. test I unwarranted barracks restrict peace. All were arrested, 2 reot^y- 1965. Johnson orders the bomb ion. ed court-martials. \7j ing of North Vietnam. 1970. Ft Lewis, Wash. Pvt Wade G> Carson is court-martialed for "at tempted distribution of unauthor ized literature", a copy of the GI paper Fed-Up. 8 10 11 12 13 1970. Wrightstown, N.J. The Ft 1968. Presidio, Ca. Pvt George 1906. Boise City, Idaho. State law 1970. Ft Lewis, Wash. Pvt Bruce Dix Coffeehouse is bombed out Davis is court-martialed for refus men, without warrants, cross into Mac Lean refuses to be processed of existence. No suspects were ing to go to Vietnam. ^_^ Colorado and "arrest" Big Bill Hay out for Vietnam. The Brass attem ever arrested. wood, Charles Moyer and George pts to kidnap him but he escapes. Pettibone in Denver. They are I THOus/fr goxo. framed for murder, but worldwide I#6 A JAIL protests force the government to release them. v J VALENTINE'S DAY 14 15 ASH WEDNESDAY 16 17 18 19 20 1965. New York City. Malcolm X 1971. Clarksville, Tenn. The Peo is assassinated. ples' House, the Ft Campbell GI organizing center, is unsuccessful ly firebombed. The white man 0CH WA*W A Wu Drafts the black man To fight the yellow man To defend the country He stole from the red man LEGAL HOLIDAY 21 ,«»«tfv| 22 23 24 25 26 27 liCM I HOT MARfUO> (JWTlt- I GOT vMtfKD (0R3 mt i ear io AW imm> IBAT CM, & £ieo so RWAi.LV r tw The RI6HT TO Cmc/X £ta> H0EE0FA ZHL\ THf ASM. H£ «torST 3W. wete AUPojewr MSeoFAjswL rm SCHOOL, WHAT FEECTtX'S WHICH JAIL. A m,make,cx THE ARMV ALL ABOUT: 28 I ( III ffl • Ft. Ord, Calif. Brothers show solidarity with Pvt. Billy D. Smith as he leaves his preliminary court martial. The Brass is framing him for fragging. See 15th. New York City. A platoon of Ft. Dix GI's march into a post office to sort mail Ft. Jackson, S.C. Ft. Jackson 8. GI's who organized an on- during a nationwide postal worker's strike. By using GI's, the government breaks post anti-war meeting and were busted. See 20th. the strike. See 23rd. MARCH MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY I970. Ft Carson, Colo. The GI pa I969. Ft Jackson, S.C. Several 1970. Muldraugh, Ky. In order to per, Counterattack, publishes a hundred basic trainees from B-14- end harassment of the F„t Knox list of the base's Military Intelli 5 and B-16-4 sign a petition again GI coffeehouse, GIs call for a gence agents. The month before st the war and racism, and present boycott of thetown's stores. While they had published a list of CID it to the Post Commander. leafletting off base, 9 people are agents. arrested and charged with "dis & © orderly conduct". 1837. Depression of '37. The price of cotton falls, banks fail and working people suffer 6 years of depression. 1 1930. 1,250,000 working people 1932. Dearborn, Mich. Ford Mas 1908. New York City. Women gar I968. Cannon AFB, N.M. Capt take to the streets in a national sacre. During the height of the '29 ment workers march demanding the Dale Noyd is court-martialed for demonstration demanding unem depression, laid-off Ford workers right to vote and an end to sweat refusing to train pilots for Viet ployment insurance. Four leaders march to the factory to demand shops and child labor. 2 years later nam duty. arrested and sentenced to 3 years. re-employment. Hired guns stop this day is proclaimed International them, murdering 3 and wounding Women's Day. 60 with machineguns. INTERNATIONAL 10 12 WOMEN'S DAY 8 tl I970. Mannheim, W. Germany. 100 1970. El Paso, Tex. Several hun I968. Vietnam. My Lai Massacre. I970. Cambodia. The American GIs in the stockade rebell, trash dred Ft Bliss GIs demonstrate CoC, 1st Bn, 20th Inf, out on a CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) ing and burning buildings. against the Indochina War. "search and destroy" mission overthrows the neutralist govern murders 567 Vietnamese civilians ment of Prince Sihanuouk and I954. Vietnam. Vietnamese free 1971. Bien Hoa, Vietnam. At 0045 at the hamlet of Song My. sets up a puppet regime under dom fighters, under the leader General Lon Nol. ship of Ho Chi Minh, defeat the a frag grenade explodes in a BOQ I970. Ft Lewis, Wash. Pvt Steve French Army at Dien Bien Phu, and 2 officers die. The Brass frames Gilbert is court-martialed for re driving the French out of their Pvt Billy D. Smith, a Black GI, for fusing to go to Korea, but later country. "murder" though there is no evi escapes confinement. dence to link him to the fragging. He is at Ft Ord awaiting court martial. 13 14 15 16 ST. PATRICK'S DAY 17 18 19 I97I. Vietnam. 53 GIs of B Trp, 1970. Nixon orders 24,000 Ft Dix I970. Ft Bragg, N.C. Pvt Dave 1894. Ohio. Coxley's Army. Led 1st Sqdn, 1st Cav, Americal Div, and McGuire AFB GIs and the NG O'Brien is released from the Army by Joseph Coxley, unemployed refuse to move into combat to to New York City to break a Post after deliberatly spending 20 workers begin a march to Washing secure their CO's armored vehicle. Office workers' strike for better months, 17 days in basic training. ton, D.C. to demand employment working conditions and higher pay. for 5 million people left jobless I969. Ft Jackson, S.C. Ft Jackson GIs sorted and delievered the mail. 8. 100 GIs hold an on-base anti by the Panic of '93. war meeting. 8 organizers arrested. Charges are later dropped a*-^a result of mass protest. (~l) 23 24 25 PALM SUNDAY 26 SPRING I970. Vietnam. Officers conduct I970. Frankfurt, W. Germany. 2 I968. Under pressure from the GI ORGANIZATIONS AND GI ing the court-martial of Lt James WACs are arrested for wearing anti-war movement, Johnson an PAPERS STARTED THIS MONTH Duffy convict him of murder, but "Vietnam Mourning" armbands nounces he will not run for re reverse their decision after realiz while in civies. No charges are election. The US now has 525,000 The Ally, International, 1968; ing it means mandatory life pressed. troops in Vietnam. American Servicemen's Union, Ft sentence. Sill, 1968; Shakedown, Ft Dix, 1969; Payback, MCAS El Toro, 1970; Independent Servicemen's Union, Ft Lewis, 1970; P.O.W., Ft Ord, 1971; People's Press; Ft Cam- bell, 1971. 