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...causes; Brooklyn-born Novelist-Polemicist Mitchell Goodman, 44, who broke up last year's National Book Awards ceremony by shouting "We are burning children in Viet Nam"; former White House Disarmament Aide Marcus Raskin, 33, who now serves as co-director of a Washington research organization; and Michael Ferber, 23, a Harvard graduate student and peace preacher. Of young Ferber's inclusion in the indictment with the better-known older men, one Boston "resistance" member exulted: "This amounts to diplomatic recognition...
...indictment was handed down in Boston, where Justice Department officials say the antidraft "conspiracy" began as part of the October march on the Pentagon.* During a rally at the Arlington Street Church, Coffin collected draft cards, which he later turned over to the Justice Department; Ferber, who helped in the collection, also spoke on "A Time to Say No," urging draft evasion; Goodman, Raskin and Spock lent their names and efforts to sponsoring a nationwide draft-resistance movement, and were among the 2,000 signatories of a manifesto entitled "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority...
...following are excerpts from the sermon "A Time to Say No" that Michael K. Ferber delivered at the anti-draft service in Boston's Arlington Street Church on October 16. This speech is one of the counts in the government's indictment against him for conspiracy...
...recent federal grand jury indictments of Michael Ferber 2G, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr. sparked this debate on the war, resistance to the draft, and the future of the protest movement...
While no firm agenda has been set for the meeting, Daniels said that the list of speakers will include, in addition to Ferber and Bowles, Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at M.I.T.; Howard Zinn, professor of government at Boston University, and Neil Robinson, a leader of the Boston Draft Resistance Group...