New on Radical Americas: Impressions of Vietnam by Robert Pardun
New on www.RadicalAmericas.org: Robert Pardun’s “Impressions of Viet Nam”.
Photo of Robert Pardun: Shire Press
From The Editor’s introduction: Robert Pardun was a co-founder of the influential University of Texas at Austin SDS chapter in 1964. Later that same year he became an SDS regional traveller. In 1967 he was elected SDS Internal Education Secretary and spent much of 1967-68 working at the National Office in Chicago. Robert has chronicled his experiences in Prairie Radical: A Journey Through the Sixties, published in 2001, and served as associate producer of the SDS documentary Rebels with a Cause. (Prairie Radical is one of NLN editor Thomas Good’s top ten books {1}).
Robert’s report on his recent Vietnam visit not only offers a look at social and cultural rebirth in the lingering aftermath of the war, but shows Robert’s lasting concern for the Vietnamese. Much can be carried forth from this legacy as older and younger generations alike grapple with the unfolding tragedy in Iraq.
{1} The others are (in alphabetical order):
Bringing The War Home by Jeremy Varon, Fugitive Days by Bill Ayers, The New Left Revisited by John McMillian and Paul Buhle, No Surrender by David Gilbert, The Politics of Social Ecology by Janet Biehl, Post Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin, Prairie Fire by the Weather Underground Organization, Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky, and Wobblies by Paul Buhle
Original post by Thomas Good and reposted by Radical Blogs
