A full-time Resister is a soldier who has temporarily left the Armed Forces to work against his country's inhuman aggression in S.E.
They organize resistance to the war such as the growing American Servicemen's Union (ASU) inside the Armed Forces.
The RITA newsletter ACT is put out by full-time resisters for the sole purpose of presenting the truth to American Servicemen who at one time or another will be called upon to serve the war machine.RITAs and FRITAs are not tightly organized with officers, membership or a given political line.
Rather they are individuals of many political, religious and philosophical beliefs united in their opposition to this war.RITAs and FRITAs work with any person, organization, or group who will help American Servicemen fight against this war.The above definition[4] - published in ACT, the RITA's Newsletter -ended with a direct address to US soldiers and specifically, to soldiers serving in Europe: We are more interested in acts than in words.
Those interested were invited to write to "J.P. Sartre, BP 130, Paris 14, France", and letters arrived at this address from American soldiers all over the world, including in Vietnam itself.
Over a considerable period, Sartre's secretary every morning emptied the post box and delivered the RITA mails to activists living in the Latin Quarter.
However, the thriving black market maintained by American soldiers and deserters at the Cholon area of Saigon included a quite efficient "alternate postal link" through which "Ritas" could send and receive mail completely free of any interference by the military authorities.
According to Max Watts, an activist who was involved with RITA at Paris in the late 1960s and later during the early 1970s in Heidelberg, West Germany[5] (at present based in Australia), contact with the movement had a considerable part in radicalising the positions of the well-known actress Jane Fonda.
According to Francine Parker, one of the directors, the Nixon White House "pressured the distributor", American Independent Films (AIF).
at the National movie theatre in Westwood Village (Los Angeles), California in July 1972.
ACT was frequently reprinted by other RITA GIs and Fritas in Europe, the USA, Vietnam and Australia [citation needed].