{"product_id":"disturbing-the-war-the-inside-story-of-the-movement-to-get-stanford-out-of-southeast-asia-1965-1975-9780578803968","title":"Disturbing the War: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford out of Southeast Asia - 1965-1975","description":"\u003cp\u003eDISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia-1965-1975\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In the 1960s, Stanford University was already known as one of America's \"great research universities.\" Less known to outsiders, it was an essential cog in the U.S. war machine during the Vietnam War. From the mid-1960s through the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, a dedicated, evolving group of students and other members of the Stanford community challenged that role and the leadership of the university itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lenny Siegel tells the inside story of the Stanford radical, anti-war student Movement, how activists used research, education, political activity, and direct action to win over their campus cohort, alter Stanford's direction in the world, and lay the foundation for what became known as Silicon Valley. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As the U.S. appears to be embarking upon a new era of progressive militancy, the Stanford Movement's experiences provide important lessons for new generations of activists. Though organizers today have at their thumb-tips communications tools that sixties activists never dreamed of, the fundamental principles of student and community organizing have not changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e At times, Siegel and his fellow protesters broke rules, laws, and even windows. But they believed and continue to insist that what they did was justified by the imperative of halting the extreme violence and gross violations of international law visited upon Southeast Asia in their names.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSiegel, Lenny:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Author Lenny Siegel was a leader of the radical student movement, focused on opposition to Stanford's contributions to the Vietnam War, at Stanford University in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was a leader of the Stanford chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the Stanford Anti-Draft Union, the April Third Movement, the Off ROTC Movement, the New Left Project, and the Association of Young Crows. He entered Stanford in Fall, 1966 as an undergraduate in physics after recognition as a valedictorian at Culver City High School, Culver City, California. Suspended from Stanford for on-campus anti-war activities, Siegel never earned a college degree. He coordinates a national network of Stanford alumni activists. He has been President of the non-profit Pacific Studies Center, an offshoot of the Stanford Movement, since 1970, and he has served as Executive Director of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight, a PSC project since 2006, since 1994. He is one of the environmental movement's leading experts on military environmental issues as well as the vapor intrusion pathway. In 2011 U.S. EPA recognized him as national Superfund Citizen of the Year. He has served on numerous regional and national environmental advisory groups, including a dozen committees of the National Research Council (National Academies of Sciences). His many publications include The High Cost of High Tech: The Dark Side of the Chip (Harper \u0026amp; Row, 1985). See www.cpeo.org for a compilation of Siegel's environmental work. Siegel moved to nearby Mountain View in 1972, where he has owned a home since 1979. He served as Mayor of Mountain View in 2018 and as elected Council member from January 2015 to January 2019. He served on the Mountain View Planning Commission from 1978-1980. Siegel founded several local non-governmental organizations, including the Campaign for a Balanced Mountain View, Mountain View Voices for Peace and Justice, the Mountain View Housing Justice Coalition, the Alliance for a New Moffett Field, and the Save Hangar One Committee. He was a Bernie Sanders delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Siegel married Jan Rivers in 1976, and he has two children, Misha Siegel-Rivers (39) and Abram Siegel-Rivers (34).","brand":"Pacific Studies Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50915843309842,"sku":"9780578803968","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_688bf55d-3e92-4dca-958f-29c281e53c45.jpg?v=1738830964","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/disturbing-the-war-the-inside-story-of-the-movement-to-get-stanford-out-of-southeast-asia-1965-1975-9780578803968","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}