**An Eyewitness Report on the 50th Anniversary of Peace and Reunification in Viet Nam** **April 30, 2025** **11 a.m. ET** **Registerhere** ** ** A delegation of US peace activists traveled in north, central and south Viet Nam for an anniversary with great meaning in both countries. Their eyewitness accounts and photos will be shared as April 30 ends in Viet Nam and begins in the US. **Cosponsors** * International Peace Research Association * War Resisters League * Syracuse Cultural Workers **Delegation participants** ** ** **Miriam (Mimsy) Bouret** Kaua'i, Hawaii, raised in a family of activists, protesters, conscientious objectors; her brother was the first draft card burner arrested in Philadelphia. Volunteer at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, learning about activism on an international level. Now focus on cultivating inner peace and spreading loving kindness wherever, whenever, however and to whomever I can Mimsyheart@gmail.com **Jacquelyn Chagnon* **Warrensburg, Missouri and Vientiane, Laos **** Worked in Vietnam and Laos for 50 years beginning with International Voluntary Services. Traveled throughout the US with the Indochina Mobile Education Project to help grass roots Americans learn about Vietnamese culture and history and the human cost of the war based on personal experience. Worked with Don Luce to educate Congress. Represented American Friends Service Committee providing post-war assistance. Board member of the War Legacies Project. jacqui.chagnon@earthlink.net **Charles Clements* **Distinguished Graduate of the USAF Academy, C-130 cargo pilot in Vietnam. On April 30th, 1970 when US invaded Cambodia, refused to fly further missions. Discharged with a 10% mental disability after spending 8 months in a locked Air Force psychiatric ward. Studied medicine and volunteered to treat El Salvador guerillas. Served as head of Unitarian Universalist Service Committee and of Carr Center at Harvard University. Author of Witness to War. <clementscharlie@gmail.com> **Kerry Connolly* **Philadelphia, Pennsylvania **** First visited Viet Nam in 1992 while working with IOM at a Vietnamese refugee camp in Palawan, Philippines. This first visit and the people she met at the camp inspired a lifelong interest in and affinity for Viet Nam and its population. From 1993-1995, Kerry lived in Ha Noi, working with VATICO, DeMatteis Vietnam and AmCham. She currently teaches high school math and Spanish.**** **Bill Davis** Tallahassee, Florida. Raconteur, retired lawyer and legal aid leader. Conscientious Objector. Statewide elected student leader. Helped organize and lead local and national actions, tactics including vigils, student strikes, and mass marches, to massive and mobile civil disobedience. Worked full time organizing May Day (1971 action in Washington DC, where more people were arrested than on any other day in US history). Arrested opposing Nixon nomination at Republican National Convention. whdavis2@gmail.com **Marc Jason Gilbert** Honolulu, Hawaii, many visits to Vietnam as Chair in World History, Hawaii Pacific University; special interest in South and Southeast Asia; numerous papers, articles, chapters in books, and monographs, many addressing the American War in Vietnam; “The View from the Hill: Hawaiʻi’s Congressional Delegation and the Struggle for Peace in Vietnam and Equity at Home, 1964-1975,” https://www.hpu.edu/faculty/cla/marc-gilbert.html hallgilbert@earthlink.net **Steven Goldsmith** Palos Verdes, CA, Pres. www.TRAA.Website fighting deadly HF; 60’s Miss. Freedom Project-Fall ‘64; anti-war arrest Chicago & DC ‘65; helped lead U of Chicago anti-draft sit-in; SDS-JOIN organizing in poor white community; CO alternative service & civilian supporter of the GI Movement (FTA, Fort Knox); 70’s-steel mill-Indiana organizing fight back movement; 80’s Calif. tours to India/China; 90s/00s Dir. Restorative Justice Proj; Rotarian Peace Builder linking to Mediators Beyond Borders sgoldsmith84@gmail.com **Susan Gregory** southern California; staff of Chicago 8 Conspiracy Trial; April, 1971 received from Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh in Paris the PRG 10 Point Proposal for Peace in Vietnam, then testified before Senator Fulbright’s Foreign Relations Committee; 1972, organized with Weiss, King, and Baez, Women’s March on Congress to Cut Off Funds for Vietnam war; Fall, 1972, Indochina Peace Campaign; partner with Rennie Davis during antiwar movement; director of M.S. Grumbacher Foundation gregorysusan24@gmail.com **** **Rick Hind** Washington, DC. peace movement since 1968; drafted in 1972 as a conscientious objector, served two years alternative service directing the Schenectady Peace Center for Clergy & Laity Concerned; to Washington, DC in 1978 working for the Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy and for 26 years as legislative director of Greenpeace; visited Vietnam in 2018 for the 50th anniversary of the My Lai massacre and created a Facebook site on that trip https://www.facebook.com/vietnampeace.org/ rickahind@gmail.com **Carolyn Levering** Santa Cruz/San Francisco, California; antiwar activist since the Vietnam war; was a high school math teacher; a marriage and family therapist; a financial planner; has been actively involved in lobbying Congress with Friends Committee on National Legislation; carolynllevering@gmail.com **Robert Levering** Santa Cruz/San Francisco California; full-time anti-Vietnam war organizer with American Friends Service Committee and others; a business journalist and author; founded Great Place to Work, a global research and consulting firm; executive producer of "The Movement and the 'Madman'" and "The Boys Who Said No!"; leveringrobert@gmail.com; **Gail Lopez-Henriquez** Philadelphia, Pennsylvania retired lawyer for trade unions. Participated in protests against the war in high school. What she learned about Viet Nam's centuries-long struggle against colonialism determined her world view and life's work. Currently