27 28 29 PASSOVER 30 GOOD FRIDAY 31 Ask aMarine Washington, D.C. Operation Dewey Canyon III. Veterans throw medals won in Vietnam in a pile marked TRASH. This brother returns what the war has won him. See 23rd. APRIL And here's a few for YOU!' MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY •/OU'BE " BECAUSE I'M SUEEOUNPED GI ORGANIZATIONS AND GI SU2ROUNPED BV 3V ZOO PRIVATES' PAPERS STARTED THIS MONTH $AIZ6E, HOW 200 PRIVATES WITH RIFLES DID YOU COfAS WITH1 RIFLE?/ GIs for Peace, Ft Bliss, 1969; Gig- TO SET OTTO 1^ WHAT PO /oil line, Ft Bhss. 1969, Counter- THE F/fZST PLACE/ NEEP A Attack, Ft Carson, 1970; Up Again WATCHDOG st the Bulkhead, International, FOR? 1970. Star Spangled Bummer, WtightPattervon AFB, 1970; Whack!, Ft McOellan, 1971; Con fines Says, Camp Pendleton, 1971; Liberty Call, San Diego, 1971; Ser vice People for Peace and Justice, Pease AFB, 1971. ALL FOOLS' DAY EASTER 1969. Memph'S, Tenn Or Martin 1969. Wash, D.C. 82nd Abu D:v 1969. Thousands of GIs lead 1969. Ft Riley, Kan. A GI seizes Luthei Kiug,Ji is assassinated. sent in for "riot control" follow nationwide Gl-Civilian Easter an APC and smashes through SPD ing the assasination of Dr Martin Peace Marches. fence. Luther King. 1917. WWI. As the Allies near defeat, the US government declares war to insure the repayment of $2.5 billion in loans by US banks to the Allied countries. 20,000 new millionaires come into being. 8 1970. Navy discharges Seaman Al 1970. Okinawa. GIs at Iwakuni 1968. Ft Campbell, Ky. Brass 1969. Ft Gordon, Ga. Army dis Rita for publishing the GI paper, MCAS hold an antiwar Love-ln. orders curfew on base after sev charges Pvt Dennie Davis, editor Potemkin. Overseas demonstrations are for eral days of open rebellion by GIs. of the GI paper, Las' Harass. bidden by the UCMJ. 1861. Ft Sumter, S.C. Civil War. Southern landowners start war with the North for continuation of slavery. Eventual defeat of South opens way for domination of big Northern corporations. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 1968. Norfolk, Va. PO/3 Dennis 1971. Wash, D.C. Operation 1971. Operation Dewey Canyon 1971 .Operation Dewey Canyon 1971. Operation Dewey Canyon 1971. Operation Dewey Canyon Ciesielski court-martialed for re Dewey Canyon III. Vietnam vet III. Government backs down and III. 75 vets attempt to turn them III. Vets activity continues in III. 800 vets hold ceremony on fusing to board a Vietnam-boujTd erans invade Capitol for 5 days of allows 700 vets to enter Arlington selves into the Pentagon for trial cluding invasion of Congress, and steps of Capitol throwing all Viet ship. Q) anti-war actions. National Cemetary for memorial as war criminals, Brass ignores guerilla theatre simulations of nam medals and ribbons into a services after refusing them the them. Same day Supreme Court combat in Vietnam. pile marked "trash". 1961. Cuba. Bay of Pigs Invasion. 1968. Ft Sill, Ok. Brass discharges day before. orders vets to leave their camp op CIA-trained mercenaries, equipped Pvt Andy Stapp, founder of the 1970. Courts uphold the right of posite the capitol but the angry 1873. Panic of '73. Big corpora with US weapons,and escorted by American Servicemen's Union, for Army's Military Intelligence to 1914. Ludlow, Colo. Ludlow Mas vets overrule the High Court and tions overproduce and banks fail. the Navy are turned back from "subversive activity". "collect, store, and circulate" in sacre. Troops attack, burn tent stay anyway. The depression lasts 5 years and the island by the Cuban People's colony of workers and their fam formation on lawfuj political ac only 20% of all working people Militia. First defeat of US Imper ilies during UMW strike of Rocke tivities of GIs and civilians. have full-time jobs. ialism in the Americas. feller-owned mines. 25 are mur 17 18 19 dered by machineguns. 20 21 22 23 1971. Led by GIs, 750,000 in 1898. Spanish-American War. US 1965. Johnson orders the Marines 1970. Wash, D.C. Navy discharges 1970. Columbia, S.C. 3 civilians 1970. Oceanside, Ca. Pvt Jesse 1971. Anniston, Ala. Ft McClellan Wash, D.C. and 250,000 in S.F. government declares war against and the 82nd Abn Div to Domini Seaman Roger Priest, editor of working at the UFO, a GI coffee Woodard is hit by .45 cal "grease- GIs and WACs show their support demonstrate for "total and im Spain. After the war, all that is can Republic to crush a pro- the GI paper, OM, for "disloyal house near Ft Jackson, are con gun" fire during a nightrider at for striking hospital workers by mediate withdrawal from Indo left of the Spanish Empire 4s turned socialist government. The 1st Fde ty and demoralization" of GIs. victed of "maintaining a public tack on a meeting of Camp Pen picketting with them. china". over to big American corporations, stays for over a year to enforce nuisance" and sentenced to 6 dleton GIs at the Green Machine years in prison. The sentence was 1971. Detroit, Mich. Dwight including Cuba, the Philippines and "law and order". 1825. Boston, Mass. Carpenders GI coffeehouse. 1876. Congress orders the Army later revoked upon appeal. Johnson, 24-year old Black Viet Puerto Rico. lead the first strike in American 1971. Ft Benning, Ga. Lt William withdrawn from the South, ending nam veteran, winner of the Medal history, for the 10 hour day. Calley is convicted by fellow of Reconstruction where Black and of Honor in 1968, is shot dead ficers of murder of 107 Vietnam white workers were building a while trying to hold up a grocery ese civilians. Nixon takes pity on progressive society. store. him and sets him free. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 WE CHANUTE MM®, ISraflaJfli! vl tG NSAftHRt:WNe4:.|| .