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m A COPY NEW ENGLAND EDITION ft 1 MARCH 1-15 Resistance Moves Again On April 3 At a gigantic anti-war rally on historic Bos­ ton Common, hundreds of New England men will turn-in their draft cards Wed. April 3 in soli­ darity with the Vietnamese, black and poor Amer­ icans who cannot get deferments or exemptions, and 2500 youths who non-cooperated nationally Oct. 16 and Nov.lb/Dec. 4. In nearly 100 other cities, Resistance groups 111! fill! -11 will move simultaneously against the Selective Service System with demonstrations at draft boards, federal buildings and induction centers. The Boston Common rally will begin at 11 a.m. mm?mt National peace leaders Staughton Lynd, Paul Good­ • • • ': • . • • •• man, Dave Dellinger, and Howard Zinn have been invited to speak. The day's events will also include marches to other revolutionary sites in the city; an inter-faith service; a concert; and dinners. The following day, all new and old resistors will hold a general conference and divide into organizing workshops to develop the theory and practice of Resistance and to plan for summer action. Since as many as 25,000 people are expected to come to the rally from all across New England the Service of Conscience at which the draft cards are tumed-in will take place outside, or at nearby Arlington St. Church in case of bad weather. v

While the Resistance has no official estimate of how many will non-cooperate April 3, the na­ tional total this Spring will be in the thou­ sands. Recent polls like the Harvard Grad School survey indicate that from 257.-407. of all coll­ ege men would go to prison or Canada before the armed forces. (Continued on p. 2, SEE APRIL 3) DEMONSTRATIONS March 6 - Résister Ray Mungo of Libera­ tion News Service will burn his induction orders at Bos­ ton Army Base and then cele­ brate with supporters at a glorious pancake breakfast at a spot to-be-announced. Meet at B.A.B. at 8 a.m.

March 12 - Resisters Pete Crews and Tim Quinlan will refuse induction. Meet at B.A.B. at 8 a.m. All resisters and supporters must come to these demonstrations and let the govt, know they cannot pick us off one by one. To get to B.A.B., take M3TA to South Sta­ tion, go upstairs and take public bus 2 to front of base, 666 Summer St. Pickets ^^^^^^^^ WE last about 1 hour. For more info calls JOIN THE NEW AMERICAN REVOLUTION—RESIST THE DRAFT: 1000 men, THE NEW ENGLAND RESIS' 'A WH women, and children ringed the Federal Building with anti-war 27 Stanhope St., Boston signs and 13-star revolutionary flags in support of the "Bos­ \OXf) jjO-yfyj/yfyt ton Five" Jan. 29. See story on p. 2. Page 2 THE RESISTANCE March 1-15, 1968 April 3rd THE RESISTANCE March 1-15. 1968 Page 3 'Boston 5' Prepare Defense (continued from p.l.) man of the National Mo- probably beginning in BOSTON -- A Federal Most of the now (roup April 3 will be drawn bilization (Dave re- mid-April. Both the grand jury here return­ from among the 430,000 graduating college sen­ *7^e t&oyU ^ fêeUàfatice rffiUl 3 ed indictments against ceived the card of his prosecution and de­ iors and first-year graduate students whose de­ five leaders of the son Patch, a Harvard fense, however, want ferments end June 1. Prior to the National Li­ In 4 months since the first national turn-ins On April 3, autonomous Resistance groups in medical student); Fa­ more time to prepare beration Front's recent offensive in the cities of 2500 draft cards on Oct. 16 and Dec. 4, the nearly 100 cities will hold inter-faith services anti-draft movement on "Open resistance to the draft is the best way to Resistance has forced the Justice Dept. to est­ and non-violent demonstrations. Large numbers of Jan. 5 on the charge ther Phillip Berrigan, for what could be the of South Vietnam, the percentage of college end the war." --Dr. Spock ablish a new division to cope with a 77% rise conscientious students now holding draft cards S.S.J., under indict­ major court test of graduates drafted this summer was slated to jump in draft violations in 1967, caused Attorney will return the dodge that the government gives that they did "unlaw­ them in a clear warning that the peace movement from 5% to 65%. With an expected increase of General Ramsey Clark to differ publicly with fully, wilfully, and ment in Baltimore for the constitutionality Gen. Hershey on reclassification of resisters, will not be suppressed and that, either the war 100,000 more GI's in Vietnam, however, the num­ and sparked the Mass. and N.Y. Civil Liberties will end, or America will have to 'imprison her knowingly, combine, pouring blood on the of the draft and the ber will skyrocket even higher. APRIL 3 Unions to break from the established" ACLU and youth. conspire, confederate files of a local draft war. Start of the attack the legality of the draft and war. and agree together and board last fall; Rev. proceedings could be In addition to forming alliances with black The Resistance recognizes alternatives to non- The new Selective Service action also re­ ANTI-DRAFT/WAR and poverty groups who felt betrayed by the old cooperation, such as going into the Army to or­ with each other...to Richard Mumma, Presby- delayed until the sum- scinds most occupational deferments. Without coalition, the Resistance has mobilized 1300 ganize units to refuse service in Vietnam and unlawfully, knowingly, terian minister at Har-"ier or even next fall, RALLY 11:00 AM clergy and 12,000 faculty and professionals to going to Toronto to organize exiles to come home any consistent national criteria individuals are publicly aid and abet us, turned churches and and join the movement. Having chosen to remain and wilfully counsel, vard; Rabbi Herman Pol- Various theories now at the almost total mercy of their local synagogues into sanctuaries of conscience, est­ and struggle for the kind of America in which < BOSTON COMMON believe, we are learning to translate our single- aid, and abet diverse lock of M.I.T.; and have been offered con- boards. Civil rights workers, anti-poverty or­ ablished a climate of equality for organizing working communities and raised urgent questions dramatic confrontation into patterns of daily Selective Service re­ Victor Jokel, executive cerning the Adminis- ganizers, and Peace Corps and Vista personnel about the real nature of US democracy in milli­ life. The 2500 of us in the Resistance currently are expected to be most affected, unlike civil­ ons of middle-class families for the first time. organizing communities of conscience and the 100 gistrants to unlaw­ director of Arlington tration's motivation keeping the faith in prison need your support. ian military and industrial employment which is The arraignments of Dr. Spock, Rev. Coffin, fully, knowingly, and Street Church. for prosecuting the Michael Ferber, Mitchel Goodman and Mark Raskin By civilly disobeying the draft, we remain radi­ considered "in the national interest." in Boston Jan. 29 testify to the success of the cally obedient to the aspirations of the Vietna­ wilfully neglect, fail During the next few five. 0ne holds that Resistance, especially in New England, and to mese people, world peace, domestic justice, and days, six more men ±t is a preiU(je to our own ideals. Join us on April 3. refuse and evade ser­ the fear of the Administration that the movement turned over their cards roassive repression, esp- will grow and threaten the actual war effort. In vice in the armed N.E. Resistance secretary Neil Robertson re­ RESIST! the context of the recent political prosecutions to the N.E.R. All 31 acially of militant ports that scores of pledges for April 3 have of Rap Brown, Leroi Jones, and Bill Epton and forces of the United Good white folks, the ones I know, are Uncle were sent by certified blacks. According to already come in from students affected by the the revival of 3 government investigatory com­ States." mittees, the arraignments herald the determina­ Toms. Most of the guys who disagree with mail to Attorney Gen- this theory, the gov- new ruling. "Faced with the draft really for the draft will chase themselves off and go The five are Dr. Ben­ tion of the Administration to repress the peace 3.val Ramsey Clark in srnment has now paved the first time," he explained, "students are and freedom movement in order to stabilize its to Canada to hide. Or they will mess around jamin Spock, pediatri- own deteriorating moral and political position. and clean the latrine at some church or hos­ Washington, D.C. the way for arresting suddenly realizing what it means to be black, pital for two years and then get back into " cian and co-chairman of The Selective Service can perform only because At the arraignments, the black power lead- poor, and powerless." "Last October the Resist­ large numbers of young men who find the norms life not because they have any ideology the National Committee ance was unknown, confused, and very defensive," and functions of the draft intolerable are will­ about not killing people, but because they the judge allowed a to-ers by first dealing are basically cowards. Now, if a man has for New Politics; Rev. he continued. "Since then we have developed a ing to acquiesce to its dictates. Large-scale tal of 50 days to file Tfith white, middle- resistance could expose its power as illusory. an ideology and a personal ethic that mass William Sloane Coffin, community that can articulate the morality, le­ Even Boston attornies opposed to the cause have murder is detrimental to the well-being of legal motions, indi- class opponents of the men, he has to put that into socio-political chaplain of Yale Univ. gality, and political effectiveness of our acts. expressed astonishment at our success so far in eating that he would war. Otherwise, it is tying up the legal process, and "indicate that as forms. and founder of Clergy Now, keeping a deferment must be justified on Like a Spring trial, CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 few as 5000 resisters nationally could effect­ -- Rev. James Bevel, SCLC Concerned; Marcus Ras­ campus, rather than turning them in as before." ively disrupt Selective Service altogether. kin, co-director of 300 March at Army Base With the abolition of graduate deferments, the the Institute for Pol­ Resistance believes that more and more students icy Studies and former DONT ENLIST^* t For Teacher, Seminarian who oppose the war will unite together to resist sald x White House aid under BOSTON — Carrying » " »ill net be the system that channels, divides, and silences Kennedy; Mitchell flags and placards, bought off with a them, instead of fighting politically among them­ Goodman, novelist (The one calling for peace deferment while the selves and seeing their friends taken one by one f\E5I5T'«i End of It) and tea­ Hebrew, 300 demon- rest of you are from the class into the Army. in forced to fight." cher; and Michael Fer- strators marched at Hughes, whose ap­ ber, Harvard srad stu­ the Boston Army Base plication for con­ The single greatest fear among students is dent and activist in 8 a.m. Feb. 26 in scientious objection that, if they resist, they will be tried alone the New England Re­ support of two men was turned down, and jailed in isolation. In reply to these justifiable apprehensions, the Resistance notes sistance. facing induction. stated in his appeal» Jim Oesterelch, a "I shall not take the that over two thousand non-cooperators have now The events cited in seminarian at Ando- oral oath nor the paved the way and that each resistor can expect the indictment center ver-Newton Theolog­ step forward which symphathetic clergy and faculty to implicate around the Resistance ical Seminary, was would commit me to themselves in his act by publicly counseling Service of Conscience ordered to report such service. I per­ him to non-cooperate and accepting his draft and Acceptance Oct. 16 for induction after form this act with card. Under the law, these adult supporters are returning his divin- fuU cognlzance of just as "guilty" as the youth concerned, and and a demonstration at ity student defer­ must also be prosecuted if his case come to the Justice Dept. in ment (ty-D) Oct. 16 at the consequences be- trial. In the Boston-area alone, over 100 min­ *7*e ïïnœft &*ut ïïosH&àtic PocilCcatùM, Arlington St. Church, cauce I am a CO. to Washington Oct. 20. isters, rabbis, and priests have pledged to As the Selective Service document "On Manpower At the former, over 300 As the result of both the Armed Forces stand with draft resistors, as well as nearly Channelling" reveals, the primary function of THE 2-S THE DRAFT ALIENATES LABOR an ACLU suit contest-and to our efforts in the draft is to funnel millions of educated, The working-class deeply resents students who 1000 faculty and professionals. Male students who accept the 2-S deferment men turned in or burn­ predominantly white youths into the military-in­ have the luxury to protest the war from behind ing the legality of Vietnam." ...are plagued with an unremitting guilt dustrial-academic complex at home, while milli­ privileged deferments, while passively allowing ed their draft cards at his reclassification, In a support state- which dominates every aspect of their exist­ Despite the well-publicized arraignments of ons of poor, largely non-white Americans are their less wealthy counterparts die in their ence .. .Student deferments serve as a bribe the Arlington St. the Justice Dept. ment pledging to aid drafted or pressured into enlisting to fight places. Joining the Army is no more democratic the "Boston 5" few youthful resistors have act­ which keeps middle-class parents and their abroad. an answer to unemployment than to integration. Church. At the latter, postponed his call- and abet Oesterelch, ually been prosecuted. Since Oct. 16, only 5 children in a protected but impotent posi­ But for those who can't afford an education or the cards from Boston tion...They must operate from a weakened up at the last min­ Rev. Joe Williamson of the 340 New England resistors have been order­ pay a doctor to fake a 4-F, there usually is no THE DRAFT FOSTERS SEGREGATION moral position... They may also find that and Resistance groups ute. of the Andover-Newton In states like Miss, and Ala. no black has alternative. Thru the deferment system, the Ad­ ed to report for induction. Of these, none has the emotional price that must be paid for ever sat on a local draft board, though nearly à ministration effectively alienates from the na­ elsewhere were deliver­ Richard Hughes, a faculty, saidi "I yet been arrested for refusing, presumably be­ preferential treatment is not worth the majority of the population are black. In the tion's intellectually oriented anti-war move­ teaching associate have chosen publicly temporary physical safety it provides. ed to the Deputy Ass­ cause of substantial community support. In more North, black representation averages 37.. Yet in ment the labor force, which constitutes 957. of in the theater divi­ to stand with Jim isolated areas of the nation like Colorado, the Vietnam, 25% of combat deaths are black. State -- Dr. Seymour Halleek all draftees and which thus has most to lose in istant Attorney Gen­ Prof, of Psychiatry sion at Boston Univ. Oesterelch. I do so Justice Dept. has reacted more swiftly, though officials in the South also have singled out for continuation of the war in Vietnam. eral. had not returned his from a sense of res­ induction scores of SNCC staffers, denied them Univ. of Wisconsin as yet has prosecuted only a fraction of the CO status, and inflicted maximum sentences in At the Jan. 29 ar­ draft card and came ponsibility to him. total. To insure refusal of induction in the order to suppress the freedom movement. raignment in the Bos­ to the N.E. Resis­ I do so as a way to Boston area, where large support demonstrations tance for support stating my resistance Meanwhile up North, men can obtain occupation­ THE DRAFT DIVIDES OPPOSITION ton Federal District can be arranged, a reclassified resistor can al deferments to race sport cars for Ford ( be­ CHANNELLING The Administration itself estimates that 257. Court before Judge only after receiving to the war which he request a transfer from his local area. cause its international prestige is deemed in "Throughout his career as a student, pressure- of all college men would refuse service, if in­ resists." 'the national interest1) but cannot work in the the threat of loss of deferment --continues... Francis Ford, the five his notice. ducted. Knowing this, they wait until the stu­ Neil Robertson, ghettos or among the rural poor. Significantly , The club of induction has been used to drive dent has left campus and, if not coerced into men pleaded not guilty. After Cesterelch spokesman for the N. Nearly half of the N.E. resistors have been the chairmen of the congressional armed forces out of areas considered to be less important to an approved occupation, he is taken singly and, reclassified 1-A for turning-in their cards. committees and architects of the new draft law the areas of greater importance in which defer­ if he refuses, is jailed alone. If students After the arraignment came out at 9:30, E. Resistance, called are arch-segregationists Sen* Richard Russell of ments were given, the individuals who did not In all instances, the national American Civil united in resisting, as NY Times Washington five men who had not his rielay verified, the demonstration the Ga. and Rep. Mendel Rivers of S.C. or could not participate in activities which Bureau Chief Tom Wicker explained, "Washington's the demonstrators Liberties Union has offered to represent re­ were considered essential to the defense of the real power to pursue the Vietnamese war or any previously "conspired" largest yet, and only Nation... The psychology of granting wide choice organized an impro­ sistors free in filing legal action against THE DRAFT CORRUPTS VALUES other policy would be crippled if not destroy­ received 25 new draft a prelude to more In vying for deferments, students compete in­ under pressure to take action is the American, ed." The student deferment is the government's mptu "Independence Gen. Hershey's directive last fall punishing or indirect way, of achieving what is done by cards at a Service of massive turnouts this cessantly for grades, are led to cheat, and per­ strongest weapon in dividing thousands of young March" to the Fed­ protesters. Some Resistance members emply form idle graduate study. Feigning homosexuality, direction in foreign countries where choice is men who all totally oppose the war. Spring and Summer not permitted." Rededication at the eral Building at this tactic to further tie up the legal pro­ drug addiction and mental illness become norms. when more men, esp­ Some are deluded into believing they are irre­ Donald Duncan, former Green Beret hero turned Arlington St. Church. cess, challenge the laws, and remain out of pri­ Gen. Hershey Post Office Sauare. ecially grad students placeable organizers on campus. Thru the defer­ draft resistance supporter, summed up in these Director, son as long as possible to organize others, not ment? system, the government effectively corrupts words the liberating knowledge about conscript­ The men were David feC d by ne Selective Service In a statement dis- ^ *f *$" ? educational and moral values and tricks young ion which he learned the hard way, "I thought "On Manpower Dellinger, editor of tributed to other in people into believing that rebellion to the I was beating the system and making it work for directive, refuse in­ (continued on p. 11.) Channelling" Liberation and co-chair- ductees, Oesterelch duction. status quo is evidence of desire for martyrdom. me. The truth, of course, is just the opposite." Page 4 THE RESISTANCE March 1-15, 1968 Report from Saigon: THE RESISTANCE March 1-15, 1968 Page 5 Report from Hanoi: US DESTROYS VIETNAM TO SAVE IT Bombing Halt Prerequisite to Talks hourly news kept modifying thousands have become refu­ The following account gees overnight. I am wit­ he replied that they will of the present situa­ the account. According to By JOE PILATI nessing this every minute play a role when an issue tion in Saigon, by am the evening news, the da­ and every hour. concerns them. The North observer who must re­ mage to the Embassy was "superficial" and "the Viet During the second night Howard Zinn, BU govern­ Vietnamese and the NLF have main anonymous, stark­ Cong did not enter the of the seige, I watched a ment professor, return­ many different things to ly portrays the ef­ m fects of U.S. bombing building at all." hamlet destroyed completely ed from Hanoi Feb. 18. negotiate about, but cer­ and poignantly cap­ by U.S. helicopter "gun- Joe Pilati is a «ember tainly the NLF must be pre­ tures the mood of the Some news correspondents ships." We saw the rockets of the N.E. Resistance sent in any negotiations. and editor of the BU Vietnamese people and tended to agree that the shooting out of the helicop­ "There was a lot of non- Front mortared the Embassy NEWS in which this in­ American soldiers call­ ters like two white balls. senee talk about a bombing but failed to enter. Others terview first appeared. ed upon te "destroy With tremendous speed and pause while we were in Ha­ their country in order said that was what the offi noi, which coincided re­ impact they would crash to save it." dais wanted us to believe. down, sending buildings Into markably with bad weather. However, all of them agreed Returning from two weeks flames. But as soon as the weather that the U.S. military had in Southeast Asia, Howard SAIGON — The firing be­ Other helicopters would cleared, we could hear the been so nervous they killed Zinn said the North Vietna­ gan early in the morning. shoot down tracer bullets la bombs on the outskirts of many Vietnamese working mese government is ready Immediately after waking, a red stream. (Every tracer the city," he noted. on their side. to negotiate with the U.S. Is followed by four real He added that the city we knew that these were not as soon as Washington stops the usual ARVN artillery "The dead Viet Cong in not only remain in Saigon bullets.) At the same time, of Hanoi has not been hit as grey uniforms" wove not Viet to continue the seige for bombing. Prof. Zinn said hard as other localities. shots fired to "scare the another hamlet about two that North Vietnam's Pre­ enemy." Cong at all, but Embassy days to come yet, but kilometers north west was "Entire villages have been guards. Also a Vietnamese would probably try to take mier Phan Van Dong told The noise was deafening bombed. destroyed in the country­ official la a black sedan Saigon completely in the him that the Hanoi govern­ and the impact of the mor­ We had only to turn our side." drove up to the Embassy future. ment wants an uncondition­ tar and artillery shook heads a little to watch two He stressed that, con­ after it had quieted down The two young men felt al bombing halt, and that VIETNAM EMISSARY« author and teacher Howard the building I was staying jets systematically sweep trary to other reports, he somewhat, but the nervous the Front would probably negotiations can begin Zinn addressed the first rally of the Resis­ in with unusual intensity. down, drop their bombs, and tance on Boston Common, Oct. 16. believes that Hanoi is "by American guards riddled succeed. They had heard "very quickly" thereafter. I crept ont of bed to see swing up as a second later no meaas dependent upon the it with a machine gun, through Intelligence sour­ Dr. Zinn traveled to what was happening and the horizon flashed red. war. Using a military tran­ American peace movement. killing the official, and ces that 60 North Vietna­ North Vietnam with Father by the people in the coun­ joined some others to gaze sport plane was a political They are self-reliant. They the chauffeur. mese pilots had infil­ Since that night this has Daniel Berrigaa, a Cornell tryside. But tkey under­ at a blazing airport. consideration, not a human are proud of their national trated and were in the Tan been a constant scene both University chaplain, to ar­ stood the peoples' feel- Very soon helicopters consideration." traditions and don't really Son Nhut Airport vicinity night and day in and out of range for the release of iags." appeared on the scene to I think the Front has depend on any foreign po­ waiting to take over the Saigon. Cholon has suffered three captured American pi­ In a three-hour conver­ In his interview with circle round and round and gained a great deal but wer." airport and gain control the greater part of the re­ lots. The pilots were re­ sation witk the pilots tra­ Phan Van Dong, whom he des­ hover over the burning there has not been the of the planes. Even the Ca­ taliation bombing and rock­ turned to the U.S. on the veling between Hanoi and cribed as "really the most He dismissed the pre­ spots. The booming never popular uprising that they tholics feel that it is on­ eting because that is "where occasion of the Lunar New Vientiane, Dr. Zinn said the powerful political figure vailing State Dept. theory let up and kept continuing claim to have achieved. mala topics were their ly a matter of time before the Viet Cong ax* hiding." Year after the North Viet­ la North Vietnam," Dr. Zinn of an Asian "Communist men­ well into the morning. We Otherwise the war might treatment in prison and Saigon is completely taken Some parts of Saigon namese asked Dave Dellin­ explored the much-debated ace" with its base in China: thought it might be a have ended several days plans for their flight home. ever by the Front. have undergone helicopter ger, editor of Liberation question of the National "The North Vietnamese are coup d'etat staged by fac­ ago.... According to Dr. Zinn, "They The two young soldiers rockets and machine-gunning, magazine in New York, to Liberation Front's role in very capable and indepen­ tions of the government felt they were treated well dent. There Is a world of said that although it is but mostly there is a gen­ dispatch two representa­ any peace negotiations. military. Ky came on the in the prison camp, although difference between the ca­ painful for them to see eral apprehension as people tives of the U.S. peace radio to tell everyone to they were treated harshly pacity of Hanoi to think thousands of refugees, they wonder when their turn will movement to Hanoi. "I asked Phan Van Dong stay In their homes. Where on the way to the camp af­ feel that this attack and what role the NLF would was President Thleu? come. ter they had been captured for itself and that of Sai­ immobilization of Saigon is On the third morning of Dr. Zinn criticized play," Dr. Zinn said, "and gon." The tactics of the Front a good lesson for the Sai­ the seige I passed a whole Washington's decision to are usually to attack in gon people. block in Cholon which used transport the three pilots VN Students Condemn US Effort the early morning hours and They said: "For a long to be a densely populated from Vientiane, Laos, to time people in the country­ area totally destroyed. Only Four Vietnamese students prisonment, Hal continued, to withdraw at dawn, so this the U.S. in an Air Force our friends, not our mur­ side were suffering while the walls remained in parts risked their lives Feb. 14 "I do not detest any gov­ was unusual for the fighting plane as "inept and cold­ derers. But it is those the Saigon people were more sticking up starkly amidst to discuss the deaths of ernment. But I do detest, to last so long. Later I blooded." He said that who claim to be our friends or less immune. Now they the rubble. People were their countrymen at the I do condemn the collect­ learned that for several William H. Sullivan, U.S. who are the murderers of are getting a real taste of wandering among the smashed hands of American soldiers ive slaughtering of thou­ days there was a total ab­ Ambassador to Laos, express­ our sisters and mothers. war. Tou do not knew how I and burned objects mostly in Vietnam. sands of Vietnamese." sence of government in ed a "preference" that the It is the Americans who feel as I say this. My in a daze. Seven hundred antiwar Nguyen Minh Sang, a Saigon for several days. pilots fly home from Laos terrorize our villages family live only a block sympathizers, including captain in the South Viet­ At tea o'clock the U.S. There was a silence oc­ in a military aircraft, in­ with their bombers." away from the place that 400 fasters for peace, met namese army studying med­ armed forces radio reported casionally broken by weeping stead of a commercial air­ "The longer the havoc was bombed yesterday by the in Harvard's Sanders Thea­ icine at Tufts, said: that the U.S. had at last women. Some were gathering liner, as the North Viet­ and destruction are rained Americans, burned by the tre to listen to Doan Hong "As an army man I think regained control of the , things they could salvage in namese had specified. on our people by outsid­ government soldiers. Here Hal, Ngo Vinh Long, Huynh the rules of Nuremberg Embassy by landing para- A student I used to a tiny basket, and I passed ers," he continued, "the I am, fighting on the side In doing this, Dr. Zinn Kim Khanh and Capt. Nguyen have been set aside. The troop and airborne divi­ know came to visit me yes­ . a woman standing In front stronger the Liberation of the Government of Viet­ suggested, the U.S. "may have Minh Sang publicly criti­ Americans kill, destroy sions on the roof. Accord­ terday la an ARVN uniform. of a dark motionless bundle. Front becomes." nam, and the Government jeopardized chances of fu­ cize the U.S. war effort. .towns and graveyards. ing to them, the Front had He had just been drafted. Her neighbors seemed more Ngo Vinh Long, media­ burns down my house. To declare victory is i- mortared at 3:30 a.m. and agitated as they gathered ture releases of prisoners" Doan Hong Hal, a Har­ tor of the group, acknow­ rong. What kind of vic­ entered the building, con­ "Not yet, but I have had round her whispering ana by the North Vietnamese. "I vard sophomore, said: ledged the fact that with When the attack broke out, tory? I don't believe in trolling several floors for too many friends who have weeping. can only surmise that the "Never In the past have the use of force the U.S. he was ordered into Sai­ this kind of victory. It six hours. had this happen to their People in the next block (U.S.) government was afraid Vietnamese students spoken could inevitably destroy gon, and he came to see me causes more harm than families all over the coun­ who had escaped the disas­ of what the pilots might on the topic of their coun­ the "supposed enemies of Everything ended about because the truck supposed good to my people." try. In their seal to get ter were opening up their say if they were allowed to try. It is very dangerous the South." He added, 9:30 a.m. when the U.S. re­ to take his company back the Viet Cong they kill doors and either were in see the press," he added. for them to do so. There "If the men are wiped out gained the building. "There to the base was not imme­ Huynh Kim Khanh, a grad­ were 19 Viet Cong dead. The everyone." groups in their doorways, He also inferred that is a law in Saigon which the women will take their diately forthcoming. Both says anyone who does uate student of political Viet Cong wore grey uni­ or helping to clear up there was "a larger signi­ places...and if we are so he and the friend he anything against the gov­ science at Berkeley, at­ forms complete with car­ the mess. ficance" to the U.S. action, badly battered that we brought (both drafted at ernment will be jailed tacked the indiscriminate tridge belts." This is the tragedy that I stopped to ask what "beyond the matter of re­ cannot fight, we will the same time) believed or executed...as a com­ murdering of Vietnamese the Front was extremely is taking place today. Hun­ had happened and they said leasing prisoners. I think make It difficult for the • munist." civilians. He said: "We dreds are being killed in that the helicopters had the incident reveals some­ victors. The Chinese have This was news at 11 a.m. strong; had scored a pol­ are not anti-American. We Saigon alone, and still thing of the government's Despite the threat of learned this, so have All during the day, the itical victory; and would CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 want the Americans to be real attitude toward the deportation and life im­ the French...." BUST 1 LM.iL DRAFT

