Word: anti-draft
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...anti-draft movement was a factor in why they ended the draft [in the Vietnam War]," said Jim Henle, a secretary at Fairchild Biochemistry Labs. "There were thousands and thousands of people in the streets...people who were in the war had a tremendous impact on people and the government began to see that things were way out of hand...
...anti-draft movement can have an impact in the Middle East crisis as well, if it is combined with other protest activities such as marches, said Anne M. Sydor, a Harvard graduate student. "That's when draft resistance makes a difference," she said...
...draft cards, which have down criticism from anti-draft groups around the country, are printed at the are printed at the bottom of registration letters sent to young men who sign up with SSS. They can be clipped out and carried in a wallet...
...covered with red, black and yellow T-shirts reading "I hate the Capitalist system" and "Question Authority." Calendars entitled "Women Working" and "Human Rights"--rather than the standard Garfield, Ziggy and Sierra Club brands--fill the shelves. Pamphlets and fliers for forums on Women's Rights, Gay Liberation, and anti-draft colloquiums spill over all available counter space. This is no ordinary book store...
Weinstein recently put his stand-up act on display at an anti-draft rally near Memorial Hall. In between speeches and music, he came on and delivered a well-received series of one-liners in the Rodney Dangerfield mold. A brief sampling "Nancy Reagan, she's really a fine woman, bi: her idea of the Third World is J. C. Penney's. The post office is having problems with the Ronald Reagan stamp they just issued: people keep spitting on the wrong side." Most observers agree that Weinstein's delivery is very professional. "Anders steals more jokes than Milton Berle...