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Vietnam was the land of burning children, and the Berrigan Brothers served as the conscience of America as our country killed two to three million Vietnamese people.

Israel was supposed to be a state where all religions and ethnicities were protected from racism and persecution. Today, there is no nation with a worse record of apartheid discrimination than Israel.

The War Resisters League continues to this day, with a campaign to end police militarization, and a training to connect organizations led by youths of color.

As a result of his rejection of the oath, the popular 1960s ABC television show, Hootenanny, refused to allow him to perform. Seeger finally appeared on national television on February 25, 1968, when he sang Waist Deep in the Big Muddy.

Israel was an advisor to the South African apartheid state, and the bantustans were set up to deny blacks citizenship in South Africa. The West Bank comes close to being a bantustan, allowing the occupation of millions of Palestinians without giving them equal rights or even ownership of much of the land.

How desperately this age of Trump and perpetual war needs an artist like Lennon to champion the resistance.

The public rallied with nationwide boycotts and the union was finally born. Today it fights to outlaw toxic chemicals, to protect immigrant farm workers, and to preserve healthcare rights for all.

The resistance to the insanity of war has never been more important than it is today, with US wars of empire being fought around the globe.

Mattachine provided lesbians and gay men a similar opportunity to share openly, for the first time, their feelings and experiences.

The monumental election of Trump was a desperate and xenophobic cry of human hearts for a way out from under the devastation of a disintegrating neoliberal order, a nostalgic return to an imaginary past of greatness.

5. Eliminating the concept of the public good or community and replacing it with individual responsibility. Pressuring the poorest people in a society to find solutions to their lack of health care, education and social security all by themselves, then blaming them if they fail.

1. The rule of the market. Liberating free enterprise or private enterprise from any limits imposed by the government or the state no matter how much social damage this causes.

Neoliberalism is a set of economic policies that have become widespread during the last 25 years. Although the word is rarely heard in the United States, you can clearly see the effects of neoliberalism here as the rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer.

Emma Goldman represents an important chapter in the history of Jewish activism in America.

The Palestinians have now endured fifty years of the illegal Israeli occupation. The Israeli protests are mostly gone, and settler extremism has become the driving force in what was to be the Promised Land of the Jews.