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April 3, 11:00 A.M Boston Common Profs. Noam Chomsky • M.I.T. Howard Zinn • B.U. spkrs Q67 LIGHTSHIP PRFSS Page 8 THE RESISTANCE March 1-15, 1968 N.E. Resistance: THE RESISTANCE March 1-15, 1968 Page 9 National Resistance: Mass. Witch-hunt Slated UMASS BOSTON — The who supplied the re­ upheld the right of 7 Indicted in Oakland Mass. Legislative Com­ cording. teachers to express ih<\ £ resistance OAKLAND — Following the indictments of mittee on Education Rep Kearney said: their ideas and re­ NEW ENGLAND EDITION « t MARCH 1-15 the "Boston 5," the Alameda County Grand recently passed a res­ "I respect the right schedule classes to Jury handed down indictments Jan. 24 again­ olution calling for an of citizens to respon­ allow students to at­ The New England Resistance is an st seven organizers of the Stop the Draft investigation of fac­ Week activities at the Oakland induction sibly protest the for­ tend religious or pol­ autonomous group of over 300 men center last Octeber. The seven were charged ulty here who alleged­ eign policy of the US, itical events. of draft age who have resisted ly encouraged students with "conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor," but not when it pro­ RESIST! conscription in order to end their a felony crime in California. to join the Resistance vides aid to the Viet- In a Russian class government's illegal, immoral, and Oct. 16. ton, Black Manthar Min­ Cong."' here recently, a tea­ unjust war in Vietnam, We include The acts in question The matter was ini­ ister of Justice, in­ At the hearing, Pro. cher had students read students, seminarians, teachers, workers, pro­ include obstructing tiated by Rep. Joseph dicted by the same jury James L. Adams of Har­ the Pravda account of fessionals, clergy, artists, pacifists, selec­ sidewalks, trespassing Kearney, (D.-Hyde Parl$ for allegedly murdering vard Divinity School, the arraignment of tive war objectors, revolutionaries, flower and interferring with and Rep. John Melia, children, girls who aid and abet, and assorted a policeman. Attorney S. Morse from "Doctora Benjamina police officers. The (D.-Brighton). FBI and CIA agents. Affiliated with 75 other At a UC rally in sup­ the American Jewish Spoka" and the four indictments also charge At the hearing, Rep. Resistance groups across the nation, the N.E.R, "ten overt acts" alle­ port of the Seven, Ri­ others. chard Lichtman, prof­ Melia stated that one Congress, and MIT is the largest single chapter and serves as gedly taking place Sep. of his constituents physics professor Lo­ the coordinating center for the movement. essor of philosophy, Teach-in Held 27 and Oct. 17, such telephoned him and uis Osborne spoke a- proclaimed that "we In preparation for the next national day of as demonstrating the complained that his BU -- The Boston U. have to bring the sys­ gainst the resolution. Resistance April 3, the N.E.R. has opened a new use of a picket sign daughter was excused Draft Counseling and tem down." He spoke Paul Gagnon, acting office in downtown Boston. With our sister as a club. Demonstrator lights up his draft from class by her in­ Information Canter held of the force and vio­ dean of the UMASS fac­ counseling group, the Boston Draft Resistance card at March on Pentagon Oct. 21. structor in order to a Teach-in on alterna­ The "Oakland 7" are: lence used by the sys­ ulty, reported that Group at 102 Columbia St in Cambridge, we pro­ attend the Resistance tives to the draft Feb. Frank Bardacke, a Ber­ tem against those who no student, parent, or vide free draft information, do draft research, rally on Boston Com­ 29 at which the dean kley UC grad student break its rules and Court Test Heard citizen had complained engage in community organizing, and hold sup­ Puerto Ricans are in­ mon. of the graduate school, in political science; to the university. He port demons trat ionr. for everyone who refuses whom it terms criminal. eligible to vote for WASHINGTON, D.C. — ed by the First Amend- Dave Washburn of. AFSC, Jeff Segal, national At the hearing, he induction at the Boston Army Base. The new ''This sytem does not either Congress or the New York CLU attorney ment. and Bill Hunt, of the officer and traveller think it criminal to Marvin Kapartkin brou- Kapartkin argued played a tape purport­ CADRES office at 27 Stanhope St. is convenient to the ing to be a plea by an N.E, Resistance and for SDS; Terry Cannon, burn villages with na­ President who enact the ght an argument for the that the Congressional Arlington MBTA stop. Walk 1 block West to Ber­ unnamed instructor ur­ WANTED 3DRG, spoke. formerly of SNCC; Bob palm," he noted, "but draft, levy taxes to unconstitutionality of law making draft-card keley St., 2 blocks South (past City Police ging students to turn Naal Goldberg, a mem­ Mandel, who withdrew does think it criminal raise and support the laws prohibiting the burning a special crime Anyone interested Headquarters), and turn right -2block on Stan­ in their draft cards. ber of the Resistance, from UC to work full- to stand in certain army, confirm appoint- destruction of draft was "an act of hyster- in leading regular hope. We hope to remain open 24 hours a day Rep. Kearney refused, serves as full-tine time against the war; places and protest the ments of high military cards to the Supreme weekly seminars until April 3. ia." however, to disclose director of the Center, and Reese Erlich, act." officers and enact for- Court Jan. 24. for adults "On the name of witnesses, which is sponsored by Steve Hamilton, and eiSn treaties. Revolution" in a With this newspaper, the N.E.R. inaugurates Faster Freed from Jail No official ruling Muslim Sentenced the teachers in ques­ the University Christ­ *X* *_-* *A* *A* -MV* *»[L* ^sV —it* *Jj* ^1* *1<* —1J— ^^# fcT* fct* ^^^ Boston-area church Mike Smith, UC stu­ ^r» ^p ^^ ^p> ^^ *^ ^^ ^* *^ *^ *^ *j» *y» #^*j»^^ a new program to bring news of the anti-draft CINCINATTI — Mary was handed down and ATLANTA — A young tion, or the person ian Movement, dents dismissed for or synagogue come anti-war movement to campus and community. Vie DeCourcy Squire, 18- both defense and pro­ Georgia Negro has been At the School of. The­ anti-draft activity. OMEGA to an organizing plan to publish the 1st and 15th of each month. year-old Antioch Col­ secution will re-ap­ fined $10,000 and sen­ ology, Resistance mem­ On behalf of the meeting, Thurs. By next issue, we will have installed a .tele­ lege student who fast­ As Its symbol, the peal to the court for tenced to ten years in ber Bob Winget was Seven, Bardacke said Resistance has ad- BOSTON FIVE nlte Feb. 29, 7 type, in our office to connect us instantaneous­ ed for 60 days in city a judgment. prison for violations granted equal time on the charges represent oped the last let­ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 p.m. at 110 Ar­ ly with the Liberation News Service in Washing­ jail, was on released Kapartkin represents of the Selective Ser­ WBZ radio to answer an one more attempt to ter of the Greek lington St. (2 ton, D.C. (directed by one of our members) and on parole Feb. 12, David P. O'Brien, a 21 vice laws. argued, arrests of editorial opposing re­ repress the peace alphabet that tra­ blocks from N.E.R. peace and freedom groups across the country and DeCourcy was arres­ ditionally stands year old Boston Univ. Clifton T. Haywood militant blacks would sistance. Another Re­ office.) around the world. Press run this issue 20,000 movement. Their only ted here Dec. 7 during for the Apocalypse. sophomore, whose con­ of Kingslànd was tried be considered discrim­ sistance member, Alex Meetings will also copies. Bundles of newspapers can be picked up "crime," he declared, an anti-draft protest, viction for burning for draft violations inatory. Jack, who last year Also, omega is the be held same time on consignment at our office or BDRG by any was to advocate mili­ and convicted of con­ his draft card two last October and con­ Another theory, held was a reporter in Sai­ symbol for ohm, or and place March 7 friendly group or individual. Anyone who wants tant action against tempt of court, disor­ years ago was over­ victed of failure to -< primarily by lawyers, gon, was interviewed electrical resis­ and March 14. to work on the newspaper should come to a meet­ • the war. He predic­ derly conduct, and re­ tance in physics. ruled by the First Su­ notify his local board is that the Adminis­ on Channel 3o and 4. The program is ing at our office Tues., March 12, 4 p.m. Send ted that the next Stop sisting arrest. Buttons are avail­ perior Court of Boston of his correct address tration, faced with an sponsored by the all manuscripts, letters, and other corres­ the Draft Week would Since then, she has able at the office. last year on the basis and failure to report unprecedented challen­ New Draft Project pondence clearly marked "Resistance News be even larger as a refused to cooperate **************** that destroying the for a physical exam­ ge to its authority, Student Action Dept." to 27 Stanhope. result. with her jailers. card is a form of -"sym­ ination. cannot possibly prose­ Movement, of the HARVARD — A Har­ 3 Resign from Army vard Draft Project re­ The authorities re­ bolic speech" protect- Although he testi­ cute all 2500 youths Boston-area FORT GORDON, Ga. — cently formed to coor­ Bail was cut from fused to force-feed fied in court that en masse without pro­ Unitarian-Univer­ .As a result of expanding our office and ser­ Three soldiers station­ dinate anti-draft and $6250 apiece to $1250, her, and lawyers felt he now wished to com­ voking even more re­ sal ist ministry, vices, our funds are almost exhausted. We need ed here announced their general anti-war acti­ and the defendents ex­ that the prolonged ply and would enter sistance; and there­ but Is open to at least $1000 a month to pay overhead, subsis­ non-cooperation with vity on campus. pected to be out in fast would threaten the armed forces im­ fore to appease the all affiliations tance salaries for staff, printing, mailing, the Army Jan. 17 in a time to attend a rally her life. Her protest mediately, he was sen­ right-wing and public or none. The draft project has and phone costs. Students, please pledge to letter of resignation in support of Huey New- and many others appar­ tenced to the maximum clamor "to do some­ Topics to include organized a Draft Union send us at least $1 a month; adults, $5. At the ently moved the Cin­ to the base commander. fine and five years thing" indicted the war resistance, as an autonomous com­ very minimum, send us your 107. monthly telephone cinnati Pardon and According to another black power, mittee of Harvard-Rad- surcharge tax that goes directly to the war 3 Refuse Induction in prison on each visible adult support­ Parole Board to free soldier at the base, count. ers. third vorId, etc. cliffe S.D.S. effort. Better yet, send us your entire 1968 the three refused to Call Alex Jack For information call income tax, or tithe. All regular contributions NEW YORK — Two mem- her from the remainder Haywood's 1awyers A third hypothesis, put on uniforms after at 742-5726 for Larry Lockridge at of $5 or more will receive post-paid subscript­ bers of the Resistance, of her 9-raonth senten- deemed the trial and based on the govern­ a direct command by an more information. 491-2186 or Neil Krie­ ions to the newspaper. Clip the below coupon Mark Weintraub and Vin- ce in the workhouse, •RESISTANCE« the sentence, the harsh­ ment's essential stu­ officer. ger at 354-3014. and send gift subs to your friends. cent McGee, as well as est handed down since pidity, is that the PRs Subsequently, one of Charles Peshkin, a u- Challenge Law The Resistance World War II, as a Resistance has an a- the soldiers changed Enclosed is $5 each for 1-year gift In support of the young men nion organizer, refused SAN JUAN — 13 Puerto Ne w s Dept. wi shes "mockery." gent provacateur in the to thank Peter Si­ subscriptions to following people: resisting the draft, I pledge induction Jan. 29 at Ricans have been indict- his mind when he was Haywood, a Black Mus­ Justice Department who, mon, Cliff Oarboden, $ NOW and $ monthly. the Flushing and White- ed here for refusing in- assured he could re- lim, is appealing and when asked by the White NAME All checks payable to N.E.R. hall induction centers, duction. main stateside as a and Halton Shlpway needs funds urgently House to select oppo­ ADDRESS ZIP or Prof. Noam Chomsky. Unlike the others, According to ACLU law- clerk. Another re- of the 3U N?W5 for for legal fees and nents with no massive use of their pho- NAME Peshkin had not publi- yers representing the lented under parental bail. All contribu­ middle-class followings totfraohs. Items of «WS ADDRESS ZIP MY NAME cized his decision. He defendents, the draft of pressure and volun- tions should be sent and a community basic­ national resistance NAME insisted on completing Puerto Ricans in uncon- teered for Vietnam are from Liberation to: Clifton Haywood ally favorable to the ADDRESS ZIP each of five security stitutional because it duty. The third, Pvt. Defense Fund, Carver war, chose Dr. Spock, ADDRESS ZIP News Service. Photo forms he was subse- constitutes conscript- Dennis Adelsberger, RESISTANCE* on p. 1 is by Dan State Bank, Montgom­ Rev. Coffin, and Bos­ n remains in the stock­ RETURN TO: N.E.RESISTANCE, 27 STANHOPE, BOSTON, MASS. quently given for dis- io without représenta Broriy. editor this ery and Walberg, Sa­ ton -- the Resistance's (tel.) (617) 536-9793 / 9794 rupting. tion. ade. issue Alex Jack. vannah, Ga. 31401. stronghold. THE RESISTANCE March 1-15, 1968 Page 11 Page 10 THE RESISTANCE March 1-15, 1968 Bombing In Second Year (continued from p.5») April 3rd come. When I asked if they It used to happen before CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 BDRG InitiatesCommunity Services had been warned ahead of but never in such Intensity. to regain their former classifications or in time, they looked at me as I see the 61's are In mor­ any strategic way remain part of the system. The Boston Draft Re­ has seen." In addition, tal terror because they can­ sistance Group (BDRG) if I were crazy. the BDRG runs a program They said: "We would not not in all honestly tell Because of the dubious legality of Gen. Her­ was formed in June 1967 of talking to men who by about twenty signers be here If they had warned the difference between shey' s memorandum, draft lawyers hold out the are going tô their pre- Viet Cong and Vietnamese of a "We Won't Go" lnduction physicals. If us. These people across the possibility that non-cooperators who refuse in­ statement. The BDRG you are interested in street have died and are civilians. They therefore duction after being illegally classified may works to organize and treat everyone as Viet find their cases thrown out of court altogether. 4helping with this work, burned out of their homes« aid young men who oppose "call Mike Mickelson at We are lucky, but we were Cong "sympathizers." Given the slowness, inefficiency, and questiona­ the war and the draft ble legality of the judicial apparatus, Resist­ 5^7-8260 or 868-1373. The Vietnamese people for any reason, self- crouching under the tables ance members have a "fighting chance" of staying interest as well as hearing the terrible things feel this and whether they out of jail completely, or postponing the sen- Speakers from the join the Front or not is moral or political con­ BDRG will talk to any happening and expecting it tancing for years through appeals. During this • victions. For this group that will listen. to happen any minute.... irrelevant. They just hate time, the Resistance could break down the le­ reason the BDRG has BDRG "agitators-at- the Americans more. gitimacy of the Selective Service in the eyes of concentrated on "con­ large" have spoken in It is terribly wrong thousands of young men and offer them an alterna­ crete activity rather The area around the An the past few weeks to Quang Pagoda has been com­ for the U.S. government to tive to enlistment or emigration. than ideological hair­ audiences at Wellesley, splitting." pletely leveled from the continue this kind of war Bridgewater State Col­ and to place its young Aside from the fact that going to Canada is There are now many lege, Northeastern, fire set by Government for­ not going to help end the war, the Resistance different types of ac­ Clark College, and to a ces. The U.S. radio claimed men under conditions where it is next to impossible notes that during World War II, thousands of tivity sponsored by the group of sailors and the Pagoda was used as the Canadian citizens refused to register for the BDRG. Counseling and marines at the Charles- head-quarters of the Front, to distinguish their draft and the conscription system completely counselor training are town Naval YMCA. and that troops were being "enemy" from the people. collapsed, never to be reinstituted. In fact, two of the most impor­ sent In to clear the area. the present mayor of Montreal went to prison tant of these. BDRG The BDRG is constant­ The strain is great on for aiding and abetting resistance. counselors are available ly expanding its pro­ Monday through Friday grams, and creating new Thlch Thlen Minh of the the young American men here. from noon until six p.m. ones, and is constantly Buddhist Touth Institute They are placed In constant Ultimately, members of the Resistance, too, are prepared to go to prison for their acts. and occasionally in the In need of volunteers. said that although most of terror; they die in hun­ evening and on weekends If you can help them in dreds; they are wounded in Though the maximum penalty for non-cooperation the Venerable monks had a- is 5 years imprisonment and $10,000 fine, at the BDRG office at any way, or if you would thousands; and their con­ bandoned the Pagoda, Inclu­ jail sentences last year averaged 32 months, 102 Columbia Street in like counseling or any sciences will forever be Cambridge. The coun­ of their other services, ding Thlch Tri Quang, two with up to one third off for good-time, and selors are prepared to call their office, at older monks had remained burdened by the knowledge the fine has been invoked only in two instances, discuss all possible 5^7-8260. throughout and could tes­ that they have killed (have that of Mohammud Ali and Clifton Hayword, also alternatives to the had to kill) thousands of a Black Muslim. Bill Hunt of B.D.R.G. addresses "Service of tify that the Front had draft, illegal as well not used the Pagoda at any innocent people and child­ as legal. Rededicatien" at Arlington St. Church Jarw SNCC Worker Tried 29 on subject of "Channelling." Mural in time. ren, and created tens of On behalf of the Resistance, the Legal Defen­ se Fund raises money for court costs. RESIST, The BDRG holds coun­ background of Vietnam war was lent by Mass NASHVILLE — Fred Two people «ere found thousands of refugees. selor-training sessions Council of Churches for the occasion. Brooks, a militant the national adult support group, coordinates every Tuesday evening at SNCC member, has been dead on the premises. They faculty and professional aid. The Boston Commit­ were an old man, father of 7«30 at 102 Columbia St. pitts; Cape Cod—Mike the schools. Teach-ins arrested for refus­ The Front will probably tee of Religious Concern for Peace, an affiliate The full training course ing induction. a Buddhist refugee relief of the National Clergy Concerned, provides re­ Colpitts; Cambridge— on the draft are sche­ continue the present course consists of four consec­ John Maher, Sasha Harmon duled to be held at se­ worker, and a woman who had ligious counseling for all faiths and helps plan utive sessions, and it His draft call came been helping at the Pagoda. and then strike again much the services of conscience. The Prison Infor­ and Fred Stout; Hingham— veral high schools. as he testified be­ harder to gain much more is open to anyone. About Dave Washburn; Jamaica One full-tine and Thlen Minh said: "The mation Support and Service seeks employment and 180 people have been fore Sen. McClellan's control. funds for families of men in jail. Plain—Vern Grizzard; several part-time organ­ hearing into ghetto government is not succeed­ trained in the first Newton—Victor Ar©now; izers, as well as many People say: "What hap­ four courses. The most outbreaks. ing because of Its terrible Roxbury—Tim Wright, volunteers, are working inefficiency. This has pens to Vietnam after that recent one, which began Dave Washburn and Abby with young people in on the day following the Brooks, 20, head­ been a shock to the people is up to the U.S. If the Rockefeller; Somerville— Cambridge, talking about ed the Nashville American leaders decide to arraignment of Dr. Spock Bill Hunt. the war and the draft. of Saigon. They realize and his "co-conspira­ Liberation School, go to the conference table, The college projects In addition to this, the which was briefly not only that the govern­ tors," had an enrollment BDRG obtains the names ment and D.S. cannot pro­ then the Vietnamese people of 80. The next cycle are the following« funded by O.E.O. Brandeis—Vern Grizzard of newly classified last summer. The Sen­ tect them, but that they will sigh a sigh of re­ of training sessions 1-A's, finds their ad­ lief and gain much hope. begins on Tuesday, March and Art Morrill; Boston ate investigators are doing most of the dam­ Univ.—Neil Goldberg; dresses, and sends peo­ wanted to question age. On the other hand, But there is the real fear 5, at 7*30 p.m. The ple to talk to them BDRG office phone num­ Harvard—John Pennington, him about charges cadres of the Front are that the U.S. will contin­ Eric Eldred, Paul Garver about alternatives to that the -school was ue its military policy. ber is 5^7-8260. the draft. They also helping the people clean and John Perkins; MIT— teaching hatred of Then they will destroy Trainers from BDRG Paul Schachter; Welles- are compiling lists of whites. up the rubble and helping will go to give coun­ ley—Glenn Hoffman and members of draft boards them to build temporary Vietnam, because that is selor-training sessions Art Morrill; and North­ in the Boston area, and Brooks' induction shelters." the only way to destroy to any group that re­ eastern—Nick Eggleson are writing short bio­ was speeded up after the Viet Cong." quests them. Such and Bill Hunt. Anyone graphies on them. This he was expelled from training sessions have who is interested in enables BDRG to predict Tennessee A&I for The situation at present been held at BU and at how various members will Almost emptied of civil­ working with any of movement activity. is very much at flux. Every MIT; others are sche­ react to different forms ian traffic, the military these groups, or who A federal court minute and every hour there duled to be given at of protest and appeal, refused to delay his dash down the streets with Wheaton College, Welles- would like to help start are changes. The streets of and helps detect viola­ induction until a machine guns and rifles ley, the University of a new one, should call tions of selective ser­ Saigon reflect this. One the BDRG office. judge could rule on ready to shoot at any sus­ Maine, and elsewhere. vice regulations, such the expulsion, and minute there are fruit Call the BDRG office If The BDRG also Is or­ picious looking people or as discrimination in the on charges that his stands and street vendors, you would like a trainer ganizing in Cambridge selection of board mem­ action going on. draft board is 11- . while the next minute they to come to your group. and in Boston area high bers. I was almost run-over legal because it is may all disappear and the Counselors who have schools. The high all-white. by two U.S. military po­ school organizers, led The BDRG and the Re­ place become deserted. been trained by the BDRG sistance have joined to lice jeeps coming from be­ by Harold Hector, have The general uprising are urged to work in sponsor demonstrations If convicted, hind with terrific speed, draft counseling and distributed antl-draft didn't happen, because the literature at local against the draft. One Brooks said, he will the soldiers screaming and research centers started people would be slaughtered schools. There has been of the most successful spend time organiz­ cursing at me to get out by BDRG at various col­ was the rally on the day ing black lmmates in by the Government and the leges and communities in some hostility shown of their way, their gun of the arraignment of prison. "You can U.S. However, if the food the Boston area. The towards BDRG workers, sights lowered at me. I've but they have begun to Spock, Ferber, et al., organize in jail situation gets very, very following is a list of which the Herald Tra­ just as well as you seen this happen to many work together with mem­ bad and things get much these projects, and veler called "the lar­ can out," he noted. other Vietnamese civilians their BDRG coordina­ bers of the High School worse, who knows? — the Mobilization to sponsor gest and best organized "They'll be getting many times since the seige tors: Bridgewater—Tom anti-war rally Boston out seme day." people may rise.... Grahame and Mike Cel- anti-war activities in began. Page 12 THE RESISTANCE March 1-15, 1968 CHANNELLING "The psychology of granting wide choice under pressures

to take action is the American or indirect way off achieving what is done in foreign countries where choice is not permitted."

may be suffering far ("Channeling" is an The process of channel­ importance in which de­ pleases ; he would ap­ ing manpower by defer­ ferments were given, less than the civilians preciate a certain fu­ official Selective Ser­ at home, patriotism vice System document ment Is entitled to 1 the individuals who did ture with no prospect much credit for the not or could not parti­ must be interpreted far of military service or which was sent to all more broadly than ever civilian contribution, SSS .staff personnel. large number of gradu­ cipate In activities ate students in tech­ which were considered before. but he compiles.... It was issued in July nical fields and for essential to the de­ This Is not a new Throughout his ca­ 1965 and has recently the fact that there Is fense of the Nation. thought, but it has had reer as a student, the been withdrawn.) not a greater shortage The Selective Service new emphasis since the pressure—the threat of of teachers, engineers System anticipates fur­ development of nuclear loss of deferment—con­ One of the major and other scientists ther evolution in this and rocket warfare. tinues. It continues products of the Selec­ working in activities area.... Educators, scientists, with equal intensity tive Service classifi­ which are essential to No group deferments engineers and their after graduation. His cation process is the the national Interest..,. professional organiza­ local board requires channeling of manpower are permitted. Defer­ The System has also ments are granted, how­ tions, during the last periodic reports to into many endeavors, Induced needed people ten years particularly, find out what he is up occupations and acti­ ever, in a realistic to remain In these pro­ atmosphere so that the have been convincing to; He is impelled to vities that are in the fessions and in indus­ the American public pursue his skill rather national interest.... fullest effect of chan­ try engaged in defense neling will be felt, that for the mentally than embark upon some The line dividing activities or in the rather than be termina­ qualified man there is less important enter­ the primary function of support of national ted by military service a special order of pa­ prise and is encouraged armed forces manpower health, safety, or in- at too early a time. triotism other than to apply his skill in procurement from the service in uniform- an essential activity process of channeling tcrcsx•••« Registrants and that for the man having in the national inter­ manpower into civilian This was coupled their employers are en­ the capacity, dedicated est. The loss of de­ support Is often finely with a growing public couraged and required service as a civilian ferred status is the drawn. The process of recognition that the to make available to in such fields as en­ consequence for the in­ channeling by not taf complexities of future the classifying author­ gineering, the sciences dividual who has acqui­ king men from certain wars would diminish ities detailed evidence and teaching constitute red the skill and activities who are further the distinc­ as to the occupations the ultimate In their either does not use It otherwise liable for tion between what con­ and activities In which expression of patriot­ or uses it in a non­ service, or by giving stitutes military ser­ the registrants are en- ism. A large segment essential activity. deferment to qualified vice In uniform and a gaged.... Since occu- men in certain occupa­ comparable contribution The psychology of tions, is actual pro­ to the national inter­ There are thousands who are in opinion op­ granting wide choice curement by Inducement est out of uniform. posed to slavery and to the war, who yet in under pressure to take of manpower for civil­ Wars have always been effect do nothing to put an end to them; who action is the American ian activities which conducted in various ...sit down with their hands in their pock­ or indirect way of are manifestly in the ways, but appreciation ets, and say that they do not know what to achieving what Is done national Interest. of this fact and its do, and do nothing...They hesitate, and they by direction in foreign relationship to pre­ regret, and sometimes they petition; but countries where choice paration for war has they do nothing in earnest and with effect. is not permitted. While the best known never been so sharp In They will wait, well disposed, for others to Here, choice is limited purpose of Selective the public mind as it remedy the evil, that they will no longer but not denied, and It Service is to procure is now becoming. The have it to regret. At most they will give Is fundamental that an manpower for the armed meaning of the word only a cheap vote, and a feeble countenance individual generally forces, a variety of "service," with its and Godspeed, to the right, as it goes by applies himself better related processes take former restricted ap­ them. -- Thoreau, 1848 to something he has de­ place outside delivery plication to the armed cided to do rather than of manpower to the ac­ forces, is certain to pational deferments are of the American public something he has been tive armed forces. become widened much granted for no more has been convinced that told to do. Many of these may be more In the future. than one year at a this is true. time, a process of pe­ put under the heading This brings with it the It is in this atmos­ From the Individual's of "channeling manpow­ ever increasing problem riodically receiving phere that the young viewpoint, he Is stand­ er." Many young men of how to control ef­ current information and man registers at age 18 ing in a room which has would not have pursued fectively the service repeated review assures and pressure begins to a'higher education if , been made uncomfortably of individuals who are that every deferred re­ force his choice. He warm. Several doors 4 there had not been a not in the armed for­ gistrant continues to does not have the inhi­ are open, but they all program of student de­ ces. contribute to the over­ bitions that a philo­ lead to various forms ferment. Many young all national good. sophy of universal ser­ of recognized, patriot­ scientists, engineers, In the Selective This reminds him of the vice in uniform would Service System the term ic service to the Na­ tool and die makers, basis for his defers engender. The door is tion. Some accept the "deferment" has been ment.... open for him as a stu­ and other possessors of used millions of times Patriotism is de­ dent If capable in a alternatives gladly— scarce skills would not to describe the method fined as "devotion to skill badly needed by aome with reluctance. remain in their Jobs in and means used to at­ the welfare of one's his nation. He has The consequence is ap­ the defense effort If tract to the kind of proximately the same. service considered to country." It has been many choices and he Is It were not for a pro­ interpreted to mean prodded to make a de­ gram of occupational be most important, the Selective Service individuals who were many different things. cision. deferments. Even Men have always been The psychological processes do not compel though the salary of a not compelled to do It. people by edict as in The club of Induction exhorted to do their effect of this circum­ teacher has histori­ duty. But what that stantial climate de­ foreign systems to en­ cally been meager, many has been used to drive ter pursuits having to out areas considered duty is depends on a pends upon the indi-= young men remain In variety of variables, vidual, his sense of do with essentiality that job, seeking the to be less important and progress. They go to the areas of greater most important being good citizenship, his reward of a deferment. the nature of the love of country and its because they know that threat to national wel­ way of life. He can by going they will be fare and the capacity obtain a sense of well- deferred. and opportunity of the being and satisfaction APRIL 3 PLEDGE Individual. Take, for that he Is doing as a Delivery of manpower example, the boy who civilian what will help for Induction, the pro­ £J I'M THROUGH BEING CHANNELLED. saved the Netherlands his country most. This cess of providing a few YOU CAN COUNT ON ME TO RETURN by plugging the dike process encourages him thousand men with trans­ with his finger. to put forth his best portation to a recep­ MY DRAFT CARD APRIL 3- At the time of the effort and removes to tion center, is not American Revolution the some degree the stigma much of an administra­ patriot was the -so-cal­ that has been attached tive or financial chal­ led "embattled farmer" to being out of uniform. lenge. It is in deal­ PHONE who joined. General In the less patri­ ing with the other mil­ NAME Washington to fight the otic and more selfish lions of registrants British. The concept individual it engenders that the System is hea­ ADDRESS that patriotism is best a sense of fear, uncer­ vily occupied, develop­ exemplified by service tainty and dissatis­ ing more effective hu­ in uniform has always faction which motivates man beings in the na­ been under some degree him, nevertheless, In tional interest. If of challenge, but never the same direction. He there is to be any sur­ Mail to: NEW ENGLAND RESISTANCE to the extent that It complains of the uncer­ vival after disaster, 27 Stanhope St., Boston is today. In today's tainty which he must It will take people, (TEL.) 536-9793/979^ complicated iwarfare, endure; he would like and not machines, to when the man\in uniform to be able to do as he restore the Nation. -T3t- resistance IB^ACOPY NEW ENGLAND EDITION **2 MARCH IB-APRIL 3

March 15 PICKET HUBERT RD The local Resistance and other peace groups &€S\Sr— kmi 3 in Providence, R.I», will host a massive demonstration at the Neu England Democratic Regional Conference. Vice-President Humphrey is scheduled to speak. Anti-war forces will gather at Public Square Park at 3 p.m. Busses will leave Boston for Providence at 2 p.m. Friday. Call Cathy Lockner at N.E.R. office for details.

March 27-28 JOAN BAE2. DAVID HARRIS SPEAK

Folk singer and pacifist Joan Baez and David Harris, a founder of the Resistance from Palo Alto, will speak on "Resistance for the Brotherhood of Men" at BU's Hayden Hall, March 27, 8:30 p.m., and at Harvard's Sanders Theater, March 28, 8:30 p.m. Donation $1.50.

April 3 NATIONAL RESISTANCE DAY

11-1 p.m. - Giant rally and draft-card turn-in on Boston Common. Speak­ ers include Staughton Lynd, Harvey Cox, Ever­ ett Mendelsohn, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, D=*ve Dt-llina«r, and Terrv Cannon, on« of the U£

1-3 p.m. - General conference of all old and new resisters.

3-4 p.m. - Assignments for those needing housing overnight. Registration for next day's workshops.

8-? p.m. - Resistance celebration party. (Hx/l CAotce Site to he announced, April 4 ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS

Ultimately you can listen to only one thing, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. - Old and new resisters not your President, not your many misguided will devote the entire leaders, save a few, not the Communists or the day to organizing workshops. Socialists or the Republicans or the Democrats, 6 p.m. - Dinners will be arranged so that each individual résister will be but you must listen to your own heart, and do the guest of an individual faculty or clergy what it dictates. Because your heart is the only supporter and his family. thing which can tell you what is right and what April 3 PLEDGES

is wrong. And after you have found out what you On April 3, I will turn in my draft card on think is right and what is wrong, then you must Boston Common along with hundreds of other New England men and thousands nationally know that you can say yes to what is right and in solidarity with the Vietnamese people, no to what is wrong. And you young men, for in­ blacks and poor whites in America who are dis­ criminated against by conscription and the stance, if you feel that to kill is wrong and to go 2500 previous non-cooperators around the na­ to war is wrong, you have to say no to the draft* tion.

And if you young ladies think it is wrong to kill, NAME PHONE and war is wrong, you can say yes to the young ADDRESS men who say no to the draft. Because it is not ZIP the leaders and the dictators, it is not God who Return to: NEW ENGLAND RESISTANCE 27 Stanhope Street is going to get us out of the bloody mess we are Boston, Mass. in. It is only you and only me. JOAN BAEZ Tel. (617) 53o-9?93/4 Page 2 THE RESISTANCE March 15 - April 3, 1968 THE RESISTANCE March 15 - April 3. 1968 Page 3 EIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIË CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 distributed, allowing stu­ dents to indicate at what BOSTON level they will join (e.g. | National Survey Ë minimal heckling, increa­ A rally and service of if 1000 non-cooperate, or singly large demonstra­ conscience on Boston should 5000, etc.). These pledges tions, Dec. 4 1200; March 311111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111E see the 350 men of the New have yet to be tabulated 2 (general peace rally) England Resistance double and conceivably several 5000. Police generally Several thousand young men will turn-in their their numbers on April 3. hundred more young men will cooperative and sullen, draft cards Wed., April 3, at Resistance demon­ Main speakers include say No on April 3. Those few potential resisters strations and services of conscience in nearly Staughton Lynd, Everett affected by the new draft among them. 100 campuses and communities across the nation. Mendelsohn, Harvey Cox, rulings are reported in a "Campus mood about They will join 2500 other young men who sever­ Howard Zinn, and Noam Chom­ general state of panic. draft is uptight, making ed all relations with the Selective Service sky. Of the 300 men who for large attendence at System Oct. 16 and Dec. 4. The following day, new resisted Oct. 16 and Dec. 4, Resistance forums on and old resisters will hold only 20 have been ordered In early March, the New England Resistance power which new policy a general conference and to report for induction. sent out a survey to all chapters, asking them gives us. divide up into organizing Five have been arrested or to detail their plans for April 3, estimate the "Resistance looked at workshops for future ac­ indicted for refusing. None number of definite and probable new resisters, more and more sympathetica tion. is in prison. describe the legal repercussions in their areas, more and more sympathe- In preparation for April if any, analyze the reaction of the general ically, though cool eye 3, speaking tours have HUNTINGTON, L.I. community, campus, police, and mass media, and of detatched Yale tends been organized in Maine, evaluate the effects of the recent ruling abol­ to be offended by 'ex­ The Lone; Island N.H., Vt., and other ishing graduate student deferments. tremists'. Rich fantasy Resistance's plans parts of Massachusetts. life ('If I don't think for April 3 are Since the questionnaire was sent out and re­ A reinvigorated Resis­ still tentative, about it, maybe I won't turned a month before April 3, many groups had tance at Brown Univ. but will probably be inducted') which is not finalized their plans or completely dis­ in Providence, R.I., include a service slowly being broken down tributed their literature and pledges. Never­ plans to disrupt the at 3tony Brook U. by reiteration of a few Twelve men are theless, the emerging pattern suggests that New England Regional basic facts, mostly that planning to turn on April 3, the Resistance will definitely Democratic Conference they will be inducted. in their cards, double its numbers. Many new groups have been March 15 at which Vice to join the ten Law students making a initiated since D.?c. 4 in the South and Mid- President Humphrey is other Tien who are B-line for ROTC." West that should become the nuclei of radical slated to speak. in the L. I. Re­ peace movements in these areas. sistance. Several resisters in Over 15,000 adults have Boston refused induction In relatively conservative and isolated signed the RESIST support NEW YORK CITY this Spring, but none so PRINCETON turn in their areas like Colorado, the Justice Dept. has statement for Spock, Coffin, The new Resistance here, far has been prosecuted. 75 men definitely plan cards, but about Ferber, Goodman, and Raskin, The Resistance headed by Tony Avlrgan, moved swiftly to prosecute resisters. on to join the Resistance here ten are known to Support demonstrations including over half of the at Princeton will Martha Westover, Judy Chom­ both the West and East coasts, where the at the Army Base have April 3, and 25 more are be seriously con­ Yale faculty. hold a service in sidering it. sky, and Rich Killmer (a Resistance is the strongest, the Administra­ topped 600 people. considered probable. Details the Chapel of Early in March, the na­ The situation Princetown seminarian) has tion has reacted slowly, indicting anti-draft Relations with the po­ of the rally and action are Princeton Univer­ tional American Civil Lib­ on the Princeton initiated a multitude of organizers in Boston and Oakland for "con­ lice (whose city head­ still to be worked out. sity on -Aoril 3. erties Union reversed an It is not certain campus with resrarc community and campus pro­ spiracy" but so far prosecuting few of the quarters are next to Throughout the city, earlier decision and joined bow many men will to the draft has jects. actual resisters. Several dozen have been the N.E.R. office) are 100,000 pledges have been been described as its Massachusetts chapter Rev. William Sloane excellent. Impromtu in­ "tense." A Gradu­ reclassified and refused induction, but have in offering legal aid to Coffin spoke at a ban- dependence demonstrations ate Draft Union not yet been arrested. Only one résister the "Boston Five." has recently been quent for draft resisters through the center of has been tried and convicted for non-poss­ formed, and The on March 5 at which sev­ the city by several hun­ ession and he is out on appeal. NEW HAVEN Resistance is eral hundred dollars were dred marchers are led If enough young men resist on April 3, workinsr together raised. He also defeated by the police, sometimes The 104 resisters at with Princeton as Conrad Lynn, the nation's leading anti- a local news commentator singing along. Yale hope to double their Seminarians Con­ draft attorney, writes, a mere 2% of the numbers at a rally on cerned about Viet­ at a church debate before There has been almost nation's youth saying No could effectively the New Haven Green, nam. an overflow crowd of 1000. no community hostility, disrupt the Selective Service, and conse­ 1 p.m. April 3. Alex Jack of the New and considerable support. quently the war effort, altogether. Main speakers will be England Resistance spoke Voice of Women in Newton PHILADELPHIA Rev. William Sloane Coffin, to groups of potential raised $1000 for draft university chaplain indic­ After a large rally on resisters at LaSalle Univ., resistance at a dinner in ted in Boston for conspir­ the Univ. of Penn. campus, Univ. of Penn., Philadel­ early March. The Boston acy to aid draft resist­ the several dozen new re­ phia Community College, Globe is symphathetic. sisters will divide up and Haverford College, and Resisters and RESIST sup­ ance, several other fac­ ulty members, and Rick go with clergy supporters Swarthmore College during porters regularly appear to Lenten services the Bogel, Doug Rosenberg, and early March. on TV and radio as guests. evening of April 3 and Phil Singerman, all of turn-in their cards in the In recent polls, 22% of the Resistance. collection plates or be PITTSBURGH Harvard seniors will refuse Nearly all of the for­ introduced by the ministers The Pittsburgh Resistance induction, 15% of Amherst mer resisters have been to the congregation to reports that prospects for seniors, and 38% of Yale reclassified I-A, but only explain their acts. April 3 are much better than graduates. two have been ordered to Dec. 4 when 14 men said No The deans or presidents report for induction. Logistics of these services are still being to the war. at Harvard, Princeton, and None has been indicted. worked out. Paul Good­ A service of conscience Brown have stated publicly Relations with ot*her man will be the major wifl be held in a local that draft resisters who peace groups are cordial, speaker at the rally. church or a university cha­ are prosecuted and jailed especially the Yale Draft Three days later, on pel. prior to graduation will Refusal Committee ( a April 6, the Navy will Working closely with the be readmitted, in some "We Won't Go" group) and commission the battleship Peace and Freedom Center, cases on a priority basis. Draft Action Group ( a New Jersey for coastal the Resistance reports The Crimson, the Harvard new counseling center in­ bombardment of Vietnam. press coverage fair, except university student newspaper cluding Resistance mem­ The Resistance, which is by a community newsweekly endorsed the resistance in bers.) integrated with the Phil­ "The Point" which is ex­ an editorial March 6. The According-to a general adelphia Area Vietnam cellent. Use of local BU NEWS staff almost all assessment: "Good press, Committee, plans appropri­ radio programs has proved joined the Resistance last ate civil disobedience. beneficial. Oct. or December. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Page 4 THE RESISTANCE March 15 - April 3, 1968 THE RESISTANCE March 15 - April 3, 1968 Page 5 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 ROCHESTER CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 DURHAM, N.C. TEMPE, ARIZ. Karl Baker, a Univ. of Resistance organization yet, In the face of "super- Resistance plans in Rochester student and member graduate students are at hostility, bad press, and Durham remain to be de­ of the Resistance, was or­ last talking and discussing police who are getting cided. Possibilities in­ dered out of the Buffalo In­ alternatives to conscript­ worse," six definite Tempe clude a large demonstra­ duction Center Feb. 29 along ion. youths and 20-30 probables tion at the Federal Build­ with two other draft refu­ According to The Screw, will sever relations with ing at which new draft sers. an underground newspaper, the draft April 3. cards are nailed to the Over 200 persons paraded an April 3 rally could door. in support at a local draft galvanize several probables The Arizona State Univ- board in Rochester before Six men have pledged "lurking in the wings." sity Committee to End the he boarded a bus for Buffa­ to resist unconditionally War reports chat exact lo. There, another 60 pick­ and 20-50 others will con­ details of their action ets joined the Rochester con­ DENVER ditionally join them. will be announced later. tingent. Two Duke Univ. students In the wake of massive Baker, who was declared recently several relations repression, the Colorado "The draft is becoming delinquent after returning with the Selective Service. Resistance based primarily more and more unpopular his card, reports that April One sent his card back, and in Denver and Boulder re­ here," a spokesman said. 3 activity is progressing Concerning the campus the other burned his and port that "most people "But people are not This summer, the Re­ to such an extent that $1500 mood in LA, "Rats on a returned the ashes. want to dodge, not resist." open or courageous about sistance pians a march has been raised to pay a sinking ship! Students Attorney General Ramsey So far this month, their opinions." across country to Chicago full-time experienced or­ want to know if 'their' Clark was scheduled to be eight men have been indic­ to arrive in time for ganizer for the next six major is a good out. But on campus March 4. One ted for refusing induction, the national Democratic months. Contact Karl at they are thinking more Univ. of N.C. student and only one of whome, however, ALBUQUERdUE Convention Aug. 26. Box 6252, Univ. of Roches­ about the draft, and war. three Duke Law students was in the Resistance. Aside from the publicity, ter, Rochester, N.Y. 14677. The Resistance here, organizers see the pro­ We have received millions planned to give their draft Of the initial 11 re­ headed by Larry Lack and posed marathon as raising of phone calls for coun­ cards to him. For some in the Chicago area. With will be turned in or burned, sisters on Oct. 16 and Jeff Smedberg of the Univ. political consciousness selling." reason, he didn't come. CHICAGO new CADRE chapters in will highlight the Minnea­ Dec. 4, five are in the of New Mexico, plan April 3 in many cities and states Climaxing a rally at Rogers Park, Lakeview, polis Resistance activity process of trial for non- action at the Albequerque along the way. GAINSVILLE, FLO. Congress Plaza and a march Hyde Park/Univ. of Chica­ on April 3. possession, one convicted DAVIS, CALIF. Induction Center. through downtown loop go, and Northwestern Univ. Two definite new resis­ and out on appeal, one David Harris, a Resis­ A large demonstration Several hundred Spanish- The seven resisters at area to the Federal Build­ in Evanston, the final tors and four probables under indictment, and tance founder who refused against Gen. Hershey who Americans in the area are the Univ. of California ing, new members of Chica­ tally should multiply sev­ are slated to join the se­ two reclassified, induction last month, is scheduled to visit the resisting the draft by go­ at Davis hope to increase go Area Draft Resisters eral times that number. ven present non-cooperators Mendel Cooper, an Oct. toured the Southwest and U. of Florida campus April ing underground. A new their group on April 3 (CADRE) will attempt to CADRE teams have also or­ at the picket line, which 16 veteran, was convicted West Coast as a prelude 4 should attract "spon­ paper El Papel openly by converting four prob­ return their draft cards ganized in Iowa, southern will last from 4-6 p.m. of burning and non-possess­ to a national speaking taneous" events such as opposes conscription and ables at a rally and to the Federal Attorney. Illinois, and Michigan. ion March 1 — the first tour with Joan Baez in the turn-in of several the Vietnam war. March. press conference. If he refuses, as in As one of the most ac­ ST. LOUIS member of the Resistance draft cards. Résister Tom Havstad, the past, the certificates tive draft resistance in the country thus pro­ Of the three resisters who refused induction will be mailed directly to groups in the country, A "Peace Ceremony" at secuted and found guilty. SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES here, two have been ordered in April, 1967, will be Gen. Hershey. A Be-In CADRE provides a variety which draft cards will be Clergy, women's strike, The LA Resistance will to report for induction. The Berkeley Resistance arraigned on March 27. celebration with rock of programs, primarily immersed in a chalice of and other groups are slow­ hold Services of Conscience The radical peace movement anticipates a record number Résister Dave Buss re­ bands will follow the off-campus. Indicative blood will highlight the ly mobilizing support. on three different campuses is "comparatively strong" of 1000 new resisters on fused induction Jan. 13. afternoon's action. of their success has been April 3 activity of the A Legal Defense Fund has April 3 (tentatively UCLA, and support has been good. April 3 from the Bay Area. Dave Kenny has been call­ To date, 20 young men prosecution of several of St. Louis Draft Resistance. been established, and Cai State LA, and Cal State, The press lacks in-depth Tentatively, demonstra­ ed up March 20 and he have pledged to join the their members by the Jus­ Tentatively, the service contributions can be sent San Fernando), at noon. reporting, but anti-draft tors will rally on their intends to refuse. will take place at Berea activities are reported. 100 previous resisters tice Dept. to P.O. Box 20065, Denver local campuses and then Caravans from the cam­ Church, 3010 Olive St. Four men who resisted 80220, c/o Susie Stark. march to Oakland, scene puses will meet at Mac- Speakers will include Rich PORTLAND, ORE. prior to Oct. 16 are now of last fall's Stop the Arthur Park where a "love- Freer of SLDR, Jerome Sch­ imprisoned. Four others Draft Week, for which se­ in" atmosphere will pre­ Several dozen college iller, head of Committee have subsequently refused TUSCON ven anti-war organizers vail. LA résister Dale seniors and grad students to Support Resistance and Oderman is creating a col­ will join the Resistance induction, but have not The three resisters here have been prosecuted. Chairman of the Philosophy lage of draft cards and here April 3, at some yet been indicted. hope to double their num­ In addition to inten­ Department at Washington anti-war material. Some sort of mass action on bers on April 3 with speeches sive community and campus CHAMPAGNE URBANA Univ., three induction cards have already been local campuses. at a local park and a march organizing, the Resistance The 11 present resisters refusers, and represen­ turned-in in advance, and to a local draft board where initiated a Free High 75% of seniors at in Champagne-Urbana hope to tatives from women's and others will be added at new draft cards will be School, which already has Reed College signed a increase their movement by other support groups. the ceremony. turned in or burned with attracted 50 students. "We Won't Go" petition. eight on April 3 at a rally The new draft cards will complicity statements from Several of the 150 When finished, the col­ At other colleges, from or church service. be turned over to the Fed­ adult supporters. present resisters, inclu­ lage will be fiberglassed 107.-50% have indicated A community support com­ likewise. eral Attorney April 4 and, Two of the current re­ ding Buddy Clark and and titled the total num­ mittee, the Quaker meeting, if support warrants, dis­ sisters, Brad Littlefield „ Flint Anderson, a semin­ ber of years imprisonment The 29 present resist­ and faculty have lent from ruptive action at the and David Rehfield have arian at San Francisco the new resisters face ers, four of whom have fair to very good support. Induction Center will follow, been indicted and arraigned Theological Seminary, collectively, photographed been ordered to report The general community remains and sent with a letter or for induction but none To date, three new ré­ for burning their cards and have already refused in­ apathetic. On campus, stu­ via a national tour to prosecuted, report close sistants are definite and for non-possession. Their duction. David Kenny of dents are uptight and there General Hershey. affiliations with other 20 probable. Previously, trials are both scheduled Davis plans to refuse has been a considerable Joining the 78 old re­ anti-war groups, inclu­ 15 turned in their draft for May 2. March 20. rush on information and sisters, only 6 of whom ding the Society for cards, two of whom have literature on Canada. have been ordered to re­ New Action Politics. been indicted for refus­ "There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, Most people, an organizer port for induction since Relating to the black ing induction. who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them; tvho, esteeming themselves reports, "don't realize October 16, will be 13 community still poses the children of Washington and Franklin, sit down with their hands in their the implications" of the problems. LAWRENCE, KAN. pockets, and say that they do not know what to do, and do nothing . . . They définîtes and 14 proba­ draft and war. hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; hut they do nothing in bles. Since the days of earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the TV coverage has been SEATTLE MINNEAPOLIS John Brown, response to evil, that they will no longer have it to regret. At most they will give only a cheap excellent for every dem­ vote, and a feeble countenance and Godspeed, to the right, as it goes by them. Although the Resistance radical activity here has onstration. The LA Times, A large demonstration at There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man; here has yet to plan for been hostile. however, systematically the Federal Building, at but it is easier to deal with the real possessor of a thing than with the temporary April 3, support is "build­ Although there is no blackedout every activity which draft cards and vet­ guardian of it." until the recent refusal ing," in the face of eight CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 indictments for induction erans' discharge papers Henry David Thoreau —1848 of Christian Hayden, son of actor Sterling Hayden. refusal. Page 6 THE RESISTANCE March 15 - April 3, 1968 THE RESISTANCE March 15 - April 3, 1968 Page 7 Days of Conscience Planned —The Draft and ce • "Where is the uni­ (The following statement by Na­ that adherence to the latter might ber of student anti­ card a "draft dodder." ?or .-nost versity when its stu­ tional Clergy and Laymen Concer­ constitute a "war crime." war leaders, and a students by law are o'eferreo', dents are making the ned About Vietnam was released widespread hostility In .i/ash.in.P'toi?j C, C. in February, and in the case of seminarians most fateful decisions toward the academic com­ ) In other words, no man must practically exempt. Therefore, of their lives, and munity in Washington surrender his conscience to the in turning in their draft car^s, perhaps in the life of all suggest that the state. This is the American way. these men are turning in tne Americans need to be reminded Remembering this, Americans the nation as well?" Administration may be that the law was made for man, very dodge the law provl-ies In answer to this should be able to realize that them as students. So, far fros prepared not only to not man for the law. it is no .-sore patriotic to mourn question, RESIST, the write off academics cowardly, their act is a cour­ national adult support a dead soldier than to honor a ageous one. In most Instances, politically, but ac­ "The law is only a mem­ living conscience. group of Resistance, tively to repress cam­ orandum. 'We are super­ it is also a very conscientious will sponsor Academic one. pus-based dissent. If stitious, and esteem the As clergy and laymen, we are Days of Conscience on we are to combat such statute somewhatj so much concerned that thousands of young 1000 campuses April a move, we must stand life as it has in the char­ Americans are today presented with As clergy and laymen, we can­ 15-16 and Vietnam Com­ togwther and not be acter of living men is its the option of either violating not strive to educate men of con­ mencements at the end fragmented, isolated force...our statute is a their consciences or going to jail, science and then desert then: in of May and early June. and silenced." currency which we stamp The draft law is manifestly un­ their hour of conscience. There­ While each commun­ with our own portrait 1 it just. For not only does it place fore, over 1300 clergy and laymen ity will organize Mr. Lauter further soom becomes unrecogniz­ the major burden of the war on the have pledged themselves public­ around its local needs stated that university able, and in process of backs of the poorj it makes no ly to aid and abet these war and priorities, the concern over the end time will return to the provision for the 'selective' resisters in such ways as they mint. central focus of both of graduate deferments conscientious objector. can. events will be demon­ must not simply be — Ralph W. Emerson Politics strating unity with channelled into pres­ Résister Ray Mungo, director of the Liberation Yet. according to Jewish and We urge all clergy and lay­ sure to restore that Christian tradition, the men to do the same and to strive young men who refuse News Service in Washington, D.C, destroyed his The law is worthy of respect the draft and attempt­ "undemocratic and in­ citizen whose oonscience for­ for a new draft law that will equitable privilege." induction orders in front of the Boston Army but never of worship, for there bids him to participate in a significantly raise the low le­ ing to restore the is always a higher law than the "Universities can­ Base March 6. 600 persons demonstrated in sup­ particular war is as deserving vel of national morality re­ health of universities law of the land. of respect as a citizen whose in American society. not answer the question port and then marched downtown for a breakfast flected in so many aspects of conscience forbids him to par­ the present law. According to RESIST asked above with, "Well celebration. (photo Dan Brody) we're trying to get Thomas Jefferson, in the Dec­ ticipate in any war. The fact director, Paul Lauter: that the religious tradition your deferment back'. laration of Independence, appeal­ "We must obey God rather than "The Spock-Coffin pro­ ed to "natural law" above British we honor is not honored by Fortunately, students Poet Speaks Out men." Surely we can live neither secutions, among oth­ law.. W.H. Seward appealed to a our government shows clearly will not accept that with ourselves nor with our God ers, the decision to Robert Bly, 1968 Na­ speech was like an higher law against the Supreme why so much civil disobedience answer, by and large. if today we do not keep faith draft graduate stu­ tional Book Award winner Administration speecn Court's opinion in the Dred Scott today is a form of religious with those who refuse to sur­ dents, the reclassifi­ Universities must be for poetry, has donated today. case. Justice Jackson, as Ameri­ obedience. made to see that only render their consciences to the cation to I-A of a num- his #1000 prize to the "It was another can prosecutor at Nuremberg, em­ state. by ending the war, Resistance. speech recommending the phasized the principle of the by changing America's Many terms cloud rather than murder of a race as a Nuremberg Charter that interna­ military and repress­ In his address before clarify painful issues. For in­ prudent policy, requir­ tional law was a law higher than ive foreign policy, an audience of the na­ stance, it is a mistake to call ing stamina. Perhaps the national law of Germany, and can problems like tion's leading writers, a student who turns in his draft this coincidence should that of the draft be publishers, and critics, not nave surprised me, dealt with," he con­ Mr. Bly, a founder of Dut it dia." clude^ . American Writers against the Vietnam War, compared "And say not thou, 'My country right or wrong'; Monk Protests In Capital 4 Busted in Wyo. US policy in Vietnam Mr. Bly called upon with Soviet repression those present to refuse nor shed thy blood for an unhallowed cause." By RAYMOND MUNGO in the aftermath of CHEYENNE, Wyo. (LNS) — in Hungary, Nazi des­ to pay income taxes to the NLF*s recent offen­ Four members of the Ber­ truction of the Czech­ the government in pro­ WASHINGTON, D.C. (LNS) sive on the cities and •RESISTANCE* keley Resistance were oslovak village of Lidice test of the war. Over «/oitAv ^Zu-ûvvcay JycL(Un+$ — The Venerable Thich towns of South Vietnam. arrested here March 1 and the massacre of the half the audience gave The Resistance news­ Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Nhat Hanh supports on vagrancy charges, Indians. him a standing ovation. poet and monk, surfaced paper is published in Bos­ a "third solution" in and are also being "I am uneasy at a cer­ three blocks from the Vietnam which would ton by the New England charged with non-poss­ emony emphasizing our Last year at the White House Feb. 28 to "not require a mili­ Resistance in both a re­ ession of draft cards, current high state of awards, over 100 parti­ add his voice to a pro­ tary victory" and place gional and national edi­ a federal charge for culture," he declared. cipants stormed out in test of recent political the government under tion. All correspondence, which warrants have been "Cultural events, tra­ protest of the war when arrests in Saigon. a "non-Communist coal­ letters, articles, etc. issued. ditionally, put writers Vice President Humphrey ition." The vagrancy charge rose to so.'sak• should be sent to the New to sleep, and even the His protest, he said, "The Increased polar­ England Resistance, 27 must be disposed of first public. But we don't ization of forces can however, before warrents Mr. oxy'.; ne.a volume is aimed directly at the Stanhope St., Boston, Mass. want to be asleep any State Department, which only force the war to can be served. The four more. Something has hap­ of poetry was published go on," he said. "Many Tel. 617-536-9793/4. men, Vincent Mannino, by Harder 4 Row. in the past has influ­ pened to me lately. enced the Thieu-Ky gov­ many people have defec­ Editor: Alex Jack. Kent Hutchings, Wayne ted to the NLF out of Every time I have glanced ernment to release cer­ Business Manager: Don Bobo. Green and Darrell Gauff, In his acceptance anger, frustration, at a bookcase in the tain political pris­ Assistant Editor: Dan were enroute to Chicago speech at New York's and despair." when then were appre­ last few weeks, the Philharmonic Hall March oners in South Viet­ Brody. books on killing of the The NLF, Nhat Hanh hended. 6, Mr. Bly stated that nam. said, has been trying Circulation Manager: Chris Indians leap out into his donation constituted Venn. Contributions for my hand. Reading a speech to establish a broad bail, fines and legal "an appropriate use of Nnat Hanh, dressed coalition much like Editorial Staff: Neil Rob­ of Andrew Jackson's on an award for a book of in black robe and tan fees should be sent the Indian question the the Buddhist "third ertson, Steve Pailet, to the Berkeley Re­ poems mourning the war." hush-puppies, joined other day — his second solution" which still Connie Field, Nan Stone, sistance, c/o the Bow- The volume is entitled Prof. Robert Browne of annual message — I re­ has a strongly pro-NLF Mike Ferber, Ira Arlook, ditch Review, ?700 Ban­ "The Light Around the Farleigh Dickenson U. alized he was tne West­ position. croft Way, Berkeley, Body" and deals with David Würfel, Sanford John Brown, moreland of lbjo. His But both Hanoi and Calif. struggle. Gottlieb of SANE, and the NLF are eager for Alfred Hassler of the peace and would accept Enclosed is $5 each for 1-year gift In support of the young men Fellowship of Recon­ subscriptions to following people: a true coalition if resisting the draft, I pledge ciliation, in urging Washington took honest $ 2_ NOW and $ monthly. the release of the steeps to end its ag­ NAME Venerable Thich Tri All checks payable to N.E.R. gression, he added. ADDRESS Quang, leader of the ZIP or Prof. Noam Chomsky. "The peasants support NAME Unified Buddhist Church» lawyer Truong Dinh Dzu, the NLF because they ADDRESS Ft. Jackson, S C.-Two G.l.s fell totheirkneesin apparent prayer after being informed ZIP MY NAME runner-up to Gen, Thieu desire national inde­ NAME that the post chapel could not be used for a meditation and pray-in on the war in pendence. . .If a new Vietnam. About 30 soldiers showed up for the scheduled pray-in, which was cancelled in the 196? "elections"» ADDRESS government could prove ZIP ADDRESS ZIP by post authorities when they found out its purpose. A spokesman for the post said and Dr. Au Truong Thanh, Following the arraignment of Dr. Spock, 25 young men turned-in that such a service would be contrary to Army regulations. Privates Robert later former minister of to be for peace and draft cards at a service at Arlington St., Church. Supporting them (second from left) and Stephen Kline then staged their impromptu pray-in, as an officer economics in Ky's unaffiliated with Wash­ RETURN TO: K.E.RESISTANCE, 27 STANHOPE, BOSTON, MASS. were Rev. Richard Mumma of Harvard, editor David Dellinger, Vic­ MP ordered them to move on. The post announced that court martial charges against tor Tokel of A.S.C., Rabbi Herman Pollock of MIT, and Father Philip cabinet, plus many ington, the people (tel.) (617) 536-9793 / 9794 the two were dropped after an investigation.-Photo: Edmund Brown of the Columbia, would support it," Berrigan of Baltimore. S.C. Record. others — all arrested he continued. Paee 8 THE RESISTANCE March 15 - April 3, 1968 THE RESISTANCE March 15 - April 3, 1968 Page 9 The fact that a person acted pursuant to order off his government or off a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided «a moral choice was in fact possible to him. Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity...is a crime under international law. —Principles IV and VII Nuremberg Charter

