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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Boston Alliance Against the Draft (BAARD) will rally on Cambridge Common at noon tomorrow, Ted Mitchell, a member of the group's steering committee, said yesterday...
BAARD will set up anti-draft counseling programs and begin weekly meetings at its Sellers St. headquarters, Dorothy Boudreau, a member of the group's steering committee, said. BAARD's national affiliate, the Committee Against Registration and the Draft, announced yesterday that it would begin lobbying and demonstrating the plan...
Margo Nelson '80, a member of the DSOC steering committee, said yesterday the group had not yet met to discuss the issue, but added that it took an anti-draft position last summer...
...seems likely, registration passes Congress, we will organize around it this spring," she said, adding that the group would "attempt to educate students, and along with that probably hold demonstrations and do whatever else seemed to be best tactically...
Project Place grew into this extended role from a drug-counselling center and crash pad in the late '60s. A group of seminarians, including some members of the Harvard Divinity School, opened up their apartment in 1967 for overnight crashing "as a response to all the young people flooding into the city," current Place director Phylis Saindons says. The stream of street people coming in upset the landlords, and the founders of Place were evicted, but the idea had already taken hold. Supported by federal grants, the seminarians relocated in the South End, a few blocks from the current location...