*$* Chanute AFB, III. Armed Farces Day. As thousands of GI's demonstrate at over 40 bases, these airmen protest the Brass pro-war celebration. See 16th. L ^i It - 19 I ' I rA« uqjK9i«(r.i i ,H "•' " " L,>.;.. • T-.V 5* n. BO BOM -«• V.ON; QJ#4&^ orwr* a Killeen, Texas. Armed Farces Day. Ft. Hood GI's hold an anti-war march as thousands of 'What Worries Me, Senator, Is That They're Getting Into Step. brothers and sisters across the country disrupt the Pentagon's plans. See 15th. MAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1970. Nixon "officially" orders 1968. Langley AFB, Va. Airman 1971. Ft Lewis, Wash. Thousands 1968. Vietnam. Sp/4 Michael 1971. Iwakum MCAS, Okinawa. invasion of Cambodia. Hundreds George Edwards, a Black GI, re of GIs go on sick-call strike in Branch, a Black GI, "crosses over" Japanese militants celebrate "Chil- of thousands take to the streets fuses to board a plane for Viet- protest of Vietnam war and to to the ranks of Vietnamese free ren's Day" by flying kites in flight in protest of widening of war in show their support of the Peo dom fighters. path of Vietnam-bound bombers. ples Peace Treaty. Indochina. 1970. Kent, Ohio. Kent State 1971. Wash, D.C. 50,000 antiwar 1886. Mayday. 340,000 working © Massacre. 4 antiwar protestors demonstrators gather in the Cap people all over the country march are murdered by "riot-control" itol to "Stop the Government" for 8 hour workday. This day be troops. in protest of Indochina war. Riot- comes Day of Solidarity of work control units, of the 82nd Abn ing people of the world. Div sent in to "perserve law and order". MAY DAY 1 1971. Long Binh, Vietnam. Lt 1970. Vietnam. 6 GIs of 3rd Bn, 1969. Ft Bragg, N.C. Brass al 1846. Mexican-American War. 1960. Anniston, Al. The KKK am Rory Sutton kicked out of Army 8th Inf, 4th Div refuse to board lows a GI to pass out copies of Despite mass public opposition. bushes and burns 2 buses carrying for wearing black armband in helicopters for invasion of Cam Bill of Rights and Oath of Induc Congress declares war on Mexico Freedom Riders. support of veterans demonstrating bodia. tion. Permission was revoked the in order to extend slave territory. in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of GIs deserted to form next day. 1970. Jackson, Miss. State police the San Patricio Bn to fight with open fire on Black students at the Mexican Army. At least 60 were captured and excuted by the Jackson State University and mur US military. der 2. 8 10 11 12 13 MOTHERS DAY 14 1971. Armed Farces Day. For 1970. Armed Farces Day. Thou 1971. Ft Meade, Md. 100 Black 1970. Fayetteville, N.C. The Qua 1969. Ft Ord, Ca. 300 GIs in the the second year in a row, thou sands of GIs hold antiwar rallies GIs and WACs of Brothers and ker House, meeting place of Ft stockade rebel because of poor sands of GIs and WACs across across the country and force the Sisters for Equality march on- Bragg's GIs United, is destroyed living conditions. the country demonstrate against Pentagon to cancel its regularly post protesting racism in the by firebombs. Police take no ac the war and the military machine. scheduled "celebrations" at over military. Brass discharges 6 WACs tion. 40 rvi';e for the action. 1964. US government orders the bombing of Laos. PENTAGON S ^W^15 17 18 19 ARMED FORCES DAY 20 21 1968. Ft Ord, Ca. Pvt Ken Stolte 1969. Vietnam. 3/187th Inf, 1970. San Diego, Ca. Vietnam- and Pfc Dan Amick each receive 101st Abn Div take Hamburger bound US destroyer Richard E. 4 years at hard labor for distribu Hill after 11 charges and 368 . Anderson is sabotaged, returns to ting antiwar leaflets. casualities. Pentagon promotes CO port with $200,000 in damages and GIs offer $10,000 for his ex-1 and is delayed in departure for ecution. 2 months. & 22 23 24 25 1970. Pochon, S. Korea. 50 Black 1918. Ft Gordon, Ga. 9 draft- 1971. London. Eng. Ignoring ARs GI ORGANIZATIONS AND GI GIs burn 5 barracks after being dodgers and deserters arm them banning overseas demonstrations, PAPERS STARTED THIS MONTH denied passes. selves, split for hills and live in 1,000 GIs gather to protest the caves with mountain people. Indochina war. 300 deliver an The Bond, International, 1968; Ft 1968. Due to faulty construction, antiwar petition to US embassy. Polk Puke, Ft Polk, 1970; Spring the USS Scorpion, a nuclear sub, 1937. Chicago, III. Memorial Day Offensive Committee, Ft Hood, sinks with 99 sailors aboard. Massacre. Striking steel workers, 1970; The Destroyer, Philadelphia, demanding union recognition, are 1970; Brothers and Sisters for attacked by 500 police as they Equality, Ft Meade, 1971; Helping peacefully picket the Republic Hand, Mt Home AFB, 1971; Lib Steel plant. 10 murdered and erated Barracks, Hawaii, 1971. scores wounded. LEGAL HOLIDAY 29 30 31 m I Ft. Dix, N.J. Ft. Dix 38. Four of the 38 GI's the Brass court-martialed for leading a re bellion in the stockade. See 5th. Ft. Hood, Texas. Ft. Hood 3. The first GI's to refuse orders to Vietnam. See 30th. Killeen, Texas. The Ft. Hood United Front, a GI organization, leads a boycott against Tyrel Jewelers demanding an end to its rip-off policies. It is now a national boycott. See 1st. Ft. Lewis, Wash. Ft. Lewis 6. These GI's refused orders for Vietnam as a group. See 26th. JUNE MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY GI ORGANIZATIONS AND Gl 1971. Killeen, Tex. Ft Hood 1967. Ft Jackson, S.C. Capt How PAPERS STARTED THIS MONTH United Front leads a boycott ard Levy rejects the use of medi of Tyrell's Jewerly, a national cine as a military tool and is Rough Draft, Ft Eustis, 1969; Bro chain of stores, demanding an court-martialed for refusing to ken Arrow, Selfridge AFB, 1969; end to ripping off GIs' money. train Vietnam-bound Green Beret Bureau of Revolutionary Personnel, 26 Glsand 4 civilians are busted medics. Newport NS, 1970; Encore, Camp while picketting the store. The 1969. Supreme Court rules the Lejune, 1970; All Hands Abandon boycott spreads to San Diego, military cannot court-martial GIs Ship, Newport NS, 1970; Ft Hood Great Lakes, Fayetteville, Long for "crimes" not directly connec United Front, Ft Hood, 1971; Off Beach and Newport. ted with the military. the Brass, Pease AFB, 1971; Travisty, Travis AFB, 1971; Frag ging Action, Ft Dix, 1971; Where Are We?, Ft Huachuca, 1971. 