Service is the only the creation of a world time. We do not see pledge of support the in which these means of J555*7S7 this as the end of our war machine expects of interrelationship among action, it is only the most of us. I will no men will continue to Two years ago it was first affirmation of a rule as they have enough for me to know, longer make that pledge way of life in which men nor give Selective Ser­ through man's tortured as far as my relation­ history of sanctioned, ship to the Selective live by their own vice legitimacy in my lights, act according life by carrying Its collective, organized Service System went, murder, euphemistically that whatever happened, to belief and discover card. the liberating power of The price America known as service to I would not enter the one's country. True military. I thought in moral commitment and exacts for refusing to simple integrity. co-operate is a maximum service to one's country terms of II-S, IV-F, can only be measured in I-Y or 1-0, supposing of five years in federal Stuart McRae prison. But the price terms of one's service that the problem would to mankind as a whole. never be too taxing. America exacts this in­ stant in Vietnam from an Your system of com­ In other words I pulsory conscription thought that I could unco-operative peasant is life itself. My sac­ grew out of the recog­ "get out" of the draft. nition that the citizens Within a year after I choose the position rifice is very small in of non-cooperation for comparison. of this country would that, however, the pat­ the sake of the peace not volunteer to fight tern of U. S. escalation and honesty I feel must the country's wars. The and the impotence of compose my relationship Dennis Sweeney media-oriented and li­ with the people and in­ responsibility for the beral politics in gene­ stitutions around me. individual to engage in ral were rather clearly It is everywhere appa­ organized murder ... was established. I became rent that the military It is no longer pos­ taken from the individ­ more profoundly aware of combine of this nation sible for me to co-op­ ual and given to an im­ what it would take to exists to impose death erate with the Selective personal bureaucracy. make America safe for and slavery on the world Service System. The I NOW CHOOSE TO RETURN the world.... in the name of a fraudu­ values by which I try to THAT RESPONSIBILITY TO By refusing to go lent way of life. To live are incompatible MYSELF. This is pos­ into the military I that condition I must It is in the hands of BFY groups, and a state clever as I was in de­ with those practiced by sible only by stopping could avoid dirtying my speak with my whole the young people to say liberately convincing the system which employs all further co-operation officer of the Wiscon­ you and by the military with the Selective Ser­ hands directly, but to­ being as a primary step "no more war" to the sin BFY. In addition, the examining authori­ co-operate in any man­ towards a new community American nation. We ties that I was crazy. which that system nou­ vice System.... during my senior year at rishes. ... ner with the system in America.... must say that when Amer­ college I had been ac­ Non-college youth don^t Yours in peace, which allows others to In America, the word ica practises slavery cepted and given a full know enough about psy­ Your methods are ne­ Bill Shurtleff ' fight in my name ... peace has come to have abroad, it must practice tuition scholarship to chology land psychia­ cessary to guarantee can't be sailed right. no more meaning than slavery at home. That Andover Newton Theolo­ trists) to put on such the successful operation It is now clear to me politician's rhetoric. If it would police the gical Seminary to study a convincing act as I of the military. In that if humanity is to The people of this coun­ world, then it must first for the ministry. (The did,... creating the concept of my brother, prevail over the mili­ try consider peace a imprison its youth. So Air Force, however, had But now I feel a duty an enemy the military in response to your tary-industrial Levia­ function of governments long as we fail to make refused to give me an to come out of my haven, must deny the bonds totalitarian demand— than which is at root over which they maintain that statement, there educational delay, so and stand in jeopardy which unite men and make "order"—that i present responsible for this no control and fail to will be no peace. those plans had to be with my brothers of The them as brothers. In myself to be inducted insanity, individuals understand that peace David Harris cancelled.) In spite of Resistance.... demanding compulsory into the u.s. military must clearly and honest­ exists when we live it. such strong evidence, conscription, the mili­ machine, i have a sin­ ly define their rela­ To stand for peace in a 0% AP1&A 3. and the approval of Com­ Jefferson Poland tary must frequently re­ gle, emphatic reply. tionships to the ubiqui­ nation at war is not manders at every lower quire involuntary servi­ NO! OF COURSE NOT! tous institutions of easy, but it must be During my senior level, when it reached tude. In using means yours in peace, militarism surrounding done. If the young year in college I began Washington D. C, MY which are coercive, im­ in loving their everyday lives. people of America con­ to realize that my plans RESIGNATION WAS NOT AC­ T%Z WAR personal and violent, • brotherhood, War and injustice cannot tinue to march row by to enter the Air Force CEPTED . Our lives and our the military furthers daniel thomas fallon possible cease until men were inconsistent with row to Asia in the cause Now my situation is politics, and the two free themselves from the of senseless death, we the Christian princi­ are really inseparable, fraudulent platitudes of ples in which I belie­ precarious. The legal can expect senseless office where I am sta­ will lead only to the compromise. For me and death to reign supreme ved. It now seems ap­ despair, fear and impo­ SELECT others this will mean palling that I had as­ tioned has refused to over a prostrate human­ handle my case. Thus, tence we see in the REGIS!** going to prison for some sumed the necessity of American mind unless we ity. military service with­ again without adequate advice, and with little can develop a resistance THIS IS TO CERTIFY TM/ out realizing its moral which takes into account implications. However, hope of understanding (FIRST NAME) : from the Air Force, my the deep roots of autho­ LACKING PROPER GUIDANCE, ritarianism and milita­ and tempted by the ma­ court martial and subse­ quent imprisonment for rism in the institutions terial benefits, I com­ surrounding us. We face DsiYld La pleted ROTC and was com­ refusal to cooperate ,., *- seem certain*... not only the destruction ;D SELECTIVE SERVICE NO. missioned an Officer. of Vietnam and the mur­ |P ;< It did not take long der of its people but Z (DATE OF BIRTH) ::::: R. Duane Ferre m*«_t .T%» and to address myself to body over something that's cuss the sociological im­ strike you down if you are that room out—there isn't cept of fighting, attacking. create something. even the young radicals. ing to Canada was a closed social problems. I just obsolete in the first place. plications of Negroes not against him. any Western Civilization. Now, if militarism is a The fact that a nation Now a lot of radicals are issued for me. I'm not understand that murder is So there is no conflict being able to eat sand­ Well, that's a concept I was studying some problem, we've got to attack is not overtly at war against the war because going to Canada, there's not one of the ways to do between East and the West. wiches. Just foolishness. African history the other it. We just can't sit around they don't like Johnson— nothing going on in Can­ that really has nothing to it. Whether it's dealing No« it's unfortunate that a We said, look, if that's a does not necessarily day, and I discovered that and be afraid of it and duck a lot of them are from do with religion—that con­ with Eastland in Mississippi lot of us think that. We go problem, let's tackle that mean that it is going to ada; I'm not running from the reason that the Anglo- from it and run away from it cept was picked up by some off and spout off all our problem. And I went to Wash­ be involved in creative the North and Johnson has Johnson. or Wallace in Alabama, the Saxons were able to go in theories about sociology ington (Kennedy was living and connive with it, no, we' work. So just to say a southern accent. There are a lot of petty king (and people like „^gs murder of white folks and rape and rob Africa was and revolution, talking then) and they talked hours ve got to attack it. let's stop the war so Now I like southern problems, not only in this Daley: if you don't agree in the South would not essentially because the about the conflict—there about how Negroes were dis­ And we have to use the with Mayor Daley, he cuts solve the problems. It just we can spend money else­ accents, so Johnson does- country but all over the isn't any conflict. You enfranchised, and all of the Africans were civilized; they same kind of brains and in- wouldn't do that, because where is ridiculous. can't find an ideological problems involved--we couldn't didn't have armies, they itiative and schemes and the problem is not predi­ Even if America was 'My reason for opposing the war has nothing conflict. I'm going to tell get it done now, the nation didn't spend their money work and money and time to not at war, it would not cated on the murdering of you what the conflict really ...blah,blah,blah. And if like that. That's right, they at least convince men, not use its money and re­ to do with Johnson's policy, my feelings another man. is. folks can't vote, let's have didn't have armies--the> did- only in America but around sources in a really con­ So that what we probably a war about it. Do that. n't need them, they weren't the world, that its madness There ought to be a revv> structive way. When we towards him, or my feeling toward the Viet need to do, those of us who Let's put it in the streets. going to bother each other. to murder folks about nothing olution, but it has nothing And you know, when those And we have to also tell men weren't at war we didn't are serious about peace and Let's live it. Let's make it Cong—it's a simple proposition: the mass to do with nations. The rev­ folks came down and saw folks that there is no real ldeol- , do it—can we assume those of us who are serious work. olution should basically be without armies, they said, ogy that murdering people differently now? murder of people does not solve human about civilization or cre­ Now, if it's tragic and the people against the mil­ "These folks aren't civilized can achieve or can accomplish Now there are a lot of ating a civilization, is to if it s sad for the govern­ problems." itary. That's the revolu­ they don't even have armies. Now that's a myth we oper­ people who say we should­ analyze and understand the ment --whether it's the Amer- tion. And that has nothing And ate under. Some of them say, problems so that the methods lean government-to conscript they started killing the n't be in this war because you off—if you don't turn to do with East and West. In we've got armies to protect n't offend me with his world, but resorting to men and make them go murder, folks, operating under the we can't win it. So that out the people in your pre- that we use will give us other words, that has some­ assumption that if you don't our sacred way of life. But accent. A lot of radical the murder and dehumani- then it seems to me that what we ought to do, pre­ cinct, you will get fired results in keeping with the thing to do with thugs in have armies, if you're not you can't use an army to northern students are zation of young men, whe­ enlightened people must sumably, is get out of this and demoted) but it got end that we are trying to America and thugs in Russia, organized to murder and op­ protect democracy. You can't against the war because ther you call them Green develop a whole movement one and get into one that into the religion. achieve. And generals are nothing but about civilization. Just be press people, something's protect democracy with ar­ they are symphathetlc to Berets or Vietcong, having I we can win. Now that's a If you disagree with a You know, I was talking a bunch of trained thugs, civilized—a whole movement wrong with you. mies. There is no decent idea the Vietcong. I think I them out killing each oth­ that's all they are. Now that's basically our | good position, probably, man, you get rid of him, to some guys, and they said, about how to bring about I know that you can protect express some of that sen­ er under the pretence of concept of man now—bad, you with an army. Do you know 1 and I've heard it expressed you kill him, you destroy "Why don't you use the term Now the argument is between civilization. timent often--I call it solving problems is just Now a lot of us can't do know' batman and all that any? | by a lot of people who be- him. Because of that sort Black Power?" And I said the thugs. One set of thugs an underdog complex. kind of foolish. You don't stxiti So | lieve in war and who say of concept, a lot of people that a doctor shouldn't give says that they should be in that, because we've been so - ""St of us operate CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 have to be a scholar of | that this one just can't Tou think about Amer­ feel religiously bound to « man a medicine that's go- the state, that they sould history to know that mass be won militarily. ica's great planes and kill or murder folks under ing to make him sick; you be the government and dis­ murder doesn't solve prob­ They have nothing a- rockets and you think the pretext that they are know, you give a cat some tribute the goods—the other "There ought to be a revolution, but it has lems. gainst war, but think we about the Vietcong walk­ in fact following the direc-medicine that's going to thugs have another method. Now, we can get into should go out and get into ing around in black paja­ tions of God. Like when do him some good. So that They go out and get folks nothing to do with nations. The revolution how this foolishness got one that we can win be­ mas with sticks in their they're ready to go out and if a man is suffering from who should in fact be united- started. I have studied should basically be the people against the cause the. generals are be­ hands and you just have kill, they pray and all fear and foolishness, you young men from all countries— religion (I'm a Baptist to fight over some method of ginning to get impatient to have sympathy toward that stuff: "God, we want don't go and intensify his military. That's the revolution. And that has preacher and all that distributing the wealth that and they are beginning to the underdog. you to help us to kill the fear and foolishness. You jazz) but one of the real the thugs shouldn't have in feel emasculated because A lot of people think folks now, and we hope that eliminate it. Later on, nothing to do with East and West." problems from a religious the first place. they haven't had a really we should stop the war you help us murder a lot I'11 8now vou how thls So you see there is no because they figure that perspective is that be­ klnd of clear victory since their of folks today, God," you stuff works; it's luiiiiunMiinuuHiiinuuiiuuiuiiuiuuiiuiiiuniiiiiuuiiuiiiiiiiuiunuiuniuiiiuuuuinuiuniuiiuiiuiiiiiiuiiuiiuiniiinniiiiiuuimiiiiiii cause of our primitive Minium un uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiimuiiiiuii iiiuiiiiiiiii i IIIIIIIII war in Germany. Now that's if we stay there and give know, and on and on. Ju8t very practical to do them everything we've got, understanding of the con- a position that some peo­ Now this is the way mil-things that way. we could literally destroy cept of God we still feel ple take and I guess it's itary prayers go, and of the whole country, and of justified in using the a sound one. course, they have priests CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 Most of the positions course destroy the under- methods that we once IIIIIIlUlllllJllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllillllllJIIIIIJIIIlKUlllUlltlllllllllHI llllllllltimiUlllltltll IIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIMIIIIIUIIirillllllllllllllMllllllltlllllllll llllMNIIIIIIIIIIIlllllJllllllllllMlllllllJllMIMIIItlltllllllllllll II III I llllll 11M11 IIIMlMliri IIJII Jlllf I Mtl IJMM llll I llllll tj I llllfl 1111II li tl I IK I 7 u c »o 1 1 TRI." 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That's absurd. feller didn't make that me to get myself classified and I other problem, and this is do we establish states Who's the enemy? stuff; it was here when he got here. It's our oil and my last point, is that there which go about the business (A non-violent movement, didn't read it. I just wrote a little I'm not going to scratch cannot be a violent révolu- of meeting human needs with- and I hate to use this word to get it. Because I am. note and said, 'Whatever you're tion. There has never been out spending all their re­ because most folks get all Now that's the kind of move­ one, in the first place, sources to murder each riled up—they think I mean ment you got to start talk­ selling I ain't interested in buying and there cannot be one. other? by nonviolence doing nothing ing about. But you all aren't Because the very word is a When I was doing some but sleeping. I believe in it.' And I closed it up and sent it going to do it anyway so contradiction—violence al­ voter registration work fighting and stay in fights there isn't any danger. ways negates revolution. down in Mississippi, I went most of the time. Believe back." Every country in the You'll get. rid of the world, every government in military not by fighting the Gandhi told India, "Stop the world, from Castro to military but by producing so at the point when a mur­ "The enemy is not «Johnson. The buying goods and make your Johnson is based on violence. much inner strength and se­ derer takes charge. That's clothes, you are creating A violent revolution is like curity that arms will look why a revolution can't be enemy is the lack of character on the tyrant just by your slave a man who says, "Man I'm go­ foolish to you. I used to violent. attitude," and "the way you ing to get rid of prostitu­ walk around in Alabama and If I go to work and kill •get rid of tyrants is just tion." "What you gonna do?" the part of most folks who tolerate couldn't understand how men Johnson and take over the reject them in your whole "I'm going to get rid of could walk around without government a murderer is action in your whole being." the pimp and I'm going to •Johnson's foolishness. That's guns. the president. And murderers become the pimp." You have­ When I became a man, I Let me give you some il­ can't lead countries of peo­ lustrations. If enough men ple. They can't do that. n't gotten rid of prosti­ the enemy." didn't need a gun. My secur­ tution, you've Just gotten ity had no relationship to a in the world start saying That's not one of the things rid of one pimp and gotten gun. And what I was trying to they won't go into the army, murderers can do, because they'll stop it. They'll stop another one. to a white fellow's house in it, and think about it, the Army broke up and they we can't get it out." Well, I do I couldn't have done with they don't have the human it. They'll look for other I saw one Negro trying and he had all kinds of and plan it, and do it. But started fighting among them­ guarantee you that if Budweiser a gun anyway. And what I'm insight, because they're not ways. They have to start sayini to persuade some people to guns. He lived close to the then see, you have to under­ selves and the folks went can sell us on beer then you trying to do in the world very human. "We want leaders who can lead take over a police station Negro community because he stand how to fight the ene­ on home. Moses didn't kill will be able to sell folks on I can't do it with a gun. So if students are serious without military power, who and start a revolution like was poor—the more money my. And if people walk a- anybody, but he understood common sense. Beer has no mean­ I'm about a revolution; they have to develop a com­ understand social problems the one they had over in you make the further you round thinking the Russians the nature of tyranny. He ing and doesn't develop any­ How do you sow that? That munity of serious people to and how to educate and use Russia. When he went on to can get away from the Negro. are the enemy then they knew that if a man is a thing. But now you can't go revolution starts in your do just like the church. And the power of education." medical science. So we need tell me about the great Rus­ He lived kind of close have problems.) slave he contributes to his around and spill a dime and mind. The reason most fellows what did the church do? Now went to Alabama and got Ne a breakthrough in the whole sian Revolution, I said, to the Negroes and he said, If you understand that own slavery by at least 50%. give ten minutes to convince are cussing out other fellows You think Johnson's going you think about this. groes to say "We're going "Russia ain't had no revolu­ "Well, I got all these guns it's the military establish­ Because there's a slave mast- anybody of anything, is because they're enslaved to stop when all he has to do The Catholic Church spends to vote." That's what SNCC area of being, of being a is say, "Look feller, you tion yet—you get rid of cause I'm going to keep ment that is the enemy, you er and a slave. vou have to make a whole and mad, not because they're a lot of money to sell folks did. That's what they're person. the Czar and get Stalin, these fellows from bothering have to develop a strategy. So most of the folks that apparatus and a movement to free to create. They're two all come to the army"? on eating fish on Friday (or doing. Now, why don't the So you say, "No, I'm in school. that ain't no revolution." my wife." And he had a lot Let me try to explain to you walk around in China talking j0 it. And you have to attack, different things. But you it did till lately). And white fellows who see the And I want to point it "Well, all right, you don't You have to understand that—of guns. And when his wife how it will have to work. about freedom and most of the jjow, it can't be an American all aren't going to do that that's got nothing to do tragedy of war take the same ^ to you th-t ^ church have to stay long, just two you get rid of the King of came out, I said, "Doctor, People really don't analyze folks here who talk about - movement because the enemy is so there isn't any danger. with nothing. But they work- position? isn't getting this message things well enough. Some peo- freedom by keeping Mao Tse- t Johnson. The enemy is the And some of you all are go­ years." ed at it. And did you know England and get old Johnson, you do not need guns." So no Why don't you hit every out, there is no government pie argue for both Thoreau Tung out are all enslaved to i k of character on the ing off to Canada and some of But if those men were they got almost the whole that is no revolution. he was operating under a ac school? You shouldn't have getting it out, and there are and the nonviolent movement, militarism. They haven't an- t of most folks who tol- you are going to work at some saying, "No, can't do that." Violence itself negates great illusion that he had par Christian community around thirty-two students here no schools getting it out. Thoreau was a jiver. alyzed the nature of the erate Johnson's foolishness. hospital, and then come on "Say why?" "Because I'm not the world eating fish? It the possibility of revolu­ something that somebody need- saying No but you should tion. We need to understand back after two years when going to kill folks. Now has no meaning. But they ed. Let me tell you who really problem. That's the enemy. That enemy start organizing here to So you've got to create A they leave you alone and buy I'll go if you want me to work at it. You must at that, but most of us don't In America we operate un- didd a nonviolent movement... A movemenmovementt hahass ttoo develodevelopp thcn .g no(. tfc> John Mrch say No, No, No, not only a lot of cars and start gob- back there and build some least admit that they be­ your own forms and get it have the guts and the brains der a great illusion, and the Moses. He did non—absolutely.that will attack the problem. Society> ^ it comes down to in America but around the out. So don't start look- Most ling up the resources. You're dams in Italy to keep the lieve in eating fish because to see it. How are you going Russians do too. I just get He took away Pharoah's power of us aren't going to the individual. The enemy be- world. No. You would have to i for somebody to do it to have a violent revolution, tickled. You ask the Russian and didn't kill the Egyptians. work on ic anyhow so like the generals. Same old floods from tearing up they taught folks to do it. ng comes the individual. start dealing with the whole for you, and don't start when everything already is government, "Why do you have He was a very smart man be- there's no danger in your pattern. people's towns. I'd go and Now you just can't leave And when an individual gets concept of life and create looking over there in the based on violence? armies?" And they say they're cause he started to understand knowing it. But it's so Using up too much of the do that. I'm for armies. I the whole concept of a himself straight, when he's a' within people a philosophy civil rights movement for the nature of tyranny. He did- beautiful. And that's why resources without even think­ believe in armies. We prob­ world without arms to chance In order to have a révolu-keeping the enemy out. Who's free man loving and creating, of living, and then they the Kingdom because it n't go out cussing Pharoah, when we go into the South ing where the stuff comes ably need some to go build You have to work at it. tion, you've got to turn the the enemy? The capitalists, he has the ability at that won't need to kill. isn't there. but said to the Jews, "Listen, we «re going to have a from. It was no accident that houses there In Vietnam. In other words, don't thing around; in other words And you ask us why we have point to create the same con­ movement; and Daley can't Gandhi wouldn't eat a lot of I'd do that." walk around like that Negro you've got to develop a dif­ armies. It's to keep the the Pharaoh is in power be­ cept in other folks. But if I think that what we And don't start lootcing' stop our movement because food. It was no accident be­ But then I have to start in Mississippi and say, ferent relationship between enemy out. You go go some cause you give him free la­ you don't believe it you need is this. We really need to the university professors of the very nature of it. cause he was a free man. He with people internally. One "Well, I'm on the CO." the man and the state. That poor little countries down bor. Take it from him. Take can't teach it. You haven't the guys like the CO's here, for the answers because they It works likes this. said, "I'm not going to sit of the problems you see is The question is how do you relationship has to be a in Africa which have bare­ your labor from the man." got it and you don't even and other people, to take a don't have any. And don't "Sam, so who is you?" "Well, around and drink a lot of that most of us say we want get the high school fellows democratic process where ly enough money to make And then the Jews said, know what to give. creative stride toward civ­ start looking to the Penta­ I'm Daley's nigger." You coffee when, in fact, I'm change. Well, how are you to say No. And not to say the people give the power stamps and they have armies "We're his slaves." And he You can't be a slave and ilization. And we really gon because they don't know teach him to say to to under getting it from folks who going to get it? They say, No because they're against and once that happens you to keep the enemy out. said, "No, no, you are God's 'walk around and tell some­ need a breakthrough on the the answer either. stand that he is his man. are dying, when in fact if we'll kill somebody. But things, but to say No I'm don't need an army. Everybody is following people." And they said, body because you don't even whole question of internat­ Once that process takes I buy I make them slaves." even if you kill somebody, not going to destroy be­ That's what Gandhi was that same line of foolish­ "Yeh, yeh,—but God's people know what it feels like to ional relations. And don't sit places, when a man redefines It was no accident that you won't get that change cause I'm going about creat- „^ generals, That which we need has trying to achieve, but poor ness. They've got an army don't work for pharoahs." be free. All free men fight up arld get wlth himself, slavery is auto­ ing something. That's a dif- . d get mad with to be created. And I sus­ Nehru didn't believe him— to keep the enemy out wlth- Now if you read the Bib- for freedom and slaves flunkey don t sit up an matically dead cause what ference. I'm doing something anybody. pect that when you become for somebody. You have never That was my argument. a free man able to say "I seen a slave fight for free­ am," you will have the power Not that I disagree with It's sort of like a few dom. It is not compatible, it to create that which we need Moses didn't kill anybody, but he Johnson's war. I was doing years ago when polio came up is not digestible to their to take a stride toward something. That's why I did­ and killed all the children whole beings. Slaves don't civilization. understood the nature of tyranny. fight for freedom. Only free n't have time to fool around because man hadn't had a men do that. with that. They wrote me a breakthrough in that area of He knew that if a man is a slave he Freedom has nothing to do letter and asked me to get MERICA ^ÛURPûLA then with the political struc­ myself classified and I did­ contributes to his own slavery by ture, the economic structure, n't read it. I just wrote a JEteMia«tt«--.tEß.r, It has something to do then with little note and said, "What­ CHANNELLING atleasl50%." a man becoming a man. "I AM." ever you're selling I ain't "Throughout his career as a student, pressure- « ms in VIETNAM If you go back and read the interested in buying it." the threat of loss of deferment --continues... Old Testament and the Pharoah And I closed it up and sent , The club of induction has been used to drive lical narrative it says the you have then Is the power who said, "Who the hell is it back. out of areas considered to be less important to Lord didn't Intervene. It structure making the motion, your God?" Moses said, The Because I'm doing some­ the areas of greater importance in which defer­ was a simple process. When but it doesn't get a second. hell—I am." It's in the book thing. But you cannot have ments were given, the individuals, who did not the slaves stopped working --I am not going to tolerate a personal strategy. It has or could not participate in . activities whicw there was nobody to produce Now, if you develop that your foolishness: I am. And to become social and polit­ the surplus foods to pay kind of strategy you can't were considered'essential to the defense of the at that moment he knew he had ical. In other words, you the army. And the soldiers fail, and that's why when Nation... The psychology of granting wide choice the power to create that which just can't go around being under pressure to take action is the American, had to come back and go to Gandhi said nonviolent move­ a brave man; you've got to he needed to exist. or indirect way, of achieving what is done by the fields. That's what ments can't fail, he's ab­ put your ethics into poli­ And then he said, I've got happened. solutely right. If 32 people tical forms. You just can't direction in foreign countries where choice is to have, just because I am, If you can't give a gen­ are serious, they will put be ca CO and go off to Cana­ not permitted." a right relationship with the eral a lot of women and good their lesson down on paper da and fish for two years and resources. Not because of looking stuff he isn't going and go and teach it to high come home. You got to develop -- Gen. Hershey some great political theory, to fight. You know that, and school boys in America, in a movement of young men, not Director, but because I am. I cannot I know that, and everybody^ the colleges, they'll get it only in America but around prostitute myself in order Selective Service knows that. When Pharoah out. the world saying No. "On Manpower couldn't pay the generals, Well, somebody said. "No CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 And you've got to do it Channelling" iiiiiiiiuuiuiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuuiiüii IIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIUIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII just like SNCC did when they uiiiiiiiuiiuiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiuiiui luiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiuiiiiiiiiiuuiunuuuniiiiiiiiiiHiuiMniuuuiiuiui« THE RESISTANCE March 15 - April 3, 1968 Page 15 Page 14 THE RESISTANCE March 15 - April 3, 1968 as a means of dealing with one's own Sometimes people who seem to be on conscience is that there is not much the verge of maturing backslide quickly that students can do to end the war. when the possibility of conscription be­ 7<£e 2-S'. s4 Ptofckaùuc defiant As the student perceives his efforts to comes more imminent. Consider anoth­ •Ttotet fat* &Uto«t be ineffective, as he observes the rela­ er hypothetical case, that of a boy who tive non-involvement of his parents has been struggling with homosexual and professors, and as he contemplates impulses. He has participated in a by John J. Phillips by DR. SEYMOUR L. HALLECK the business-as-usual atmosphere on the few homosexual acts but has recently campus, his frustration grows. The ac­ noticed that he is less interested in boys as told to Mark Twain Column tivist student cannot understand how and has been experiencing some urges with the fact of their guilt, perhaps the compromise or "sellout." supposedly idealistic men like his pro­ towards girls. As he nears the comple­ On November 1, 1967i eight days before my (The following ar­ majority would deny it. Rationaliza­ I am not arguing that this view is fessors can continue to live their lives tion of his schooling and seriously con­ scheduled release from federal custody at Allen- ticle first ap­ tions such as the following would be rational. Nor am I insisting that it is as though nothing was wrong. It is not templates the draft, he must realize the most common: consciously understood by the majority surprising that his anti-war energies that he can avoid conscription if he wood Prison Camp, I submitted a "cop-out" (admi­ peared "I am a serious student and believe of students. I do know from my experi­ come to be directed against the uni­ can convince his draft board that his nistrative request) to the warden at Lewisburg ruary ir^sue I can serve my country better by be­ ence in treating and talking to male versity itself. homosexual tendencies are strong. Penitentiary, in which I demanded the "uncondi­ of T h e r r o >? r e s s i v e comin. g an engineer, a doctor, or an students that sooner or later they relate The university community is an Without even being aware of what is jr. f-Ialleck is attorney. Not everyone has to fight. much of their malaise, their depression, available and palpable target. Unlike happening to him, he may find that his tional simultaneous release" with me of all Why shouldn't those who have the and their anxiety to guilt over their the Federal Government, it is small homosexual inclinations again assume other political and religious prisoners, and the orofessor of ony­ ability to make special contributions to privileged status. Beneath their pain­ enough to react to that form of dissent dominance over his newly found het­ simultaneous parole of all so-called "criminal chia try at the our society be protected from the haz­ fully reasoned arguments for accepting which attacks its integrity, and when erosexual urges. diversity of ,;is- ards of military service?" a student deferment is a nagging fear it does respond the student has some offenders." I stated that if the prison admini­ Or one might hear: that they have "sold out " sense that he is being recognized as a It is becoming more and more dif­ "If you think I'm going to feel guilty IK-rson who can do something useful. strators were either unwilling or unable to ful­ cor.sin <"nn is di­ It might be asked why guilt over ficult for the psychiatrist to treat male over trying to avoid this filthy war fill my request, then I desired to be kept in rector of its „stu­ draft deferment should be so intense Recent disturbances on the Madison students whose illnesses border at a you're crazy. We were wrong to have during this particular war. Certainly in campus of the University of Wiscon­ level of severity which might qualify custody, and would resist an attempt to evict dent psychiatric gone in there, we're wrong to stay r past wars students were deferred and sin, to cite only one of many such cam­ them to be exempted from military there, and we're still slaughtering in­ me from prison. •vice ;. ) there was much less fuss. Part of the pus events, support this observation. service. As long as there is this new nocent people. I am not going to be reason must be that in spite of their When some students at Wisconsin at­ premium on remaining sick, the On November 2, I was summoned to the office any part of it. If the student defer­ efforts to be defensive, today's students tempted to obstruct recruiting by the chances of such a student getting well HAVE ALWAYS found airports depress­ ment allows me to live with my beliefs, of the camp superintendent, where I was con­ do have a tendency to be unusually Dow Chemical Corporation, the vio­ are diminished. ing places and I have found them so be it. I will use any method I can I honest. They may complain of the dis- lence that followed led to a profound fronted by him and by the case worker assigned especially so in the past year. In ad­ to keep from becoming one of 'John­ reaction on the part of previously un- What does happen to the student dition to their aura of impersonality to the camp. These men had a clearer insight son's assassins.' " involved students, faculty, and adminis­ who is able to convince his draft board and isolation they confront today's Or the student might say: trators. Much more direct and intensive that he is too emotionally disturbed to into the matter than I had anticipated» they traveler with the painful realities of "Look, I know that the draft is ter­ protests at the Pentagon seemed to serve in the military? Such a student took seriously not only my request to remain military conscription and the war in ribly unequal. I am against student de­ have had far less impact. The war in immediately gains a degree of freedom Vietnam. Our air|x>rts are populated imprisoned, but also the idea of releasing all ferment and I've let people know it. Vietnam and student deferments are that is denied to his fellows. His draft with hundreds of grim-faced, crew-cut, But what can I do to fight either that not, of course, the only factors in the the prisoners. But of course, they maintained bleary-eyed adolescents in uniform exempt status allows him to drop out corruption or the corruption of the traveling to and from training camps new student demands for what are of­ of school, to go to work, or to take a that the latter request was beyond their power, war once I am stuck in the service? that have recently been designated ten highly desirable changes in the uni­ and they sought to persuade me that my former re­ Here as a student I can work for peace. their homes. The sight of these young versity structure. They are, however, I know it sounds square but I'm a dif­ more casual attitude towards his stud­ quest would best be fulfilled if I were to ac­ men reminds the adult traveler that we important factors which seem to cata­ ferent kind of soldier, one who's fight­ ies. Nevertheless, he pays a price for really are at war. He cannot resume lyze an ever increasing sense of protest cept release quietly and then commit another ing for truth and decency in a world this freedom. Whenever a person uses his journey without being haunted by on our campuses. crime. As the caseworker put it, it was all that's going mad." some aspect of personal weaknesses to the faces of boys in uniform. A "purer" mode of anti-war activism right for me to "be tilting at windmills, like And finally, there might be this re­ has recently appeared on the nation's avoid responsibility for a social obliga­ If one travels during a period when sponse : campuses in the form of the draft re­ tion, he is more likely to continue to Don Quixote," as long as they were someone else's college students arc leaving or return­ "My God, why should I be guilty? sistance movement. When students de­ maintain that pattern in his subsequent ing to school, airports are even more windmills (namely, the court's). I asked them It's you adults who have created this clare themselves potential draft resist­ actions. The student who uses mental depressing. Then one can observe two illness as a means of "beating the draft" why it would not be possible to take away my four mess anyway. You start wars and ex­ ers or mail their draft cards back to varieties of youth, both the same age increases the probability that he will pect us young people to fight them. their local boards, they undoubtedly months' "good time," thus postponing my release but nevertheless looking as if they remain mentally ill. Although psychia­ Well, let me tell you loud and clear experience a sense of courage and com­ were inhabitants of different worlds. trists spend many hours attempting to until the Middle of March 1968, the full term mitment. Whether such activity will Even if the student's face is sometimes that youth today is different. We know explain this phenomena .to their pa­ limit of my sentence. They responded that they In Saigon, the penalty for resisting the draft or pub­ Canfield in The Newark News pacify their tyrannical consciences, how­ as grim as the serviceman's, his civilian your games are all meaningless. Patri­ tients, the power of this new anti- "If s for manning ever, is uncertain. Many, if not most did not believe that the "good days" could be licly advocating peace is imprisonment or execution. In dress makes him appear much more otism, loyalty, honor, these are just therapeutic factor in our university a recruiting station on campus" of those who have joined such move­ America, jail sentences for non-coopéra tor s averages 3 free and relaxed. If the student hap­ words. Our job is to survive and we environment is often irresistible. revoked unless I actually had violated the prison ments, are still protected from the draft pens to be carrying expensive luggage, can't do that if we hold to any of the regulations. Neither man was sure if my refusal years. For information on prison life, sources of support honesties of the adult world but at the by their 2-S status. It is one thing to tennis rackets, or golf clubs, or if he values of your world." same time they have grown up in a shout "We won't go" at a political to leave on the scheduled day of release would for families, and tape recorded programs write Mark has a deep suntan or long hair, the Each of these arguments has its ad­ society dominated by mass communi­ rally. It is something else to face the Twain Column, Box 367, BU Station, Boston, Mass. contrast he provides with the service­ vocates among students and serves as a constitute such a violation. In any case, there cation media, a society in which it is threat of a court trial and possible im­ man becomes bizarre, almost obscene. buffer against their own consciences. hard to retain a fleeting half-truth or A considerable proportion of an ad­ was no question of "prosecution before the fact"» prisonment once a person is eligible for The airports make it all painfully The problem is that they all ignore or absorb rigid dogma. Today's student ministrator's and even a professor's time the draft. so the matter remained unsettled on this point. clear. We have two classes of youth— reject an aspect of morality or con­ has a limited capacity for self-decep­ must be spent in dealing with the by­ single night. I slept well, and was aroused at some who go to college and others who science that is especially relevant to to­ tion. It is more difficult for him to A more discouraging response of stu­ products of their students' relation to Another six days went by, the only Incident go to war. day's youth. This morality is best il­ convince himself that pursuing a career dents to their guilt and fear is aban­ the draft. The university employe thus of note being my refusal to sign a receipt slip about 4i15 A.M. by a custodial officer, who then I have often wondered what runs lustrated by the phrase, "selling out." will be useful either to himself or to donment of all hope in the possibility comes to be more familiar with the for my dress-out clothing (the costume in which I escorted me downstairs to the dress-out area. I through the minds of servicemen who Youths today are especially concerned society. The rationalization that he of living a decent life within this so­ issues involved in the war and less able observe the privileged status of their that they do not "sell out" and are serves his country best by remaining in ciety. Again, there are many factors to ignore them than other middle-class was to be released) on the grounds that it was then dressed myself, believing that my having contemporaries. They cannot blame scornful of anyone who does. school is easily attacked. which contribute to the alienation of adults. It is not only through ideologi­ still possible that I would not be leaving. But mentioned the possibility of noncooperation had their plight on having merely experi­ What does "selling out" mean? As a Still another factor in contributing students other than the war or the cal commitment that professors have on Wednesday, November 8, shortly after lunch, I actually produced substantially the same effect enced poor luck in a game in which person moves about in the world he is to this new guilt is the enormous af­ draft, but guilt and despondency gen- been among the most vocal critics of was again summoned over the loudspeaker to the as the act itself. But as we moved toward the all had the same opjx>rtunities. Unless repeatedly confronted with situations fluence of our society, an affluence crated by their protected status un­ the war. Their activism is constantly they have sought a military career or in which he is tempted to sacrifice that allows more young people than doubtedly contribute to the increasing nurtured by the demands of their stu­ superintendent's office. This time, he informed staircase again, I indicated that I would go no have an unusual sense of duty they principle for what he perceives to be ever before to attend college. The bur­ sense of meaninglessness and the in­ dents. Yet, most professors are poorly creasing use of consciousness-altering me that the associate warden at Lewlsberg Peni­ personal gain. Whenever he sacrifices, dens im|)osed u|X>n the unfortunate prepared for a political role. Many further. The guards (two of them, at this point) must know that their being in the mili­ or even moderately compromises prin­ drugs among today's youth. ones, our |)oor youth, especially the have themselves sought the university tentiary had asked to see me, and that he would had been instructed and were ready for this. As tary service is a direct result of not ciples, he "sells out." being rich enough or intellectually young Negro, arc more extreme and The alienated, and especially the as a sanctuary, in this case an intellec­ As one grows older and begins to drive me to "The Wall" personally. (The inmates I sat down, they rolled over a laundry cart, and gifted enough to be somewhere else. more visible. The abundance of black "hippie," way of life, in addition to be­ tual sanctuary from the serious prob­ appreciate the limitations imposed on refer to the big pen as "The Wall" for obvious How do they manage to live with this faces on television film clips of the war ing a potent means of castigating one's lems of the world. Only a few profes­ after I refused to enter the vehicle voluntarily, his existence by economic insecurity, knowledge? It would seem natural that constantly reminds the student of in­ parents for having imposed this world sors are comfortable with their new reasons» at Allenwood there are no guntowers, no I was gently lifted and placed in it. Then infirmity, and death, the pressures to equities in our society, inequities which at some point they would want to lash upon them, is also a means of drown­ role as political activists. Many more compromise principles steadily increase. locked gates.) there came a quick succession of guards as I was out at somebody, cither those contem- benefit him at the ex|>ense of others. ing one's guilt in a sea of nihilism. If Obligations incurred towards one's find the role to be alien and jiorarics who have it so much easier or the values of our society are meaning­ As we drove along, discussing the signifi­ rolled In the cart through the long, dimly-lit loved ones encourage a certain acquisi­ frustrating. those adults who put them in such an less, then one need not feel guilty for tiveness. The increasing need to reas­ cance (or nonsignlficance) of the previous day's corridors and large hallways of the penitentiary; unfortunate situation. Yet they do not. While his deferred selective service having compromised them. If life is sure one's self that his status in life is They seem surprisingly tolerant toward« classification increases the student's only an absurd game, then who can be Whether one supports, reluctantly election results, I guessed that I would not be I guessed that the guards (there were at least meaningful encourages a sometimes those our society has ordained to be guilt, it does little to alleviate his fear blamed for playing that game selfishly, tolerates, or opposes the war in Viet­ returning to Allenwood following my audience with twenty) had been summoned for special duty at selfish interest in preserving a stable their betters. Whatever rage or con­ of being drafted. There is a |>ervasive without commitment, and without in­ nam, it is difficult to avoid the conclu­ society. Simply by growing older one the "A. W." My hunch proved correct. I learned this hour. Then, finally, after being bumped tempt resides within them is kept care­ mood of fear on our campuses. Every volvement? The alienated life may even sion that our Government's efforts to abandons a certain degree of ideologi­ from him that the prison authorities had decided down the outer stairs and rolled out under the fully hidden. male patient I have treated in the last have some practical advantages. If one protect the sons of middle-class parents cal purity. In this sense there is really two years (irrespective of his political lives long enough in the hippie world from the hazards of military service has to evict me forcibly If necessary from the Peni­ central guntower (with my escort mumbling, "My We will probably not appreciate the no way for anyone to avoid "selling l>eliefs) has talked of fears of failing in and takes enough LSD, the possibility had a poisonous effect upon our cam­ tentiary itself on the following morning. After mother would never believe this..."), where some­ psychological effects of a discriminatory out." school or fears of making some mistake that the military services will even puses and our country. The war is a brief philosophical exchange, we talked to each one shouted up to the tower guard, "Believe It or military draft upon those youth who By the time a man reaches thirty, he which would result in his being drafted. want to draft him becomes more and real, ugly, and dirty. To pretend that it have been conscripted until the war is has done many things he is not proud Non-patient students with whom I have more remote. does not exist, and to carry on either other about what would happen the next day. I not, this is a RELEASE!" I was again lifted out over. Once the draftee becomes a mem­ talked informally have voiced similar adult or student business as usual, cor­ of. If he is not ashamed of some of his From the standpoint of a psychiatrist, was asked if I would cooperate with the dress-out of the cart and Into the U. S. Marshall's sedan. ber of the armed forces he is not en­ actions, it is only because he refuses to fears. Usually it is more ]>sychologically rupts us all. couraged to delve into the state of his stressful to wait for a painful event to the most disturbing effects of student acknowledge to himself that he may deferments are apparent in those stu­ procedure! I was also asked what I intended to do It was then that I learned that I was to be dri­ psychological well-being. His loyalty to happen than to go out and face it. Whether intentional or not, student have betrayed, or callously compro­ dents who are struggling to avoid men­ his fellow servicemen, his sense of duty, This is es|>ecially true as one grows deferments serve as a bribe, a bribe when left at the bus depot. (The government pro­ ven all the way back to Boston by the marshall mised, his principles. Adults naturally tal illness. No single factor is ever a and sometimes his need to rationalize more sophisticated about the nature of which keeps middle-class parents and have a more moderate view of this sufficient determinant of who becomes vides a ticket to the inmate's hime area, usually, and the chief clerk to the associate wardens ap­ his plight do not allow him to experi­ the feared event. their children in a protected but impo­ phenomena than young people. They ill and who doesn't. Yet some factors and bustody' ends at the depot.) I replied that parently, they were taking a precaution against ence directly whatever sense of perse­ tent position.-As long as they accept would probably prefer a phrase such as I do not wish to imply that guilt and are often more crucial than others. Liv­ cution he might feel. Moreover, the this bribe, they must operate from a I had been giving considerable thought to both of my creating any more mischief. "judicious compromise" to the more in­ fear are the only emotions which con­ ing in a world dominated by guilt and immediacy of the task of survival in a weakened moral position which limits vective "selling out." They are also tribute to discontent among students. fear is certainly an important cause of these particulars, and that I had not decided military world does not leave much the possibility of honest dialogue or more capable of tolerance towards Certainly compassion for those who are mental illness. Perhaps an even more And so it was that I found myself forcibly time for rumination or self-pity. constructive dissent. They may also whether to refuse to dress out or whether I might those who have "sold out." being maimed or destroyed, and indig­ crucial determinant of whether or not find that the emotional price that must turn about at the depot and return to the govern­ evicted from federal prison. Thanks to the It is somewhat easier to examine the The problem with many youths is nation towards those who per]>etuate a person becomes sick is the social set­ be paid for preferential treatment is emotional impact of unequal conscrip­ that they are so intellectually commit­ the war, exert a powerful influence on ting in which illness occurs. If the so­ ment reservation. The associate warden responded early departure and to the direct route taken by not worth the temporary physical safe­ tion upon those who are favored by it, ted to their idealism that they cannot many students. Other students are sim­ cial setting provides certain rewards for the marshall, I arrived in Boston several hours ty it provides. that he hoped that I wouldn't put his men to the namely, youths who receive student honestly face themselves when they ply opposed to becoming an agent in being sick, illness is more likely. embarrassment of having to strip me out of my sooner that I would have had I said nothing about deferments. From my experience work­ compromise that idealism. Cynicism the destruction of their fellow man. It If the psychological consequences of prison uniform and dress me. (Apparently, there refusing to leave. By the time the action was ing with students at a large university, does not come easily to the young. In is my opinion, however, that human Where there is a possibility of using student deferments were fully under­ I have become convinced that a sub­ the depths of their consciences they are behavior must be examined in terms of one's emotional disturbance to avoid a stood and appreciated it is doubtful was no chance of my being released in the prison over, all parties involved had managed to see the stantial number of male students who able to find only two "pure" answers its selfish as well as'its idealistic motiva­ difficult obligation such as the draft, that anyone—our Government, our stu­ garb, as I suggested to him.) And as to the other humor of the situation, and I truly believe the accept the 2-S deferment pay an enor­ to their personal involvement with the tions. There is no way of understand­ there is an increased possibility that the dents, or their middle-class parents — idea, he reminded me that I could be prosecuted confrontation was worthwhile. I had a delightful mous psychological price for this privi­ war in Vietnam. If the war is right, ing what is happening on our campuses illness will become worse. This is not would continue to tolerate this inequi­ lege. Not surprisingly, they are plagued then they should not shirk their duty without considering the pernicious in­ at all a matter of deliberate or ty. The best solutions to our problems for trespassing if I were foolish enough to re­ seven-hour discussion with the marshall as we with guilt, an unremitting guilt which hut should help fight it. If the war is fluence of guilt and fear. conscious faking. The student might in Vietnam and the rest of the world wrong, they should do everything in strongly deny to himself and others turn. He indicated that I would be held in ad­ drove to Boston—a conversation that was remini­ dominates every aspect of their exis­ If one opposes the war and is trou­ are more likely to come out of a socie­ their power to stop it. Although nei­ that he would use illness as a means of tence. Although this guilt is often bled by his protected status, the most ty in which each social class shares in ministrative segregation overnight at Lewisburg, scent of the discussion I had enjoyed some four­ ther course of action is feasible as long avoiding anything. Furthermore, his denied or rationalized, it is a signifi­ rational and psychologically useful ac­ the responsibilities and miseries of war. teen months earlier, when two marshall s escorted as one is a student, there is a part of suffering is painfully real. Even when and that the eviction would take place at around cant factor among the causes of un­ tion he can take involves joining an We can no longer afford either that every student's conscience that says to the social advantages of psychiatric me, handcuffed and chained, to the Federal Re­ rest on our campuses, and it contributes activist movement which seeks to end detachment or that guilt which inter­ 5j00 A. M. on Thursday. (Releases are usually him, "You either belong in the army symptoms are substantial, the symptoms to a deep sense of personal despair in the war. More and more students are feres with a rational solution to a con­ made after 8.00 A. M.) formatory at Petersburg, Virginia, to begin my or in jail." Anything else is at best a lose none of their excruciating quality the lives of many students. choosing this alternative. flict that may destroy the character of "bit" for draft refusal. rationalization, at worst a cowardly for the patient. our nation. Conditions in "A. S." were well enough for a If one were to confront students The problem with anti-war activism NOW IS THE TIME

