Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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IGNORANCE, they used to tell us, is bliss. For anyone facing up to the Selective Service System, ignorance can be death. In a nation where information is always a considerable advantage, there are few places where the uninformed are as routinely victimized as in the draft system. More than the courts, the schools, or the businesses. the draft is utterly merciless to those who don't know its ropes...
...demonstrators will meet at the South Station MBTA parking lot and march to the Army base, where they will attempt to keep base employees and busloads of draft-eligible men from entering Students from the University of Massachusetts. Brandeis University, and source non-student residents of Newton and Concord will join them...
...Friday morning houses will come to the base from the draft boards in Milton, Quincy. and Braintree. Some members of the anti-war group will picket and leaflet at these draft boards to inform draftees and their families about the action beforehand. Civilian base employees will also be leafleted on Wednesday and Thursday...
...Pentagon, referred to radical students as "these bums blowing up the campuses" and contrasted them with G.I.s fighting in Viet Nam: "the greatest kids-they stand tall and they are proud." The distinction between the two is fashioned, of course, as much by the whims of the draft as by personal choice. Still, soldiers and students last week faced each other head-on in several places as campus protests again broke out with a vengeance across...
...hope to co-ordinate both electoral campaigns and non-violent direct political action on the war and the draft," said Charles Schumer '71, a member of the group's steering committee. Christy O'Brien, a Harvard employee and a co-ordinator for Peace Action Strike, said the group would also be helping nationally-based efforts like the referendum...