Word: carding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last been to the Stanhope St. office last Fall to pick up Resistance newspapers to sell in the Dunster Dining Room. I had arrived in the midst of the Resistance's first birthday party-October 16, 1968. That was the anniversary of the first draft card turn-in on the Boston Common...
...knew about the demonstration was the sign spray-painted on the entrance to the Cambridge Common that says "Presidio 7-March 24." Last Fall, the Resistance had called for a draft card turn-in on November 14. We had spent many early morning hours hiding from police cars in order to stencil Omegas and "Nov. 14" all over Cambridge-- buildings, sidewalks, walls, everywhere. The style was still the same...
...been at the meeting downstairs that Jim Oesterreich chaired about the "membership" of the Resistance. Jim later won Supreme Court case about divinity students. The meeting decided that to be a member, you would have to do something. Before, the only criterion had been handing in your draft cards or, for girls, liking to talk with boys who had handed in their draft cards. Handing in your draft card had always seemed to me to be doing something...
...gave his "Channeling" speech about once a month. He talked about Hershey and his newspaper women in the army he'd draft them. He gave that speech the night the Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision and sentenced David O'Brien to five years for burning his draft card. David was there and the speech cheered him up. Later, the judge whose decision was reversed decided that no Supreme Court was going to reverse his decision. He suspended the sentence...
...longer remain a member of the Communist Party. I request you to release me from membership of the C.P.S.U. I hereby withdraw from my duties as party secretary of the Writers Organization of the Tula Region. I have left my party membership card there...