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NOAM CHOMSKY STAUGHTON LYND

HARVEY COX EVERETT MENDELSOHN

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N.B. SENIORS, GRAD STUDENTS resistance IS« A COPY NEW ENGLAND EDITION #3 April 3-1S, 1988 THE DRAFT GOES ON

Lyndon Johnson's refusal to run for a second term is an admission that his Vietnam policy, which has already cost the lives of 20,000 American GI's and countless Vietnamese, is, in fact, indefensible. Yet at the same time, he asks for 13,00 more troops and an April draft call of 48,000 men. The war thus con­ tinues. Thousands of men are drafted to kill and be killed — all for nothing. Our position remains that no one should go. As long as men are sent to Vietnam, it doesn't matter who goes to Washington, Ultimately events in Vietnam and the growing Vietnam Casualties WASHINGTON, April 1 (UP!) resistance of -the American people to the war —The Defense Department to­ day listed the following service­ have forced the Administration to alter course men killed in Vietnam: dramatically. The Administration now joins APPLEGAT Bergenfie liberal critics of the war, suchastheNY TIMES BALDWIN" Park, Congressmen, and part of the academic and BENN, Greei DONO business community, who have sought an end to Wich: Gl LE: the war, during the last several years because Lie HOR1 they realized America was losing, not because N,Y. „.Ï"'* America was wrong being in Vietnam in the .]UD(., W*i»jj»» first place. American foreign policy has not Changed, Continued on page 2 THE RESISTANCE April 3-15, 1968 Page 3 Page 2 THE RESISTANCE April 3 - 15, 1968 problem we have been unable to solve (and without sufficiently realizing that SYMPOSIUM ON they may imitate us, become teachers The Draft Goes On in their turn, and leave the hard work to their students). Continued from page 1 REVOLUTION AT The personal problem of radical voca­ Vietnam has cost too much internationally tion is immensely complicated by the fact and domestically, but for the government and BOSTON UNIVERSITY that the movement has no idea of a its supporters, repression in other parts of strategy for fundamental social change. the Third World is still profitable and largely "Towards an American Had we work to do which seemed to lead unknown and unopposed by public opinion. Foreign Policy State­ rationally toward our goal, the frustrations Thus 50,000 US troops in Thailand, 2,000 ment on Revolution," and anxieties in our lives would be so Green Berets in Guatamala, CIA agents in will be the theme of TURNING IN YOUR CARD much easier to manage. But we do not Bjalijda^-aiLd American conscript forces in over a symposium April 5-7 have a strategy. We must be honest about 1000 foreign military bases subsidize counter­ at Boston University. THEN WHAT? that, too. I do not have an answer to the question revolution around the world. Staughton Lynd is currently of after April 3. I have one suggestion, At home, with local police forces, the Pent­ teaching history at Illinois Prof. Tom Farer of which like any suggestion unproven by agon prepares for the Battle of the American State College, on leave from Columbia Law School, experience ought to be viewed skeptically. cities this summer to "pacify" black Ameri­ Yale. He works with Chicago an expert on Africa, Twill make it nevertheless, since I find it cans, Indians, Spanish Americans, Puerto Ri­ Area Draft Resistors (CADRE). cans, and poor rural whites, who have been as will speak Friday viscerally impossible to end on a note of victimized as the Viennam people and American nite, 8 p.m. Hayden By Staughton Lynd despair, and since the recent decisions troops. Hall (?25 Commonwealth about graduate students (like every other It is a common saying among resistors In 1964, Lyndon Johnson ran on a peace plat­ Ave.) along with Tran form of repression) do seem to me to that "April 3 will be the last mass return form and carried out Goldwater's war policies. Van Dinh, former South hold out rational hope that resistance can of draft cards." Why do we say this? In 1968, Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy Vietnamese Ambassador be broadened and strengthened. To Washington. Oginga What lies on the other side of that run on peace platforms. The electorate must not My suggestion is this. The typical draft be deceived into electing men who will carry Odinga, revolutionary decision. One thing draft resistors are feeling is resistance organization raises funds from out Lyndon Johnson's planks. It was "lonely" opposition leader and adult supporters with which it pays in New Hampshire for Sen. McCarthy, to be former Vice-President that, while draft resistance remains the of Kenya, will also Court Dismisses heart of the anti-war movement, for any subsistence salaries to full-time draft resis­ sure, but it was still more lonely for the young particular person draft resistance cannot tance organizers. men in prison for the last five years whom no speak, if his country allows him to fly Non-Possession be a way of life. A person must say "Yes" In Chicago, these organizers live in two politician has yet publicly supported. And the as well as "No." A man must have a communal apartments, leaflet the induc­ loneliness of the grave, the hospital, and burn­ here for this special tion center and the office housing most event. DENVER — In the first court action pattern of daily life which sustains him: ing villages has not inspired any of the conten­ he cannot live for very long from one of the city's draft boards, and counsel at ders to display the honesty and fearlessness initiated nationally against a member The following letter of the Resistance for non-possession, confrontation to the next. • the CADRE office. of the dead and dying, for 14 years prior to If the draft resistance operation in was sent by Le Thiet, the 1968 election campaign. Indeed, Sen. Ken­ the government abruptly reversed it­ Of course, the obvious first answer to Vice President of the the problem, "What do I do after turning Chicago and other cities were radically nedy, who as Attorney General did nothing self and moved for dismissal. decentralized, I believe it would spread South Vietnamese Youth while Rev William Sloane Coffin and the Allen Haifley of Littleton, Colo., in my card?" was, "Organize other people Federation for Libera­ to do the same thing." draft resistance at the same time that it first group of Freedom Riders were beat­ turned his draft card back to a Selec­ obliged organizers to begin to deal with tion to American youth.) And this remains a fundamental and en in Montgomery, Ala., in 1961, has done tive Service board in Denver Oct. 16, the problem of radical vocation. helpful answer in that few draft resistance nothing to support the young men and their and was indicted for non-posession. In the model I am proposing, a draft Dear Friends, organizations have even begun to carry At his March 7 trial, however, Milton resistance organization would retain a supporters who back up his words with their their message to the plethora of off- (Frederi ck M. Pavese was sched- Branch, assistant U.S. Attorney moved central office at which functions con­ uled to be airlifted from New York The South Vietnamese lives in 1968. Only last week, the Senator campus communities where it may come for dismissal, apparently under-new tinued to be performed which required a to Oakland to Vietnam on February youths have always fol­ told the anguished in Watts that "if called to have meaning as draft calls rise. 29. On Feb ruary 27, aided by instructions from Washington, and city-wide scale (printing, for example). lowed with deep sympa­ to go (to Vietnam) I would go." RESISTANCE* For instance, it is not necessarily true friends in Boston and Washington, U.S. District Judge Alfred Arraj But other functions presently per­ he flew ins tead to Montreal and thy the seething and On April 3, many resisters across the nation that the recent Selective Service decisions Stockholm threw out the case against him. formed on a city-wide basis (draft coun­ The following is a valiant'activities under­ will send their draft cards to McCarthy and concerning graduate students mean that statement w ritten by him for the Prior to dismissal, Haifley's law­ selling, perhaps high-school organizing, Committee o f American Deserters taken by the progressive Kennedy and others with a demand that they resistance organizers should turn their yers, Harry K. Nier and Eugene Deik- possibly even fund-raising) would be in Sweden.) American youth against unequivocally endorse withdrawal of US troops The Resistance news­ attention back to the campus. raan of Denver, introduced 30 motions decentralized. After assigning to indis­ the unjust war conducted from Vietnam and restitution of that valiant paper is published The students who sign "We Won't Go" to be considered by the court, such pensable city-wide work a few appropriate by the U.S. government country. If addition, they ask the candidates in Boston by the New pledges at Vietnam commencements will Stockholm as "Are we in a state of war?" "Is individuals, all other organizers would in Vietnam. to call for an immediate end to the draft, England Resistance, actually confront induction in the off- it constitutional to draft men for divide themselves into small teams to amnesty to all resisters, deserters^ and 27 Stanhope St. Tel. campus communities to which they return In face of the new the furtherance of a war that has not move into neighborhoods. Declaration black activists, and a massive reconstruc­ 617-536-9793. at the end of the academic year. developments in the been declared by Congress." These neighborhood teams would sup­ We, the American Deserters in South Vietnamese people's tion of American cities. Far from indicating that we are wrong Sweden, havinq been forced bv The attorneys also charged that conscience to abandon our homeland In the short period since Oct. 16., with other port themselves by part-time work, local struggle, we earnestly the Selective Service system was com­ in insisting that draft resistance move off contributions, or otherwise as they decide. in orotest against our country's request you to take more forces, the Resistance significantly brought Sditori Alex Jack criminal aggression aqainst an prised of men born In the last cen­ campus, the new decisions create new If older couples were involved, not merely the war home to academic and religious bodies Business Managers impoverished but valiant oeople in positive actions to co­ tury and that Haifley was a member of Nevertheless, in a sequence oi actions as speech-makers and money-givers, but their struqqle to attain peace and ordinate with ours, for and to millions of middle-class families and Donald Bobo national independence, declare: a class not represented in the admin­ beginning with step A, an individual as members of a neighborhood team, then an end to the Vietnam communities, provoking them into recognizing Distributions cannot forever evade discovering what B istration of conscription. a professional's salary might provide the That the United States business war. their own complicity in the war effort and Chris Wren is merely by helping others beside himself "This case seems to indicate that income base for a team which included interests and its military machine You have no reason to causing them to express solidarity with the op­ Assistant Editors s to go as far as A. the professional and his family, and several are conducting an unmiskateable pressed elements within our nation who have, Dan Brody, Pete the policy of the Justice Department war of aggression in Vietnam, and go and kill innocent will no longer focus on the question Clearly, the largest possible return of single young people. .that as long as they pursue such people, women and child­ all along, carried the major burden of the draft Crews, John Hoch- policies, thev are the enemies not of failure to have a draft card in draft cards on April 3 is essential. Equally On the other hand, the student types ren, and die useless and war. heimer, Keith clearly, what the Resistance movement onlv of the Vietnamese, but of all Our generation has been cynically manipulated Mallard, Ann Rig- one's posession," Nier commented. would often choose to do part-time work humanity. depchs. "While eliminating prosecution for ioes after April 3 is even more, important. as a method of exploring radical vocation sby, Brad Robin­ We, therefore, demand that the Let us resist the draft, by politicians, university administrators, the This is why conferences on radical at the same time that they organized mass media, and a consumer economy into son, Abby Sch­ not possessing cards, the government national independence of Vietnam demand the withdrawal of may now reclassify the dissenters and vocations, discussions concerning the "new around the draft. be immediately acknowledged and all U.S. troops from traying its humanity and putting its own future wartz, Barrie working-class" and "radicalism in the that the Vietnamese people be per­ prosecute them if they refuse induc­ At first it might seem that in leaving and security above domestic justice and world Thome, Mike Sig­ professions," institutions seeking to offer mitted to develoD democratic insti South Vietnam, and the tion into the armed services." the city-wide communal apartment and tutions in peace and freedom in recognition of the South peace. Our generation will continue to say No to mund. "drop-out counselling," are appearing all In a related case, résister Mendel the routine of meeting after meeting in accordance with the social exigen­ Vietnamese people * s channeling, and will continue to say Yes to Advert!sing s Mark over the country. cies of their countrv. Mostow Cooper of Denver University was con­ which all the organization's members were right to settle them­ building the kind of humane world in which we involved, the neighborhood teams were We anneal to the vouth of Amer­ victed last week of burning his draft Whether they leave the campus betoic selves their own affairs. believe. Assistant Circula­ moving away from community, toward a ica to resist unrelentingly and to card. He is out on appeal. The le­ or after graduation, young radicals want refuse all cooperation with their We call upon U.S. ser­ Unless America realizes the extent of its tions Larry Hir­ more lonely and calculating style of work. schhorn gality of prosecuting card burners an alternative to conventional careers: government, and to American ser­ vicemen stationed abroad crimes in Vietnam, as it has never historically is presently before the U.S. Supreme vicemen the world over to sever who are bound to South acknowledged in any serious way the suffering Photographys Paul in this sense we are all drop-outs. I think the reverse might occur. That all ties wi.th their command, as Lane, John Pen­ Court. The new Selective Service decisions is, that as each neighborhood team lonq as that government pursues Vietnam, to energetically it imposed on 10 million Indians and 50 million its present course of Western nington enforce what was already implicit in our struggled to'decide what it should do, how refuse to fight the Viet­ blacks, Vietnam presages even more destruc­ white barbarism. nam war. tive wars elsewhere. Graphics s John Kyrk situation: the need to learn how to be off- it should support itself, whether it should campus life-iong radicals. live under one roof or not, and so on, a Finally, we appeal to the con­ We are confident that As a wave of false optimism and hope sweeps Member Liberation science and sense of justice of the you would act for justice the campuses, in the wake of Johnson's pro­ News Service. Spe­ The Least Line Of Resistance The act of draft refusal, whether in the more genuine experience of community nations of the world to exert every form of returning a draft card or in some might emerge than when RESIST people possible effort to implement the and the U.S. people's nouncement, scientists, social scientists and cial thanks this BOSTON -- "Congratulations, you are the immediate peaceful withdrawal of less obtrusive manner, is a necessary mail checks to sustain the city-wide lofty traditions of free­ other utterly sane men devise new chemical, issue to Bob Hoh­ first man in history to be pregnant/' the the United States armed forces from beginning but still only a beginning. activity of the Resistance. Vietnam, or, that having failed, to dom, democracy, thus giv­ bacteriological, and other weapons of mass de­ ler, editor of FBI notified a younp man here recently who The problem of radical vocation ought What we need in the Resistance move­ aid the Vietnamese people in driv­ ing precious support to struction and the stockpiles of nuclear arma­ Respond, for sought to flunk his physical by passing off ing these genocidal instruments of our struggle. ments increase unabated. to be stated as harshly as those who ment is a turn outward toward new destruction from their land, and centerfold photo a vial of his girlfriend's urine (diabetic). finally, to manifest their magna­ Victory will be ours. The Resistance continues, stronger than ever struggle with it really feel it to be. constituencies at the same time that we (glossy posters After the diagnosis, the surprised couple turn toward each other, helping our nimity by granting political asylum Hay the friendship and before, lest atomic and racial apocalypse ar­ @ $1) and Avatar. was indicted for fraud. Flatly then: very few of us have found to courageous resistors to this rive and the few survivors incredulously recall personal answers, imitatable models, in brothers and sisters in the agonizing war. this area. search for radical vocations. Neighborhood solidarity between that it all happened because good men and women Frank M. Pavese füiyone who saw Pete draft resistance work may offer a way the youths of our were only doing their jobs. Crews asked to leave All too many of us side-step the Secretary Had he come to a Resistance to begin to do simultaneously these two Committee of Ameri­ two c.-ntries ever The New England Resistance the Boston Army Base challenge by some form of teaching, counsellor, he would have known simply passing on to our students the only apparently contradictory tasks. can Deserters develop. April 1, 1968 March 12 contact him he was eligible for a III-A. Stockholm, Sweden at ^91-7955or N.E.R. THE RESISTANCE April 3 - 15, 1968 Page 5 PRIEST POURS HIS OWN BLOOD "we charge that against, finally, to resistance. Page 4 THE RESISTANCE April 3 - 15, 1968 America would the universal "We ask God to ON SELECTIVE SERVICE FILES rather protect human longing for be merciful and On Monday, April 1, Father its empire of justice and peace patient with us HERSHEY CHATS ON CHANNELLING Phillip Berrigan, Rev. James Mengel overseas profits "We invite and with all men. than welcome its high levels in our David Eberhardt, and Thomas Lewis friends in the We hope He will will go to trial under indictments black people, re­ peace and freedom use our witness build its slums The Resistance was in country that you had totalling 23 years and $32,000. movements to con­ for his blessed and cleanse its telephone contact with overstepped your bounds Last October these four men poured tinue moving with • designs." General Lewis Hershey as director of the their blood on Selective Service air and water. us from dissent when the head of the Selective Service when records at the Customs House in Thus we have singled out Selective Service sys­ you said that local Baltimore, Maryland. According to inner-city draft tem appeared on the WBZ draft boards...should the government, sixteen drawers of files were destroyed. A motion boards for our Radio "Contact" Show at least review the action. on March 27. Hershey stating that an impartial trial cases of peace marchers "We love our was on the line from or draft resisters. I was impossible during the Vietnam Washington; Col. Paul war was denied by Judge Edward S. country and cele­ wonder does this order brate its great­ Feeney, Deputy Director Northrop, who "has faith in the still stand, and are ness. But our of Mass. Selective fairness of the American people and any cases currently love cannot ac­ Service, iras In the in the jury system." being reviewed?" cept its evil Boston WBZ studio with Father Berrigan is the co-found­ HERSHEY: "Well in with silence and moderater Bob Kennedyi er and co-chairman of the National the first place, it passivity. We and Joel Kugelmass Catholic Peace Fellowship and chair wasn't an order; it withstand that called from the New man of the Baltimore Interfaith refers to a letter evil with our England Re si s t anc e Peace Mission. Father Berrigan :/hich I wrote to the consciences and office: delivered the principle address at members of the draft the New England Resistance service bodies, and in­ "Hello, my name is boards pointing out to which followed the arraignment of vite the punish­ Joel Kugelmass, and I them certain regula­ the "Boston Five" on January 29. ment that this work for the New England tions we'd had for the entails. Resistance, and I would last 20 some years on In a statement issued before the LAW like to ask a question individuals who had October incident, the four men said •>f both Gen. Hershey deferments and who that "we shed our blood willingly "We state that •md Col. Feeney. In transgressed the rules and gratefully in what we hope is a any law which sacrificial and constructive act. : he channeling memoran­ and broke the contract, forces men to We pour it upon these files to illu dum, it says that the if you want to call it kill and to face strate that with them and with •psychology of granting that. Now no doubt there death furthers these offices, begins the pitiful wide choice under pres­ were differences of war as surely as waste of American and Vietnamese sure to take action is opinion, but one of the it encourages blood 10,000 miles away." the American or indirect things that people for­ those who profit way of achieving what is got was that everybody Considerable money is needed for from war. We done by.direction in between 19 and 26 by the the trial. Contributions payable feel that Vietnam LIEUTENANT DENNIS MORRISSEAU foreign countries where law is liable and in a to the Interfaith Peace Mission is a rich man's choice is not permitted, shape or a condition should be sent to 2700 St. Paul St. war and a poor ANTI-WAR LIEUTANANT ready to go Immediately Baltimore, Maryland 21218. For man's fight—it Washington,D.C. He added that he and it talks about the do the things that a is far higher» and I do additional information contact (LNS) Second Lieu­ democratic society unless they've been is an unjust war is a supporter of 'club of induction' think the fellow who William O'Connor, 301-235-3591. tenant Dennis Sen. Eugene Meri,vrthy. forcing •individuals to has to have in order is able to go to deferred by some local backed up by un­ board. The statement of the Four from just laws of con­ Morrisseau, assigned When ordered by take choices in the to live. Now, let's school and do fairly Baltimore continues in part: "We to Fort Devens, Mass. get over to this scription, tax White House guards national interest. It well can very well In other words, the realize painfully yet clearly preferences and and due for duty in to stop picketing, seems to me, ana I rather long speech claim that he's being law inducts all the 19 that what we have done goes beyond Vietnam, was arrested which had to do with suppression of he flatly refused wonder what you two discriminated against, to 25 year-olds and the by White House police and was escorted the problem of who the scope of Con­ perty is often an dissent. directors thought, that and even among the Selective Service system here for "picketing to a waiting car this favors. First, stitutional right instrument of "We indict such this really begins to college students, 95$ is the only thing that without a permit" and driven away for there's no question and civil liberty massive injustice law with our con­ take away some of the of the officers in the keeps them from being —like tnese Sunday. His picket questioning by about the fact that a and is therefore sciences and acts democratic rights of armed forces are from inducted. In other files. Thus we sign read simply: military authorities. person that's smart not to be taken and we appeal to choice. More important­ the college world. words, a local board feel this discri­ "'120,000 American But Morrisseau came and can go and become lightly. Americans to ly, the deferment This 2 or 3 million we has to, by a positive minate destruc-s Casualties: WHY?'' back again today, a scientist — he's action, defer a fellow WAR AND PROPERTY purge their law, favors the middle class, have that have been tion of property Morrisseau, in Monday, this time favored by being or he's taken. So "We believe that conform it to which has a much easier deferred because of a for human life is uniform, said he with uniform, sign , allowed to go to therefore the argument war proves noth­ divine and humane time getting to college low educational level warranted. aw his protest and a permit to school, whereas it over the boys who had ing except man's law, apply it im­ and becoming profes­ haven't made much "We remind (Se­ as ''true patriotism" •picket. isn't fair that a been deferred and partially, and sional, and sort of contribution to the refusal to be man lective Service stupid person is not decided they didn't and to live with build at home and obligates the poor country either. personnel) of In Pennsylvania all )wed to go to want their cards and men. We say that abroad with it. people who have a hard One unfortunate their complicity school to become a mailed them in or did man must end war, scientist, even if thing about the country GREGORY AND SPOCK ON PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT time getting to school something that broke or war will end in the untimely We cannot accept he'can't. So there­ is that we can't divide Karrisburg, Pa. to go fight the war." the rules and failed man. We deplore death of young the law as it pro of the findings fore some natural the duties evenly be­ (IIBERATION Mews to carry out the duty our country's hot soldiers, in the tects injustice. and recommendations things get into it. cause a great many Service )..Nomin­ HERSHEY'S REPLY» that they had as . and cold warring murder of innoc­ This is not law, of the President's Now let's look at people aren't able, ating petitions with "Of course this is a registrants. and its crime ent civilians, in but a travesty of Advisory Commission one other side of mentally, morally, or l6,000 signatures speech rather than a against the often the pain of par­ it. Thus we re­ on Civil Disorders, physically, to do any­ Now another area of were filed Wednesday question, but I'll try unwilling and ents and sweet­ fuse any counsel ana an immediate the problem. We have thing for the country. debate was what to place Dick Gregory to do the best I car powerless bodies hearts. We ask that would bar­ redirection of the more people, by far, So there's a great constituted a demonstra­ for President and •th it. In the first behind these their resignation. gain for our billions now being that are deferred be­ deal being said in tion. Nobody was Dr. Benjamin Spock place, let's talk attempting in Selective files. benefit within wasted on the War cause they haven't had favor of those who are AMERICA for Vice-President about what we have a "Thus we unite the law, and in Vietnam towards a chance, and no one in the ghetto, but not Service to interfere of the U.S. on the deferment for. We have with the right of with our service­ stand on our mer­ a real War on regrets it more than I very many of them are "We agree that Pennsylvania ballot. a deferment to en­ freedom of speech or men against their its alone. Poverty." do. But we've had more serving in the armed America is the The petitions were courage somebody to do anything of that kind, real enemies. We "We seek neither people that have been forces because a good greatest manufac­ filed by the Pa. something that the but they did believe that shed our blood as to avoid detec­ deferred, that is many of them have been turer and sales­ Peace and Freedom nation wants. In other using violence to prevent they do theirs. tion nor to esca­ rejected — 2 or 3 discriminated against man of violence Party. words, there's no point some other individual We disrupt our pe , but submit to YOUNG PEOPLE million of them — be­ in not getting enough in the world to­ in deferring people to from obeying the law lives as the apprehension and Peace and Freedom cause they haven't education. Part of day. We feel do nothing or to pre­ enough education, than draft does .the consequences organizers here say ON THE MOVE pare themselves for that is the fault was not in the line of this is so beca­ that 'the petitions we've ever had deferred theirs. of our action. Toronto, Canada, something that the probably of where they the contract of a per­ use power rests represent a gua­ as some of these "We quarrel with "We implore our (LNS).. According nation doesn't need. live, and part of it son who had been not with the peo­ rantee that Gregory individuals that are the idolatry of countrymen to to the Toronto So therefore there's sometimes is their own deferred. And so ple to whom it be and Spock will going to school. So property, and the judge our action Anti-Draft Program, a reason to defer a fault because they therefore we reminded longs, but with appear on the Nov. it's not quite true war machine that against this person to become a didn't have much desire the local boards, or an economic, po­ Presidential ballot. that the individual makes property of nation's Judaeo- the Department^ of scientist, but not to to have an education." I did, in a letter litical and mili­ who has not had any men. We confront Christian tradi­ Penn. P.&F. will Immigration, Ottawa defer a person to be- about different parts tary cabal whose 'campaign for an Canada, reported chance has to serve, of the regulations and those countrymen aims can tolerate tion, against the cone a loafer, for because most of the Bob Kennedy asked to whom property immediate end to that 13,000 draft- example. And therefore Gen. Hershey about the the law that treated neither foreign horror in Vietnam time he doesn't. The means more than and the impending trie War in V±ec.< .:.:, age American males the nation certainly reclassification of these things, and autonomy nor full support for rejection rate among human life. We threat of nuclear have immigrated to has a right to try to protesters: "General, a suggested that they domestic freedom. and implementation the individuals who take a look at them assert that pro- destruetion-- Canada in 19o7. get individuals to haven't H«

