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Movement for a Democratic Military

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Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Use for Movement for a Democratic Military, which was active at Camp Pendleton and in North San Diego County. DO NOT use official subject heading, which is Great Lakes Movement for a Democratic Military, which may be confusing for patrons.

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

all ready on the LEFT (vol. 1, no. 1), 1970-08

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Scope and Contents [cover art of minoritized peoples and laborers holding flag with text "we are all out-laws in the eyes of America"]; "If you dig doing this, you'll have to..." [journal entry from Marine Corps member]; "Serve the People, Stop the Pig" [testimony of journey into peace movement by Marine and M.D.M. member]; "Pigleton censorship fucks you!" [Main Exchange records, books, patriotic bumperstickers, and similar items for sale]; "America: Where Are You Now?" [red-baiting and racial division]; "Dare...
Dates: Publication: 1970-08

all ready on the LEFT (vol 2., no. 1), 1971-04

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Scope and Contents "Calley: War Criminal or Hero?" [William Calley, found guilty of 22 Vietnamese civilian prisoners]; "the Other Side of the POW Story" [recollection of Virginia R. Warner of the National League of Families of Prisoners of War; "Welcome to the Brig" [the brig as institutionalized fear tactic in the Marines]; "A Laosy Invasion"; "Back to the Old KKKorps" [change on base, harassment]; "Mutiny at Khe Sahn"; [cartoons]; "People's Peace Treaty: Joint Treaty of Peace Between the People of the United...
Dates: Publication: 1971-04

Attitude Check (special issue), ca. 1970

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"People's Armed Forces Day, May 16, Oceanside, Calif" [cover art and text regarding march and rally]; "C-I-Ambodia" [U.S. military involvement]; "Think About It..." [oppression and resistance]; "War on color" [capitalism and exploitation]; "MDM: What We Demand"

Dates: Publication: ca. 1970

Attitude Check (vol. 2, no. 1), 1970-02

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Scope and Contents "Military Moratorium Huge Success: 1,000 Marines March in Oceanside" [march on Recreation Park in Oceanside]; "Political Prisoner: M.D.M Member Busted" [active member of Movement for a Democratic Military, Black Marine Wallace Emory]; "Where have all the taxes gone?" [willful destruction of equipment in Vietnam]; "Red Brothers Rising" [Native American liberation]; "Cry, Pvt. Dunkybird, Cry"; "Base Legal Raps: UCMJ Eats It"; "Political Prisoner Speaks to GI's" [reprinted from the Black...
Dates: Publication: 1970-02

Attitude Check (vol. 2, no. 3), 1970-04

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Scope and Contents "USMC suck" [cover art]; "Vancouver, Canada: 1000 march for MDM"; "The Dead Fish Award"; "listen brothers..." [military police stop Oceanside bus, find MDM article on author]; "Panthers and Jane Fonda: MDM Open House" [Fonda and Robert Bryan of the Black Panther Party came to M.D.M. open house at 519 S. Freeman, Oceanside]; "MDM Raps to the People" [meeting by Movement for a Democratic Military at Santa Fe Railroad station for the Green Machine Project, a group of civilans helping set up...
Dates: Publication: 1970-04

Attitude Check (vol. 2, no. 4), 1970-06

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Scope and Contents "MDM to bust the chain" [cover art with reprinted memo from E.N. Snyder, area commander]; "People's Armed Forces Day" [1st annual Armed Forces Day, May 16, 1970, in Oceanside, California, included march and speakers including Brother Bull (Green Machine), Robert Bryan (Black Panther Party), Melody, Derald Duncan, Oscar Rios (Los Siete de la Raza), Tito Garcia (active duty and member of M.D.M.]; "The Dead Fish Award"; "MDM Calendar"; "Get Your Kicks With Nightsticks" [Camp Pendleton's...
Dates: Publication: 1970-06

San Diego Free Door to Liberation (vol. 1, no. 46), 1970-02-12

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Scope and Contents "Biliard [sic] Den Bust" [police harrasment at Pacific Beach Billiard Den]; "MDM Harassed" [Movement for Democratic Military harassment by San Diego police and San Diego shore patrol]; [front page article about planting freet trees at the Alpine, California retreat for Universal Life Church]; "Mission Undraftable" [draft system]; "Rumor Control Center in South East S.D." [community organization]; "S.D. Starves School Kids" [school child hunger and malnutrition in San Diego]; "[Jesse] Ramirez...
Dates: Publication: 1970-02-12

San Diego Free Door to Liberation (vol. 2, no. 2), 1970-06-18

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Scope and Contents "Rock Festival Stirs Concern" [regarding Labor Day Weekend Rock Festival at Campo Indian Reservation]; "The Bread Man" [economics, finance, stock market]; "Door Interviews Kings Undercover" [interview with anonymous hospital orderly who uncovered an undercover San Diego police agent infiltrating the MDM (Movement for a Democratic Military)]; "Lesson in Logic" [cartoon]; "Drug Alert" [Coco acid]; "Tell it All... Kenny Rogers" [Interview]; "Concert Previews" [Three Dog Night, Taj Mahal];...
Dates: Publication: 1970-06-18