Anti-war movement: Difference between revisions

[[Mrs. Ngo Ba Thanh]], a Vietnamese peace activist and anti-communist, aligned her [[Vietnamese Women's Movement for the Right to Live]] with international activists of the [[Women's International League for Peace and Freedom]] (WILPF) and [[Women Strike for Peace]]. Her imprisonment and publications about the war brought international attention to the social and economic issues created by the war and fostered international opposition to it.<ref name=Frazier>{{cite book |last1=Frazier |first1=Jessica M. |title=Women's Antiwar Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Era |url=https://archive.org/details/womensantiwardip0000fraz/page/108/mode/1up |date=2017 |publisher=[[University of North Carolina Press]] |location=Chapel Hill, North Carolina |isbn=978-1-4696-3178-3}}</ref>{{rp|109-110109–110}}<ref name=Nguyen>{{cite journal |last1=Nguyen |first1=An Thuy |title=The Vietnam Women's Movement for the Right to Live: A Non-Communist Opposition Movement to the American War in Vietnam |journal=[[Critical Asian Studies]] |date=March 2019 |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=75–102 |doi=10.1080/14672715.2018.1542522 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14672715.2018.1542522 |access-date=21 October 2023 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |location=Milton Park, Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire |s2cid=149982568 |issn=1467-2715 |oclc=7965329217 |id={{EBSCOhost|134057139}}}}{{subscription required}}</ref>{{rp|85, 89-9089–90}} Her arrest and lack of a trial sparked [[Bella Abzug]] and WILPF members to write to the United States Congress and petition President [[Richard Nixon]] to appeal to South Vietnamese officials for her release,<ref name=Frazier />{{rp|126}}<ref name=Nguyen />{{rp|90}} which was widely covered in the press.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cavaliero |first1=Eric |title=Woman Activist Wages Ceaseless Political War with Thieu |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser-cavaliero-eric/133767000/ |access-date=22 October 2023 |work=[[The Honolulu Advertiser]] |date=5 December 1973 |location=Honolulu, Hawaii |page=E14 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Frail from Hunger Strike, Saigon Critic Leaves Jail |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-record-associated-press-frail-from/133766434/ |access-date=22 October 2023 |work=[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=23 September 1973 |location=Hackensack, New Jersey |page=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Sick Woman Charged |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/102204910?searchTerm=Ngo%20Ba%20Thanh |access-date=24 October 2023 |work=[[The Canberra Times]] |date=23 March 1972 |location=Canberra, ACT |page=4 |via=[[Trove]]}}</ref> Campaigns opposing the war and conscription also took place in Australia.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Scates |first=Bob |date=2022-10-10 |title=Draftmen Go Free: A History of the Anti-Conscription Movement in Australia |url=https://commonslibrary.org/draftmen-go-free-a-history-of-the-anti-conscription-movement-in-australia/ |access-date=2022-11-05 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU |archive-date=2022-11-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102114745/https://commonslibrary.org/draftmen-go-free-a-history-of-the-anti-conscription-movement-in-australia/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

}}</ref> began publishing claims that United States' concerns over the alleged threat posed by [[Iran and weapons of mass destruction|the possibility that Iran may have a nuclear weapons program]] might lead the US government to take military action against that country in the future. These reports, and the concurrent escalation of tensions between Iran and some Western governments, prompted the formation of [[grassroots]] organisations, including [[Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran]] in the US and the [[United Kingdom]], to oppose potential military strikes on Iran. Additionally, several individuals, grassroots organisations and international governmental organisations, including the Director-General of the [[International Atomic Energy Agency]], [[Mohamed ElBaradei]],<ref name="elbaradei_actmadness">{{cite news| last =Heinrich| first =Mark| author2 =Karin Strohecker| title =IAEA urges Iran compromise to avert conflict| work =[[Reuters]]| date =2007-06-14| url =https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-iran-iaea-idUSL1466436820070614| access-date =2007-06-21| archive-date =2016-01-18| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20160118020947/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-iran-iaea-idUSL1466436820070614| url-status =live}}</ref> a former [[United Nations Special Commission|United Nations weapons inspector]] in [[Iraq]], [[Scott Ritter]],<ref name="rittersleep" /> [[Nobel Prize]] winners including [[Shirin Ebadi]], [[Mairead Corrigan|Mairead Corrigan-Maguire]] and [[Betty Williams (Nobel laureate)|Betty Williams]], [[Harold Pinter]] and [[Jody Williams]],<ref name="ebadi_etal_nucfree_mideast">{{cite web| title=For a Middle East free of all Weapons of Mass Destruction| publisher=[[Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran]]| date=2007-08-06| url=http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/2694| access-date=2007-11-03| archive-date=2018-09-30| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930063248/http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/2694| url-status=live}}</ref> [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]],<ref name="ebadi_etal_nucfree_mideast" /> [[Code Pink]],<ref name="iht_codepink_kouchner">{{cite news | first= Brian | last= Knowlton | title= Kouchner, French foreign minister, draws antiwar protesters in Washington | date= 2007-09-21 | work= The New York Times | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/world/americas/21iht-kouchner.4.7598079.html | access-date= 2007-11-01 | archive-date= 2016-07-21 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160721215615/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/world/americas/21iht-kouchner.4.7598079.html | url-status= live }}</ref> the [[Non-Aligned Movement]]{{cncitation needed|date=January 2024}} of 118 states, and the [[Arab League]], have publicly stated their opposition to a would-be attack on Iran.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

Beginning in 2022, the anti-war movement was renewed following tensions between [[Russia]] and [[Ukraine]]. Protests escalated on 24 February 2022, after Russia [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|invaded]] Ukraine.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Knutson |first=Jacob |date=2022-02-24 |title=Over 1700 Russians arrested during anti-war protests, human rights organization says |url=https://www.axios.com/photos-people-protest-russia-war-against-ukraine-c7fecd0e-6dfe-436f-8959-7016797ceeca.html |access-date=2022-03-01 |website=Axios |language=en |archive-date=2022-02-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220228084119/https://www.axios.com/photos-people-protest-russia-war-against-ukraine-c7fecd0e-6dfe-436f-8959-7016797ceeca.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

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*Scates, Bob (2022). "[https://commonslibrary.org/draftmen-go-free-a-history-of-the-anti-conscription-movement-in-australia/ The draftmen go free : a history of the anti-conscription movement in Australia]". Book review and whole book. The Commons Social Change Library.