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OCTOBER 16, 1967 THE RESISTANCE SERVICE AT ARLINGTON STREET CHURCH Page 8 THE RESISTANCE April 3 - 15, 1968 THE RESISTANCE April 3 - 15, 1968 Page 9 Joan Baez & David Harris NEW ENGLAND AREA DRAFT COUNSELING BOSTON PRIESTS SUPPORT RESISTANCE MASSACHUSETTS By Keith Mallard

The New Enqland Resistance The Association of Boston Urban "RESISTANCE FOR THE 27 Stanhope Street 536-9793 Priests (ABUP), an organization of 50

Boston University Counseling and Roman Catholic priests who live and Information Office work primarily in Boston's black ghe­ BROTHERHOOD OF MAN" 85 Bav State Road 353-3630 ttos, condemned the war and pledged to

Brookline: support "those who, for reasons of con­

Allston-Brighton Vietnam Project science, refuse to serve in the armed 311 Allston Street forces or who refuse to support in any Joan baez Harris 734-8895 of non-violence way the war effort in Vietnam." and Ira Sandperl of came from the In­ Brookline Draft Information the Institute for dian concept of 566-4940 (David Landowne) Greater Boston High School The statement, entitled "Vietnam and Non-Violence and "satyagraha," or Student Mobilization Committee David Harris of the truth force, and 65 Brookline Street the Kerner Report;' was issued March 11 in response to the recent report of the Palo Alto Resis­ that it does not Cambridge : National Advisory Commission on Civil tance appeared at imply a cop-out but Boston Draft Resistance Group 102 Columbia Street Disorders, citing white racism as the Harvard's Sanders rather a whole set 547-8260 principal cause of black rebellion in Theatre on Thurs­ of new assumptions Harvard Draft Project day night, March Harvard Universitv the cities. on the part of the 868-7600 ext.3945 (John Penning­ 28 to speak on the non-violent sol­ ton) The ABUP statement asserts, In part» topic "Resistance dier. She defined 547-9519 (Eric Eldred) "Concern for freedom in Vietnam becomes Cambridge Neighborhood Committee an incredible claim when our meager na­ for the Brother­ a pacifist as oh Vietnam hood of Man. " "someone who sits 1130 Massachusetts Avenue tional effort for the ppor, and espec­ in the corner and 547-2570 ially for the poor of the black commu­ Draft Information Service wishes everyone 5 Longfellow Park nity, is contrasted with the massive Ira Sandperl that she would not a question about example of non­ 876-7939 pointed out in his well while the war expenditure of personnel and resources want to tell any­ the need for some violence during Draft Counseling Program at MIT in Vietnam." speech that not one what to do, 312 Memorial Drive goes on, i.e., sort of police World War II was 864-6900 ext.2326 At least three members of the group, many people are re­ but that you cannot force, that he in Denmark. When The 50 priests who make up the voting She admitted that Greater Boston High School Father John White, administrator of St. sisting war today, Justify violence hoped there would the Germans or­ Student Mobilization Committee membership of ABUP live in Roxbury, the non-violence has 65 Brookline Street Philip's Rectory in Roxbury, Father and he defined Re­ by calling it self- ultimately be no dered all Jews to 491-7042 South End, and North Dorchester. The sistance as active been a flop so far, defense. Ira said Anthony Mullaney of the same church, Association began organizing after the but pointed out police and no wear yellow arm­ Dorchester: opposition to the that the Vietcong Jails, but that and Father George Spagnolia, assistant Roxbury rebellion last June in order to that violence has bands , everyone Dorchester Communitv Union pastor of St. Francis DeSalles Church system, rather do not know how to someone would pro­ 638 Dudley Street bring "The Servant Church" into active been an even worse in the country, 445-1655 in Roxbury, planned to receive draft than toleration or resist, which is bably be needed to including the involvement with the problems of the ignoring of its flop, "so why don't Local Board 114 (Concord, Acton, cards at the Resistance rally on Bos­ we give non-vio­ shown by their run traffic lights. King, put on an Sudbury, etc.) : inner-city. The Constitution of ABUP , evils. He said lack of success so He felt that the ton Common April 3» lence a bloody armband. The Draft Counseling Service for declares that "to be truly present in that the real far, while David ideal society Local Board 114 area good try?" She Danish Jews es­ 263-5562 In an interview, Father Mullaney, history is to be an instrument of reasons for this suggested that the would be one In caped persecution, 263-4992 (D.W. Boardman, M.D.) lack of action in­ concluded, "People chief architect of the organization's change." North Vietnamese which there was and the rate of Medford: clude fear of los­ say# you're pretty should resist in anti-war stand, saidi "If the mayors of idealistic to crime but no cri­ desertion from the Tufts Draft Counseling Service "The old lines of the Parish sys­ ing one's job, of the way that Gan­ minals, one or­ Lane Hall, Room 107 our large cities are as concerned as think that you can German Army was Tufts University they say they are, they'd use their tem have kind of broken down," Father having to leave dhi dealt with ganized around 628-5000 ext.319, or 349 (Hugo change anything If higher in Denmark Bedau) power effectively to end the war In Mullaney explained. "We now have a co­ school, and of the British. principles of re­ i Newton : being ostracized, you don't use vio­ than in any other Vietnam. There are monumental problems operative ministry. Technically there lence—and I say I demption, not re­ occupied country. Boston College Faculty Draft are still Parish boundaries, but cer­ as well as the David Harris was venge. Counseling in Roxbury. But it's obvious that state­ think you're pre­ Boston College ments by Mayor Lindsay and others Indi­ tain problems cut across Parish lines. fact that many asked whether he Ira was asked In response to a 332-3200.»«.-662 (Douglas McKay) people are not at tty idealistic if felt that applying question about the Boston College Catholic Peace cate that we are not going to do what We're taking a non-traditional approach. you think we can I how he could re­ Fellowship Draft Counseling all sure of the for a 1-0 (pacifist candidacies of Ken­ Student Activities Office the Kerner Report says we must do. We're taking a non-traditional ap­ go on another twen­ concile non-viol­ McEkroy Lounge meaning of their classification was nedy and McCarthy, Boston College Financially the U.S. is in serious trou­ proach." ty years if you go ence with the 332-3200 ble. Where is the cut-back going to be? Father Mullaney explained that in lives. He empha­ complying with the black revolution. David replied that sized that inaction on using violence." system. He re­ both are "mani­ Roxburv: It looks like it's going to be in the the ghettos, the role of the Church He said that he 1 cities." was to serve leadership emanating from is no answer to the plied that he could onljp» explain pulative ' men, and Prisoner Information and Support thought that a 1-0 that their programs Service the black community itself. "We'll problem, which is to himself how to 35 Hawthorne Street #2 445-6955 (John Phillips» do whatever they need us to do," he essentially that of classification was be non-violent, for peace are "il­ how to change so­ a nefarious type and that he was so lusory." He said Waltham: vowed. "We want to get out of the of compliance, and that the problem J money bag, but if they need us to ciety, and said old he was color Bramdeis Draft Counseling a" yet he recognized of American ag­ Information Center raise money, we'll raise money. Not that inaction is blind. He drew 114 Mailman Hall really only another the integrity of gression in foreign Brandeis University in Roxbury, of course; there's not applause when he 899-0353 form of action each Individual's countries is much a penny in Roxbury. But in the white said that it is Wellesley: which preserves the own decision. patronizing to more complicated suburbs." status quo. than Just our in­ Welleslev Draft Project (Other sources report that some Most think that one can­ Wellesley College not speak to one's volvement in Viet­ 235-9177 (Karin-Becker) innér-city priests will organize to Joan Harris said important, he said, nam, and that Worcester : oppose Richard Cardinal Cushing's that the problem you must realize black friend be­ cause the friend's ending this war Worcester Draft Information multI-million dollar program of con­ lies in two aspects exactly what it is would do nothing Service people has been 340 Main street, Room 362 structing new high schools in the of society. Al­ you've committed to prevent the oc­ 755-8170 (Thurston Tavlor) suburbs with money collected from though it tells us your life to by oppressed. cur ranee of other, NEW HAMPSHIRE the sale of church property in the that killing is carrying your When David was similar ones in the ghetto.) evil, it still says draft card, first, asked what he felt future. To elimi­ Presently members of ABUP are , that we must obey it means that your New Hampshire Committee for the Jews in Ger­ nate all such wars Peace in Vietnam conducting draft counseling on an its orders blindly: life Is controlled many should have America needs much (603) 795-2206 (Kendrick Putnam) individual basis. "With so many "I get your body; I David added that by the state. Al­ more than the done to stop Hit­ RHODE ISLAND pressing problems in Roxbury," Father get your mind." the black révolu- so, it teaches you ler, he replied election of a Mullaney noted, "the draft angle is She felt also that don is not really to act through that the best "peace candidate." Providence : a later arriver on the scene." the concept of the a revolution, be­ fear and compulsion Rhode Island Committee for Peace in Vietnam "It's extremely difficult to Justi­ nation-state, cause revolutions and not to use 287 Thayer Street (401) 351-0775 (Sue Simon) fy Vietnam on a 'Just-war' theory," which she termed cannot be both rational Judgement, 5 niiimmmiiii "tribalism," was a violent and pro­ because you are = he explained refering to the tradi­ product of man's CONNECTICUT tional position of the Catholic Church ductive .. He said afraid of the con­ I New Haven: Inability to to­ that blacks are sequences if you I on warfare. "Dissent is handled gin­ New Haven Draft Action GrouD gerly, and resistance is really not lerate being alone trying to use op­ oppose the system. You Must Use Your Life P.O. Box 1448 241 Orange Street understood at all. In Catholicism for any long period pression to rid And finally, your (203) 865-4982 (Betsy Gilbertson of time. Amid themselves of op­ draft card symbol­ ' As A Way Of Constructing obedience to law is very important. Draft Information Center of New Resistance is not an easy thing to laughter, she put pression, and izes your partici­ Haven in a plug for Jail, 425 College street come by." that this tactic pation in a system A New Way Of Life (203) 624-6657 where she said a will never succeed. that raises armies "I'm not an advocate of the domino person can really Not Dedicated To Middletown : theory," he exclaimed, "but even if to be sent around Weslevan Draft Service be alone. (203) 347-6357 (Lanning Schiller I were, I couldn't imagine any conse­ A questioner the world to add < i : Death Or Oppression" 347-4421 ext.449 (Jonathan quence of our cessation of hostilities Explaining the asked what the to the misery of Collett) aims of the Insti­ Vietnamese should other people. in Vietnam comparable to what is going tute for Non-vio­ do in order to to happen to our cities. We're not Draft Information Service pros on Vietnam. We're not pros on the lence, she said keep their coun­ Ira Sandperl American Friends Service Committee cities either. But at least we have that the strategy try. Joan said- said, in reply to "TiiiiiHiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmimimi 144 South Ouaker Lane (203)232-9521 eyes," he concluded. 242-8943 (Gerda Conant) Page 10 THE RESISTANCE April 3 - 15, 1968 THE RESISTANCE April 3-15, 1968 Page 11 ••",". in ii • •mu DU • tmmm CANADA KEEP 1 TOUCH WIÎH THOSE lH PRISON Washington,D.C. Hershey On Violence Liberate Your Local Public Official I 3 (LNS) Despite wide­ Writing in Selective Service, a spread rumors on • monthly staff publication of the (Very Often The Forgotten) the U.S. East S.S.S., General Hersney called all Send Him A Subscription To The Resistance Coast that American violent draft protestors "enemies of Stanley Garland, David Mitchell, authorities are Charles Muse, Michael Schreiber, the United States or stooges for the 'closing off the Send a 1-year subscription (@$3.50 each)* to: David Thompson, James Tod, Phil­ enemies of the United States." Her­ Canadian border to shey, commenting on the April 3rd lip Wallash, James Wilson, Omar draft resisters, demonstrations, said that if they Senator S.O.B., Washington, D.C. Zimmerman, W. Vann Jones, Paul the roads North stil] Miller, Eli Hershberger, Andrew use "increased force, which leads to seem to be operating violence," they must be met "with Yoder, Andrew Stutzman, Lloyd Cong. H.O.B., Washington, D.C. at peak capacity. greater force to prevent greater Hawkins, Richard Cool — federal The Toronto Anti- violence." The General went on to prison, Allenwood, Pa. 17810. Draft Union said say that "it could be that the un­ Judge ______Acheson, Larry Sherry--federa^ today it is greeting questionable success of previous mass prison, McNeil Island, Wash. 20 to 25 new resis­ tactics could influence a decision to FBI Agent Robert Gilliam, Michael Smith, tors daily, roughly operate with smaller numbers and per­ 125 every week, but Harold Storsve, Barry Bondhus, haps by stealth rather than openly," Local Board # __ Edwin Ferguson, Adrian Johnson, couldn't estimate which presumably would be met with Michael Hoffman — federal how many American even smaller numbers and with greater prison, Sandstone, Minn. 55072. men are now living stealth by the government. *An eye-catching card «ill be sent to each ne« Peter Irons — federal prison, in Toronto. New reader announcing your gift subscription. Danbury, Conn. 06810. York state police patrol the highways David Benson — federal prison, "President Johnson has Petersburg, Va. 23803. leading from Buffalo "If I were to be called up, I would said he would withdraw in Daniel Fallon, Dennis Riordan — into the province go. Each person has to examine his federal prison, Springfield, Mo. of Ontario, but 6 months...I think that own conscience and do what he thinks 55800. have apparently would be precipitous...I Gary Hicks, Ronald J. Smith, David apprehended few men is right." — Robert Kennedy, cam­ would put the time limit Reed — federal prison, Lewis- in their 'escape paigning in Watts, N.Y. Times 3/26. at 5 years." -- Eugene burg, Pa. 17837. freedom1. Others McCarthy, campaign in­ Malcolm Dundas, James T. 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They also ward Jeremy Mott, Fred Aviles — federal ground newspaper, 10 - 25 copies @ 12c each Logos. Most of these off FBI agents, SDS organizers, and oth­ prison, Marion, 111. 62959. —a— 25 - 50 copies @ 10c each er troubled spirits. Mike Vogler — Pulaski County Jail, men don't stay in 50 - 100 " @ 8.5C each Little Rock, Ark. 72200. Montreal, Kirby said, 100 «r more @ 7.5C each __/ Send me buttons @ 1/50C; 10/$3; The following are in military prisons« because of the lan­ guage barrier and 25/$5; 50/$7.50; 100/$10. Jonathan Bart, William Hayes — stock­ Send me copies of this issue. ade, Ft. Dix, N.J. 0864-0 the shortage of Felix Chavez — Stockade, Ft. Ord, available jobs. copies of next issue, Calif. 93941. Meanwhile, two April 3 national survey. Douglas Bash, John Carr, James A. separate movements Johnson, Dennis Mora, David Samas, are underway to clear "There are three billion people in the world who want what we Stanley Quast, Donald Tiedmann, the roads both in 200 million Americans have. And we're not going to give it to and out of Canada. James Signon, Howard Levy, David them." -- Lyndon Johnson W. Brown, Thomas Kostes, Melvin J. The Toronto Anti- YIPPIE5 TO INVADE CHICAGO Draft Union has just Lindsay, Ronald Lockman, Duane Chicago's Grant Park, the planned In order to continue printing, "The Resistance" has decided to accept published a compre- • Ferre, Marshall Miller — disci­ site of the Yippies live-in during ads from life-affirming enterprizes. If you publish or write radical hensive•book-length the time of the Democratic Conven­ plinary barracks, Ft. Leavenworth, books, own a travel agency, operate a pretzel company, make matches, Kans. 66027. Manual for Dr^ft- tion in August, is bordered on one Age Immigrants or in any other way qualify as a big or little bourgeoisie working John Morgan ~ Naval Correctional aide by white America and on the edited by Mark Satin, to overthrow the system from within, you will want to advertise reg­ Institute, Portsmouth, N. H. 03801. other by the black Ghetto. Because a former Texan, of the thousand auxiliary police that ularly in the nation's only anti-draft newspaper. Check the size of Barry Barron — Ft. Polk Stockade, La. which is available Mayor Daley will assign to line the ad and dates to run below and send the bread and copy to us 5 days 71459 for $1 from 2279 streets leading to the convention prior to publication date. 10% discount for 5 insertions; 25% for 10. Yonge St., Suite 15 hall, the Yippies will have a dif­ Toronto 12. And ficult time infiltrating the Demo­ _full page @ $250 Mike Ferber announced cratic Party gathering. So with the April 15 issue CIRCULATION in Boston March 6 regular.police force reinforced with _half page @ $150 May 1 issue 25,000 that the New England a thousand deputized (licensed to .quarter page @ $85 May 15 issue From Coast Resistance will soon kill) citizens, the Yippies will be jcolumn inches @ $5 June 1 issue to Coast send a group of forced back into the black ghetto. men north to "bring From vantage points behind tanks, Americans in Canada armored troop carriers, and mother back home again." Return to: THE RESISTANCE America these police can watch Yip­ 27 Stanhope St. The return immigra­ pies and black militants interacting. Join the thousands of people who are re­ tion, Ferber said, If anyone steps out of line there Boston, Mass. 02116 fusing to pay the 10% federal excise tax is prompted by the are always the deserted subway tun­ Tel. (él7) 536-9793 on telephone service. This is specifically fact that "now, nels which the mayor has authorized a war tax as Rep. Wilbur Mills, who man­ at last, we feel we to be used as temporary jails, with have something to Enclosed find $ for items check­ aged the legislation in the House,pointed room for thousands of "criminals" to ed on this page, plus a monthly out: "It is clear that the Vietnam, and offer these guvs., be chained to the walls. pledge of $ to support the young only the Vietnam, operation makes this some real support." The Chicago City Council last week men in their hours of conscience. bill necessary." In no case so far has passed several severe restrictions the phone service been discontinued be­ on demonstrations and marches. Any­ (All contributors will receive a cause the refusal is, according to law, Refused to Register; one involved in an activity which the subscription to this newspaper.) a matter between the refuser and govt« Norman Rosenberg police feel is likely to lead to a Please make checks payable to "The 'l8, a senior at Mid- breach of the peace can be charged Re8istance"or Prof. Noam Chomsky. wood High School in with disorderly conduct. And also, / / I pledge to deduct the federal tax Brooklyn. A supporting anyone entering public property, NAME from my phone bill each month and demonstration took e.g., Grant Park, and remaining there pay it to the Resistance. place at his draft with "malicious or mischievous" in­ board on March 13. tent can likewise be charged with ADDRESS ZIP / / I pledge part or all my income tax. disorderly conduct. Page 12 THE RESISTANCE April 3 - 15, 1968

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resistance SPECIAL EDITION APRIL 5, 1968 KING DIES

Only the white man dies of disease. The black man in Roxbury, in Newark, in Oakland, in Memphis always dies of murder, murder at the hands of a white society. Dr. Martin Luther King's death is not the accident of one white/man with a gun in the right place at the _sjon Oï a iocîeîy TR ' ïœi tactic, racism is a policy. Dr. King was not killed by an assassin in the night; he died the death of black men who have the courage to venture beyond the ghetto to talk with the white world about dignity and decency. He was slain pursuing that goal. Dr. King's death shouts out to the white man that the blacks have learned for four hundred years: the life- blood of this country is the power of the Establish­ ment, the political and financial rulers of America, use to oppress and sicken all humanity within reach. Dr. King stood for freedom and peace with justice. He struggled to have faith that America could someday open its powers for the dignity and health of the black people. He was killed in that struggle. Continued p. 3 STRIKE MONDAY Several major unions, religious, peace, and freedom groups are calling a general i- strike Mon., April 8 in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King and in support of his demands of help for poor people. A teach- in during this day of mourning will be arranged in Boston. On April 5, nearly 20,000 persons responded to a call by the New England Resistance and People Against Racism and demonstrated for two and a half hours at the State House and Federal Building to express their shock at the assassination and resolve to carry on Dr. King's work. For latest information on the Strike and Poor People's Mobilization to Washing­ ton, D.C., April 22, call the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at 445- 0283, Congress of Racial Equality at 445-9458, or the New England Resist­ ance at 536-9793. THE RESISTANCE April 5, 1968 Page 3 Page 2 TH3 RESISTANCE April •$, I960

ITS HAPPENING HERE We are not talking about politics tonight, WHITE SUPEEMACY REIGNS we're not talking about economics tonight, we are talking about the survival of a race of The Cold Racial War is over. people. That is all that is at stake. We are The murder of Martin Luther King marks the By Steve Pallet talking about the survival of black people — end of a period of delusion,, If the whites of nothing else, nothing else, nothing else. And America do not destroy the system of racism On the heels of you must understand that. Now why is it they have created, the hot civil war will Dr. Martin Luther necessary for us to talk about the survival begin» For years we have deluded ourselves, King's assassina­ of our people? Many of us feel — many of our thinking that racism was an accident» It is tion has come the generation feel — that they're getting ready not. For years the official response to the eruption of a na­ to commit genocide against us. Now many black struggle for liberation has been to tionwide series people say that's a horrible thing to say suppress it ruthlessly and to ignore its of racial hostil­ about anybody. But if it's a horrible thing causes. This must end. For years the white ities that pro­ to say, then we should do as Brother Kslr-.nlm reaction has been to escape, to ignore, to mises to leave no said, we should examine history».». explain away, to evade ~ and by this to small mark on A- Let us check World War II. He will not do worsen the intense crisis that confronts us. merica's citie3, it unto his own. Notice who he dropped an RACISM WAS CREATED BY WHITES AND IT MUST especially in the atomic bomb on, some helpless yellow people ir BE DESTROYED BY WHITES„ The Kerner Report Hiroshima, some helpless yellow people in proclaimed this truth: by ignoring it, the South and in the East. The press Hiroshima, in Hiroshima. If you do not think f*M President, Congress, and the whites of he's capable of committing genocide, against America have proven that they are unwilling statement issued APRIL 3 ANTI-DRAFT RALLY: On Boston Common, over 200 young by President us, check out what he's doing to our brothers to end racism. America is not incapable; it in Vietnam. We have to understand that we're men joined the Resistance by turning over their draft cards is unwilling. Johnson was in to clergy and faculty, joining the more than 300 men who part a warning. talking about survival and nothing else, America has hidden behind the mask of law He said, "I ask whether or not this beautiful race of people have said no to the draft and war previously in New England. and order. We have learned that American every citizen to is gonna survive on the earth. That's what Around the nation, nearly 1000 other cards were returned to Order is another name for death, and American resist this blind we're talking about, nothing else, nothing the Justice Department. Second to Boston, the Bay Area col­ Law is another name for murder. We have had violence that has else, nothing else.... lected 154; New York 93; Philadelphia 40; Los Angeles 37; to disrupt law and order in the hope of struck Dr. King We have lost in the last five years some Portland 30; New Haven 29; Chicago 24; and lesser numbers in saving the lives of the Vietnamese and our n of our best leaders — Lumumba, Malcolm X, • • • • over 50 other campuses and communities. own. Black Americans have known this for Obviously, vio­ they offed brother Kwame Nkrumah, and we do years. lence could not nothing, we do nothing, we do nothing. While The propagandists for law and order tell us have erupted When the lives of black people are threat­ they offing our leaders, they take our youth that rioters are hoods and criminals and that spontaneously in ened, we are all threatened. No one is safe. and send them to Vietnam, send them to Korea. Continued from last page DR.KING (cont'd.) the Black Movement is the creation of mili­ over 15 cities— No one. We are slowly getting wiped out. We must Dr. King this month was to march in tant agitators. We hold that they are not as distant as Whites must begin to take grave risks. We retaliate, we must fight i'or our humanity. It police using Washington with basic demands: that the criminals, they are rebels. We hold that the Boston and Miami must take the enormous leap between the is our humanity that is at stake. It is not a tear gas. In blacks would have decent jobs, an adequate Black Movement is the profound expression of —solely a3 a re­ question of dollars and cents. We eonna sur­ Memphis, the site a national people fighting for their liber­ racist status quo and the creation of a new minimum income, an education that means sult of the mur­ nonracist order. This involves risks we have vive, because we have survived what they of the assassina­ ation. White America stole blacks from their tion, UPI reported something, teeth that are not rotting, and der of one man, never faced before. Not to take that leap couldn't survive — that's natural-born fact. children no longer pot-bellied from the native land; 100 years later they "freed" even a man as We have survived. We survived through slave­ that National blacks from being private property to being invites almost certain destruction. Whites starvation of bad diets. He once again went prestigious and ry, we survived through their jive recon­ Guard planes were a colonized people. No explanation of the have never seriously fought racism because to Washington with those demands. as powerfully struction, we survived through World War I, almost immediate­ black revolt can ignore this facts for whites they never felt it was in their self symbolic of the we survived through the Depression, we ly mobilized to Dr. King made the connection between to ignore it is to renew their guilt for this interest. They felt no internal compulsion. American black survived through World War II, we survived pick up riot- racism and the war. He drew the lines be­ M-00 year old crime. It is tragic that most whites must feel brained police, man's cause. The personally threatened before they act. They after World War II when they threw us out of tween the slaughter in the city, teaching We have got to face what is happening. We black communities and 100 Arkansas have got tot Democracy is not working in this have failed to understand that to live in a the jobs in the North, we survived the Korean Highway Patrol us that it is the same mind that napalms Hue were ripe for re­ racist society is to suffer, daily, War, we gonna survive, we gonna survive, and bivouacs in Detroit. In opposing the country: it has collapsed under the weight of taliation; but were immediately America's exploitation of non-whites around dehumanization. ain't no doubt about that in my mind, no deputized and war, he gave us leadership as he expressed the police and doubt at all. the world. Our laws only support this the National WE MUST REACH OUR OWN PEOPLE. We must reach brought across solidarity with the anti-draft movement. oppression by denying recourse to those who them with this message: Understand why the the Mississippi The Resistance learned from Dr. King the -Stokely Carmichael suffer under it. American racism has Guard were still black community has turned to violence. It is River into Mem­ relation of war and racism; thus we have From his speech at the Oakland destroyed tens of thousands of black lives more ripe. the inevitable outcome of their oppression. phis. Clearly, seen that our struggle against the draft and It is more than rage and anguish; it is more Auditorium Feb. 17, 1968. , Jobs, housing, the official the war must be as well a struggle against and has destroyed the hope of tens of thou­ education, medi­ than looting and burning. In the purest sense state response sands more that their lives can be preserved cal care, freedom, it is a political act by a people who have last night was racism in the white community. We have all by the "peaceful" means hypocritically human dignity— been denied all effective means of ending blind violence, lost a leader. offered to th«m„ these are the their oppression and their pain., What would as it has contin- Too clearly the President represents an The moral force that supports police and things that Amer­ we do, as whites, if all our appeals had military action against black communities is ican blacks are been ignored and explained away, if one by •uelly been elite for whom violence upon the world's corrupt and illegitimate. It cannot be com­ systematically one our leaders were assassinated and jailed, past. people and this country's^ ~black s needs no pared to the moral force behind the conert- denied in their if our manhood, talents, culture, and labor And iw was in­ more than a Congressional resolution. Sadly, ed efforts of a people to be free. The one is were wasted and exploited? deed a national own country, even Rlecks the President is but a representative. a cover for exploitation; the other is the after the Pres­ Violence by blacks in search of their response. final expression of a desperate need. ident's own com- liberation is not to be confused or compared in Washington, This President chose silence when his We call on whites to begin a campaign ission unequivo­ to violence by whites in the defence of a DC Greensboro, commission reported that white racism is de- against the calloiis, conscious, and struct­ cally called for racist status quo. Whites are defending their Nashville, Win- stroying the black people of America. As Dr. ural opression of nonwhites. Since racism in them. Instead, property and their power. Blacks are defend­ ston-Salem, Jack- King lay dead, he called for "unity," facing America is built into the structure of our the response is ing their lives and taking power that will son, Talahassee, a nation sundered by a viciousness called society, it must be rooted out ~ and this the very "blind not be given to them. No rationalizations or Raleigh, Hart- racism, means tearing down the structure that has violence" that excuses can wish away the basic need of ford, Wilmington, Raclsn is white 8upreBacy> the u8e of been built. blacks to control their own destinies. Johnson and oth­ napoli^arcTat " bUck men for the PurPoses of «hlte men» Who among us will campaign to keep the ers say they de­ police and military out of the black commun­ once denied their Racism is the economy of this white society; plore. rights and kept ifc *•• a black coLlege graduate earning a ity , even if this means sitting-in at Extra police — Terry Cannon, Dave Satz, John Pennington, armories and police stations? Who will go in under control white high school graduate's wage. It is details were de­ Connie Field, Art Morrill, Neil Robertson, To help defray the costs of this person to city officials and demand that ployed in Brook­ Joel Kugelmass, Mike Ferber, Ira Arlook, with official vi-white police in the black ghetto. Racism is special edition of The Resistance olence. the status quo. repression end and reconstruction begin? lyn and Harlem in and others of the New England Resistance. I enclose $ . WHDH radio an- . K_ New York City to nounced early Yeg> we uoutu for Dr ng and for all What doctors will give medical aid to rebels, control crowds of the others who have died in the struggle for THE RESISTANCE newspaper is published bi­ this morning even if this means risking their licenses? blacks. In Brook­ Name black liberation. More than that, we mourn weekly by the New England Resistance, 27 that, in Boston- Nothing can ever make property more im­ lyn they charged for the white man who never stood against portant than human lives. Not to reach oui Stanhope St., Boston, Mass. 02116. (617) Address Blue Hill Aven­ the crowds. Ac­ 536-9793. Editor: Alex Jack; Business the racism in himself and in his society. Now own people, even the most racist, is to con­ cording to a UPI ue and Columbia Manager: Don Bobo; Distribution: Chris -" r ""VT""T j -11 Americans shall know the wrath of the black demn America to a civil war of proportions dispatch, $0 Zip Road were blocked we can now only guess. black youths Venn; Assistant Editors: Ann Rigsby, Off "to prevent people. Who dares deny the wrath of men Seek­ Keith Mallard, Steve Pallet, John Brown, uh ing justice? Who will dare? Black and white together are in a trap. But were met by 100 Send to: The New England Resistance vi olence. whites built, own, and operate that trap. John Pennington, Lucy Jack. Subscriptions riot-helmeted n 27 Stanhope St. Only they can finally destroy it. $5 yearly, checks p_ayable_to_ Re sis tance." New England Resistance - April 5, 1968 .JJoston. Mass. 02116 No one can help us if we do nott Continued next page Page k THE RESISTANCE April £, 1968 THE RESISTANCE April $, 1968 Page $ FROM A BIRMINGHAM JAIL PRIESTS HITWVR& RACISM (The following excerpts human personality is unjust. All seg­ are from Dr. King's fa­ regation statutes are unjust because The Boston Association of Boston Urban Priests segregation distorts the soul and dam­ of Urban Priest issued the mous letter to white ages the personality. It gives the seg- is opposed to: following statement in re­ clergymen in Alabama.) regator a false sense of superiority and *****; the segregated a false sense of inferi­ sponse to the Kerner Re­ I I guess it is easy for those who have ority. To use the words of Martin m' port. ______1. those actions which never felt the stinging darts of segre­ Buber, the great Jewish philosopher, gation to say wait. But when you have There are many rea­ segregation substitutes an "I-it" rela­ are channeling the ener­ seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers sons why the Association tionship for the "I-thou" relationship, gies of this nation into and fathers at will and drown your and ends up relegating persons to the of Boston Urban Priests a single obsessive con­ sisters and brothers at whim; when you status of things. So segregation is (ABUP) might wish to make have seen hate filled policemen curse, not only politically, economically, and cern for military vic­ kick, brutalize, and even kill your a statement on the war in sociologically unsound, but it is moral­ tory in Vietnam. We black brothers and sisters with impu­ Vietnam. Our vantage ly wrong and sinful. Paul Tillich has have become a nation nity; when you see the vast majority said that sin is separation. Isn't segre­ point differs from that with a single, answer to of your twenty million Negro brothers gation an existential expression oi smothering in an air-tight cage of of the majority of our the causes of unrest, a man's tragic separation, an expression poverty in the midst of an affluent fellow Americans. We nation with a growing of his awful estrangement, his terrible society; when you suddenly find your sinfulness? So I can urge men to obey speak from what we incapacity for finding tongue twisted and your speech stam­ the 1954 decision of the Supreme experience in an inner- alternative uses of mering as you seek to explain to your Court because it is morally right, and city. And the immediate power. six-year-old daughter why she can't I can urge them to disobey segregation go to the public amusement park that occasion for speaking 2. those actions which ordinances because they are morally has just been advertised on television, wrong. out at this time is impair the effectiveness and see tears welling up in her little the publication of the of the United Nations. eyes when she is told that Funtown is I hope you can see the distinction I t am trying to point out. In no sense do Report from the National We have become a nation closed to colored children, and see the I advocate evading or defying the law Advisory Commission on * *_*fr*J depressing clouds of inferiority begin which shows little readi­ to form in her little mental sky, and as the rabid segregationist would do. Civil Disorders. The ****** ness to respect the de­ see her begin to distort her little per­ This would lead to anarchy. One who relationship between mands of the interde­ sonality by unconsciously developing breaks an unjust law must do it openly, this Report and the war, pendence of nations; we a bitterness toward white people; when lovingly (not hatefully as the white we feel, must not be you have to concoct an answer for a mothers did in New Orleans when they are less and less in­ five-year-old son asking in agonizing were seen on television screaming overlooked. No serious pathos: "Daddy, why do white people "nigger, nigger, nigger") and with a fluenced by the opinions attention can be given treat colored people so mean?"; when willingness to accept the penalty. I to the former without of the family of nations. you take a cross country drive and find submit that an individual who breaks a basic change in 3. those actions which it necessary to sleep night after night in a law that conscience tells him is un­ foster the growing the uncomfortable corners of your just, and willingly accepts the penalty policy towards the by staying in jail to arouse the con­ world-wide perception automobile because no motel will ac­ latter. It would be cept you; when you are humiliated day science of the community over its a delusion to think of this nation as a in and day out by nagging signs read­ injustice, is in reality expressing the SCLC photograph by Bab Filch otherwise. Now is the racist power. We have ing "white" men and "colored"; when very highest respect for law. your first name becomes "nigger" and Of course there is nothing new time for previously become a nation whose protestations for free­ your middle name becomes "boy" about this kind of civil disobedience. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. untapped leadership We have a responsi­ (however old you aie) and your last It was seen sublimely in the refusal of not fully experience, dom are becoming less to appear. Therefore, bility to share what our name becomes "John," and when your Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1964 the growing distrust of and less credible. It the mayors of our presence in the city is wife and mother are never given the re­ obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar be­ a white power structure is difficult, indeed, to spected title "Mrs."; when you are cause a higher moral law was involved. large cities must revealing to us. Our which permits some 904 characterize our national harried by day and haunted by night It was practiced superbly by the early Hitler did in Germany was "legal" appear among the most vantage point makes us billions of dollars to policy when one ponders by the fact that you are a Negro, living Christians who were willing to face and everything the Hungarian freedom vocal opponents of witness to the consterna­ constantly at tip-toe stance never quite hungry lions and the excruciating pain fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." be spent on the military our stance towards un- current Administration tion among those trying knowing what to expect next, and of chopping blocks, before submitting It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a since World War II as freedom in Rhodesia, Yours for the cause of policy in Vietnam if to wage the war on pover­ plagued with inner fears and outer the moral means of nonviolence to Jew in Hitler's Germany. But I am against 96 billions of South Africa, Portugal, resentments; when you are forever maintain the immoral end of flagrant sure that, if I had lived in Germany Peace and Brotherhood their concern for their ty. They are in the im­ dollars for education, Haiti, Guatemala, Vietnam, fighting a degenerating sense of "no- racial injustice T. S. Eliot has said during that time, I would have aided cities is to be given possible position of be­ bodiness";—then you will understand that there is no greater treason than and comforted my Jewish brothers health, welfare, housing and our own cities. any credibility. This ing called to give en­ why we find it difficult to wait. There to do the right deed for the wrong even though it was illegal. If I lived and community development, 4. those actions which opposition must be couragement and hope to comes a time when the cup of endur­ reason. in a communist country today where Distrust and anger are demonstrate our re­ ance runs over, and men are no longer I wish you had commended the voiced now, for every people who are not re­ certain principles dear to the Christian MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. peated disregard for willing to be plunged into an abyss of Negro sit-inners and demonstrators of understandable responses faith are suppressed, I believe I would Birmingham City Jail indicator points to ceiving the necessary injustice where they experience the Birmingham for their sublime courage, openly advocate disobeying these anti- in a nation where, in the international trea­ April 16, 1963 further military esca­ help that the President bleakness of corroding despair. I hope, their willingness to suffer, and their religious laws. the year 1967, out of a ties which we recognize lation as the main and the nation promised sirs, you can understand our legitimate amazing discipline in the midst of the total budget of 157 as legally binding. We and unavoidable impatience. most inhuman provocation. One day thrust of policy in them. Concern for free­ have become a nation the South will recognize its real heroes. dom in Vietnam becomes billions of dollars, Vietnam. In an ever- which does not require You express a great deal of anxiety They will be the James Merediths, an incredible claim 69.2% was allocated to over our willingness to break laws. increasing number of of its leadership an courageously and with a majestic sense when our meager na­ military and defense- This is certainly a legitimate concern. of purpose, facing jeering and hostile circumstances the obedience to these laws. tional effort for the related activities, Since we so diligentiy urge people to mobs and the agonizing loneliness that public is being exposed, obey the Supreme Court's decision of poor, and especially while only 12.27. was 5. those actions which characterizes the life of the pioneer. not to the President as 1954 outlawing segregation in the They will be old, oppressed, battered In memory of allocated for health, require the enlisting peacemaker, but to the for the poor of the public schools, it is rather strange and Negro women, symbolized in a sev­ education and welfare. into a war-system of an President as Commander- Black community, is paradoxical to find us consciously enty-two year old woman of Mont­ MARTIN LUTHER KING And only a fraction of ever-growing percentage breaking laws. One may well ask, in-Chief. This is a gomery, Alabama, who rose up with this latter was directed of our youth. We have "How can you advocate breaking some a sense of dignity and with her people dangerous development. contrasted with the mas­ laws and obeying others?" The answer for the specifically to the 30 become a nation whose decided not to ride the segregated And its relevance to the sive expenditure of per­ is found in the fact that there are two buses, and responded to one who in­ million Americans who system of values and urban crisis must not sonnel and resources in types of laws: There are just laws and quired about her tiredness with ungram- POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH Vietnam. And yet there live below the poverty goals is being radical­ there are unjust laws. I would be the matical profundity: "My feets is tired, go unnoticed in spite of first to advocate obeying just laws. on Washington is little evidence that line. What can be said ly altered. but my soul is rested." They will be practiced rhetoric to the One has not only a legal but moral young high school and college students, about priority and depth 6. those actions which contrary. It is our be­ Congress is sufficiently responsibility to obey just laws. Con­ young ministers of the gospel and a of concern in a nation are leading ever-grow­ lief that an adequate sensitive to these facts. versely, one has a moral responsibility host of the elders, courageously and I enclose $ which permits an expendi­ to disobey unjust laws. I would agree response to the Commi- On the contrary, there ing numbers of young nonviolently sitting in at lunch coun­ is considerable evidence ture of some $300,000 for Americans to be forced with Saint Augustine that "An unjust ters and willingly going to jail for sion's Report is incom­ law is no law at all." conscience sake. One day the South that the priorities of each "enemy" killed in to choose jail rather patible with a continua­ Now.what is the difference between will know that when these disinherited Send to: Southern Christian Leadership Vietnam as against less than co-operate in what tion of present policy many legislators lie in the two? How does one determine children of God sat down at lunch Conference different directions, than $50 for each person they consider an immoral when a law is just or unjust? A just in Vietnam. The massive counters they were in reality standing Atlanta, Georgia 30304 classified as "poor" in venture. We have be­ law is a man-made code that squares up for the best in the American dream national effort required that the urban crisis is not perceived in all our own nation. come a nation swift to with the moral law or the law of God. and the most sacred values in our Judeo- to solve the problems An unjust law is a code that is out of Christian heritage, and thus carrying its complexity. For many The body of mayors of the cities will not label dissent unlawful, harmony with the moral law. To put our whole nation back to great wells of riot control is the only must act to change this be initiated if current swift to narrow the it in the terms of Saint Thomas democracy which were dug deep by the matter for deep concern. situation. Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law founding fathers in the formulation of Administration attitudes options of a free people. In the light of all that is not rooted in eternal and natural the Constitution and the Declaration remain in effect. Our vantage point law. Any law that uplifts human per­ of Independence. this, the Association enables us to sense, if sonality is just. Any law that degrades We can never forget that everything Page 6 THE RESISTANCE April 5, 1968 THE RESIST MCE April 5, 1968 Page 7