1 1969. Ft Dix, N.J. Ft Dix 38. 300 1969. Nixon begins the withdraw 1970. Ft Lewis, Wash. Sp/5 Bill 1970. 82nd Abn Div and units in GIs revolt and burn stockade. al of US troops from Vietnam, Thompson, a Black Vietnam vet W. Germany put on "red alert" Brass frames 38 on charges of and announces his "Vietnamiza- eran, is sentenced to 2 years for to go to Jordan when Palestinian "inciting to riot". tion" scheme. refusing to go to Vietnam a sec freedom fighters move to over ond time. throw pro-US dictator Hussein. O Here come our replacements 10 11 1963. Miss. Medgar Evers, president 1968. Ft Jackson, S.C. 150 stock 1969. Chicago, III. Jeff Sharlet, of the Mississippi NAACP, is ass ade prisoners rebel I, protesting a Vietnam veteran, who founded assinated. inhuman conditions. the first nationwide GI paper, Vietnam GI, dies of cancer at the 1905. Black Sea, Russia. Seamen age of 28. of the cruiser Potemkin seize con trol of the ship and raise the red flag of revolution. The Tsar's fleet is sent against them, but the crews refuse to fire on their brothers. When supplies run out, the seamen are forced to surrender. 12 13 14 15 16 17 FATHER'S DAY 18 1877. Pottsville, Penn. The Molly 1969. Ft Riley, Kan. GIs in stock 1876. Black Hills. Dakota Terri 1950. Korean War. As the country Maguires. After being convicted ade rebell over poor living condi tory. Battle of Little Bighorn. heads towards a depression, with 5 on the testimony of a spy, 6 tions. Refusing to surrender their land million unemployed, Truman de miners are hung for being mem to the government and be moved clares war on Korea. Corporation's bers of an organization defending to reservations to be taught "civ profits get a $43 billion yearly worker's rights. Later 13 more ilization", the Sioux and Chey- boost; 33,000 GIs get killed. 20 miners are hung. eene Nations destroy George Custer. years later, 50,000 GIs remain to prop-up a puppet dictatorship. 1964. Philadelphia, Miss. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner are murdered by the KKK while doing civil rights work. 19 20 SUMMER 21 22 23 24 25 1970. Ft Lewis, Wash. Ft Lewis 6. 1971. Ft Ord, Ca. VOLAR spon 1971. Wash, D.C. The US Court 1966. Ft Hood, Tex. Ft Hood 3. 6 GIs refuse to go to Vietnam.f^\ sored rock concert turns into a re of Military Appeals, the country's 3 GIs refuse orders to shipto bellion. GIs fight MPs, trash a highest military court, rules that Vietnam." ^Z^ Greyhound bus, and burn drill it is illegal for a GI and an officer 1968. Vietnam. Pentagon announ to "fraternize". 1971. Ft Lewis, Wash. 6 GIs bust ces the evacuation of Khe Sanh sergeants Hqs. ed for distributing "subversive after 2,300 casualities. Having 1894. Pullman Strike. 20 railroads literature", the Declaration of POOX £AK& rlAD A ROJ£J CAV^ failed in Vietnam. Westmoreland grind to a halt as 125,000 rail Independence. RiSM"^ NCvY -*£ CCVLD 1 is promoted to the Joint Chiefs road workers walk off their jobs pROBABl> U«£ - \\C"?P t OF fcrNjCOJeAGcMSNT of Staff. in support of striking Pullman TC &O ON Coach Car workers. Army called out to break strike, 30 people 26 27 28 are murdered in Chicago. 29 30 r* i NJRJJ ^*«g§[S 11» tfcp "l*Ty -o A T L. N A WAR hOW Telluride, Colo. Armed miners after taking over a mine owned by Rock Ft. McClellan, Ala. GI's-WAC's United leading a picket while Westmoreland speaks efeller. See 3rd. on post. See 30th. Washington, D.C. Bonus March. WWI veterans, demanding a promised bonus, are attacked by police and later the Brass murders 2. See 28th. Darmstadt, West Germany. Darmstadt 53. After being busted for JULY an on base demonstration, 53 Black GI's are hauled away. See 19th. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY GI ORGANIZATIONS AND GI 1971. Pentagon announces that PAPERS STARTED THIS MONTH in 1970 nearly 1 out of every 12 (89,088) GIs in the Army Pawn's Pawn, Ft Leonard Wood, deserts sometime during their 1968; GI Says, Vietnam, 1969; tour of duty, a 300% increase Yah Hoh, Ft Lewis, 1970; Un since 1966. 228,797 others satisfied Black Soldiers, W. went AWOL. Brass also admits Germany, 1970; Ft Carson MDM, that there were 209 reported Ft Carson, 1970; 77»e Next Step, fraggings of officers in Vietnam W. Germany, 1970; Hew-Kecaw- that year. Na-Yo, Ft Lewis, 1970. 1 1970. Iwakuni MCAS, Okinawa. 1971. Chu Lai, Vietnam. 1,400 1934. S.F., Ca. Bloody Thursday. 1892. Homstead, Pa. Threatened 1959. First American GI killed in 32 Marine prisoners take over a GIs hold "Independence Day Dockworkers, on strike demand with a strike, US Steel locks out Vietnam. section of the brig and hold it for Peace Rally" in open defiance of ing union recognition, are attack the workers, erects a 15 feet high, 14 hours. the Brass. ed by police, 2 murdered and hun 3 mile long fence and calls for 300 dreds wounded. 5,000 GIs order Pinkerton gunmen. Workers arm 1901. Telluride, Colo. During a 1970. Heildelberg, W. Germany. ed to city as 128,000 workers themselves and capture the hired strike, armed workers ambush scab 1,000 Black and white GIs hold a from all local unions stage one of guns, declaring them POWs. The bing strike breakers leaving the rally against racism in the Army. America's greatest general strikes, government orders in the Army to mines, and their union takes over two weeks later. break the workers' rebellion. the mine. LEGAL HOLIDAY 1969. Camp Lejune, N.C. Black 1967. Newark, N.J. An armed 1969. Ft Lewis, Wash. Civilian 1921. Dedham, Mass. Nicola Sacco 1877. First nationwide strike in protest of Marine Corps racism rebellion by Blacks begins here. peace groups "invade" the base and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both rad American history starts on the leads to fighting and rebellion on In 1967 58 other cities erupt. in a demonstration of solidarity ical labor leaders, are framed by railroads. Federal troops are sent the base. with anti-war GIs, 7 arrested. the government for robbery and to stop it, in the earliest use of sentenced to death. 