Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major forms of protest that have evolved this year, the summer organizing project is likely to have a far more extensive political effect than the draft resistance; it is much easier for the average student dissenter to speak against the war than to risk jail or permanent expatriation as the price of dissidence. Also, most of those who have pledged not to serve in this war have not limited themselves to this kind of protest -- and will actively support Vietnam Summer...
...Negro in Viet Nam" [May 26] is a well-deserved tribute to the courage, devotion and intelligence of the black troops serving in battle. However, one statement in your excellent report cannot go unchallenged. Noting that the proportion of Negro inmates in the military prison at the Long Binh jail is the same as that of white inmates, TIME asserts: "Unlike Negroes in previous wars, the Viet Nam breed is well disciplined...
...renewal project promised for Hough six years ago, and the section remains a garbage-strewn jungle. Exacerbating racial unrest over slum conditions, Locher (rhymes with poker), a Rumanian-born attorney and friend of former Mayor, now Senator, Frank Lausche, recently ordered a harsh crackdown on Negro demonstrators. "Fill every jail, if necessary," he said. The panic implied in that pronouncement was summed up last week by Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Morton Kondracke, who concluded from a five-week nationwide tour of the urban ghettos: "In Cleveland, the 'if' has almost gone out of riot speculation; the important questions...
...real issue remains the war itself: do we want not to fight in Vietnam more than we want to avoid going to jail? If so, we must consider civil disobedience. [Of course, one can apply for Conscientious Objector status, but currently so few are actually receiving this classification that it has ceased to be a real option for most.] In any case, before the U.S. Congress will provide alternatives to military service in wartime, it would vote unanimously to withdraw all our troops from Vietnam...
...feel so strongly that we will not fight, then we should refuse to serve; specifically, sign the "We Won't Go" petition, work for "Vietnam Summer," and prepare to go to prison. If we do not feel so strongly as to go to jail rather than to war, then we should sign the "Negotiate Now" petition, perhaps work for "Vietnam Summer," but prepare to be drafted. If we feel that the war is right -- enlist...