antiwar

Eight years before the U.S.-backed regime in South Vietnam collapsed, I stood with high school friends at Manhattan’s Penn Station on the night of April 15, 1967, waiting for a train back to Washington after attending the era’s largest antiwar protest so far.

During the years that followed, antiwar demonstrations grew in thousands of communities across the United States.

The loss seemed a muffled conclusion to her nearly three decades in Congress, where her antiwar positions and support for civil rights made her a hometown hero back in Oakland.

After immigration authorities over the weekend detained a Palestinian activist who helped lead antiwar protests at Columbia, Trump warned Monday that the man’s possible deportation was the first of “many to come.”

Over the years, her artwork became increasingly political, supporting issues such as the antiwar movement, racial equality and women’s rights.