Word: antidraft
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...that attacks without warning - for their opposition to the Civil War. Peace Democrats were mainly recent settlers of the Midwest (Ohio, Indiana and Illinois) with Southern roots and an interest in maintaining the Union, and they made common cause with Northern groups who opposed emancipation and the draft. The antidraft riots of 1863 - dramatized in the 2002 Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York - were sparked by opposition to the government's recently passed Conscription Act and, in part, by fears among Irish immigrants that freed slaves would come North and take away jobs...
DIED. MITCHELL GOODMAN, 73, passionate Vietnam-era antidraft activist prosecuted with Dr. Benjamin Spock and the Rev. William Sloane Coffin as one of the Boston Five in 1968; of cancer; in Temple, Maine...
...years the South African government has been at war with the 900 antidraft activists of the End Conscription Campaign. Defense Minister Magnus Malan calls them "anti-South African." The police have repeatedly raided the campaign's 40 offices and campus branches, and jailed 96 of the group's members without charge. Last week Pretoria fired its latest, and most devastating, salvo. Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok banned the group from "continuing any activities or acts...
...ruling party. It has spearheaded a campaign for conscientious objection, maintaining that no Nicaraguan should be punished for withholding his support from the Sandinistas. In response, Sandinista-run mobs have vandalized twelve churches, canceled processions and occasionally forced the postponement of Masses. Eight young Catholics, accused of organizing antidraft protests, were arrested by authorities at gunpoint; two priests were deported on the same charge...
...Antidraft groups, which had been predicting widespread noncompliance, were unconvinced by the Selective Service's figures. Said Barry Lynn, head of CARD (Committee Against Registration and the Draft): "I'm not going to call Rostker a liar. I am going to say I'm very, very skeptical." Lynn called for an independent audit of the count, perhaps by Congress's General Accounting Office. It was a challenge that Rostker gladly picked...