Word: grizzard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most important thing, according to Grizzard, is getting into a conversation with the people. The organizers represent the Government as an outside force that pushes the people around and represents the draft as a neighborhood problem which must be met by a united effort...
...have to let other people know what we're doing," says Grizzard, "and we also want to decentralize BDRG." In one week, BDRG spokesmen addressed the Dorchester Voice of Women, a teenage gang in Allston, students at Northeastern, and neighborhood groups in Providence, Waltham, and Bridgewater...
...most novel part of the BDRG's work, and a completely new concept in student anti-war movement, is community organizing around the draft. Grizzard and John Maher '60 have been organizing since October in two Cambridge working class areas, the neighborhood around the BDRG office and the area between Putnam Ave. and M.I.T. bordered by Mass. Ave. and the Charles...
Each day, Grizzard and Maher divide 10 to 15 volunteers into boy and girl pairs. They work for a few hours and come back and discuss their experiences. A pair will cover from four to a dozen homes per day. The organizers have covered nearly 400 homes so far, Grizzard said. The list of 1-A's is available at local draft boards, and the homes visited are confined to this list...
...difficulty in organizing working class youths is that they typically regard the draft as inevitable and natural. It is part of growing up and being a man and is an opportunity to leave home and learn a trade, they believe. "It is this propaganda which we must defeat," says Grizzard. "It is a deep feeling and not easy, but it's possible because nobody likes this war. It's gone on too long for them. Nobody believes the government anymore...