Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...probably will not end until there are 20,000 people in every city in the country ready to burn down banks and draft broads, ready to do anything, to end the war. Sadly, we are not yet that strong. Maybe no matter what we do we will not be able to scare Nixon into ending the war. But we can show him that the movement will grow larger and more destructive every day that the war continues...
Poet Denise Levertov, argued that violence does not alienate Americans. "Planned acts of sabotage such as smashing big, glossy store windows and destroying draft records help to raise the level of consciousness of the public because of the risks the saboteurs take," she said...
...House next week. The President passed the word that he would like to hear Welfare Cadilac (as the song's composer spells it) and Okie from Muskogee, an almost satirically Middle American hymn ("We don't take our trips on LSD, / We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, / 'cause we like living right and being free...
...homosexuality. GSHA has initially been involved in speaking engagements at universities and churches. The response to such a service has been extraordinary, and the sincere dialog has been effective in creating a better understanding of the homosexual and in gaining active support by heterosexuals. Second. GSHA provides legal, psychiatric, draft counseling, and religious referral services for homosexuals. Third, GSHA intends to function in initiating social reform and political reform. The latter involves reform of the present laws against homosexual behavior between consenting adults in private and reform of discriminatory policies and practices. Examples of such discriminatory policies and practices include...
...years of age) to leave the country. Many families there fore have remained in Cuba because they will not leave their young sons behind. There are no military deferments of any kind in Cuba. It is interesting to note those who visited Cuba recently and oppose the draft in their own country readily accept Cuban militarism. It is also interesting to remember Castro's statement that "no man should be forced to bear arms" made in his first public speech...