WHEN I HEARD THE NEWS

When I Heard the News - April 4, 1968 8:35 p.m. WAR CRIMES & RACISM (The following testimony is taken from the International War Crimes Tribunal *,lit I was told a little while ago m in Denmark this winter. Reprinted from Wfir Martin Luther King has been shot Liberation Magazine. ySi M in Memphis in the face The Expendables by a white in a car Halimi: The Tribunal can question him on specifics, but I would like to ask Mr. Tuck two general questions. I was at a Resistance meeting The first. You are black, and I would like you to tell A ripple of horror and anguish the Tribunal if you sensed, during operations, a segre­ gation—a discrimination between yourself and the white soldiers in the American Army. In particular, Walked home could you explain the advantages the others had over you? past the stone lions by the fountains of the Prudential I would say that that while there was not any segrega­ tion, if anything it was overintegrated. What a lot of people do not realize is that most of the soldiers fight­ I cannot maintain ing in the infantry over there are black soldiers. In my particular outfit it was 117 out of 156 were black sol­ any distance diers. It is a common practice to put the people whom they consider expendable in the infantry. This is the I cannot separate myself black soldier, the Puerto Ricans and the hillbillies. The reasoning behind thjs I believe is that if these people from the man who has been shot are killed no one is going to miss them, because after all black people are always complaining, so if they com­ plain about being used in the infantry, no one in the I will not U.S. is going to listen to them. The war is very popular in the United States and if the Johnson administration past the stone lions use the middle-class white people, then the parents of these people when they sustain casualties would be com­ on a balmy night plaining about this and would demand that the war be over with. So, therefore, they put the expendables, the black people, the Puerto Ricans and our poor rural ours is the age of the gun whites that we call "hillbillies." They put the expend­ do something they would be killed anyway, and in order In Providence, R.I., we may die by it ables in the infantry, but I noticed that when I came back from the war and saw on T.V., I saw very few black for the black soldier to prevent their being used in such 2000 demonstrated ours is the age of the gun a manner it would take a sort of an uprising in order soldiers. It always seems to be mostly white, but I know against Vice Pres­ we may try to throw it away with my own eyes this is not true. to get this practice to be stopped. ident Humphrey at but it comes back to us Sartre : Did they also sense that this racial criterion was But other than that there was not any segregation. a regional meet­ ours is the age of the gun also being used with regard to the Vietnamese? There was discrimination as far as lining up men to be ing of the Dem­ the point man. The point man is the man who always Well, there was a lot of black G.I.'s including myself ocratic Party. past the stone lions goes some meters ahead of everyone else. He leads the who realized that here they looked upon us the same way and is always on the lookout. He is usually the man as they did the Vietnamese. But on the other hand they Pickets demanded on a balmy night who first gets killed. And invariably it seems like the thought that they really had no choice in the matter, an end to racism their jaws are hanging open soul brothers—or the Negroes—were the ones who were that they had to fight or else. on the point. And so that is one way in which they dis­ at home and a- criminate. broad. we may die by it They'll Get Rid of You Laurent Schwartz! Mr. Tuck, you have said that you SAIGON DIXIE Black Soldiers are Brainwashed and blessed are the peacemakers had the order to shoot [prisoners] and that you could not oppose it. Now, the American soldiers who are sent SOUTH VTETNAW, A for theirs is the kingdom of Jean-Paul Sartre: Youve told us that black soldiers are used more often than white soldiers in combat opera­ to Vietnam—do they know about the judgments of the Negro soldi er, in tions. Did your black comrades realize that there was Nuremberg Trials; that is, that they have the right— or even the duty—to resist inhuman orders? Do you I cannot maintain any distance this sort of racial discrimination? In general, do black one of his last soldiers sense they are. being used on dangerous opera­ know of any soldiers who have been punished for com­ letters home, com­ tions just because they are black? mitting war crimes? plained to his mo­ watched little blacks RIGHTS WORKER CONVICTED Well, I would like to say that in this respect he wasn't Well, I would like to say I have never heard of any ther that some U.S. playing on the Prudential escalators used for the more dangerous work. Let's say that more G.I.'s who were punished because they committed acts army units in South a careful eye out for the cops Atlanta, Ga., Atlanta SNCC head­ ment officials black soldiers were used. I mean both white and black of war. Most of us had heard of the Geneva Convention Vietnam were flying March 28 (LNS) — quarters considers charged that it were used, but more black soldiers out of proportion. of war. We knew that we were not supposed to do cer­ I was at a meeting tain things. On the other hand we realized that we had Confederate flags. Just after dismissal the conviction "just "taught children to Most of the black soldiers in the Army are the same as we sent a telegram they are in civilian life: they have been brainwashed to be realistic, because if you disobey an order, sooner "The Negroes here of his assertion that another attempt to hate whites." would I could send my blood, my life and they believe that they are fighting for the freedom or later they will get rid of you. I mean, what I am are afraid, and can­ draft boards in South silence Cleveland," of the South Vietnamese—forgetting completely that in saying is, like for instance if I had decided to refuse to not do anything a- Carolina and Georgia many parts of the United States they do not have free­ fight the Viet Cong, my friends, my own friends, and bout this,* 2nd Lt. ours is the age of the gun discriminate against dom, see? But on the other hand the few who do know the officers would get rid of me. I mean, they would this are very realistic. They know that if they refuse to have killed me—there is no doubt about that. Therefore Eddie Kitchen, Jr., again and again forever blacks, SNCC»s Nashville, Tenn., New Orleans, La., you go along with the program. a career soldier the good men Cleveland Sellers March 15 (LNs) __ March 29 (LNS) — from Chicago, wrote faces blown off was convicted of Fred Brooks, 21, Kasuri: Now you referred to the composition of your in a letter dated draft refusal here H. Rap Brown, chair­ own unit and you said that out of the 156 people in it, on the streets former director'of Feb. 23. He asked today. He will be man' of SNCC, was 117 were dark. testimony (on March his mother to not­ sentenced on April taken from Orleans That's right. 27); when the ify the President. the jaws are hanging open 27. Parish Prison, where verdict came today, he has been held Kasuri: Now was it an unusual kind of a unit or the "If you... cannot I did not want to turn on the radio U. S. District ordinary composition of infantry units? it in effect made prisoner for more do anything about and now he is dead Judge Newell Sellers an example than a month, to This was a regular infantry unit. it, then let me know findifield ruled that Richmond, Va., March and I will take fur­ police are searching the case could be Nashville's contro­ Kasuri: No, but I mean, did you notice similar composi­ 27 for a hearing. argued only on the versial Liberation tion of other infantry units? * ther action on my for a white assailant Brown is under issue of whether School, was sentenced Rijjht, right, also- noticed this in the 1st Battalion of own... I have notl- he is all of us $100,000 bond on a Sellers was legally today to four years the 14th Infantry Regiment. This was the same practice. ced the Confederate string of charges, he is all we have stood for inducted and then in prison for draft Most of the infantrymen were black G.I.'s. Then after flag being flown on for allegedly incit­ that vou had Puerto Ricans and what we call "hill­ ours is the age of the gun refused, thereby refusal. many of the vehi­ ing to riot and on billies." ruling impossible Brooks, a SNCC cles and displayed several occasions Kasuri : Would it then be right to assume that in the I cannot separate myself any argument on the worker, pleaded not at some install- travelling without casualties the majority would be black? basis of discrim­ guilty on the grounds nents...." from another corpse police/court author­ ination. Sellers of his opposition to That is correct to assume. "As a non-com- ization. His removal says that 0.53 per the war in Vietnam •nissioned officer We must have known to New Orleans fol­ cent of South and his conscien­ I would have just We must have expected tious objection. His lowed a Feb. 18 trip Kasuri: Now, would it be right to assume that the Carolina draft boards things you are referring to: namely, that the Vietnam­ torn the flag from to his lawyer, He-m«s«-have-knew- are Negroes, while sentence was handed ese should be shot, that the good Vietnamese was a dead the vehicle, but an William Kunstler, in He must have 30 per cent of men down by Judge William Vietnamese, or that it was common to cut the ears off a commissioned of­ E. Miller. San Francisco. Brown the killed Vietnamese or that the practice of the "mad and he saw the bullet coming toward him drafted are. His ficer, I cannot lose was accused of vio­ minute" existed—is within the knowledge of the higher did he? draft board is in Brooks* school was control of myself," lating bond con­ military officers of the U.S. Army? Bamberg, S. C„, but the subject of the bullet that has been coming so long ditions through the he refused to go intense attack by There is no doubt that it is within the knowledge of Lt. Kitchen was ours is the age of the gun trip. the higher U.S. authorities. May 1, 1967 in' Congress last year, killed in Vietnam Atlanta. as various govern­ Kasuri: Thank you. on March 6. we may die by it, James Samuel Have lin /' 3 DAY FREEDOM STRIKE ïne xnew England Resistance, People Against Racism, and - other area groups have called a three-day General Strike in Boston Monday, 'Tuesday, and Wednesday April 8-10 in honor of Dr. King and in support of programs for black people and poor whites. » Students, faculty, and administrators at Harvard, BU, -IT, UNass, Northeastern, and Brandeis have already responded in whole or part to the strike call and have scheduled workships in white racism on their campuses. Following this morning's Memorial Service for Dr. King on Boston Common, striking supporters will mass at the JFK Fed­ eral Building in Government Center at 3 p.m. to demand an immediate withdrawal of troops from American citiesf Black control of the Black communities; support for the Mem­ phis sanitation workers, with whom Dr. King was working be­ fore he was killed; and recognition that racism and the war are intimately related in terms of the structure of the American societv and economy, (continued p.2)

resistance SPECIAL EDITION APRIL8,1968 CARD TURN-IN OPPOSES RACISM his people, Dr. King said, "If Dr. Spock and In response to the assassination of Dr. King, Michael Ferber are jailed, then I should be the New England Resistance will sponser a mass jailed as well.* He made the connection between draft-card turn-in at Arlington Street Church the Selective Service System as an'instrument 11 a.m. Wed., April 10. of oppression in Vietnam and in the ghetto. By means of the turn-in, young men, especial- "He realized that the degredation of the ly white college students,- can dissociate them- Vietnamese and the despair of the American selves with a draft system that is basically blacks are two sides of a single continuing racist, as demonstrated in the fact that no force; militarism. black n« card«, 1 a, tinÉ ii n the douth f_ ja^rtiesa4lÄ_ ' y £iiid 0 Ti^ X G fr» s and only have a token representation of 3%\n promises, it seems that the. wHltef s 1: the North, while 3O7& of all casualties in Viet­ ognize themselves as the disease, rather than nam are black. the doctor, until white institutions no longer In the two days following King's murder, 20 impose and further racist channeling of the men have turned in their draft cards to the black people, our hopes are hollow, our sense Resistance office, joining 200 Boston area men of guilt pointless. who non-cooperated April 3 pn Boston Common "The Resistance Intends to undermine the and the 300 previous resisters in New England. institution pampering the middle-class while it The N.E.R. has issued the following appeal: uses black bodies for an ugly war. As a beginning, "Martin Luther King brought to the white and young men must reject their deferments and sep­ black pe-e-Tple the realization that the draft arate themselves from the draft by returning and the ghetto shall live and, die together. their draft cards. This seems to be a minimal "As a blac.v man fighting for the freedom of assault upon white racism.' Join us April 10."" KING DIES

Only the white man dies of disease. The black man in Roxbury, in Newark, in Oakland, in Memphis always dies of murder, murder at the hands of a white society. Dr. Martin Luther King's death is not the accident of one white man with a gun in the right place at the right time. His death is the expression of a society for whom destruction is a tactic, racism is a policy. Dr. King was not killed by an assassin in the night; he died the death of black men who have the courage to venture beyond the ghetto to talk with the white world about dignity and decrncy. He was slain pursuing that goal. Dr. King's death shouts out to the white man that the blacks have learned for four hundred years: the life- blood of this country is the power of the Establish­ ment, the political and financial rulers of America, use to oppress and sicken all humanity within reach. Dr. King stood for freedom and peace with justice. He struggled,to have faith that America could someday open its powers for the dignity and health of the black people. He was killed in that 20,000 people assembled in front of the State House for struggle. a march in memory of Dr. King. " (photo-Harvard Yearbook) Continued p. 2 Page 2 THE RESISTANCE April 8, 1968 THE RESISTANCE April 8, 1968 Page 3 DR. KING (cont'd.) Dr. King this month was to march in Washington with basic demands: that the PRIESTS HITW^R & RACISM clacks vould have decent jobs, an adequate (The Boston Association Haiti, Guatemala, Vietnam, minimum income, an education that means of Urban Priests recent­ and our own cities.... something, teeth that are not rotting, and ly attacked the war and We voice opposition to children no longer pot-bellied from the white racism and pledged a draft law that is clear­ starvation of bad diets. He once again went to support draft resist­ ly unjust in it system of i.o Washington with those demands. ance. The following are exemptions and deferments. Dr. King made the connection between excerpts from their We voice opposition to racism and the war. He drew the lines be­ March 11 statement.) a draft law that makes no tween the slaughter in the city, teaching provision for the right us that it is the same mind that napalms Hue The mayors of our large of conscience to judge in and bivouacs in Detroit. In opposing the cities must appear among each case what is the war, he gave us leadership as he expressed the most vocal opponents moral course of action.... solidarity with the anti-draft movement. of current Administration We publicly support The Resistance learned from Dr. King the policy in Vietnam if their those who, for reasons relation of war and racism; thus we have concern for their cities of conscience, refuse to seen that our struggle against the draft and is to be given any credi­ serve in the armed for­ the war must be as well a struggle against bility.... ces or who refuse to racism in the white community. We have all It is our belief that support in any way the war lost a leader. an adequate response to effort in Vietnam.... Too clearly the President represents an the (Kerner) Commission's Although most of the report (on civil disorders) problems of the city af­ elite for whom violence upon the world's is incompatible with a fect the poor regardless people and this country's blacks needs no SAIGON DIXIE STRIKE continuation of present of color, the problem of more than a Congressional resolution. Sadly, SAIGON -- A black (continued from p. 1) policy in Vietnam.... Vietnam touches the youth the President Is but a representative. soldier in one of his of the Black community This President chose silence when his last letters home com­ Our vantage point en­ HARVARD in a special way. It is commission reported that white racism is de­ plained to his mother ables us to sense, if not not for us to decide what stroying the black people of America. As Dr. that some U.S. Army Classes cancelled Hon. and Tues. fully experience, the is the best proposal with King lay dead, he called for "unity," facing units in South Vietnam Memorial Service Tues, afternoon, growing distrust of a respect to Black youth. a nation sundered by a viciousness called jere flying Confeder- followed by a teach-in with Chester white power structure which But two possibilities sug­ racism. te flags. Hartman, 3am Bowles, and Wayne 0' permits some 904 billions "The Negroes here Neil. of dollars to be spent gest themselves, both of Racism is white supremacy, the us« of re afraid, and can- BOSTON UNIVERSITY on the military since which the Association black men for the purposes of white men. would Support should the • t do anything a- Classes Ton. devoted to racism, World War II as against Racism is the economy of this white society; leadership of the Black ut thiSj" 2nd Lt. until 2 p.m. when all will march to 96 billions of dollars it is a black college graduate earning a JFK building. Classes suspended lues. community approve of them. _ddie Kitchen, Jr., for education, health, white high school graduate's wage. It is Black memorial service k p.m. The a career soldier from welfare, housing, and Therefore, the Association white police in the black ghetto. Racism is Student Congress has demanded that of Boston Urban Priests will Chicago, wrote. He 3U create a black college in Roxbury community development.... nation as a racist power. the status quo. Boston Urban Priests is support a proposal that : asked his mother to run by the black community, but ac­ What can be said about pri- We have become a nation Yes, we mourn for Dr. King and for all opposed to those actions Black youth engaged in any notify the President. credited thru 3U. The Administration orit> and depth of con­ which are channelling the whose protestations for the others who have died in the struggle for said no, and a strike against the role designated by Black "If you...cannot cern in a nation which energies of this nation freedom are becoming less black liberation. More than that, we mourn school begins Wednesday. leadership as important do anything about it, permits an expenditure of and less credible. It is for the white man who never stood against into a single obsessive for the growth and develop­ then 1 et me know and some $300,000 for each difficult, indeed, to the racism in himself and in his society. Now BRAND 31S concern for military ment of the Black community I will take further "enemy" killed in Vietnam characterize our national all Americans shall know the wrath of the black victory in Vietnam.... (a) be offered exemption action on my own... against less than $50 for policy when one ponders people. Who dares deny the wrath of men seek­ Classes cancelled ?:on. and Tues. We are opposed to from the draft, or (b) be I have noticed the Workshops on racism Wed. Students each person classified as our stance toward un- ing justice? Who will dare? those actions which granted an occupational Confederate flag who want to picket Roxbury slumlords "tioor" in our own nation? freedom in Rhodesia, foster the growing world­ deferment. — THS EDITORIAL BCÄH^ being flown on many who live in suburbia call Jane Shull The Association of wide perception of this South Africa, Portugal, (893-9153) or Conrad Johnson (89^- of the vehicles and 6567). THE RESISTANCE newspaper is published bi­ displayed at some in­ stallments. ..." '•IT weekly by the New England Resistance, 27 Classes cancelled Mon. Teach-in Stanhope St., Boston, Mass. 02116. (617) "As a non-commis­ \0-^ p.m. Other action probable. FROM A BIRMINGHAM JAIL 536-9793. Editor: Alex Jack; Business sioned officer I would closed to colored children, and see the willing to be plunged into an abyss of Manager: Don Bobo; Distribution: Chris have just torn the U-'-ASS (The following excerpts depressing clouds of inferiority begin injustice where they experience the jVenn; Assistant Editors: Ann Rigsby, flag from the vehicle," from Dr. King's famous bleakness of corroding despair. I hope, Dean Gagnon has allowed the Resist­ to form in her little mental sky, and Keith Mallard, Steve Pallet, John Brown, he concluded, "but as letter to white clergy­ see her begin to distort her little per­ sirs, you can understand our legitimate ance to hold workshops Mon« ^-9 p.m. John Pennington, Lucy Jack. Subscriptions a commissioned officer sonality by unconsciously developing and unavoidable impatience. 100 Arlington St. men while he was imprison­ $5 y_earjly^checks gayable_to_ "Resistance." I cannot lose control a bitterness toward white people; when You express a great deal of anxiety ed in jail for defying over our willingness to break laws. of myself." you have to concoct an answer for a NORTHEASTERN segregation laws shows five-year-old son asking in agonizing This is certainly a legitimate concern. Lt. Kitchen was the basis that later led pathos: "Daddy, why do white people Since we so diligently urge people to killed in Vietnam Memorial Service Hon. noon. Work­ him to oppose the war in treat colored people so mean?"; when obey the Suprerae'Court's decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the March 6. shops Tues. Other action probable. Vietnam and endorse the you take a cross country drive and find In memory of it necessary to sleep night after night in public schools, it is rather strange and Resistance.) the uncomfortable corners of your paradoxical to find us consciously automobile because no motel will ac­ breaking laws. One may well ask, MARTIN LUTHER KING I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segre­ cept you; when you are humiliated day "How can you advocate breaking some Over t'-e bLeached bones and jumbled residues gation to say wait. But when you have in and day out by nagging signs read­ laws and obeying others?" The answer for the seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers ing "white" men and "colored"; when is found in the fact that there are two o"€ numerous civilizations are written the and fathers at will and drown your your first name becomes "nigger" and types of laws: There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would be the POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH sisters and brothers at whim; when you your middle name becomes "boy" pathetic words: "loo late." There is an (however old you aie) and your last first to advocate obeying just laws. even though it was illegal. If I lived on Washington have seen hate filled policemen curse, invdelible book of life that faithfully kick, brutalize, and even kill your name becomes "John," and when your One has not only a legal but moral in a communist country today where black brothers and sisters with impu­ wife and mother are never given the re­ responsibility to obey just laws. Con­ certain principles dear to the Christian records our vigilance ar our neglect. "The nity; when you see the vast majority spected title "Mrs."; when you are versely, one has a moral responsibility faith are suppressed, I believe I would to disobey unjust laws. I would agree openly advocate disobeying these anti- I enclose __ of your twenty million Negro brothers harried by day and haunted by night moving finger writes, and having writ moves smothering in an air-tight cage of by the fact that you are a Negro, living with Saint Augustine that "An unjust religious laws. poverty in the midst of an affluent constantly at tip-toe stance never quite law is no law at all." Yours for the cause of on... ' Wé still have a choice today: non­ society; when you suddenly find your knowing what to expect next, and We can neve»- forget that everything Peace and Brotherhood Send to: Southern Christian Leadership tongue twisted and your speech stam­ plagued with inner fears and outer Hitler did in i. Vmany was "legal" violent coexistence or violent coannihilation. and everything the Hungarian freedom mering as you seek to explain to your resentments; when you are forever Conference fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." six-year-old daughter why she can't fighting a degenerating sense of "no- Atlanta, Georgia 30304 This may well be mankind's last chance to It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a go to the public amusement park that bodiness";—then you will understand Jew in Hitler's Germany. But I am choose between chaos and community. has just been advertised on television, why we find it difficult to wait. There MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. comes a time when the cup of endur­ sure that, if I had lived in Germany and see tears welling up in her little during that time, I would have aided Birmingham City Jail eyes when she is told that Funtown is ance runs over, and men are no longer and comforted my Jewish brothers April 16, 1963 Page 4 THE RESISTANCE April 8, 1968 WAR CRIMES & RACISM (The following testimony is taken from the International War Crimes Tribunal in Denmark this winter. Reprinted from Liberation Magazine. The Expendables Halimi: The Tribunal can question him on specifics, but I would like to ask Mr. Tuck two general questions. |f| The first. You are black, and I would like you to tell the Tribunal if you sensed, during operations, a segre­ gation—a discrimination between yourself and the white soldiers in the American Army. In particular, could you explain the advantages the others had over you? I would say that that while there y as not any segrega­ tion, if anything it was overintegrated. What a lot of people do not realize is that most of the soldiers fight­ ing in the infantry over there are black soldiers. In my particular outfit it was 117 out of 156 were black sol­ diers. It is a common practice to put the people whom they consider expendable in the infantry. This is the black soldier, the Puerto Ricans *H*Hhe hillbillies. The reasoning behind this I believe is that if these people are killed no one is going to miss them, because after all black people are always complaining, so if they com­ plain about being uäed in the infantry, no one in the U.S. is going to listen to them. The war is very popular in the United States and if the Johnson administration use the middle-class white people, then the parents of these people when they, sustain casualties would be com-. plaining about this and would demand that the war be over with. So, therefore, they put the expendables, the black people, the Puerto Ricans and our poor rural whites that we call "hillbillies." They put the expend­ ables in the infantry, but I noticed that when I came back from the war and saw on T.V., I saw very few black soldiers. It always seems to be mostly white, but I know with my own eyes this is not true. But other than that there was not any segregation. There was discrimination as far as lining up men to be the point man. The point man is the man who always goes some meters ahead of everyone else. He leads the way and is always on the lookout. He is usually the man who first gets killed. And invariably it seems like the soul brothers—or the Negroes—were the ones who were on the point. And so that is one way in which they dis­ criminate.