6 years later the Army on a large scale to break 1969. Ft Huachuca, Ariz. An EM they die in the electric chair des a strike. In Chicago, Gen Sheri gets "official" permission to dis pite mass protests around the dan's calvary murders 12 and tribute a GI paper on base, but world. wounds 40 working people. the Brass discharges and bans him from base before he can do it. 10 11 ^12 14 15 1971. Darmstadt, W. Germany. 1969. Ft Riley, Kan. 600 GIs 1970. Pleiku, Vietnam. Pvt 1968. Ft Bragg, N.C. 238 prison 1968. S.F., Ca. 9 GIs, represent Darmstadt 53. Black GIs march on revolt and burn "dempsey dump- George Hardin, a Black GI, at ers seize control of the stockade ing all 4 services, chain themselves 93rd Sig Bn HQs demanding the re ?f\ sters" all over the base. tempts to hijack a DC-4 to Hong and hold it for 3 days. together inside a church and de- lease of a brother in the stockade Kong. olare their resignation frorrv-the 1969. Memphis, Tenn. After a 1970. Ft Carson, Colo. Brass sets charged with "inciting to riot" military. ("7/ racial clash between Marines, the 1916. S.F., Ca. "Patriotic" organi up a VOLAR "EM Council", but after he was attacked by whites. Brass charges 4 Blacks with "in zations hold a pro-war Preparedness when GIs present a list of grie The Brass busts 53 GIs but is 1944. Port Chicago, Ca. An am citing a riot". Public pressure Day March and it is bombed. The vances to it they are busted by forced to release them because of munition ship being loaded by a against the frame-up frees them. government frames Tom Mooney CID. mass support on base. segregated unit explodes and kills 1919. Ft Leavenworth, Kan. For and Warren Billings, both union 320 Black sailors. the second time in 2 months, GIs leaders, and sentences them to go on strike. prison. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1967. Detriot. Mich. 10«st Abn 1970. Ft Hood, Tex. 250 Black 1967. Camp Pendleton, Ca! L/Cpl 1932. Wash, D.C. Bonus March. 1970. Ft Dix, N.J. SPD explodes. 1970. Ft Carson, Colo. 200 Black Div ordered to city to smash a GIs revolt, burning two Re-Up William Harvey and Pfc George The "Bonus Expeditionary Force" 21 Black GIs are arrested for GIs take over a section of the base fighting off the MPs. Black urban rebellion, 27 mur offices and a BEQ building. Daniels, 2 Black Marines, are bust composed of 20,000 WWI veter "inciting to riot". dered during 4 days of fighting. ans, march on Capitol demanding 1970. Camp McCoy, Wis. Camp ed for rapping to other GIs about the bonus Congress had promised McCoy 3. Explosions knock out the war and Black struggles. They 1971. Travis AFB, Ca. WAF Sgt 1971. Ft McClellan, Al. As West ars^ them. 2 are murdered when troops 24 31 the base's power plant. Brass tries are sentenced to 10 and 6 yeaj; Norma Welshams refuses to obey moreland is speaking on base, GIs respectively, for their "crimes commanded by Gen Douglas Mac- orders sending her to Philippines. and WACs United pickets outside 1971. Ft Huachuca, Ariz. 4 GIs to frame 3 GIs who were active Authur, Col Dwight Eisenhower, the gates protesting his refusal to get permission from Brass to set in struggles on the base. 1970. Mysterious explosions oc and Maj George Patton attack' accept over 200 signatures for the up a petition table outside the PX. cur at Ft Scott and the North 1970. Ft Carson, Colo. 200 M-16's their camp with bayonets, tear gas Peoples' Peace Treaty. In one day, 540 GIs and WACs Beach MP station, both in Presidio ripped off a MP company. and tanks. sign the petition which demands area. "immediate end to the US inter vention in Indochina". 25 26 27 28 29 30 Chicago, III. GI's on riot control duty at the Democratic National Convention. The Ft. Hood 43 refused orders to come RIOT CONTROL, HELL NO! See 24th. AUGUST OK! OK! Your lousy morale has made ihe general cry and I hope you're proud of yourselves." MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY GI ORGANIZATIONS AND GI 1917. Butte, Mont. Frank Little, 1970. Navy orders the USS 1964. Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam. 1970. Ft Manmouth, N.J. A chap PAPERS STARTED THIS MONTH a Native American workers' organ Koelsch to capture 3 AWOL sail The Navy stages a fake "attack" el is totally destroyed by fire izer, is taken from his hotel where ors cruising off the east coast in on its own destroyers giving and in following days fires break Fatigue Press, Ft Hood, 1968; The he is suffering from a broken leg their own ship. Johnson the excuse he needs to out in 2 messhalls, 2 dayrooms Whig, Clark AFB, 1970; Lewis- and is hanged from the trestle of a bomb North Vietnam. and the gym. McChord Free Press, Ft Lewis and railroad bridge. McChord AFB, 1970; Differant Drummer, Ft Polk, 1971; Up From 1945. Hiroshima, Japan. US gov the Bottom, San Diego, 1971; GI ernment orders the first stomic Coordinating Committee, Ft Sam bomb dropped, and thousands of Houston, 1971. civilians die. 1 2 3 4 5 6 , / WrUT> >0yR8E6F/ 1971. Chanute AFB, III. GIs trash 1965. Watts, Ca. Armed Blacks 1970. Ft Ord, Ca. Rebellion / MAN? lSWtt1» BX, theatre and gas station. Brass lead a rebellion, and troops are breaks out in SPD, GIs burn 2 i yOU/PIPrVPtl? I retaliates by imposing a curfew. ordered in for riot control. barracks and a messhall. I|$A1UT6D loo, Sfeur? J^HIW I MEAN, HOWMUcri W, t $ m OFTUATWSUCT ifgPplPr cffjp CAN you UfiJ STOMACH? ' i B^ J> ~^ . • \(K 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1970. 