Operation Rapid American Withdrawal, 1970-2005 : exhibition [archive] / organized by Jane Irish. 2004-<2005>

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Operation Rapid American Withdrawal, 1970-2005 : exhibition [archive] / organized by Jane Irish. 2004-<2005>

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Planning documents, correspondence, press releases, reviews and other materials related to the Sept. 2-25, 2005 exhibition held at the Ice Box Project Space, Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St., Philadelphia as part of the annual Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe. The exhibition commemorated the Sept. 1970 anti-Vietnam War event, called Operation RAW (Rapid American Withdrawal), organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Over a four day period, a group of Vietnam veterans marched from Morristown, N.J. to Valley Forge in Pennsylvania. During the march, the veterans described their experiences in Vietnam to spectators and re-enacted scenes of civilian mistreatment which they had witnessed during the war. The 2005 exhibition was conceived and organized by artist Jane Irish to celebrate the antiwar veteran, as a metaphor of heroic resistance and to teach the real history of the creativity of the antiwar veterans. The participants included more than 60 Philadelphia area artists in various media. It included continuous showings of "Different sons" the 1970 documentary film of the march by Jack Ofield and a poetry reading by Vietnam veteran poets.

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Irish, Jane, 1955-

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Ofield, Jack

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The founders were former servicemen and servicewomen who served in Vietnam and who opposed the United States government's policy during the Vietnamese Conflict, sometimes in the face of public apathy, indifference and even hostility and harassment. They testified in the 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation as to the extent of atrocities against Viet Cong prisoners, civilians, and illegal border incursions into noncombatant countries. From the description of Collection, 1967-[ongoing]. (...