Black Soldiers are Brainwashed Jean-Paul Sartre: You've told us thai black soldiers are used more often than ivhite soldiers in combat opera­ tions. Did your black comrades realize that there was this sort of racial discrimination? In general, do black soldiers sense they are being used on dangerous opera­ tions just because they are black? Well, I would like to say that in this respect he wasn't used for the more dangerous work. Let's say that more black soldiers were used. I mean both white and black were used, but more black soldiers out of proportion. Most of the black soldiers in the Army are the same as they are in civilian life: they have been brainwashed and they believe that they are fighting for the freedom of the South Vietnamese—forgetting completely that in many parts of the United States vthey do not have free­ dom, see? But on the other hand the few who do know this are very realistic. They know that if they refuse to do something they would be killed anyway, and in order for the black soldier to prevent their being used in such a manner it would take a sort of an uprising in order Kasuri: Now you referred to the composition of your to get this practice to be stopped. own unit and you said that out of the 156 people in it, MEKONGSIPPI 117 were dark. Sartre: Did they also sense that this racial criterion was That's right. also being used with regard to the Vietnamese? By CHARLES COBB Kasuri: Now was it an unusual kind of a unit or the Well, there was a lot of black G.I.'s including myself ordinary composition of infantry units? who realized that here they looked upon us the same Yeah as they did the Vietnamese. But on the other hand they This was a regular infantry unit. the mississippi thought that they really had no choice in the matter, that they had to fight or else. Kasuri: No, but I mean, did you notice similar composi­ runs into" the mekong tion of other infantry units? get the boat at harlem They'll Get Rid of You Right, right, also noticed this in the 1st Battalion of sail red rivers the 14th Infantry Regiment. This was the same practice. black seas Laurent Schwartz: Mr. Tuck, you have said-that you Most of the infantrymen were black G.I.'s. Then after had the order to shoot [prisoners] and that you could that you had Puerto Ricans and what we call "hill­ or walk not oppose it. Now, the American soldiers who are sent billies." from cotton to rice to Vietnam—do they know about the judgments of the Nuremberg Trials; that is, that they have the right— Kasuri: Would it then be right to assume that in the from cement to silt or even the duty—to resist inhuman orders? Do you casualties the majority would be black? Vietnam know of any soldiers who have been punished for com­ That is correct to assume. and mitting war crimes? Amsterdam Well, I would like to say I have never heard of any Kasuri: Now, would it be right to assume that the avenues of whitey's G.I.'s who were punished because> they committed acts things you are referring to: namely, that the Vietnam­ wars of war. Most of us had heard of the Geneva Convention ese should be shot, that the good Vietnamese was a dead of war. We knew that we were not supposed to do cer­ Vietnamese, or that it was common to cut the ears off Mekongsippi tain things. On the other hand we realized that we had the killed Vietnamese or that the practice of the "mad the 17th isn't to be realistic, because if you disobey an order, sooner minute" existed—is within the knowledge of the higher or later they will get rid of you. I mean, what I am military officers of the U.S. Army? parallel saying is, like for instance if I had decided to refuse to doesn't divide fight the Viet Cong, my friends, my own friends, and There is no doubt that it is within the .knowledge of the officers would get rid of me. I mean, they would the higher U.S. authorities. have killed me—these is no doubt about that. Therefore you go along with the program. Kasuri : Thank ywi. Pom. 72-ag'7

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By KEITH MAILLARD

The United States will not let Dr. Spock and the Resistance stage a Dienbienphu in court and permit the war in Vietnam to be declared illegal. Federal District Judge Francis J. W. Ford ruled April 17 in Bos­ ton that the constitutionality of the war in Vietnam could not be raised in the upcoming trial, sla­ ted to begin May 20. The "Boston Five" are under in­ dictment for allegedly conspiring to "unlawfully, knowingly and wil­ fully counsel, aid and abet diver­ se Selective Service registrants to unlawfully, knowingly and wil­ fully neglect, fail, refuse and evade service in the armed forces of the United States..." The noted pediatrician (other defendents are the Rev. William (continued r>. 8) •^"^^i^niiriiniiiiiiiiiBi •mj-j^iiiWM-wiiiiiiiiii -m um - m . '

Hundreds of.thousands of Americans demonstrated against the war in Vietnam, the draft, and racism during the International Days of Protest, April 26-27. In addition, millions of people in Japan, Britain, France, Sweden, West Germany, Chile, and other countries marched for peace and freedom. Page 2 The Resistance May ± - 15, 1968 The Resistance May 1-15, 1968 Page 3 TENT CITIES TO RISE Sl^ff'JgSB, 'VIETNAM COMMENCEMENTS AND THE RESISTANCE CHICAGO — The summer schools, by david Zimmerman high schools, beaches, tion if they are ever called. first national Res­ Once signatures are ga­ istance conference resorts, and suburbs, n. y resistance and among the mili­ thered, the crucial second met to map out National turn-in dates in step is a follow-up phone summer strategy at tary, reserves, na­ the past have given the Re­ tional guard, and call inviting the signers to a camp near here sistance a series of goals small workshops in which they for four days working class and non- around which to focus day-to­ white constituencies, will confront the question starting April 30. day organizing, and, of "What does my signature on and exiles in Canada. High on the course, have increased the that statement really mean?" Prison support, agenda was a general impact and visibility of our It is here that the whole set • legal strategy, meeting on the desira­ collective act of civil dis­ of responses, including re­ communal living, bility of another obedience. sistance, is raised and dis­ national card turn-in radical vocations It is unlikely that there cussed. More formal informa­ on the order of April and a national will be another such nation­ tional workshops on Canada, 3, Dec. 4, and Oct. communications net­ al date this spring. At the legal alternatives, and Re­ 16 when over 3000 work to coordinate same time, however, most of sistance civil disobedience young men liberated Resistance action -in us feel that non-cooperation can then be organized to take themselves from the the face of domestic is still the response to the up some of the questions Selective Service rebellion or inter­ draft and the war most ap­ raised in the earlier work­ System. national incident propriately raised in the shops. constituted other middle-class campus communi­ The more than primary concerns of ty. Hopefully, as this process 100 delegates, re­ unfolds on a given campus, the conferees. Therefore, Resistance presenting Resis­ This talk of goals and and as post-National-Security- As a prelude to the Poor People's March, residents of Boston's South groups on a local and region­ tance groups all A comprehensive processes is all very ab­ to the idea of Resistance. Council-decision anxieties End erected a Tent City April 27 to protest the urban renewal pro­ across the nation, report of the con­ al basis are going to have to For this reason, it is im­ and commit menis among the develop a substitute for the stract (though, of course, gram of the Boston Redevelopment Authority. At right, members of planned to break ference will follow portant that local Resistance student body crest around national turn-in date. This it has been the basis of the New England Resistance and Roxbury United Front address rally. up into workshops in the next issue of groups take the initiative in commencement time, resistance substitute must provide a re­ much the Resistance has ac­ and training The Resistance, May complished on campus.) The bringing the idea of Vietnam will emerge as a relevant In view of Dr. gional or local goal enabling Rev. Virgil Woods sessions to discuss 15 - June 1. concrete goal I have in mind Commencement to campuses response; there will be a King's support of us to focus the organizing of of the Blue Hills Com­ organizing at as a substitute for a spring where such plans are not al­ return of cards at the Viet­ By Howard Banow draft resistance, •civil disobedience in a given munity Center closed national turn-in date is a ready afoot, and in making nam Commencement ceremony, some members of the area, and giving civil diso­ the meeting by having proliferation of Vietnam sure that Resistance is al­ and those who sign the state­ "The dreamer has Resistance are bedience a collective sub­ twelve welfare moth­ OAKLAND DEMONSTRATORS Commencement ceremonies on ways very much in the poli­ ment will refuse induction died, but the dream exploring the possi­ stance nationally by accre­ ers, eight black and campuses in our regions. tical atmosphere on campu­ when the time comes. This is lives on." bilities of holding a tion across the various re­ four white, who will BARRICADE ARMY BUSES ses, such as Berkeley or Co­ much more likely to happen, Following Dr. draft-card turn-in in gions. Vietnam Commencement as a be among the "poor lumbia, where Vietnam Com­ however, if Resistance orga­ King's assassination, Washington. Since Such short-run goals (a short-run goal has several people" representing One 13-year-old mencements are presently be­ nizers are among those circu­ the 136 field organi­ poor people are black was, arrested for national turn-in date or virtues. It seems a particu­ lating the original "We won't New England in Wash­ OAKLAND (LNS-SCN)- larly effective way of rais­ ing planned. Wherever pos­ zers of the Southern systematically denied no apparent reason whatever substitutes we are go" statements, serve as ington, come forward Armed with balloons, ing and crystalling the is­ sible, we should aim at a re­ Christian Leadership deferments and exemp­ other than that he able to come up with) are, "leaders" of the informal to receive communion. about 2,000 Stop- sues of the war and the turn of cards in the context Conference reaffirmed tions, the renunciation became detached from however, no substitute for a workshops and as resource Quietly, solemnly the-Draft Week plans to continue the of class privileges is constant sensitivity to the draft on individual campuses._ of the ceremony. people in the informational and firmly, Rev. demonstrators drove the main body of the Poor People's March one way in which white, process students go through The political impact of many The way in which the rele­ workshops, and generally take Woods proclaimed, from the University demonstration. A (PPM) on Washington, middle-class consti­ in coming to the Resistance such ceremonies on campuses vance of Resistance is in­ the initiative in placing" "This bread is the of California cam­ 20-year old white D.C. tuencies could relate position. This process is across the county concentra­ jected into the process of concerned students in a situ­ body of Christ, the pus in Berkeley youth jumped on the to the PPM. Final obviously complex; we can­ ted in a two or three week organizing Vietnam Commence­ ation where Resistance is the Prior to his death, body of Martin Luther in cars and buses black youth's back, action, however, would not account for all the var­ period in late spring could ment will, of course, vary model by which they will be Dr. King had often King, the body of to the Oakland In­ forcing police to rest with SCLC. iables. What we can do is be considerable in and of from campus to campus. A ba­ forced to measure themselves. spoken out against the Patrice Lumumba. As duction Center to arrest them both, itself. and thereby insuring attempt to initiate on as sic outline like the follow­ war in Vietnam, iden­ they allowed their block inductee Most importantly for the ing makes sense. Rev. Lafayette that any brutality many campuses as possible in tifying links between bodies to be torn apart buses for three Resistance, perhaps, is the would have to be non­ our respective regions a cam­ Many students, especially imperialism abroad outlined the campaign so that we might live, hours beginning at way in which the process of discriminatory . paign of action and educa­ seniors and first year gradu­ and racism at home. before an audience of that we might breathe 6:30 a.m., April 23. organizing such a ceremony There were tion relating to the issue ate students affected by the Rev. Bernard 300 persons at the and see justice done Publicity for could be identical with the blood runs of the draft which will embo­ new deferment situation are Union Methodist scattered arrests Lafayette, National to the poor, the the demonstration dy in macrocosmic outline the process many students go for various mis­ in higher or lower volumne Coordinator of PPM, Church April 19 in humble and the op­ must have been kind of process an individu­ through in deciding to re­ demeanors , but the telling themselves "I won't stated recently, "The Roxbury, Mass. pressed, so we tear carefully read by al goes through in deciding sist. In the wake of the Oakland police were go." A first step to getting Vietnam war is an Proclaiming that up this bread." Oakland Police, to turn in his card and re­ new deferment situation many thicker them to say it aloud is to unjust war. We are a the non-violent move­ sheriffs, and generally^ restrained. With thousands of fuse induction. This pro­ students will be very at­ circulate a "We won't go" Baltimore, Md., April 16 nation of assassins ment had not died with highway patrol, There were two others, these twelve cess would then relate di­ tracted to a Vietnam Com­ statement committing them to (LNS)— Rev. Philip Berri­ and all of us who pay Dr. King, he charac­ because the induc­ parking lots full of women will march to rectly to the substitute mence on their campus. It take part in the Vietnam Com­ gan, Rev. James Mengel, taxes must be prepared terized the PPM as a tee buses arrived reserve cops — Washington next week goal mentioned earlier. will raise the issue widely mencement ceremony on their Thomas Lewis, and Davis Eb- to shoulder a portion new, militant approach early, escorted by "just in case" — but and then open a lot of minds to save the soul of campus, and to refuse induc- erhardt, the four anti-war of the guilt for mass to testing the effi­ six patrol cars at no point were the America. p'fotestors who poured blood murder." cacy of moral force. loaded with cops demonstrators in a on the selective service armed with shot position to threaten ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION—Not on Newsstands files in the U.S. Customs guns. the activities at House in Baltimore on Octo­ POOR PFOPIES CAMPAIGN the induction center. J BOOKS/Age 1 Publishing Co., Inc. 1 The crowd was One incident arose 1 598 Madison Avenue, NYC 10022 ber 27, were today found April 29-Ralph Abernathy, May 8 - Chicago caravan herded into a park when crowds gathered guilty of mutilating govern­ the head of SCLC, heads 100- leaves for Washington. across the street | My check is enclosed for BOOKS the lively monthly period- 1 "It Tickles" at an intersection 1 ical. ment property. man Negro delegation to May 9 - Boston caravan where there was a waiting for a light. 1 NAME A federal jury deliberated present demands to govern­ leaves for Washington. rally in support of Cops simply pushed (Please Print) for two hours before handing ment officials. May 12 - First caravan black liberation, - them up against a ADDRESS down guilty verdicts on May 2 - Abernathy lays reaches Washington. specifically for the building and started CflV three counts against each of memorial plaque in concrete May 13 - Construction immediate release STATE /IP i beating them. Law the defendants. Prosecuting of Lorraine Hotel balcony of shanty town begins in of Huey Newton and ZJ One Year—S2.Ü2 24 nionthlv issues 1 "prominent place" in students were present 12 monthly issues • Two Years—$5.50 J attorney Stephen H. Sachs where Dr. King was murdered Eldridge Cleaver, had argued that crimes may and leads march from Memphis Washington. to document police the area's top po­ not be committed because to Marks, Miss. May 16 - Chicago cara­ brutality. One litical prisoners. they are "morally or reli­ van arrives in Washington. cluster of people May 4 - March arrives in Very few blacks giously motivated." The May 17 - Boston caravan tore down the Marks, Miss., where local were among the defendants admitted on the arrives in Washington via California State residents have mule-drawn demons trators. witness stand that they did New York. flag and almost got wagon train which will Among the exceptions pour blood on the draft May 18 - Southern caravan Old Glory, but the wind its way through South were two black files. But they contended to Washington, D.C. arrives in Washington. cops herded them veterans who wore that their action was "ab­ May 21 - Major demonstra­ away from the May 6 - Second caravan jackets with maps of solutely proper in the Amer­ tions begin. building and ringed leaves by bus from Jackson, Southeast Asia on ican way." Miss. Stops in Alabama to May 30 - Mass march through the back with the it, allowing only recruit more demonstrators. downtown Washington with all embroidered state­ employees to enter. The four demonstrators have been released on their May 7 - Wagon train cara­ caravans plus local black ment, "We're going As the flag went van begins trek across the people. to heaven because back up, the crowd own recognizance pending South to Washington. ______we've been to Hell." cheered, "Sieg motions for a new trial. j j Heil!" Page 4 The Resistance May 1-15, 1968 The Resistance May 1-15 Page 5 LADIES FIND THAT SOFT-SELL Women and the APPROACH TO ANTI-DRAFT LADY ORGANIZING IS SUCCESSFUL ^The following article was for a physical. We scared written by the Women's Resis­ them even more with our Draft Movement tance in Detroit about their chanting and singing and MARINE organizing experiences. - Ed.) pushing leaflets in their With the eruption of World War II women were called OH faces. In short, we to serve their country and to supplement their incomes by being mobilized as an extra-reserve labor force. We began with the convic­ didn't reach them. The new image of the so-called modern woman was called tion that we could use the At the next demonstra­ forth by the masters of Wall St. and Madison Ave. to societal stereotype of women tion of this type, women QUITS leave the stove, pots, pans and babies and to become truly (which we do not accept) to stationed themselves in independent (from punch-in to punch-out). work on draft resistance. small groups or singly, Since the turn of the century and the women's suffra­ The first step was obvi­ several blocks away from (With the help of the Washington, D. C. gette movement, the western woman has tried to be equal ous - we had to be trained the center where the guys Resistance, Murchie Burns quit the Women's to and independent from her "small masters," the males. Marine Corps recently because of her objec­ Her freedom has been more like the "guided democracy* for draft counseling. parked their cars. We in Spain or South Vietnam modeled, shaped and dictated Whether we were going to work tion to the war in Vietnam. After being for her by her "small masters." Both inside and outside with men or with other women stopped guys walking to the found "guilty" by a Court Martial, Murchie the radical movement our "small masters" have decided we had to know the draft laws, center and asked if we could was discharged from the Marines — Ed.) the roles we should play in society. We lie, shy, pretend, how the draft boards work, how talk with them for a few min­ deceive, bind up, cut off, put on and erase all to please utes about the physical. We By Murchie Burns (LNS) this small tyrant, himself a pawn in the hands of capital­ to get deferments, and what ist society. As a rule, I would say that most men are alternatives are available if didn't put on an act — we innocent of the role they play in relationship to us in deferments are denied. Con­ were ourselves. We were March 19th I turned in to the commanding this warped society. sequently we initiated coun­ women, and women according officer my ID card and all other documents of It's time to let them know! It is bad enough that we have selor training sessions and to that societal stereo­ proof that I belonged, "in mind and body," to put up with the egotistical shenanigans of liberals, opened several new counseling type are less scary than to the military. The terror of facing them conservatives and "apoliticals," but to have to tolerate centers. men, and definitely less made me shake internally as well as exter­ this jazz inside the radical movement is nauseating. nally. The decision was made over two months We see the revolutionary emergence of anti-war and Our present working the­ scary than demonstrators. draft movements in response to the Vietnam war starting ory developed out of a demon­ We talked to a lot of young ago; this was what I had to do and would do. first on campus and now beginning to spread ofi campus. stration the Draft Resistance TtrefT that morning. We The physical act of the decision was by far The formation of men-only "We Won't Go" groups leaves Committee called for at the talked about the draft the most emotional reaction since the begin­ us women somewhat in the position of Whites in the Civil and how it worked and how ning of my awakening to what is going on. Rights movement in relation to the development of the induction center. Demonstra­ nationalist spirit. When Blacks decided that Whites no tors walked in circles with it affected them as indi­ longer had a positive role to play in the Black community, signs and some tried to pass viduals and how it affected From 10:30 until 5:00 that day was spent many Whites wrung their hands in desperation, searching out literature to pre-induc- them as part of this in being "counselled" by the commanding off­ for meaningful roles. Quite a few elected to become tees. The leaflets were society. They took our icer of the female Marines, the commanding clerks, typists, fundraisers and just about everything but leaflets, they read them, officer of the whole base, and the chaplain. effective organizers for human rights. Hard experience good; they explained the in­ dividual's rights at the phy­ and they kept them. After the first hour, I was so emotionally and frustration led many towards organizing Whites or drained, it was most difficult to speak with reaching Blacks inaccessible and/or not ready for the sical, listed ways to obtain The fundamental con­ women in the narrow terms society SUGGESTIONS: these people. On their part, it was brow­ nationalist movement. deferments, and gave addresses cept behind Women's has dictated, no matter what the beating, and I was kept on the defensive Women are in a similar position. Confronted with men- (A) On-campus women could canvas women's housing before of local counseling centers. Resistance, then, is that woman's personal ideology may be. only draft resistance groups we can turn in several di­ when in truth, that is where they belonged. military balls (i.e., dances), talking with women about what But most guys going into the women can come on as wo­ By physically being women, we can rections. Many of us think the solution lies in forming the military does to men, what kind of policies it imple­ Military mentality is beyond my scope of un­ center refused to take the men. By this, we mean accomplish more than men. women's auxiliary groups, offering their clerical skills, ments and the specifics about the present war in S. E. derstanding; I was unable to relate to leaflet, and those that did understanding the role We are using this concept to moral and financial support to our courageous brothers Asia. Boycotts and picket lines could be an immediate their insane horror of communism. Therefore, putting themselves on the line. On the other hand, we can surrendered them to the society has assigned us work with both men and women. action around the dance, choosing a queen, etc. A focal out of fear, fatigue and "lack of sufficient learn from the analogous situation of White civil rights point of dicussion could be women's subservient role. M.P.'s trash barrel as they and using it to our ad­ Draft resistance organizing has facts," my feelings and beliefs were poorly activists; combining their experience and our own as (B) Speaking with high school girls thru speakers pro­ entered the center. The vantage. This does not been aimed at young men for ob­ women. Groups of women can form independent organiza­ presented. grams, contacts or leafleting about ROTC, the military, problem, we felt, was that mean that we accept that vious reasons. Another obvious tions with the aim of reaching other women and men who foreign policies and the justice of draft resistance could guys were scared just by role. Both males and fact, too often overlooked, is for any reason can't immediately join the We Won't both get these women thinking and acting on their own All day long I was subjected to "How can Go groups . We can initiate programs relevant to our the idea of being there females usually react to that women are also affected by as well as provide vital support to unsure high school guys. you say you have moral feelings about this campus or community, independently or in cooperation (C) Neighborhood canvassing teams could get community the draft. Wives, girlfriends, and war, then turn right around and go back on with men's draft resistance groups. feeling, set up house meetings, food boycotts, etc., with mothers of draft-age young men your word?" My word is the ridiculous Al­ Generally, most women past their teens are already young radical women, talking with housewives about very are directly affected. These real problems. mighty Oath that I wasn't even aware I was anti-draft for subjective reasons. Small discussion groups, women must be brought into the Re­ movies, tapes, teach-ins, debates, etc., can help such taking. They couldn't understand how one sistance. women to understand the social basis of the draft, i.e., By Francine Silbar must rectify a bad decision or judgment. who and what it serves. Such political education can Reprinted from Our Fight Is Here. To implement this we have ob­ "An oath is an oath." Stagnation means death bring many women into active opposition to the war and tained lists of young men in our some to radical anti-imperialist consciousness. Our most Courtesy SDS as evidenced in nature, but they remain per­ handy and (should be) most obvious tool for getting a area who have recently been class­ plexed as to how I could change my mind in foot inside the door is to talk about us. All women have ified 1-A. We are contacting two years. Military mentality??? Also, misdirected antagonisms to our role or lack of one in the female equivêlant their wives, girlfriends, and sis­ "We have made a promise, are we to break our this "fucked out" society. Sex is not a beautiful union ters, telling them about draft re­ word as you are doing?" "Are you for people between two individuals for mutual satisfaction, but a sistance and how they can actively living under communism?" If communism is all commodity, not only for sale but especially for selling. to draft resistance work to keep their young men out Women's breasts can sell anything from a bottle of beer these people can focus on, they have my pity. to siding for your house. As sexual garbage cans we be­ of the armed forces. come deposit boxes of TV and movie sex tricks and In Vietnam, a woman serves on the cen­ Draft resistance logically At the end of the first day, I was even reservoirs of mechanistic lust to be tapped at the whim tral committee of the NLF. School girls leads to the general context of more terrified than I had been in the morn­ of our thoughtless, self-centered "small master." serve as couriers, prostitutes gather our society's exploitation with­ ing. I didn't fear the militant head so We can show how society has created our problem military intelligence, and grandmothers in the U. s. and abroad. While much as I feared myself. By 8:00 I was keep­ since we aren't all blondes and can't all have more fun. make home-made mines. Some women fight serving the vital function of ing myself together by sheer will. I can't We can show that when the "big masters" of the economic begin to explain the sorrow I felt at feeling system no longer neea us to fill jobs for men off dying alongside men of the Liberation Army. keeping guys out of the army — in their wars, they turn off the propaganda about eman­ Several Buddhist nuns have immolated saving their lives — and hinder­ my insides crumbling like an old dirt wall. cipated women and the Madison Ave. push begins about how themselves and others have organized ing the Selective Service System, working mothers create J. D.'s (juvenile delinquents). street demonstrations. draft counseling and resistance Keeping in mind what Dietrich Bonhoeffer We can show that the military arm of American capital­ In West Europe, girls frequent bars, can serve to build a base that said about strength being there when it was ism fosters arrogant egotism in men, dehumanizing those cafes, and tourist sites, urging GI's will deal with other local or com^ needed, not before, I managed to keep to­ to be killed, and thus degrading the value of life and en­ to desert. munity problems. The draft is only gether my mind. I am grateful to all the couraging manipulation of people as things. As an oppressed people in the past and present who have gone majority, we have only to use our position in society as In America, girls are increasingly one manifestation of the exploita­ our guide to organizing. seeking the female equivelent to turning tion we are fighting. It is im­ through this and much more. From these, I Some women have expressed a desire to taie a third in a draft card. Decourcy Squire, for portant to remember that there are got through the most trying day. I spoke to course of action with regard to the We Won't Go groups, instance, fasted for 60 days in Cincin­ other problems of exploitation in two people with the D. C. Resistance who re­ namely, to organize womens' Kamikaze groups to show nati while imprisoned for sitting-in at this society, e. g. police bru­ stored my faith in the fact that the military committment and daring equal to that of the men. This tality, low quality-high priced is NOTHING. is ridiculous. Just as a White can't feel Black, a man an induction center. Joan Baez likewise can't feel woman and we can't know the oppression that was jailed in Oakland. markets, non-educating schools, directly affects men in the form of the draft. So to or­ The New York Times recently attempted a discriminatory school board, Today I saw the shrink. He said I "seemed ganize along more positive lines will be more realistic to intimidate the movement with a series welfare regulations, high rents calm, had rational thoughts and didn't need and fruitful. And if all the men involved in draft resistance of articles on a Barnard co-ed who lived for inadequate housing, etc. further medical examination." get thrown in jail, we'll be that much more needed as off-campus with a Columbia résister. These issues vary with each com­ organizers capable of winning people to active opposition What they eventually intend to do with me and resistance to the war and the system that perpetuates Further information on the Girls Who munity and should be tackled by it. Let's define our own roles, we don't have to be sec­ Say Yes to Guys Who Say No struggle a well-functioning resistance is unknown. It makes no difference really, retaries to be useful. What's the matter with men's should be sent to Nan Stone, Women's group. as I am in God's hands, not in men's. hands anyway? Liberation Division, N.E. Resistance. The Resistance May 1-15, 1968 Page 7 Page 6 The Resistance May 1-15, 1968 It was also clear that the Resistance might speak in a peculiarly powerful way PEACE AWARD On Being Indicted to the entire peace movement and to MEDICAL RESISTANCE Michael • Ferber tensions of each other (which is a everyone with doubts about the war. NEW YORK — The Re­ way of saying what the Resistance is al Every résister has several constituencies sistance received the NEW YORK (LNS) — The I. "CONSPIRACY" about). I cannot hope to list them ia affected by his gesture, and many re­ annual peace award of Medical Resistance Union Until I was indicted for it, I had thought a way that reflects the shape they took peated gestures affecting overlapping the War Resisters League held a rally concerning a conspiracy was something sneaky, like in my head and heart, and even less ia constituencies could galvanize immense at its yearly dinner resistance and the health dope-smugglers or price-fixers. Most numbers of people into sharper anti-war professions on April 22 people still think so, but that is because a way that bespeaks the condition of here recently. The a- other résistants; but let me separate some .protest. It is in this respect that the Re­ ward is presented to the at New York University's they have not been indicted for "con­ sistance has been most successful. Let School of Medicine. The spiring" to do something in broad day­ individual or group of them. me iflustrate with examples from the Bos­ light. Newly educated, I searched my which has contributed Medical Resistance Union ( 1 ) Holding a student deferment while ton area during the last six weeks alone. etymological dictionary for proof, and most to peace during (MRU) is one of several others died in a war 1 deeply hated, I felt (a) Suburban peace groups. White new peace and resistance found that a "conspiracy" was originally uneasy and hypocritical. Last spring, hav­ professional-class men and women have the year. a "breathing together." Two people who a dinner party in Newton, and raise medical groups resulting ing procrastinated long enough, I sent NEWARK — Dozens of from a heightened sense breathe the same air, it seems, or who in forms to my local board for con­ $1000 for draft resistance. young resisters will de­ are inspired by the same spirit, are "con­ of political awareness scientious objector status. That seeming­ (b) Religious groups. Seventy priests mand to be arrested May spirators" (or, in legal parlance, "co­ (in Irish Catholic Boston!) publicly sup­ within the health prof­ ly innocent gesture started a chain of in support of 18-year- conspirators," a word I could not find events that brought theory down to real­ port conscientious draft-refusers. essions. in any dictionary). Of that sort of con­ ity for me in a very educational way. (c) Family. Howard Marston of Rock- old C. J. Hinke, a high According to Phil spiracy I joyfully confess I am a mem­ Initially—and I speak for many co-ap­ port risks indictment to insist that his school student, who has Wolfson of MRU, the group ber (not card-carrying, however) : some­ plicants—1 felt good: 1 had stood up son, a minor, refuse induction. Dozens decided to refuse to hopes to form coalitions thing was blowing in the wind last sum­ of parents are moved to telephone him for something T believed in, and all the of all faiths who have joined it have register with the draft. with other radical medical mer and we breathed it in. and pledge to stand by their sons in the Induction Refusals statements, documents, and support tes­ been a strong and healthy influence. They groups, black groups, Last summer's slogan, "from dissent same way. timony I sent my board were weapons have helped us—and many of us were CHICAGO — Don Steed, anti-draft groups and anti­ to resistance," was more meaningful than (d) Black community. Active draft- in my noble battle for truth and justice. far more alienated from institutional re­ 26, a first-year stu­ In Los Angeles on April 5 iMew York, April 15 (LNS) war organizations to create most slogans in the peace movement, be­ counseling center is started in the Rox­ That battle, it soon became clear, I ligion than I—to see the possibility of a dent at Yale Divinity 14 men (including 2 members David Powis, a senior at a radical health program cause thousands of people made up their bury ghetto by white students whose would lose, but it also became clear that truly radical church, an ecclesia. a com­ School, refused induc­ of the Resistance) were Hunter College, refused in­ minds to commit themselves in a basic­ seriousness has helped to break down "consisting of local even if I won, the battle was anything munity dedicated equally to the mental tion April 17. indicted for refusing induc­ duction at Fort Hamilton ally new way to anti-war politics. Re­ but noble. Far from impressing my board the barriers once created by privilege. community clinics." and spiritual health of its members and A religious service of in Brooklyn this week. sistance has already taken many forms members with the depth of my com­ (e) Campus. Large anti-draft unions tion. These indictments took to the changes that must come in the conscience was held at place in the context of the Powis had returned his WoIfson, a senior at NYU, (some of them symbolic, like the "liber­ mitment to nonviolence, the power of my larger society around it. and "We Won't Go" pledges are begun ated zones" around the Pentagon), but arguments, etc., I was forced to dance the on several campuses. The Harvard Crim­ which Rev. Larry Hill of publicity surrounding the draft card on December 4th. also stated that MRU stresses (4) Before I decided to turn in my draft resistance has emerged as the focus, "Conscientious Objectors' Gavotte"—an son endorses resistance. Faculty support the Porter Foundation induction refusal of Christian His brother, the Reverend anti-draft tactics to combat card I had anticipated coming to court officiated. John Powis, is also a mem­ the imperialistic involve­ and among the many anti-draft groups intricate series of steps arranged by ab­ groups are growing. Hayden, son of actor Sterling some day for draft refusal (as a result ber of the Resistance. ment of the U.S. in Vietnam. the Resistance has emerged, in many surd logical categories and legal machin­ of having lost my conscientious objector The examples could be multiplied, and Hayden. .parts of (he country, as the vanguard ery and directed by several old men of claim) where I would have tried to ar­ the story is the same all over the country. SUMTER, S.C. — A court Over 20 men a week have been The Reverend Paul Gib­ Another speaker at the Since October 16 about 2500 draftable dubious wisdom. After months of futile gue against the war and the draft. I martial at Shaw Air Force refusing induction in Los bons, 36 years old and the rally, John Rosenberger, men have turned in or burned their draft effort I was tired and angry enough to knew, of course, that I would have had III. AND SO? Base sentenced Lt. Duane Angeles. When résister Bill father of 3, refused in­ former chief of the psych­ cards and face prosecution or imminent quit the whole dance, and when I handed little luck bringing any arguments other What do the conspiracy indictments Ferre to one year impri­ Garraway refused induction he duction today after an iatric out-patient clinic at mean? I can offer no more wisdom than induction for doing so. Thousands who in my card on October 16 it was partly than those relevant to my classification. sonment, a dishonorable talked beforehand with many early morning "service of Ft. Dix, N.J., said that are not liable to the draft have done to reclaim my independence and dignity. By turning in my card I hoped I might anyone else. It is possible that the ad- • of the other inductees. commitment" at St. Paul's ministration feels trapped, staving off discharge, and for­ there was little resistance their best to implicate themselves with (2) I had joined SDS about four years mount a clearer challenge, using the ar­ feiture of all pay. When he went up to refuse, Episcopal Chapel. those who are. Men are refusing induc­ the hawks by indicting Spock to give it within the army because it is ago, in the good old days before the gument, among others, that it was my Lt. Ferre had handed in one of the guys he had been immediately and vehemently tion at a rapidly growing rate, some­ main intention to get into court (and time to bring victories in a war it is escalation, when the prevailing tone of SDS his military ID card on talking to said, "Hold onto Rev. Finley Schaef, pastor suppressed, as in the case of times by groups of six or ten at a time. had been one of expérimentation, open­ test a law not yet reviewed), and not to losing, while knowing it is politically too The senior class of America's univer­ costly to indict everyone, etc. That is Oct. 16, 1967, as part of me, Bill, and I'll refuse of the Washington Square Dr. Howard Levy. He believes ness to new ideas, and cheerfulness. By evade service. I certainly did not fore­ Methodist Church, 133 W. 44th sities will graduate into the army, prison, last fall, it seemed, that tone had chang­ see the conspiracy indictment, but it possible. And it is also possible that the the first national Re­ with you." In the end that that joining the service to or Canada and ai this writing it is not ed. Now we had long and harsh parlia­ offers an opportunity to bring the same administration is preparing still for a sistance action. He is morning, 11 refused induction, St., N.Y.C., has announced organize resistance from clear which will get the most (a Yale mentary wrangles over ideology, and our challenges to the war and the draft. great crackdown, perhaps with a declara­ now serving his sentence 350 accepted induction, and that his church has become a within is unadvisable and poll showed 38 percent will refuse to sense of humor had dwindled to exhibit­ Whether that challenge will be permitt­ tion of national emergency. If that is true in Ft. Leavanworth, Kan. 192 didn't show up at all. sanctuary for draft resisters. nearly impossible. we may have to confess that the idea of serve if called). A growing number of ionism and one-upmanship. Everyone ed I cannot guess, but I will try to bring FT. 0RD, GALIF. (LNS) — On April 29th two resisters Besides housing individual Robert Liberman of Phys­ high-school students are refusing to reg­ was hung up over being properly ideolo­ it. the Resistance was a mistake, for the were arraigned in Los Angeles. resisters, it will become the Resistance as we now perceive it depends Court-martial charges icians for Social Responsi­ ister at age eighteen. And some whe gical, and many tried to become mem­ (5) Finally, of course, I gave some The number turning in draft new home of the Greenwich on arousing democratic and conscientious have been brought against bility spoke of the army's have gone to Canada are '•oming back. bers of the working class by wearing blue cold-blooded thought to certain precise Village Peace Center and forces in the country as a whole ( it de­ Pvt. Ken Stolte and Pfc. cards in Los Angeles on continual use of doctors to work shirts and speaking illiterately. It aspects of strategy. It seemed possible pends on McCarthy and Kennedy, too, to Dan Amick for distributing April 3rd was 54 (rather than Support-in-Action, the New develop biological and was bad enough to hear at every meet­ that large numbers of draft-refusers Jlow DID THIS RESISTANCE so suddenly some extent) even for its survival, let anti-war literature the 37 previously reported). York affiliate of RESIST. ing about the virtues of the working might put intolerable pressure on the bacterial warfare. He stated get started? Who was behind it? No one. alone its success. If these forces are On April 2, the FBI class and of the "true imperialist nature" judicial system. Not that Congress could calling for a GI's union that according to medical No pediatrician or chaplain could pos­ crushed, a lot more than the Resistance 3 BOSTON — Résister Mike arrested James St. Clair at of just about everything, but it was pain­ not increase the number of courts and t Fort Ord. ethics, the MD is a healer, sibly have brought it about; if anything will go under. But the risk must be Daley refused induction Apr. his home in New York City ful to see kids who had liberated them­ judges, but the prospect of a major over­ not a producer of weaponry. they have come along behind, feeling taken, for thf may never come another PITTSBURGH, PA.— David 16; Rich Beal (in Portland, selves from the stifling stereotypes haul of the legal machinery might prompt for refusing to register Liberman said that American they had to help those who had already chance. Q Worstell, a North Hills Me.)17; Rick Lareau and Paul taught by their parents and schools only a reconsideration of the policies ultimate­ with the draft. James' cities have been used to chosen to resist the draft. To indict them resident currently studying Greenfield, 22; Jim Havelin, to take up new ones, of ideology, styles ly responsible for it. In some places we brother, Peter, refused for conspiracy to "counsel, aid, and abet" at the University of test out "innocuous" bac­ of speech and dress, and heroes from may already be approaching the point 23; Pete Crews, 26. At induction on Jan. 17. In these thousands is on the face of it Chicago, will refuse induc­ terial agents to determine other revolutions. They were also up where pressure on the legal system is (Mike's article was also least four other men refused Denver, Colorado, Timothy absurd. No mere words or offers of legal their spreadability and tight with the draft: sos had condemned causing serious difficulty, especially in written for the New York tion into the army on induction during the month. Burns is awaiting trial help could have led the young men to that some of these innoc­ student deferments but most of its mem­ Oakland. Review of Books.) Monday, April 29th at the David Stoppleman, a re- for refusing induction. uous bacteria may have been choose prison: that choice comes from bers still carried them. The world was New Federal Building. sister who didn't appear for a place too awful and too deep for the At Marine Headquarters in responsible for cases of deemed unworthy of their sacrifice. Fort Campbell, Ky., April his induction Oct. 30 which reach of thought alone. What has reached Arlington, Va., Timothy's hepatitis. Liberman also I joined the Resistance, then, partly 13— A curfew has been im- was scheduled prior to turn- inside and taken hold of the spirit is - twin sister, Mary Elizabeth, cnarged that U.S. military to encourage a renewal of spirit and posed on this Army base aftering in his card, faces trial the war and the draft and the crumbling is awaiting court martial for hospitals in Vietnam are now energy among already convinced radicals. G.I.'s broke loose in scat- May 2. Otherwise, there all around us of many good and hopeful not obeying orders and re­ doing surgery on Vietnamese Probably no group dedicated to saving tered acts of rebellion have not yet been any in- things. If anyone "aided and abetted" a pocket fusing to wear her Marine civilians for conditions the Resistance, it was Lyndon Johnson, a country as far gone as ours can stay against the army on the nightdictments of the several uniform. such as cleft palate for or Lewis Hershey. immune to low spirits, factionalism, and of April 11 and 12. dozen refusers since then. paralysis, but so far Resistance groups in manual on propaganda purposes while A few mimeographed sheets, magazine most parts of the country have remained ANT I DRAFT AD war victims are ignored. statements, and press conferences were buoyant and cohesive. Theoretical dis­ draft resistance Attorney Bill Crain of the all—once the idea was articulated the NEW YORK (LNS)— Presi­ putes evaporate in the midst of struggle. American Civil Liberties response came of itself. The idea was a attorney ken cloke's popular dents of student governments (3)1 grew up in the Unitarian-Univer- Union said that many people strategy for having an impact on the ' guardian series now in pamphlet and editors of campus news­ salist church, a church with a brilliant have bona-fide medical rea­ draft and the war, but it was not the form with appendix added by papers representing 500 logical persuasiveness of the strategy that heritage of idealistic social reform and sons for obtaining a defer­ radical commitment to change. Until I author, information on defer­ American colleges will brought such numbers to the Resistance. ments, organizing, laws, penalties, WIN believes: Being can be fun Human beings are ment but lack the money to went off to college I had been proud worth a risk. Peace is erotic WIN is there whenever declare in a four-page Men whose insides were ready for com­ a must for counselors and resisters. get a physician to document mitment needed only the barest hope of to claim that heritage as my own, but people walk, dance, march, sit stand, laugh, try. announcement in the Sunday 44 pages. talk, sing or treak for the comradeship of humanity their disability. He a chance that their gesture would be as the church faltered and hesitated in New York Times (April 28, WIN is pe.uo action reported In the people who suggested the formation of more than an act of moral witness, that the civil rights, anti-poverty, and anti­ 1968) that "we should not < reate it legal-medical centers to war struggles I grew disillusioned. Just Single copies 4M be forced to fight in the with sufficient numbers and organization assist these poor with and publicity they just might have a another bourgeois Protestant church, for­ 10-50 copies @354 Vietnam War because the draft counseling. measurable impact. They were willing getful of its own origins. But lately, as ORDER 51-100 copies @3fX war in Vietnam is unjust FROM: to pay a high price; all that was needed discouragement with this country's disas­ and immoral." Robb Burlage of the Insti­ was the chance that the price might not trous policies has spread, and as the youth tute for Policy Studies in groups of the church have shown greater The 640 student leaders be for nothing. It is already clear, I Guardian s; who signed the ad represent Washington stated that the think, that it is not. and greater involvement with social is­ sues,'the church as a whole has begun to virtually every college reasont medical help is 197 EAST 4th ST., NEW YORK, NY Î0009 wake up. And when the Arlington Street and university in the often spurned in the ghetto- II. WHY I JOINED THE RESISTANCE Church in Boston housed a Resistance Subscribe to WIN United States. The ad is riot areas is that the poor 5 BeekmanSt. N.Y. N.Y. 10038 My own motives for joining the Resists service on October 16, I felt a little like sponsored by Clergy and equate the medical prof­ one year/$r> six months/$2 ance were partly personal and partly pol­ a prodigal son returning home. Laymen Concerned About ession with the Establishment itical, and they were so interrelated that The clergy of all faiths who have stood Vietnam. they are struggling against. the personal and the political became ex­ with the Resistance and the seminarians Page 8 The Resistance May 1- 15, 1968 SPOCK TRIAI ""* u-***! , m Continued from page 1 m Sloane Coffin, Jr., the chaplain ••••••-• Jlw^ of Yale University; Mitchell Goodman, ••• • •: a writer from New York; Marcus Raskin, co-director of the Institute "11

for Policy Studies in Washington, and •,3:-•'.-•,:• Michael Ferber, a graduate student at Harvard) had moved to take desposi­ m ; ' XS0K • • •:•;. tions of expert over-seas witnesses ;:^v:"":.: on contesting United States presence ffilii ' . : . :••• in Vietnam and actions there on the . "ïfi.'a""1 .:.•..•>:•»:•:•:-•• basis of the Nuremberg war crimes syi^.-f. •••...:-:, : •PLIÉ* precedents. Among others, Pierre Wâû%M^ M Mendes-France, premier of France mons, press statements, and other ex­ Street Church, etc.) and stated during part of the French war in Viet­ pressions of opposition to the draft, that almost anyone in these films nam; General Navarre, French commander the indictment should be dismissed could be a "co-conspirator." at Dienbienphu; and Pastor Niemoller, because it threatens to 'chill' free (Judge Ford has set May 10 for a German résister against Nazi war discussion of the war by the defendants i pre-trial private showing of crimes had offered to testify. and the public at large." motion pictures and television According to the 82-year old Telford Taylor, counsel for Raskin, films pertaining to the government's jurist who will also preside at the will argue that refusal to carry a case against the Five. Prosecutor trial, the allegation that the draft card is "symbolic speech" and Wall insisted recently at a closed United States had committed war crimes therefore protected under the First hearing that the Five have not been in Vietnam was not a proper judicial Amendment. Finally, the defense is under electronic surveillance question and irrelevant to the con­ arguing that the Universal Military despite the fact that the defen­ spiracy charges. In any case, the Training and Selective Service Act is dants are certain that their tele­ peace movement is tentatively planning unconstitutionally vague. phones are tapped.) to bring such over-seas witnesses to Judge Ford will probably not rule Mr. Wall seemed visibly appalled Boston for a Nuremberg-style "counter on the issue of draft card non-possess­ with the realization that the trial" against the war, especially if ion, since this question is now before possible number of "co-conspirators" the "Boston Five" are convicted. the Supreme Court. The defense, how­ could run into the thousands.' (In ever, will challenge the question of a recent pre-trial exchange between the prosecutor and Dr. Spock, Wall The "Boston Five" are under indict­ the conspiracy itself. The defense 11 contend "that each of the defendants asked the pediatrician to supply a ment for an alleged crime two stages wi ^^^^^ removed from the primary crime of re­ list of young men who have been in­ had never met directly all of the fluenced by the alleged conspiracy. fusing induction and refusing to carry others before Oct. 16, 1967 (the first Spock replied that he would have to draft cards and classification certifi­ national day of Resistance), that the get a national census list of all cates. The second stage (secondary actions of the defendants have always men between 18 - 35.) The very size crime) is aiding, abeting and counseling been in full public view, and that of the alleged conspiracy could others to commit the "primary crime." none of the defendants has ever prove highly embarrassing to the The prosecution will attempt to de­ counseled an individual to refuse to government, especially as many of the« monstrate that the Five committed the carry a draft card or to refuse "co-conspirators" could be highly "third stage" crime of conspiring to induction. (The. "Boston Five" have respected intellectuals, students, commit the "secondary crime." The always counseled obedience to the university professors, and relig- defense can challenge any point along dictates of conscience'. ) ous leaders. Since the Jan. 5 in­ this chain. Judge Ford's ruling out the An interesting extra-legal prob­ dictment, over 15,000 persons have question of the legality of the war lem is raised by this lack of direct publicly signed statements to the contact among the Five before Oct. effect that they aid and abet draft stops one attack of the defense on the 16. The prosecution must posit a first link ("primary crime") of the resistance and must be jailed if the number of intermediaries who must, "Boston Five" are convicted. chain. of necessity, be "co-conspirators." The defense is continuing to challenge Indeed, the indictment refers to In a recent 3-page advertisement the question of the "primary crime" "...diverse other persons, some in the New York Times, 9300 faculty under the free speech guarantee of the known and others unknown to the members of the Teachers Committee First Amendment. Attorney Leonard B. Grand Jury..." John Wall, the for Peace in Vietnam demanded that Boudin, representing Dr. Spock, argued prosecuting attorney, recently the Administration quash the in­ that "since many of the acts alleged showed movies of anti-draft demon­ dictment as a gesture of sincerity in the indictment were speeches, ser- strations (at Yale, the Arlington in ending the war.

