Robert Levering

Robert Levering was a full-time anti-Vietnam War organizer from 1967 to 1973. He was an adviser to the recently completed film, “The Boys Who Said NO!” about the draft resistance movement, and he is the Executive Producer of “The Movement and the ‘Madman’” a soon-to-be-completed documentary about the impact on Nixon of the Moratorium and Mobilization demonstrations in the fall of 1969.
  • Analysis

50 years ago, the Pentagon Papers’ success hinged on a personal conversion to nonviolence
June 14, 2021
  • Feature

How 1971’s Mayday actions rattled Nixon and helped keep Vietnam from becoming a forever war
April 29, 2021
  • Review

Why ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ deserves praise – from an antiwar organizer who was there
October 30, 2020
  • Long Read

Activists fought the US military draft for decades — they may soon have to again
May 19, 2020
  • Feature

How anti-Vietnam War protests thwarted Nixon’s plans and saved lives
November 12, 2019

    A nuclear war planner’s guide to resisting the bomb
    February 22, 2018
    • Review

    Ken Burns’ powerful anti-war film on Vietnam ignores the power of the anti-war movement
    October 17, 2017

      How anti-Vietnam War activists stopped violent protest from hijacking their movement
      March 7, 2017