Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...causes that either are in great need or are not being noticed or something like that. We moved more and more towards doing things such as dedicating our performances as a means of spreading information in relation to various things that were going on. Like in relation to the draft. And in the last year almost all our work has been in relation to the Panthers, particularly the New York 21. About a week after we went on our last tour, Fred Hampton was killed and David Hilliard was arrested and accused of threatening the President's life. The juxtaposition...
...What we've been involved with is a particular consciousness. We did talk about and begin working on a picce that would contain direct and immediate information concerning draft resistance. But that is not the main thrust of political activites we see for ourselves nor that we see for the theatre as a whole. There's a place for that knd of theatre but it seems to us extremly limited. However, the kind of things I was describing and the dedication of work informs that work in a certain way. It is something I would rather have...
Yesterday's meeting was called by an ad hoe steering committee formed last week by an open meeting of the teaching fellows. At that meeting the teaching fellows tentatively voted to form a permanent union and to appoint a steering committee to draft a charter...
Nine more draft cards were turned in yesterday afternoon to the Harvard chapter of the Union for National Draft Opposition (UNDO) to bring the total number received...
...suggestion before the convocation is that the cards collected nationally be presented to President Nixon on May 27 along with anti-draft petitions bearing 50,000 signatures. UNDO has been circulating the petitions during the past week...