Word: protester
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...military exemption or choose hospital work. Nonetheless, the number has always been infinitesimal: of some 10 million men inducted during World War II, only 37,000 were conscientious objectors; of 32,942,344 men registered by selective service since 1948, 20,000 say they are C.O.s; and despite the protest over the Viet Nam war, the percentage has remained constant...
...campaign, however, is not directed at famous Faculty members, Kazin said. He described the drive's purpose as "mass protest," designed to gather as many names as possible from both Faculty and students...
...bill making it a federal felony to knowingly destroy or mutilate a draft card. HR 10306, which the Senate passed by a voice vote, was aimed at what its proponents described as "beatniks and so-called 'campus cults,' " meaning anyone who burns his draft card to protest U.S. policy in Viet Nam. Penalty: five years' imprisonment or a $10,000 fine or both...
After publicly burning his card as a "symbolic protest" in Manhattan last fall, Catholic Pacifist David R. Miller, 23, became the first person to be convicted under the new law. By his own choice, Miller was tried without a jury, and he argued that the law denied his First Amendment rights of free speech and protest. U.S. District Judge Harold Tyler Jr. was not impressed; he gave Miller a three-year sentence, suspending it on condition that he carry a new card and obey all lawful draft board orders. Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld Tyler...
WHEN the Chartists marched on Parliament in 1839 to protest the plight of Britain's working class they did not, as some feared, batter down the doors. Instead, in a tactic they were to use twice more in the next decade, they brought forth a scroll that stretched for three miles and contained 1,200,000 signatures. Each time the lawmakers bluntly rejected their demands. Despite this failure, the Chartist movement was a dramatic expression of a right that runs threadlike through Anglo-American history, secured in Eng land first by the barons, then by Parliament, and finally...