Committee of Returned Volunteers
Committee of Returned Volunteers
Alternate Names: Committee of Returned Volunteers
Location: New York, New York, United States
Duration: 1966? - mid-1970s
Founded in 1966, the Committee of Returned Volunteers (CRV) was an organization of people who have worked in voluntary service programs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and in the United States. Many CRV members had served in the Peace Corps. CRV had chapters and/or contacts in at least 25 cities across the United States. CRV had an anti-imperialist...
Founded in 1966, the Committee of Returned Volunteers (CRV) was an organization of people who have worked in voluntary service programs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and in the United States. Many CRV members had served in the Peace Corps. CRV had chapters and/or contacts in at least 25 cities across the United States. CRV had an anti-imperialist perspective and was active in opposing the war in Vietnam. At its national assembly in September 1969, CRV adopted a resolution emphasizing the alliance between racism and imperialism working together to control the Southern Africa subcontinent and adopted a national organizing project on Southern Africa in support for liberation movements. At a national board meeting in Milwaukee in 1969, a national CRV Southern Africa Committee was formed, and it was decided that, because the struggle in the Portuguese colonies was the most intense, the Committee would focus on Gulf Oil because of its involvement in Angola. Prior to the formation of the CRV Southern Africa Committee there was an Africa Working Committee. The New York chapter, Committee of Returned Volunteers/New York (CRV/NY) established an Africa Committee in 1969 or earlier; it was very active in supporting African liberation struggles. (Source: CRV documents available on this website)
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