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Fighting for the Rights of Animals has a long history in Grand Rapids
This is the first posting in a series of articles and interviews that deals with the organizing around animal rights and animal liberation in West Michigan. There has been some new attention given to Animal Rights in Grand Rapids, with … Continue reading
Twenty Five Years Ago Grand Rapids Responded to the Murder of Priests in El Salvador
Twenty Five years ago, on November 16, 1989, Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J., Ignacio Martín-Baró, S.J., Segundo Montes, S.J., Juan Ramón Moreno, S.J., Joaquín López y López, S.J., Amando López, S.J. and their housekeeper Elba Ramos, and her 15 year-old daughter Celina … Continue reading
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The Nuclear Freeze Movement inspired many in Grand Rapids
Beginning in the late 1970s, many people in the US began to learn about the dangers of nuclear weapons and possibility of nuclear war. The US and there former Soviet Union were engaged in a nuclear arms race, with both … Continue reading
Street Theater was a common tactic in the Grand Rapids Central America Solidarity Movement
Street Theater has been a tactic used by social movements for decades as a means to dramatize the message of a particular campaign. Much of the modern day street theater can be linked to the work of Brazilian artist Augusto … Continue reading
Calvin Student Newspaper Coverage of Vietnam War Resistance
Last month we posted a piece on the diversity of tactics being used in Grand Rapids to resist the US war in Vietnam. Some of that resistance came from Calvin College, with both students and faculty being involved in the … Continue reading
Music was a tool in the Grand Rapids Central America Solidarity Movement
Last week we posted a piece about how political cartoons were used as a means to raise awareness about the struggle for justice in Central America in the 1980s & 90s. This week we draw attention to how music played … Continue reading
Political Cartoons were also part of the Grand Rapids Central America Solidarity Movement
(This article is part of two separate projects – The Central American Solidarity Movement and the Indy Media Movement in Grand Rapids) There were all types of resistance to US policy in Central America in the 1980s. As we have … Continue reading
Analyzing the Grand Rapids Press was a tool for the 1980s Central American Solidarity Movement
(This is another posting on the 1980s Central American Solidarity Movement in Grand Rapids, which will be part of a larger project.) In the 1980s, the Reagan Administration was obsessed with countering the revolutionary movements in Central America. At the … Continue reading
Interview with Vietnam Era Veteran involved in GI Anti-War Press
During the US War in Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and 70s, there was a massive movement by US soldiers to resist the brutal and illegal counter-insurgency campaign. Radical historian Howard Zinn documented well at … Continue reading
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