1. Michael Albert. What is to be undone: A modern revolutionary discussion of classical left ideologies. P. Sargent, 1974.
2. Michael Uhl. Vietnam Awakening: My Journey from Combat to the Citizen’s Commission of Inquiry on U.S. War Crimes in Vietnam. McFarland, 2007. By necessity, the Prologue of this current work summarizes a few salient details from Vietnam Awaking to orient readers not familiar with the earlier memoir. 3. James Simon Kunen. Standard Operating Procedure: Notes of A Draft-age American; with the cooperation of the Citizens’ Commission of Inquiry on U.S. War Crimes in Indochina. Avon, 1971. The Dellums Committee Hearings on War Crimes in Vietnam. Edited by the Citizens Commission of Inquiry. Vintage, 1972. See also Uhl, op. cit. 4. See my Vietnam Awakening for an account of our participation in the founding meetings of the New American Movement. 5. A copy of this proposal is among papers in my possession; the original is stored in the Citizen Soldier collection (#7033) of the Rare and Manuscript Collection, Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York. Henceforth Cornell collection 6. Cornell collection, Box 1. 7. Bankrolled sounds impressive. In fact, CCI was a shoestring operation, but with little overhead. Our biggest expenses were telephone, travel and printing. Travel meant strictly transportation; no hotel, no per diem for meals, which came out of our own pockets. Rent in our New York office was $130 a month. And Tod and Jeremy each received a salary of $40 a week; I lived on my monthly disability check. Even our witnesses often paid their own travel expenses, and local hospitality was arranged to house them. We were constantly hitting up the same dozen or so well-off supporters, who could readily see from our media impact, where there donations were going. 8. The proposal was entitled, “Ad-Hoc Congressional Hearings on Racism, Repression, and Militarism within the U.S. Armed Forces,” July 22, 1971, by Mike Uhl, Tod Ensign, and Jeremy Rifkin. Dellums letter to me at CCI’s office was dated July 28, 1971. Dellums concluded his letter, suggesting “the hearings be conducted in October 1971, and I agree that you should begin initial preparations now.” Dellums letter to Representative William Anderson, head of the Black Caucus, was dated October 8, 1971. Cornell Collection. 9. Cornell Collection, Box 1. 10. In 2006 [tk] Tod Ensign would satisfy this longstanding urge by founding The Different Drummer, an Internet GI Café in Waterville, NY outside the gates of Ft. Drum, home of the Army’s 10th Mountain Division, whose troops - as this is written - are extensively deployed in both Iraq and Afghanistan. 11. “Group Plans to Show Radical Spirit of ‘76,” by William Greider. Washington Post, Oct. 15, 1971. An account of the People’s Bicentennial Commission’s crowning public moment is found in Chapter [TK] of this work. 12. “Reclaiming the revolution,” by Al Robbins. New Times. April 1976. 13. “The Red, White, and Blue LEFT,” by Jeremy Rifkin. The Progressive, November 1971. |
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