Word: antidraft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Time to Say No." The 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...
Symbolic Arrests. The biggest turnout was in Manhattan, where a crowd of up to 2,000 surrounded the Whitehall Street induction center near city hall, and surged through the rest of Manhattan playing antidraft tag with twice as many cops for four straight days. Greeted by freezing temperatures and the ominous rattle of police billies on the barricades, the demonstrators never managed to reach the main door of the center. Police allowed Dr. Benjamin Spock, Poet Allen Ginsberg and Author Susan Sontag, among others, to sit-in symbolically on the cold stone steps, then just as symbolically arrested them...
...athletic diversions out of the way, television turned to the week's news.' And inevitably, the major preoccupation was with varying aspects of violence. There were films of angry student unrest from Madrid to Manhattan, and the most familiar dialogue the viewer heard came from policemen ordering antidraft demonstrators to "Move! Move faster...
Before the service, 1100 young people from New England and New York gathered in an antidraft rally...
Peter Camejo, 27, and Reese Erlich, 20, were suspended Tuesday by Chancellor Roger W. Heyns. Nine other students were given lighter disciplinary action for their part in last month's antidraft action...