Marty Webster is currently National Coordinator for Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). He served he served during Vietnam as a Navy corpsman. He joined VVAW in 1969 and he participated in the many anti-war and VVAW activities in the late 60s and 70s.
Currently a national coordinator for VVAW, he has also served as local and regional contacts. Marty has also served as VVAW's national organizing secretary and national membership chairman. Heavily active in the anti war movement in the Midwest, Webster has been Ohio Valley regional coordinator and organized VVAW'S Cincinnati chapter. Marty has also helped organize and set up various chapters around the Midwest. He has spoken extensively on behalf of the organization around the country at various affairs and rallies.
During the 80s Marty worked for Northwestern Hospital in Chicago as a substance abuse counselor. He was a lead crisis intervention counselor in a social detox organized by a consortium of Cook County hospitals and the Chicago Police Department. He also helped develop and organize and then manage a homeless center in Laguna Beach , CA.
Marty also served as the Administrator of a Finnish/American Retirement home in Fair Haven, Ma. He is also the past President of the Central States Region of the International Order of Good Templars (IOGT) which is a Swedish/Norwegian Peace and Justice Organization which emphasizes temperance.
Currently he also serves on the core committee of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign (VAORRC) and works with the in country Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA). He is also a current member of the IVAW Advisory Committee.
Paul Simon wrote a song entitled “Still Crazy after all These Years.” With the Anti war movement still necessary under the Obama administration; Marty says, VVAW is “Still organizing after all these years."
