Word: antidraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshman proposed financing an antiwar, antidraft drive through a 10 per cent surcharge on all dope dealing. "It would provide antiwar revenue and a moral justification for smoking," he said...
...Left came during the Oakland Induction Center riots of 1967, when he "saw the brutality perpetrated against the demonstrators and thought it unjust. It was then that I began seeing myself as a violent revolutionary." From a follower to a leader was a short step: he helped organize an antidraft demonstration in April 1968. It was "a pathetic flop. I felt impotent and very militant. I joined a commune; I cut off ties with moderates, liberals, anyone who didn't agree with me totally. It's so easy to resign yourself to violence as the only effective...