Fighting Sleep keyword-caribbean-radicalism For more than a century

For more than a century

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Fighting Sleep keyword-caribbean-radicalism For more than a centuryOn April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by daybreak. Veterans had fought the courts for the right to sleep in public while demonstrating against the war. When the Supreme Court denied their petition, they decided to break the law and turned sleep into a form of direct action. During and after the Second World War, military psychiatrists used sleep therapies to treat an