“You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.”

― Hồ Chí Minh



Hồ Chí Minh



Anti-War Demonstrators Bay Area Asian Coalition Against the War Link to Interactive Viet Nam War Timeline Various Viet Nam sound clips Various Viet Nam sound clips

- Ho Chi Minh addressing the anti-war movement in English

Ho Chi Minh led the anti-colonial struggles against the French and the US. He was the first President of modern Viet Nam, declaring independence on September 2, 1945.

- Madame Nguyen Thi Bình appeals to the US Congress

Madame Binh served as Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government and negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference. She has also been Vice-President, Minister of Education, and held other posts as one of the leaders of Viet Nam. (1972)

- Vietnamese Students

Protest demonstration by Vietnamese students, including US representative of the National Student Union of South Viet Nam, protesting repression in the southern part of Viet Nam under the Thieu regime. (1972)

- Dao Interview

One of the members of the Union of Vietnamese in the US, who were very active in the antiwar movement. (1976)

- Robert and Mabel Williams on Viet Nam

Leaders of an armed self-defense movement against the Klan in North Carolina, the Williams were forced into exile, first in Cuba, then in China. For more on their story and struggle, see here.

- H Rap Brown - selections from a speech in 1967.

H Rap Brown (now Imam Jamil Al Amin) was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s.

- Huey Newton on the Black Panther Party and Viet Nam

Huey Newton was a founder and first Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party. (1970)

- Martin Luther King, Jr

Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam. (1967)



- Geronimo ji Jaga on Viet Nam and Detroit

A leading member of the Black Panther Party in Los Angeles, Geronimo was a Viet Nam war veteran. He was falsely imprisoned for 27 years in a frame-up engineered by the FBI as part of their counter-intelligence (Cointelpro) program. For more, see here.

- Chican@ Moratorium Speech on Viet Nam War

The Chicano Moratorium was a broad-based coalition of antiwar Chican@ groups throughout the Southwest that organized a march of more than 30,000 in Los Angeles on August 29, 1970, in which four were killed by police. Rosalio Munoz speaks.

- Chican@ Moratorium Press Conference on Viet Nam War

- Native Americans on Viet Nam

A solidarity statement that emphasizes anti-imperialist commonalities between the Vietnamese and Native American struggles. John McClain speaks for the Bay Area chapter of AIM. (1975)

- Attack the Water - Janice Mirikitani

A San Francisco poet who often read at antiwar events, and brought forth her childhood experience in the concentration camps in the US during World War II that imprisoned Japanese-Americans. (1973)

The Long Haired Warriors from mel halbach on Vimeo. They were soldiers, activists and tortured as prisoners of war. This is a film trailer about Vietnamese women who struggled against American occupation and the South Vietnamese government during the war in Vietnam.