1,000 NGs and ERs from 1968. Danang, Vietnam. Marine 1968! ' Danang, Vietnam. Brig 1970. Camp Pendleton, Ca. 4 GIs I all over the country sign a peti and Navy prisoners rebell in a PEACE IS erupts again with all prisoners arrested for flashing the peace tion demanding total and immed section of the brig. taking part. One cell block des sign to a MP. iate withdrawal from Vietnam NOT HEALTHY troyed by fire as GIs hold the and present it to Congress. ^_ brig for 3 days. Q> FOR BOEING AND OTHER GROWING INDUSTRIES 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1945. Camp Shelby, Miss. Back 1918. Houston, Tex. Following a 1969. Vietnam. GIs of Co A, 3rd 1969. Ft Eustis, Va. Rough Draft Home Movement. 580 GIs send white cop's attack on a Black Bn, 196th Inf Bde refuse to move becomes the only GI paper ever a telegram to White House pro MP, Black GIs stage a protest into combat. given "official" permission to dis testing the transfer of combat march to police station. A white tribute on base but for only 3 troops from Europe to Asia for mob tries to stop them and 17 1968. Ft Hood', Tex. Ft Hood hours. occupation duty. are killed. A trial is held immedi 43. 150 Black GIs hold an on base ately and 19 Black GIs sentenced meeting and decide to refuse or '1971. San Quentin Prison, Ca. to death, 51 given life sentences ders sending them to Chicago for George Jackson, one of 3 Black , and40 others given time in prison. "riot control" duty during the prisoners accused of beating a guard Democratic National Convention. to death in Soledad Prison, is 43 are arrested when the Brass assassinated by prison guards. 2**. 1m 22 23 breaks up the group/CT~©\ 2^ 4— 25 2 fe^_27 1967. Long Binh, Vietnam. GIs 1970. Koza, Okinawa. 250 Black •& s&^ A in LBJ revolt and burn the rec-' GIs fight MPs, burn 2 MP cars ords building. MPs murder 1 and and overturn 2 more. mw&M? v« wound 59 but 12 Blacks hold a section of the stockade for over yfSsvf&%p2 +&\ i 11 a month. 28 29 30 31 Attica, N.Y. Under orders from Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, state police and the NG prepare to attack the prisoners. See 14th. Attica, N.Y. Rebel prisoners negotiate with State Commissioner Oswald as they hold the prison. See 14th. Vietnam veterans capture a prisoner, later he is tortured to death. See 6th Flemington, N.J. Vietnam veterans on a mock search and destroy mission. The prison er's crime was improper identification, later he was shot. See 6th. SEPTEMBER MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY GI ORGANIZATIONS AND GI 1945. Vietnam. After driving 1971. Wright-Patterson AFB, n~ A PAPERS STARTED THIS MONTH the Japanese invaders out of Ohio. While Nixon dedicates a Wp?P%i ^ZESffiQ ./N-e^^l their country, the Vietnamese museum on base, GIs lead a Last Harass, Ft Gordon, 1969; All people issue their Declaration march outside the gates carry j, JJijL ' l 1/3? y^\ fi^V Ready On the Left, Camp Pendle of Independence. ing a coffin that represents a ?d(- 'o Ts»r2^\. \^v° vflVOT: 1970; Barrage, Ft Sill, 1971; GI •^LMPC?0TOU ^^VST^ AT^SC LABOR DAY T1 5 6 7 8 JEWISH NEW YEAR If 10 1969. Honolulu, Haw. MPs raid 1971. Attica Correctional Facil 1969. Camp Pendleton, Ca. 200 1971. Killeen, Tex. After Peo church, capturing 1 2 of 23 anti ity, N.Y. Attica Massacre. After Marine prisoners rebell over brig ples' Free Picnic, GIs lead a 25 war GIs who have taken sanctuary holding 4 of 5 cell blocks for conditions. car motorcade towards Ft Hood there for 38 days. The others es the past 4 days and negoiating 1945. Camp Shelby, Miss. Back and police arrest 34 people. caped. (V with government authorities for Home Movement. GIs boo down their basic human rights. Gov a General trying to explain why 1932. Toledo, Ohio. Govern Nelson Rockefeller orders 1,300 US must occupy Asia. It takes ment officials cut off welfare State Troopers and the NG to him 45 minutes to deliver a 15 food during the depression, attack the unarmed prisoners. minute speech. and unemployed workers march 28 prisoners and 9 guards are on grocery stores and seize murdered. 150 prisoners are food. wounded and 8 missing. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1919. Great Steel Strike. 365,000 steelworkers strike for the first time, shutting down US Steel and all major producers, deman ding the right to organize a union. In Gary, Ind., troops under Gen Leonard Wood murder 18 strikers. YOM KIPPUR lO 19 20 21 AUTUMN dmCm 23 24 1970. A WAC sues the Army challenging ,an AR that says wo ^vpi f men must give up custody of their children before they can P/P*^|- •of' come in the WAC. The Army drops the AR. r>-*rvv%^teis 25 26 27 28 29 30 \i J§V5! Westover AFB, Mass. Veteran's Day. A WAF speaks out against the air war in Indo china. See 25th. Fire Base Pace, Vietnam. See 9th. "Tonight the 2d Platoon is supposed to go out on night ambush. I'm not going. The 2d Platoon is not moving from their bunker. They Will be Staying." FirebasePace, Bravo Company GIs in a bunker at Firebase Pace pass around a petition in support of six other men in Bravo Company who just refused orders to move out on a suicide mission. After this photo was taken, two other units also refused to move out in solidarity with the six. When another company was flown in to replace Bravo Co., they, too, refused to move out. Ft. Cambell, Ky. Veteran's Day. The 173rd Abn Div, just back from Vietnam, march OCTOBER against the war. See 25th. WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY GI ORGANIZATIONS AND GI PAPERS STARTED THIS MONTH GI ORGANIZATIONS AND GI 1912. Indianapolis, Ind. Dyna PAPERS STARTED THIS MONTH mite Conspiracy Trial. The gov Last Harass, Ft Gordon, 1969; All ernment frames 54 labor leaders Ready On the Left, Camp Pendle Fed-Upl, Ft Lewis, 1969; GIs- for conspiracy to use dynamite ton, 1970; Semper Fi, Japan, 1970; WACs United, Ft McClellan, 1969; and convicts 38. While serving Army Liberation Front, Ft Lewis, Soldiers Liberation Front, Ft Dix, time in Leavenworth, 4 are re 1970; Barrage, Ft Sill, 1971; GI 1969; Rap!, Ft Benning, 1969; elected at leaden of their res Union. Ft Cambell, 1971; The Rose Left. Face, Ft McClellan, 1969; pective unions. Garden, MCAS 29 Palms, 1971. Black Unity. Camp Pendleton 1970. 