South-Eastern Asia

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Thirty-nine years ago, on January 20, 1968, I was shot and paralyzed from my mid-chest down during my second tour of duty in Vietnam. It is a date that I can never forget, a day that was to change my life forever.
As I now contemplate another January 20th I cannot help but think of the young men and women who have been wounded in the war in Iraq. They have been coming home now for almost three years, flooding Walter Reed, Bethesda, Brooke Army Medical Center and veterans hospitals all across the country.

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Peacework asked activists across the country to fill in the blank, "If I could show one under-appreciated film or video to a room full of potential organizers, I'd show..." and explain why or how they'd use that film.

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Israeli cluster bombs were made in the US; Hezbollah's were from Iran. First step? Ban the transfer of cluster munitions.

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This Martin Luther King day, an opportunity to celebrate also the centennial of one of the civil rights movement's most prominent anti-racist Jewish allies.

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Unarmed Insurrections by Kurt Schock, University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

Reviewed by Dave Taber, a Peacework intern and a freelance journalist.

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And if we are correct, if the war is a crime, then is it criminal to refuse to have anything to do with it?