Word: anti-draft
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...Harvard Draft Project voted last night to organize an Anti-draft Union as an autonomous committee of students for a Democratic Society...
...decision, which ended a long organization meeting in Dunster's Senior Common Room, insured that the Harvard Draft Project will remain allied but separate from the Anti-Draft Union...
Outside the university, protest was also turning to the draft. The largest and most expensive anti-war effort of 1967, Vietnam Summer, began with a hard-won cynicism about the worth of marches and demonstrations. The local chapters were to concentrate on door-to-door canvassing. But without expert organizers this effort was hopeless, and across the nation the most effective Vietnam Summer chapters developed anti-draft techniques...
...Resistance is the most romantic part of the anti-draft movement. It is based on a single moral act--turning in your registration card--and a simple political philosophy, "If enough people do it, we have to win." With its adult support group (Coffin and Spock are among the leaders), the Resistance aims its straightforward acts of courage toward a moral confrontation with the United States Government. The plan was that thousands of resisters would be arrested for not carrying their draft cards. The hope was that the arrests would create national indignation...
...only anti-draft office in Boston and is always filled with 30 or 40 heterogeneous people, from white Harvard teaching fellows to black Roxbury drop-outs and elementary school teachers. Somehow, they all work together to handle Boston's four sustained anti-draft activities: counselling, induction center protests, speaking, and high school and community organizing...