1 1 1971. San Diego, Ca. Stop Our 1967. Ft Hood, Tex. The night, 1969. Ft Hood, Tex. 2 cars Ship. 9sailors refuse to sail with before their departure for Viet carrying 10 GIs to a Houston the attack carrier Constellation, nam, GIs of the 196th Lgt Inf antiwar rally, are shot with M16 bound for a 6th combat tour in Bde rebel, burning a PX and a rifle fire. Nobody is hurt, and Southeast Asia. All are busted gas station. they attend the demonstration. and receive 30 days CC. Prior to departure, a straw vote is taken in the city and 54,721 people vote to keep the ship home. 8 1969. Muldraugh, Ky. The Ft 1969. Fayetteville, N.C. 100 GIs 1968. S.F., Ca. 500 GIs lead 1971. Ft Bliss, Tex. GIs for 1968. Presido, Ca. Following the J 1969. Vietnam. GIs wear black Knox GI coffeehouse is firebomb- of Ft Bragg's GIs United lead thousands of civilians in peace Peace holds a Memorial Ser shotgun murder of a fellow pri armbands to show solidarity with ed, no damages. 700 civilians in city's first-anti march. WAVE Lt Sue Schnall vice at the Post Cemetary soner, 27 GIs hold a sit down stateside antiwar demonstrations. war march. (~T) speaks in uniform, openly violat honoring all war dead. Several protest and are charged with 1971. Firebase Pace, Vietnam. ing DoD regulations prohibiting hundred GIs and civilians at mutiny. ^—* tend, and 8 Gls of 6th/61st 1970. Seflridge AFB, Mich. 6 6 GIs of Co B, 3rd Bde, 1st Cav, 1971. Firebase Pace, Vietnam. Arty refuse to pull riot control. women, distributing the GI paper refuse to go out on a night pa After GIs from Co B refuse to 1969. Ft Dix, N.J. In a demon trol calling it suicide. Broken Arrow on base, are arres fight, the Brass replaces them stration organized by GIs, 5,000 ted and charged with trespassing. with Co D, and 20 more GIs civilians invade base in support refuse to go out on night of the Ft Dix 38 and demanding patrol. the abolishment of the stockade system. LEGAL HOLIDAY 10 11 12 13 14 15 1859. Harper's Ferry, Va. John 1971. Honolulu, Haw. 4 sailors 1969. Ft Lewis, Wash. 36 GIs Brown leads 21 men in an from the USS Cochrane, a des are busted by CID while holding attack on the Arsenal, attempt troyer, refuse to sail and take a meeting in the service club to part in an underground nuclear discuss the war. ing to liberate guns for Black The Capitalist's slaves. They are defeated and blast in the Aleutian Islands. e> hung. V Is in his pocketbook And he uses /he * Over you so he can wear 16 17 18 19 20 •21 22 1 1968. Tokyo, Japan. In protest By organizing right we 1969. Washington, D.C. Sgt Maj 1971. Killeen, Tex. Veterans 1971. Ft Gordon, Ga. 100 1929. Black Tuesday. Capitalism of the war, 4 sailors desert the can give him a of the Army William Wooldridge Day. 500 GIs of the Ft Hood prisoners rebel and burn a crashes and sends US into worst USS Intrepid to seek political refuses to answer congressmen's United Front march demanding $30,000 stockade barracks to depression in American history. asylum in any country not en questions over $100,000 NCO an end to genocide in Indochina the ground. % $25 billion in stock market values gaged in the Vietnam war. With which to earn an Club kick-back racket. and freedom for all political 'wiped out, every bank in the honest living. 23 VETERAN'S DAY 30 24 31 prisoners. 118 are busted for country closed, wages cut in half "parading without a permit". and 40 million working people 1969. Muldraugh, Ky. 6 civilians 1963. "We have completed the Actions are also held at 9 are left without any normal in working at the Ft Knox GI coffee job of training South Vietnam's ther bases. come. house are indicted by a local grand armed forces". Gen Charles jury for "maintaining a common Timmes, Commander,South Viet-' public nusiance frequented by nam. evil people". That night coffee house is firebombed for second time. . 25 26 27 28 29 UBE» Washington, D.C. The Soldiers Liberation Front, a Ft. Dix GI organization, San Francisco, Calif. Sailors from the Coral Sea "Stop Our Ship" movement lead an anti-war holds a demonstration at the Military Courts of Appeals building. See 16th. march. See 6th. Birmingham, Ala. A Vietnam veteran shows solidarity with GI's forced to march in a parade. NOVEMBER Chu Lai, Vietnam. GI's on patrol wear black armbands to show support for anti-war demonstrations back in The World. See 14th. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY BUSINESS MK^ GI ORGANIZATIONS AND GI 1965. Arlington, Va. Norman Mor PAPE RS STARTED THIS MONTH rison burns himself to death with LOOKS FOR mT, gasoline at the entrance to the BIG WAR if j Attitude Check, Camp Pendleton, Pentagon to protest the Vietnam 1969; MDM, Camp Pendleton, war. PROFIT H{[ | 1969; MDM, Long Beach NS, 1969; Korea Free Press, Korea, 1970; Morning Report, Ft Devens, 1970; Open Sights, Ft Belvoir, flPS^SS^)^ 1970; GI Union, Ft Bragg, 1971. .JfSliii! 1 2 3 4 5 1965. El Paso, Tex. Lt Henry 1927."The economic owning class 1969. 1,365 GIs sign an advertise 1970. Iwakuni MCAS, Okinawa. 1887. Chicago, III. During a 1969. Ft Bragg, N.C. GIs United Howe, off duty and out of uniform, is always the political ruling class." ment urging civilians to take part 200 Black marines meet in a gym workers' rally in Haymarket Square sues the Army in federal court for is busted for participating in an ...Eugene Debs in upcoming antiwar demonstra to discuss grievances, fighting e- protesting police brutality, police the right to distribute their paper antiwar march and sentenced to tions. rupts when they are ordered by attack the crowd but are stopped Bragg Briefs on post. The suit is 2 years hard labor. the Brass to leave the building. by a bomb which kills 7 of them. being delayed in the courts. The rally's organizers are framed 1919. Centralia. Wash. A pro-war 1971. S.F., Ca. 300 sailors from march, led by the American Legion, 'for "murder" and executed. 1970. 6 AWOL GIs being taken to the Stop Our Ship movement a- attacks a lumberworkers' organi the Presido stockade handcuff their board the attack carrier Coral Sea zing hall but is fought off by armed MP guards and split. lead 25,000 people in an antiwar workers. 