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ON GI-CIVIhlAN SOLIDARITY I think that the only really large-scale promising area of action for the antiwar movement today is the GI: the army and the morale factor. (It is) the one crisis which we can relate to tangibly, which will consume on-going time, money and attention, which has any real hope of introducing a profound crisis in the whole structure of war...The fact of the matter is that there are 350 bases throughout the world which should have active GI projects but do not for want of funds...We now have 10-20 million Americans who are against this war with their heart and soul# and who have nothing to do. If the people on campuses would have assumed, campus by campus - one campus per (military) base - all fiscal responsibilities for an active GI project; if the NSA would have said to its 250 campus representatives who showed up in St. Paul last August 'each campus takes a base and is responsible for the servicing of the base in terms of funding, in terms of manpower, in terms of everything that goes into the social activity' - if the NSA would have done that rather than spend the time and money that it has invested in the Peace Treaty, we would have been one step forward. Gabriel Kolko, liberation, Spring issue, pp. 87-90. These comments by one of America's most perceptive political and social critics are in response to the rapid deterioration of the U.S. Armed Forces in recent years. Never before in our history have the services been in such a state of rebellion and disillusionment while still engaged in a foreign war. Even military journals, including ARMY magazine and the Armed Forces Journal, have openly discussed the "alarming" decline in the morale of American GIs. While the Movement has been organizing all its teach-ins, rallies and lobbies, American soldiers have been making peace, consciously and unconsciously, by resisting the Machine and avoiding combat in Indochina. An important part of this phenomenon is the organized GI movement, which at times has reached major proportions. Approximately 100 antiwar newspapers are now being published by GIs at bases in the U.S. and around the world. Tens of thousands of servicepeople participated in the recent spring actions, most particularly for Armed Farces Day. Ft. Bragg, Ft. Lewis, Ft. Hood, Ft. Bliss, San Diego Naval Station and other bases have strong GI organizing projects, with newspaper circulation of from 3 to 8 thousand (almost all to GIs) and with JR.- . t highly developed political and social criticism of the entire American system of exploitation. The organized GI movement, however, is only ■A
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Title | On GI-Civilian Solidarity |
Publication date | 1971 |
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Full text | ON GI-CIVIhlAN SOLIDARITY I think that the only really large-scale promising area of action for the antiwar movement today is the GI: the army and the morale factor. (It is) the one crisis which we can relate to tangibly, which will consume on-going time, money and attention, which has any real hope of introducing a profound crisis in the whole structure of war...The fact of the matter is that there are 350 bases throughout the world which should have active GI projects but do not for want of funds...We now have 10-20 million Americans who are against this war with their heart and soul# and who have nothing to do. If the people on campuses would have assumed, campus by campus - one campus per (military) base - all fiscal responsibilities for an active GI project; if the NSA would have said to its 250 campus representatives who showed up in St. Paul last August 'each campus takes a base and is responsible for the servicing of the base in terms of funding, in terms of manpower, in terms of everything that goes into the social activity' - if the NSA would have done that rather than spend the time and money that it has invested in the Peace Treaty, we would have been one step forward. Gabriel Kolko, liberation, Spring issue, pp. 87-90. These comments by one of America's most perceptive political and social critics are in response to the rapid deterioration of the U.S. Armed Forces in recent years. Never before in our history have the services been in such a state of rebellion and disillusionment while still engaged in a foreign war. Even military journals, including ARMY magazine and the Armed Forces Journal, have openly discussed the "alarming" decline in the morale of American GIs. While the Movement has been organizing all its teach-ins, rallies and lobbies, American soldiers have been making peace, consciously and unconsciously, by resisting the Machine and avoiding combat in Indochina. An important part of this phenomenon is the organized GI movement, which at times has reached major proportions. Approximately 100 antiwar newspapers are now being published by GIs at bases in the U.S. and around the world. Tens of thousands of servicepeople participated in the recent spring actions, most particularly for Armed Farces Day. Ft. Bragg, Ft. Lewis, Ft. Hood, Ft. Bliss, San Diego Naval Station and other bases have strong GI organizing projects, with newspaper circulation of from 3 to 8 thousand (almost all to GIs) and with JR.- . t highly developed political and social criticism of the entire American system of exploitation. The organized GI movement, however, is only ■A |
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