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White
Rose, Keinom
A
celebration of the White Rose, a contemporary anti-Nazi resistance
group best known for distributing leaflets against the Nazis and
painting anti-Hitler graffiti around Munich in 1942 and 1943. According
to Wikipedia, “The six core members of the group were arrested
by the Gestapo, convicted and executed by beheading in 1943. The
text of their sixth leaflet was smuggled out of Germany through
Scandinavia to England, and in July 1943 copies of it were dropped
over Germany by Allied planes, retitled ‘The Manifesto of
the Students of Munich.’ Today, the members of the White Rose
are honored in Germany as great heroes who opposed the Third Reich
in the face of deadly danger for such resistance. Keinom is a German
artist and author. The two-color offset
printed poster, 11" x 17" (unsigned, unlimited edition)is
available from the website of Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists’
Cooperative, a decentralized community of artists who believe in
the power of personal expression in concert with collective action
to transform society. www.justseeds.org
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Framing
the Debate on
the Vietnam War.
Written
by Noam Chomsky
and Edward S. Herman
to The New York Times,
April 8, 1975.
Dear Sir:
An editorial in the Times, April 5, observes that “a decade of fierce
polemics has failed to resolve this ongoing quarrel” between two
contending views: that “the war to preserve a non-Communist, independent
South Vietnam could have been waged differently,” and that “a
viable, non-Communist South Vietnam was always a myth.” There has
also been a third position: That apart from its prospects for success,
the United States has neither the authority nor competence to intervene
in the internal affairs of Vietnam. This was the position of much of the
authentic peace movement, that is, those who opposed the war because it
was wrong, not merely because it was unsuccessful. It is regrettable that
this position is not even a contender in the debate, as The Times sees
it.
On a facing page, Donald Kirk observes that "since the term ‘bloodbath’
first came into vogue in the Indochinese conflict, no one seems to have
applied it to the war itself — only to the possible consequences
of ending the war." He is quite wrong. Many Americans involved in
the authentic peace movement have insisted for years on the elementary
point that he believes has been noticed by "no one," and it
is a commonplace in literature on the war. To mention just one example,
we have written a small book on the subject (Counterrevolutionary
Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact and Propaganda, 1973), though in this
case the corporation (Warner Brothers) that owned the publisher refused
to permit distribution after publication. But quite apart from this, the
observation has been made repeatedly in discussion and literature on the
war, by just that segment of opinion that The Times editorial excludes
from the debate.
—Sincerely yours,
—Noam Chomsky
—Professor, MIT
—Edward S. Herman
—Professor, University of Pennsylvania
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