4 Legionaires are killed, march. and 7 workers are sentenced to 25- 40 years for "murder". lt{\ 6 ELECTION / 8 9 11 12 1967. Preside Ca. Pvt Ron Lock- 1969. Wash, D.C. 82nd Abn Div 1971. Ft McClellan, Al. Protesting 1969. Wash, D.C. 100 GIs from man refuses to go to Vietnam and ordered here for riot control during Army racism and recruiter's promis the Soldiers Liberation Front at Ft is court martialed. "I follow the antiwar, demonstrations. Next day ed training, 65 Black WACs refuse Dix demonstrate outside the Mili Ft Hood 3; who will follow me?" 1 million people demonstrate across to report to classes and begin tary Court of Appeals building pro the country. marching around the base. After testing military "justice". /7Y (3 refusing orders to return to work the Brass sends MPs using M16s with fixed bayonets to arrest them. | J 139 Black WACs and GIs are bust-' ^f^/^B ed. The women are placed in a •TUXC «!Jnt^8ia barbed wire compound overnight ''££2 [ OT[ Y-^QJW and the men sent to stockades at jJBajNh Tjfjn A_Srn 13 14 Ft Bragg and Ft Benning. A f" /Ftimmmi 16 17 18 19 1971. Mt Home, Idaho. 77?e Cover 1969. Pleiku, Vietnam. 200 GIs ed Wagon, a GI coffeehouse run by of the 71st Evac Hospital hold a airmen and women from Mt Home Thanksgiving Day Fast to protest AFB, is destroyed by arson. the war. 26 20 21 22 LEGAL HOLIDAY aCO 24 25 C 1864. Sand Creek, Colo. Sand 1968. Ft Jackson, S.C. 68 basic Creek Massacre. The US Army trainees of B-6-2 send a letter to jf murders 133 unarmed Native Am Johnson demanding an end to the CHAIN OF ^ffo, ericans encamped on government war. /—\ reservation. Itfliliaiattiam rsfi 17 n^ GunnUNn^ Wl§ ^^^^r^u^C^ V&3 27 28 29 30 p^^W ,v^X '(\ y^"""^* \ v Kadena AFB, Okinawa. Brass orders GI's to riot control duty after an in Okinawa. GI's show solidarity with Okinawan struggle to end 25 years of U.S. occupation. vasion of the base by Okinawans. See 21st. Pine Ridge, S.D. Wounded Knee Massacre. Some of the 300 native American victims of the massa cre being dumped into a mass grave. See 29th. DECEMBER Danang, Vietnam. 53 Vietnamese men, women and children murdered. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY GI ORGANIZATIONS AND GI 1904. Colorado. After 15 months A PAPERSSTARTED THIS MONTH of martial law enforced by 2,000 GIs in Cripple Creek and Telluride, , •-» rt Tl "7-a^L^L^. *">! V^—' CL /2k *Jb ^ < 3s Bragg Briefs, Ft Bragg, 1969; Green striking miners win their demands /i^fS^jc^x c^cj.^%^^ > m jl^ ^J%is> Machine, Ft Greeley, 1969; Head- for nit 8 hour working day. •fii>^?ft^^i\A^^ 12^^2M&^^fc»2^Rfafl /Xi\^A am^L kail ^r^a^aW,^zW%r On, Camp Lejune. 1969; Freedom Rings, Japan, 1970; Free Fire Zone, 1955. Montgomery, Al. Mrs Rosa Hanscom Field, 1971. Parks refuses to sit at the back of 4|||QJ H^"»r^ <\^^WSML. "g^rj^e MPfijME} a segregated bus and so begins a yearlong boycott of buses by the Black community. They won! m ' «^^tW^MtSS^^ HANUKKAH 2 3 1969. Chicago, III. Black Panthers 1932. Wash, D.C As 1 million 1941. WWII. US government de Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are working people demonstrate across clares war, arrests 1 20,000 Japan assassinated by the police. .the country in the 2nd National ese-American citizens, confiscates Hunger March, 3,000 delegates ar their property, and puts them in 1971. Killeen, Tex. The Ft Hood rive here to petition the govern concentration camps for the dura United Front holds a march de ment for food. tion of the war. Big corporations manding an end to the Indochina make record profits of $22 billion war and freedom for all political each year of the war as 100 mil prisoners. lion people die. 4 million veterans return to face unemployment in an economy that only works during a 4 5 6 war or threat of war. —- 8 9 10 1969. Ft Riley, Kan. SPD GIs re- 1969. Seaside, Ca. 1,000 marines 1969. Ft Lewis, Wash. Hundreds 1955."With a little more training. bell and trash the buildings. from Camp Pendleton march again of Black GIs from the 3rd Cav t!ie Vietnamese Army will be the st the Indochina war. C^\ walk out of riot control training. equal of any other Army in its abil The Brass does nothing. /-f\ ity to combat the enemy and will 1970. Ft Lewis, Wash. Command be able to defend itself..." Sec of ing General announces that on post the Army, William Bruckner. traffic will be restricted due to the "severe internal threat posed by guerilla-type terrorism". The order is later rescinded. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1969. Boopy-Dong, S. Korea. Hun 1969. Ft Hood, Tex. Pvt Richard 1970. Kadena AFB, Okinawa. dreds of women stage a march Chase is sentenced to 2 years hard 5,000 Okinawans protesting 25 , honoring a prostitute murdered by labor for refusing to participate in years of US occupation invade the a GI. riot control training. base and burn 8? AF vehicles, a base school and a guard house. 1970. Ft Hood, Tex. Stockade GIs are ordered to riot control prisoners rebel. 2 GIs, Pvts Kevin duty. Harvey and John Priest, are charged with destruction of government property and assault on an officer, but charges are dropped after mass protest on base. 0%d\ 18 19 WINTER tm • 22 23 24 1945. Manila, Philippines. Back 1969. Columbia, S.C. A federal 1890. Pine Ridge, S. Dakota. rrrni Home Movement. 4,000 GIs march judge rules that GIs don't have the Wounded Knee Massacre. The US K on the 21st Replacement Depot de Constitutional rights of free speech Army disarms the last of the Sioux m f manding ships to take them home. and freedom of the press. Nation and murders 300 unarmed vlL f& Native Americans to revenge Custer. /\I*J J -^c. /^ ^w VF The Pentagon awards 26 Medals of fn \f fi «F*y> (Y\ y\ Honor. iBI9 J? L CHRISTMAS 4%0 26 27 " 28 29 I 30 31 1 » 7 I i » 7 a 1 8 7 » APRIL. JANUARY. FEBRUARY. MARCH. APRIL. JANUARY. FEBRUARY. MARCH. APRIL. JANUARY. FEBRUARY. MARCH. 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