Word: arlington
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...Time to Say No." The indictment was handed down in Boston, where Justice Department officials say the antidraft "conspiracy" began as part of the October march on the Pentagon.* During a rally at the Arlington Street Church, Coffin collected draft cards, which he later turned over to the Justice Department; Ferber, who helped in the collection, also spoke on "A Time to Say No," urging draft evasion; Goodman, Raskin and Spock lent their names and efforts to sponsoring a nationwide draft-resistance movement, and were among the 2,000 signatories of a manifesto entitled "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority...
...following are excerpts from the sermon "A Time to Say No" that Michael K. Ferber delivered at the anti-draft service in Boston's Arlington Street Church on October 16. This speech is one of the counts in the government's indictment against him for conspiracy...
...Department last Friday indicted the generals--including Dr. Benjamin Spock and William Sloan Coffin Jr.--for conspiracy against the draft laws, it picked Ferber out of the ranks to join them. Despite the prospect of a five-year prison sentence for his October anti-draft sermon in Boston's Arlington Street Church, Ferber last night committed what the Attorney General might consider a similar "offense" in speaking at Harvard's anti-war, anti-draft Teach...
...press conference Saturday at Boston's Arlington Street Church, Louis Kampf, associate national director of Resist, said that the organization is considering calling for a nation-wide academic strike when the case comes to trial. Resist is a national organization of 2000 adults supporting young men who resist the draft...
...indictment accuses the 23-year-old Ferber of conducting and participating in the October 16 anti-draft service at Arlington Street Church. It lists as an "overt act" of the alleged conspiracy, the sermon Ferber delivered at that meeting entitled "A Time To Say No." The indictment further accuses him of having collected draft cares turned in at various demonstrations and depositing them in a "common repository" outside the Justice Department Building in Washington on October...