helps immigrants to learn English and to become citizens, joins union picket lines, and protests against the Trump administration. Her 8th visit to Viet Nam gaillopezhenriquez@gmail.com **John McAuliff **Riverhead, NY**** founder and executive director of Fund for Reconciliation and Development (a.k.a. US-Indochina Reconciliation Project); coordinator, Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee; former director of Indochina Program, Peace Education Division, American Friends Service Committee, and President of Committee of Returned Volunteers. Detained but not charged at March on the Pentagon and May Day. A leader of campaign for normalization of relations. Led 30 delegations to Indochina. jmcauliff@ffrd.org **Mary McDonnell** Riverhead NY made the first of many working visits to Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia in 1986 on behalf of the Social Science Research Council. For three decades she travelled to Viet Nam several times a year to strengthen the capacities of young researchers from the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) and the Southern Institute for Social Sciences (SISS). Working with teams of Vietnamese and foreign researchers, she led field work in many provinces about issues of importance to Vietnam’s development. www.mbmlearning.com mary@mbmlearning.com **Matt Meyer** Brooklyn, New York, Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), Senior Research Scholar at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst Resistance Studies Initiative; extensive history with the War Resisters International, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), and previously served as US National Co-chair of the FOR-USA and Chair of the War Resisters League. Author/editor of over a dozen books https://www.matt-meyer.com https://www.iprapeace.org/ **Dana Moss** South Bend, Indiana; Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame. Working on a book project about anti-war activism by American military members and veterans during the US war in Vietnam. Her first book was about transnational activism for the Arab Spring revolutions in Syria, Libya, and Yemen. Founding member of the Yemen Peace Project to promote a more peaceful foreign policy toward Yemen, and to educate about Yemeni arts, film, and culture. dmoss2@nd.edu **Tara Mullaney*** (formerly Tara McAuliff) Queens New York, lived in Ha Noi from 1995 to 1999 working for the US-Indochina Reconciliation Project (of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development) and the Commercial Service of the US Embassy. Began visiting Viet Nam at the age of 13, studied Vietnamese history and language at Cornell University; currently head of Human Resources at a New York City non-profit that provides re-entry services to individuals who are formerly incarcerated. taramcauliff@hotmail.com **Terry Provance** Washington, DC, wrote first letter to President Johnson to oppose the war in 1965. Organized Moratorium and Mobilization events in 1969 in Pittsburgh and seminarians to carry out two major civil disobedience actions; member of Support Committee for Dan and Phil Berrigan in Harrisburg and for Pentagon Papers Peace Project for Dan Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in Los Angeles, for Medical Aid for Indochina and Bach Mai Hospital Relief Fund. Visited Vietnam in 1973 and in 1996. terryprovance@gmail.com **Miranda Rumpf*** Warrensburg, Missouri and Vientiane, Laos; worked with parents Jacqui Chagnon and the late Roger Rumpf and with the War Legacies Project. **Joel Schwartz** Staten Island, NY became politically active in the summer of 1968, influenced by protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; supported national liberation struggles within the US and internationally. He's been to Cuba twelve times with the Venceremos Brigade and the US/Cuba Labor Exchange. Employed as a mental health worker and was union activist and leader. Active with Democratic Socialists of America. 1joelschwartz@gmail.com **Stephen Talbot** San Francisco, journalist and documentary filmmaker; produced and directed The Movement and the "Madman," about Nixon and the antiwar movement that aired on public television in the U.S. and Vietnam TV1. Visited North Vietnam in 1974 as a young antiwar activist and filmmaker documented in Year of the Tiger https://www.movementandthemadman.com/ stephentalbot1@gmail.com **Rebecca Waugh** Washington DC. Retired professional in international health, development, and human rights work, mostly through efforts sponsored by US churches. Not directly involved in the anti-war movement, but traveled to Vietnam several times between 2002 and 2007 to support development projects of Church World Service. rvwaugh@gmail.com * Not participating in complete schedule ****

Atalya here. I am an activist, and I spent 110 days in jail after refusing to serve in the Israeli military in 2017. In just one week, we at Refuser Solidarity Network are hosting a crucial webinar alongside our friends at Veterans for Peace and World Beyond War. Together, we’ll discuss the Israeli refuser movement, the role of U.S. militarism, and how we can build a truly international coalition against the war economy fueling Israel’s assault on Gaza **Join us on Sunday, March 16th at 12:00PM ET by signing up here and let your communities know about this important event.** If we want to put a stop to the Israeli military-industrial complex, we need a global movement that is not just in solidarity with Palestinians, but internationalist in strategy. Western tax dollars fund Israel’s genocide, just as Israeli and Western arms dealers make record profits. The war economy knows no borders—neither can our resistance. Join us on Sunday, March 16th at 12:00 PM ET by signing up here, and help spread the word. Now is the time to build cross-border resistance to war and occupation. Only together will we triumph. In solidarity, Atalya Ben-Abba Media Coordinator Refuser Solidarity Network