radicalarchive:‘Demonstrate! At the Knightsbridge V.A. Hospital’, White Lightning, Vietnam Veterans
radicalarchive:‘Demonstrate! At the Knightsbridge V.A. Hospital’, White Lightning, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Mass Transit Street Theater, New York, [early 1970s].White Lightning was a radical community organizing collective that worked in working class white neighborhoods in New York City. One of the main targets of their organizing was the heroin epidemic of the early 70s, which effected many working class Vietnam veterans. For more information on White Lightning and other New Left era (60s-70s) collectives that specifically organized in working class white neighborhoods check out the 2010 book “Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times”. -- source link