Word: drafting
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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...
...month with the Resistance after the Humphrey demonstration in September planning the same kind of reception for Nixon. We were going to have loudspeakers and a ladder and we were going to toss it up as Nixon began to speak and ask him about the war and the draft. Then some members of Progressive Labor Party came to our nightly planning sessions. They were against the war too, but they wanted to know what our demonstrations were supposed to accomplish...
...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...
BILL HUNT 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...