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THE DRAFT GOES ON Page 2 The Resistance June 1, 1968 The Resistance June 1, 1968 Page 3 THE ORIGINS OF RESISTANCE... & THE STRUGGLE TO END THE WAR By ALEX JACK zation for Peace on condi­ tion, large numbers of young (.«-onnnueä trom page Prior to the Vietnam war tion that 500 others did men began to think seriously 'A) legal support to draft re­ refusing to train Green Berets, and during most of it, draft likewise. By the time of the in terms of radical politics sisters. The American Civil the peace movement1s focus pre­ resistance was viewed by the . rally, however, only about and personal sacrifice. Liberties Union, for instance, pared to shift "from dissent to public, academia, and the 100 had committed themsel­ During the summer of 1967, which had never defended non- :vr resistance." religious community as sub­ ves. Nevertheless, most of anti-draft groups sprang up in cooperators, offered to con­ versive or eccentric. Ex­ &JK ' them, plus about 75 others, most metropolitan cities, of­ During the rest of the spring test Gen. Hershey's pretentious cept for small pacifist or­ including Gary Rader, a uni­ ten under the umbrella of and into the summer, several reclassification of dissenters. ganizations such as the War formed Green Beret, destroy­ Vietnam Summer. Like the San Francisco Bay Area activists, Ivy league deans defended stu­ '••-> : .<#**. Résister's League, the Fel­ ed their draft certificates Boston Draft Resistance Group, including Lenny Heller, Steve dents from FBI harrassment and lowship of Reconciliation, Hamilton, David Harris, and Den­ vowed to readmit resisters Ï "* in New York's Central Park one of the first and best Peacemakers, and the Com­ on April 15. counseling organizations, the nis Sweeney, declared Oct. 16 on their release from prison. mittee for Non-Violent Act­ As the FBI investigated anti-draft centers provided as the target date of the first In defense of free speech, over ion, which grew out of in­ this first act of mass dis­ information about immigration national draft-card turn-in in 15,000 persons, mostly high- dividual non-cooperation obedience to conscription, to Canada; offered legal, med­ the fall. Under the banner of income professionals, signed during World War I or II or the organizers grew worried ical, and psychiatric con­ "The Resistance" they set off support statements for the the Cold War, draft resist- , and destroyed the list of tacts; compiled techniques of around the country to gain sup­ "Boston Five." ers had no community of sup­ President Woodrow Wilson blindly begins the World War I draft participants. Thus little, if faking ailments and forstal- port for non-cooperation within With the accelerating at­ port. any, follow-up effort was made ling the induction process. existing anti-draft groups and trition of US troops in Viet­ lottery in 1917. With increasing military and many resisters did not Insofar as they were pol­ • started new ones of their own. nam, the National Security York City. In the wake of The first attempt to or­ involvement in Vietnam, how­ inform their local boards of itical, these groups reflect­ Though a national conference Council authorized the Selec­ publicity surrounding this ganize collective non-coop­ ever, the contradictions be­ their actions. ed the SDS philosophy that of anti-draft organizers in tive Service to abolish grad­ event, five other New Yorkers eration to the draft came tween American democratic non-cooperation was a polit­ Madison during the summer ended uate school and occupational burned their cards shortly in the fall of 1966 when WRL, The impact of the Central theory and practice became ically irrevelant act of per­ in confusion and SDS, the major deferments in order to in­ m afterwards in solidarity with Park happening in context of more manifest to large num­ CNVA, Peacemakers, and the New Left group, scorned direct duct, or induce enlistment of, berg resigned. Westmoreland, start asked for their cards a half million people march­ sonal martyrdom. Rather than as a direct result of the Miller, provoking Congress to Catholic Worker called a con­ back. Others went about bers of people. In Dec. risk "rotting in jail" for separation, nearly 1000 men coïlege - trained personnel new climate of liberation the prime scapegoat on the rush through a special law ing against the war, however, 1961, David Mitchell, a stu­ ference in New York. From turned-in or burned their draft to fill vulnerable officer field, was sacked. school as usual, waiting re­ was not lost on college cam­ several years, according to that the Resistance created. against the wilfull destruc­ signedly for prosecution, dent at Brown, wrote a let­ this meeting and another in this view, organizers should cards in dozens of local demon­ ranks. With the number of college Shortly after the Pres­ tion of draft cards. puses. Groups like SDS re­ ter disaffiliating himself Chicago shortly thereafter e- strations on Oct. 16, the anni­ But the government acted ident's withdrawal, but be­ rather than working full- doubled their efforts to cir­ keep their deferments and graduates inducted slated to from the Selective Service The spring of 1966 saw merged a national non-cooper- versary of Harper's Ferry. too late. Students under­ fore peace negotiations ac­ time to translate an indi­ culate "We Won't Go" petitions work to raise the political skyrocket from five to 65 System in protest of Pres. new burnings in defiance of ator's petition signed by stood that they had real alter­ tually began in Paris, the vidual act of disobedience Though most of the signers consciousness of students In Boston, a Resistance cer­ percent during the summer, Kennedy's continued sup­ the new law. In South Boston several dozen youths pledging natives to Saigon and Toronto, Resistance had scheduled its into a patter of daily life. were deferred students who and workers, the base of the emony at Arlington St. Unitar­ the Administration faced un­ port of the repressive Diem five men, including John Phi­ unconditional resistance or and organized unions to stay third national date of non- An undetermined number of would never even face indue- future revolution. When ian Church — complete with the precedented revolt by at regime. For six years, he llips and David O'Brien, des­ potential resisters fell non-registration. translated into political candlestick of Abolitionist home and fight the draft to­ least 10,000 inductees, and cooperation. Despite the waged a court battle, try­ troyed their cards on the victim to the electoral action, this meant disrupting William Ellery Channing, the gether. First, in the courts high-school non-registrants. euphoria on campus and the ing to raise the Nuremberg Court House steps. O'Brien's On campuses at this time, process. Nevertheless, at pre-induction physicals in bread of reconciliation, organ legally, secondly by taking Also competing with the sum­ co-optation of many students precedents as a defense. initial conviction was sub­ the teach-in's had given way following Dr. King's assa­ order to obtain I-Y "politi­ music, and an altar call by sanctuary in the churches, mer's presidential campaign by the Kennedy-McCarthy Although ultimately convic­ sequently reversed by a to disrupting Selective Ser­ ssination and a general cal" deferments. On a short members of Clergy Concerned — and lastly by going under­ was the promise of a long, campaigns, over 800 men non- ted and imprisoned, Mitchell Federal District Court on vice testing examinations. conference near Chicago Uncle term basis, draft information dramatically projected draft ground or organizing in the hot rebellion in the black cooperated with the draft introduced many Americans, the grounds that it consti­ At several schools, including in early May, the Resistance centers met the pragmatic needs resistance before the national jails. On campuses, Resis­ communities. Increasingly, on April 3. especially his draft-age tuted symbolic freedom of Harvard, Stanford, Oberlin, Sam began the difficult tran­ of most ex-students and non- consciousness. On Dec. 4, tance was no longer conceiv­ black people were rejecting In this way, the peace peers, to principled acts speech. Rearrested for non- and Michigan, individual sition from a single- wants students that traditional the Resistance acquired over ed as an isolated gesture, the draft and enlistment movement — the vanguard of of conscience and the ex­ possession of his card, 0' non-cooperators tried to or­ issue to a multi-dimen­ draft counseling services, like 500 new members, principally but as a collective challenge as an answer to their pli­ which was draft resistance, ganize direct confrontations sional movement. tent of their own complicity Brien is presently free pen­ the Friends, did and could not to illegitimate authority ght. Meanwhile in Puerto the rearguard of which was with the draft system as a YOU in church services in New York, in the war effort. ding an upcoming Supreme serve. that was both morally imper­ Rico and parts of the South­ Wall St. capital — toppled The major task that whole, but met with indif­ Los Angeles, San Francisco, Court ruling. ative and politically reve-" west, militants, many of the Johnson Administration. lies ahead for the peace For several years, Mit­ ference or hostility. Ul­ nigger To a part of the peace move­ Chicago, St. Louis, and New On campuses, the proli­ vant. whom were under indictment Although correct in much of movement as a whole is to chell's act and a few oth­ timately the rigor of moral ment, draft counseling, whether Haven, thereby consolidating feration of teach-in's, pic- Judicially, the Selective its analysis of American convince the public that ijecome a member of Support White Power legal or illegal, did not go an authentic base of support for refusing induction, ers like it remained rel­ ets, and fasts against the absolutism gave way to the the war is not over — not the world'« highest paid — travel to Viet Nam, within the religious and u- Service System already showed began armed struggle for democracy, the former New atively isolated testimon­ flexibility of political e- black mercenary army 1 you might get a medal! far enough, nor offer any pol­ war continued into the sum­ signs of crumbling. In San the liberation of their Left had proved ultimately in Vietnam where thousands ies of moral witness. In ffectiveness, and the first itical strategy to end the war niversity communities. mer. The voice of con­ Ficht for Freedom Receive valuable i Francisco, a guild of anti- people. as rhetorical in its polit­ will die or be injured for late 1965, David Miller of resistance organizers re­ or conscription. With a fraud­ In an effort to suppress science grew louder when .„TmVietNam) m the sldlU of killing draft lawyers successfully ical strategy as the Old. nothing during the talks, the Catholic Worker move­ sorted to a conditional s ' other oppressed people I ulent election campaign going the burgeoning rebellion Not only had open resis­ three G.I.'s at Fort Hood tied up Federal court doc­ The storming of the Penta­ nor in Thailand, South ment dramatically resurrected pledge. (Die Nigger Die —you can't die on in South Vietnam, continued among middle-class youth, the tance broken out among im­ were arrested by military fast enough in the ghettos.) kets for months. In Boston, gon in Oct. 1967, the Oak­ Africa, Guatamala, or the the issue by publicly setting At Cornell, a group of negotiation hoaxes by President Justice Department on Jan. 4, portant civilian sectors of authorities after announ­ the Justice Dept. did not land Stop the Draft Week slums of Washington, D.C. aflame his draft card in lieu non-cooperators sent out a So run to your nearest recruiting chamber! Johnson, and the well-publicized 1968, indicted Dr. Benjamin the populace, but opposition cing their intention not prosecute a single résister caper, and the Dec. New In particular, the Resis­ of a speech during an anti­ call for young men to repu­ trial of Capt. Howard Levy for Spock, peace leader of SANE; to the war mushroomed within to serve in Vietnam and for over six months. In Den­ York exercise in mobile tance must galvanize con-' war demonstration at White­ diate their ties with the novelist Mitchel Goodman of the armed services as well. for participating in an­ (continued on page 3) ver, Washington quietly pass­ invective radicalized many tinuing support for thou­ hall Induction Center in New RESIST, an adult support group; tiwar activities. draft at the Spring Mobili­ ed the word that they sands of potential political Marcus Marcus Raskin of the prisoners. At some point, as Institute for Policy Studies; SDS and other Left groups and Michael Ferber of the "The greatest contribution Vietnam is making'— right or wrong is beside'the have recognized all along, looking backward New England Resistance, for point — is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight a the Resistance will be faced conspiracy to aid and abet limited war, to go to war without the necessity of arousing the public ire. In with the choice of being draft resistance. All five that sense, Vietnam is almost a necessity in our history, because this is the "channelled" into prison THE BLOODY HISTORY OF THE DRAFT men had participated in ten­ kind of war we'll likely be facing for the next fifty years." and out of existence or un­ Daniel Webster, one of the most dering draft cards to the- —Robert MacNamara, former Secretary Since the Pharoahs first forced derground into a coalition vigorous opponents of the draft, Justice Dept. the previous of Defense. young men to build the pyramids, of armed struggle. It is branded conscription "an exercise October following the first monarchs, potentates, presidents, at once a testimony to its of perverse ingenuity to extract card turn-in. would no longer prosecute for During the winter, four sail­ and other aging public officials participants but succeeded in success and a test of its slavery from the substance of a By mid-winter, the liber­ non-possession, lest the ors from the carrier Intrepid have lauded conscription as essen­ alienating all potentential seriousness that among all free government." At Hartford, al establishment began to courts overrule them on such deserted and told their story tial to the provincial, national or communities of support with the peace and freedom Conn., a threat by New England to desert the Johnson Adminis­ a shaky statute and set a pre to the entire world. Several heavenly interest. whom them came in contact, groups, the Resistance is secede from the Union over the tration on the war issue, cedent legalizing draft-card contingents of Vietnam-bound In America, the draft immigrated including the mainstream anti­ one of the first few to draft issue evaporated only with as Chiang Kai Shek's allies turn-ins. In early March, Gl's rioted in frustration. to the colonies in the 17th century war movement. face this choice. the Treaty of Ghent, ending the abandoned him. Several peace a zealous federal attorney Underground anti-war papers with the first pilgrims fleeing Revising their strategy, War of 1812. candidates surfaced. Business who had arrested one of the published by vets flourished. militarism and suppression of con­ groups like SDS and Progressiv During the Civil War, Congress warned that the unending vol­ few resisters there for non- Some soldiers even organized science in the Motherland. Of the Labor called for "Ten Days of passed the first national con­ ume of military expenditures possession thus was forced pray-in's against the war original 13 states, nine authorized Resistance" in late April. scription act in 1863. Citizens threatened the stability of to seek dismissal of the at military chapels. drafting of men into the state mil­ Thousands of young men join New York City police in joyous Adopting the Resistance stra­ (The opinions expressed in in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and the economy. Hawkish news­ charge. In the face of these rap­ itia (for three months) to fight celebration of the Civil War Conscription Law. His torians tegy which they earlier de­ the paper are those of the Wisconsin greeted the new measure papers began cooing like Nationally, about 100 men idly deteriorating fronts, Indians and impressment into the refer to this event as the Draft Riot of 1863. nied, many organizers turned- editors and do not necesar- by destroying lottery boxes and doves. were refusing induction into the NLF launched the Tet English Navy. Soon after the Rev­ in their deferments and ex­ ily represent the Resis­ forcing provost marshalls to re­ the army every week. Though offensive. For all practical olutionary War, fought primarily by emptions in symbolic sever­ tance as a movement. sign. In Olny, 111., 500 resisters visible source of supply." The tenced to death. After the war, how­ less than ten percent had purposes, like the battle of volunteers, Secretary of War Henry Traditional groups and ance of class privileges. Member, Liberation News laid seige for three days and Confederacy could not exploit this ever, their sentences were commuted. previously severed relations Dienbienphu before, this vic­ Knox unsuccessfully lobbied for liberal individuals who had From the start, the Re­ Service, Washington, D.C.) threatened to burn down the town situation only because it had an In preparation for World War II, with their local boards, tory ended the war. Presi­ adoption of universal military ser­ never attacked the founda­ sistance, like other groups, unless draft records were destroyed. even more unpopular draft of its own. Congress resurrected the draft in 1940. most of the others had been dent Johnson capitulated. vice. The international cannon fodder tions of the war or draft sud­ faced internal obstacles. A In New York City, rebellion Although millions by this time accept­ motivated to refuse, (if Following Secretary of De­ Meanwhile in France, Napolean industry received new blood soon denly volunteered moral and few non-cooperators from the reached a peak on July 13. Thou­ ed service unquestioningly, hundreds found medically qualified) fense, UN Ambassador Gold- rose to power and, with the first after with Bismarck's decimation of national conscript army of modern sands of rioters battled six régl­ resisted. In jail some went on hunger sul 150,000 French professionals by a ants of soldiers, « f^les strikes and desegregated several fed­ times, embarked on a series of crack conscript force in the Franco- 1200 deaths, thousands of i»J«^8 eral penitentiaries. foreign conquests. Mindful of the German War of 1870. and property damage of $5 million. When the draft act expired in 1947, subversion of French democracy, the In rapid succession, Austria, American public repudiated Pres. the military successfully manufac­ Draft riots also hit Troy, Jersey City France, Japan, Russia, Italy, Turkey Madison's call for the "classing tured a Russian war scare to pressure City, Trenton, Boston, Detroit, and and the Banana Republics "Prussion- and discipling" of state militia. Congress, after lengthy debate, into Portsmouth. ized" their armed forces. In 1917, accepting the first peacetime draft. To suppress growing draft activi­ the last big domino fell and the U.S. After several renewals during the Kor­ ty, President Lincoln suspended abandoned the "undemocratic, unre­ ean conflict and the Cold War, Con­ the writ of habeas corpus, imprison­ liable, extravagent, inefficient gress routinely rubberstamped the ing 13,000 civilians. In the face and above all unsafe" system of vol­ Selective Service Act, as in 1963 when noirs MY BOY of the Chief Executive's dictatorial untary enlistments for total con­ it devoted only ten minutes debate to policies, a Federal District Court scription. In all, 2.7 million men the measure. in Pennsylvania actually declared submitted to induction. Yet resist­ By 1967, the last*remaining cit- the draft unconstitutional. But ance mushroomed. The Non-Conscription itlals of critical thought, the church Lincoln, whose son was exempted League circulated 100,000 pledges and university, accepted conscription while studying at Harvard at the of non-registration In New York. as a permanent institution and went time, managed to ignore the deci- about the business of securing special son. Officially, the War Dept. listed privileges for themselves. In one of Nevertheless, the draft proved 171,000 Selective Service resisters, the great ironies of American history, unenforceable. As Gen. Meade re­ and the unofficial estimates ranged the Selective Service System, under vealed, "The draft is confessedly several times higher. Gen. Hershey whose own Mennonite an­ a failure. Instead of 300,000 In response, the Wilson Administra­ cestors fled the Continent to avoid men, it will not produce over 25,000 tion invoked the Espionage Act to persecution, firmly established mili­ and they mostly worthless. There is arrest many dissenters, including tary control over civilian life in the no volunteering and this time next Socialist party leader Eugene V. Debs. United States as a dictator or foreign year the whole of the army of vet­ During the mass crackdown on the Left, power never could. erans goes out of service, and no 17 conscientious objectors were sen­ Page 4 The Resistance June 1 1968 The Resistance June 1, 1968 Page 5 they comprise most of the With the end of the Se­ Selective Service Act ex­ education in America today In resisting the draft, combat casualties. In bit­ cond World War, the US mil­ pired in 1967. Rather than is to service the domestic large numbers of students terness, the lower classes itary faced an uphill battle closing ranks and fighting and international empire have come to realize the defensively support the war to convince Congress into conscription collectively, which they own. The univer­ CLASSIFICATIONS ulterior functions of con­ in understandable reaction to to convince Congress to students competed among sities tolerate radical ten­ For most resisters, the central issue facing them is scription. In the words of n ot whether to go to jail, but whether to continue acqui­ affluent students who deride retain conscription on themselves to place high dencies within the liberal While the Resistance Last February General There are indications the Selective Service's In­ escing to a system that is responsible for waging a brutal, the war and the GI's who strumental in lobbying for in class rank. Some profes­ arts fields, at times offer­ encourages non-cooperation Hershey issued a bulletin that local boards are famous memo "On Manpower and unjust war in Vietnam and forcing young men to fight the extention of the draft, sors of liberal leaning even ing them comfortable niches, with the draft (non-registra­ stating that the only tightening up in their Channelling": "Delivery of fight it behind their defer­ and kill against their will. not surprisingly, were many vowed to give all A's to so long as students and tea­ tion; turning-in cards; re­ graduate students eligible granting of II-A's, and manpower for induction, ments and exemptions. That the uneducated die prominent educators. their students, lest a C+ chers do not try to transl­ fusing induction), it also for II-S deferments are when school gets out in Resisters generally believe that the draft and US mil­ the process of providing June, there will be abroad in .the Interests of Indeed, with an eye to rather than a B- send some­ ate their learning into pra­ provides current information those entering their itary advertures abroad cannot be ended without civil a few thousand men with upsurge in requests for the military-industrial com­ increased enrollments and one off to the war and haunt ctice. In this respect, they about otÄr alternatives. second or subsequent year disobedience on a massive scale. While they respect those transportation to a re­ Students facing reclassi- this deferment. plex at home which the edu­ funds, higher education en­ their conscience. act exactly like the Selec­ of doctoral study in the individuals and groups which advocate emmigrâtion and ception center, is not much ficationÄtid induction into fall of 1967 (and this at cated administer is now wide­ tered- into a mutually profit- The-complicity of higher tive Service which counten­ Deferments for Father- emphasize personal draft counseling to "get out" in any of an administrative or the army this summer should the discretion of local way possible, resisters usually do not consider these ef ly conceded by most students. -able conspiracy with the education in waging the-, war ances conscientious objection hood, Hard^^^^^^B____ ef- financial challenge. It is be aware SE the following boards). Those graduating forts a viable political strategy to overconuj Selective Service to enhance in Vietnam extends further to war but not war-makers. Dependency (III-A). Any the insti- in dealing with thf other The incestuous relationship facts about the draft law, from.college this year, tutions that oppress young people collective! each other's domination over than teaming up with the gov- Both systems reward intel- person who requested and millions of registrants - between the universities awl exile in Äther countries, as weîl as those, who / They believe that the struggle of the gen( tbe 1 young people and to expand ernment to co-opt potential ligent administrators and ration is that the System is heavily defense complex anifW' ' and non-ffioperation. entered the first year of in America, not Canada; and that it is import role of hi their budgets. draft resistance, and is well technicians wjio work within ment after July 1, 1967, occupied, developing more gher education in people and minority group members to receive < it for poor In return for supporting documented. In the early the system silently, or at An estimated 280,000 graduate school last fall, is ineligible |or a III-A effective human beings in ' se/vlng as the biggest so- will not qualify for a / ments and exemptions, but that for white, micj (raft defer- cial the principle of conscript­ ±950'a, Michigan State mnaf unrli tofehange i t in college jeniors and grad­ deferment on grounds of • the national interist." . "channel" of all are Y college students non-cooperation offers the a le-class ion and helping to administer uate stuÄnts are directly II-S, unless their course/,,,^^y^rtoocf ( lthougVA«/VrV In other words, (the ^--jtfst- beginning to be under- contracted to train the se- the spirit of reform. a vant possibilities for fundamental social cha st rele- the functioning of the draft, cret police force of Pres. Further, like! the government affected provisions of of study is medicine, may qualify on grounds of draft is not designed to stood and analysed. idarity with these communities. ^_^^^ |e in sol- As the new veterinary medicine, hardship or dependency). service the militaly so early as World War I, universities suddenly benefi­ ift law which Nevertheless, having non-registered, turne V went int< dentistry, osteopathy, or It is mandatory that kin or much as to funnel {he Tihe Pre^Ç^*^^v?ry#jt|»«dhgt tes, ted from the influx of thou­ detSft*tllrMi^^ tightjeous indignation iffect on July 1, destroyed their draft cards, or refused indue a 1967, an optometry. The growing boards give III-A defter Ion, resis- tire younger generation into abdicated their traditional sands of youths anxious to at rightfwingj causes like >y subsequent ters all face the prospect of up to five year Ical^rSe^ColumbL changes number of college seniors, Jin federal other, less obvious, direc-rp flee the draft. that of Joe McCarthy, the the administra­ ments to ^erVorhs/rfdî/V/.V prison and/or • provisions for case^^^^^^^^^^^^^^s dismissed or ^suspende d even if their d( :ct chal- face six years of"^nte^^^0 resisted conscription search grants in non-defen­ r the arms industry. The in- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^vould never ebter college in call wasj 8,000, second receive induction orders r granting def ermèfeU/on" '"^\lT(i'f/W egalitmVgMWWly of th e draft and war refused certainty regardinj their fu- were expelled or denied re- se, as well of course as de- highest the war. Some grounds of having a physical a hearing in the courts, (Resisters are not c| linals, ture. Those who Jn affordYoiFtolfftreby ordered for indüfftStVff i^teeT^SWd t orces estimate |hat as many as during an academic year. mental, or moral defect have it go on from high school — I-S is no longer available / ool to Though conscription for the pool" constituted the great- and classroom construction. ^•^•^•^••^••^••^•*^^^^^^^^ 80% of tduating seniors not changed, aYrfr6ugH^it' iff"\ In San Francisco, for instance, 70 lawyers college and are del erred school. The college board to graduate students who ave banded h e : t The composition of the and grad ite students will not as easy to get a I-Y or together to form a defense group for resisters Those who cannot ai for4*or ^^______Mtï. Ntr7 10 lM 8tefenSftte contributio n to univer- exams and thef Selective Ser­ filing a Versailles, the universities sal philosophical categor- board of trustees of any face ind it ion £ADyjrtjg ; /'•j//sfl/./ IV-F as it was in the past. battery of motions and appeals on behalf of ea coopera'ted with the military ies since Übe introduction vice testing (examinations ^^^^^^^^e ^ rtney are0 r ff.J 7 member, qualify for higher education major school best illustrates coming indu:ti:n whne tn:r-- Vomp'aWwf'tn tne paTt^ '' literally tying up the courts for months and during the twenties and thir­ of the "international Com­ —which are both admini­ pursuing a full-time ssibly either are induced to enlist the collusion between aca- The fc [lowing is a summary local boards are giving years. or left to hold soi ties, serving as the chief munist consp»l9flc^»"M..nto the stered by the Education­ course of instruction. proportionately more I-Y's .e.]ÖH- . demia, the military, and of the Inges in the draft Under the present draft law, discriminatorj paying job until medium of imposing militaris-" rhetoric of the Cold War. al Testing Service — sym­ than IV-F's, and reviews eatures industry. Of the 14 members on the experience of conscription cannot be challenged except orj are satisfied that lp loyers tic values 'on young people. In maintaining this gi­ bolize the impersonal reg­ of I-Y's are more frequent. he basis of the Board of Overseers at junselors in Occupational Deferments. of induction refusal. Resisters thus are in fulfilled their se [they have Hundreds of colleges and high gantic fraud, the Selective imentation wrjich they exper­ It is getting more difficult osition to Harvard, for example, 10 aroucld the nation. The national list of challenge the discriminatory grantfcrföbf defei1 are over-age. In t/ic' e ar u rt ience in eveijy aspect of to fake physical and nts to hiÄ_y(ürw«r«ift;«*l5%» ft>f-ftfe# heir dismissed during the school or the armed forces /Zee-T: pations fill an "essential members ill local churches or /synagogues. to sign up for an "educa­ academic year for refusing tions to sustain the level and 2 are government offi­ l-S, as ase_*on the to avoid the draft — an students« I-S and II- community need." Hence tion" and on-the-job train­ to participate in drill. of fearful anxiety on campus. cials (including the former Classification as a medieval concept of asylum, some resisters will surface institution created precisely before, Jpit with some im­ »/ there is no guarantee that ing in uniform. Only comparatively recently Purportedly these exams were denuty director of the CIA) Conscientious Objector. at these/religious institutions instead of rejArting for these purposes. Rather portant fËf f erenc/'s. .Cndey,- any occupation will be Meanwhile, college grad­ have some schools liberal­ designed to meet the "critical" It is this type of men, the new law II-S deferments for sentencing or transfer to prison. At press confer­ than allow themselves to be deferred; for example, In the past two years there uates find themselves once ized ROTC requirements shortage of voluntary enlist­ whose activities comprise a are avaiÄble to undergrad­ ences, the clergy and sometimes the congregations of channelled into the dehuman­ some, but not all, boards has been a large increase in again confronted with un­ and made enrollment volun­ ments by drafting idling or Who's Who of international uate students upon written these groups will express their complicity in the youth's izing institutions that cur­ have deferred Peace Corps the number of men applying tary. Others, of course, poorer students. In fact, the exploitation, who literally request. To qualify, the action, making themselves liable to the same punishment. certainty and the prospect rently exist, our generation and VISTA workers. The for CO. status, but draft still require it. Selective Service never had own the universities, as student must be under 24, Some non-cooperators may choose to go underground in of induction. Most of them is taking control of its des­ Selective Service recently pursuing a full-time course boards have become so reluc­ which case the minister could announce that the youth manage to find employment tiny and creating an alter­ of study, and making normal ruled that graduate stu­ tant to grant a CO. that was serving "alternative service" in a voluntary way with corporations whose con­ native, free society. dents engaged in part- nine out of ten tribution to society have progress to a degree. under the auspicies of his ministry and he would not time teaching do not ms are now denied. tell the Justice Dept. where the individual was. been deemed "in the national Draft counselors have found UNIVERSITY COMPLICITY I that local boards are qualify for II-A (occu­ The possibilities for non-violent resistance of this kind interest," and for this they (Edited by Berrie Thome.) pational) deferments. are endless and intriguing. receive 2-A deferments. 'equality' increasingly strict in With the expectation that enforcing these provisions. So far, few actual cases of sanctuary have developed they would not have to ser­ WITH WAR AND THE DRAFT Of the 16,632 draft since the first national Resistance turn-in last Oct. 16, ve on the front lines, oth­ board members, who make & EXILE since almost no resisters have been imprisoned. In con­ er students volunteer for trast, men who refuse induction without having first the ultimate decisions on P.O. Box 231, Westmount Station /3 Haarlemmerhooutuinen Officers' Candidates School. who goes and who does not, turned-in their cards and without a community of support During World War II, the any intention of drafting more indirectly they con­ Although estimates Montreal, Quebec Amsterdam Until recently, most could only 1.3% are Negroes, have been frequently singled out for punishment. In influence of the military students because the alleged trol the legislature, the vary widely, at least 8,000 (514) 931-3007 Telephone: 24-72-35 continue in graduate school 0.8% Puerto Ricans, 0.7% Baltimore last fall, résister Matt Clark planned to re­ over education expanded shortage did not exist. Dur­ executive, and the judicial men have already gone to 3) Vancouver Committee to Aid 2) Provos and idle until age 26. Al­ Orientals, and 0.1% Amer­ fuse induction and seek asylum in a Brooklyn church. When in the way of research and ing the much-publicized tests branches of government. Canada to escape the draft, War Resisters The Hague most none contemplated re­ ican Indians. In his book the government heard of his plans, they hastily gave development of weaponry, of 1966-67, for instance, stu­ On the basis of precedent and a large number are P.O. Box 4231 sistance because of their How To Stay Out of the him a deferment for an almost non-existent ingrown toenail, medicine, and communica­ dents were led to believe that and power, they arrogate to, expected to go to Canada Vancouver 9, British Columbia England: fear of isolation in jail Army, Conrad J. Lynn evidently seeking to avoid a confrontation with the cloth. tions in conjunction with unless they scored 70 or bet­ themselves the "right" to this spring and summer. (604) 738-4612 (Anti-War Groups) or the future prospect of writes: "This discrepancy On April 3, an AWOL soldier in San Francisco took san­ university faculty and ter they could be inducted pass on university curricu­ Most of these seek access Stop It Committee professional ostracism, in representation may in ctuary in a Bay Area church, where he presently remains campus laboratory facili­ and sent to Vietnam. Conse­ la, fire teachers, impose to Canada as "landed Sweden: 8 Rosslyn Hill rending null and void their part explain why in 1964, organizing in a peace center, since the Army has not at­ ties. The atomic bomb, for quently millions of students, restrictive moral codes on' immigrants." A newcomer (Anti-War Groups) London, N.W. 3 $10,000 worth of study and for example, 30.2% of tempted to arrest him. During the upcoming Spock Trial instance, was developed many of whom opposed the war, must spend five years as Telephone: 794-2419 means of livelihood. Thus, students, permit military qualified Afro-Americans i,n Boston, later this spring and during the summer when secretly at the U. of Chi­ rushed to take these exams. a permanent resident of 1) Clarté even the learned, who have and corporate recruiters were drafted but only hundreds of men will refuse induction, other Resistance cago and napalm at Harvard. Yet none of those who scored Canada in order to be Palsundsgatan 8 (Lawyer) had the luxury to study Soc­ on campus, and "reserve" 18.8% of qualified whites." groups are expected to initiate sanctuary. below the norm (about 10% in considered for citizen­ Stockholm Howard D. Sacks rates, Jefferson, Thoreau During the Cold War, the authority to dismiss Black Americans make up While all non-cooperators are expected to accept the Northern schools and 40% in ship. Extradition from Telephone: 69-88-90 22 Bracknell Gardens and Gandhi, and thus who universities consolidated students without any re­ 42% of the populations of consequences of their acts and not take resistance light­ Southern ones), except a few Canada can occur only If 2) Information Center for Hampstead should know better, silently their multi-million dollar course who challenge the sys­ Alabama and Mississippi, ly, students considering the alternatives should realize civil rights workers and a person has been accused Americans London N.W. 3 acquiesce or are routinely partnership with the Penta­ tem. Normally, they prefer to but they make up 0% of that the Resistance opposes prison as another channelling anti-war activists, were e- or convicted of a crime Box 716 Telephone: 01-794-4580 bribed into complicity. - gon and State Department. operate through liberal ad­ the populations of their institution in the Great Society* and with do everything ver drafted as a result. listed in the extradition Lund, Sweden As the affluent agonize, Literally thousands of stu­ ministrators, but when they draft boards. Of all com­ consistent with its goals to protect its members from The tests, in truth, ser­ treaties between the U.S. Switzerland: the poor, promised a better dents have studied and fail, as in the case of Pres. bat casualties in Vietnam, unjust incarceration and continually strive to build a ved primarily to placate and Canada. Crimes (Lawyer) life in the services, ex­ faculty taught on government Kirk at Columbia, they enter 24% were black. Puerto (Anti-War Group) movement to end the war, the draft, and the system of Congressional and public ad­ pertaining to conscription Hans Goren Franck ercise "choice, not chance" funds over the last 20 years, the picture directly. Ricans comprise 1.6% of Socialist Youth Organization international exploitation. — The Editors particularly in the area vocates of a volunteer army are not listed in the Kungsgatan 24 Fritschi, Marcel and shoulder the burden of As their roles indicate, the total population, but of devising programs to who hoped to see the draft treaties. Stockholm Hochstrasse 344, 8200 the war. With college-tra­ the major purpose of higher 6.9% of draftees. 27 Stanhope St. ined second lieutenants, pacify the Third World. die a natural death when the Telephone: 20-05-50 Schaffhausen Boston, Mass, 02116 According to the National the resistance (617) 536-9793 cThe Selective Service System and its analogues elsewhere furnish remarkably Lawyers Guild, no European France: (lawyers) clear examples of disguised military utility. Informed persons in this country country will return an (Anti-War Groups) Dr. Hansjorg Braunschweig THE RESISTANCE newspaper is published the 1st and 15th of have never accepted the official rationale for a peacetime draft — military American who has broken the L0 8600 Duebendorf each month in both a regional and national edition by the necessity, preparedness, etc. — as worthy of serious consideration. But what U.S. draft law, and it is inn Langacker 6 500 men of the New England Resistance, a group devoted to has gained credence among thoughtful men is the rarely voiced, less easily possible for American draft 1) PACS Zurich building a humane society through ending the draft, the refuted, proposition that the institution of military service has a "patriotic" resisters to obtain citizen­ Maria Jolas, Secretary Telephone: 051/27-05-10 war in Vietnem and racism. The Omega symbol of Resistance priority in our society that must be maintained for its own sake... ship in all of these 106 bis Rue de Rennes 051/85-61-49 derives from the ohm (electrical resistance in physics) and e A sophisticated form of slavery may be an absolute prerequisite for social countries. The National Paris 6 and the apocalypse (religious eschaton: alpha and omega). control in a world at peace. As a practical matter, conversion of the code of Lawyers Guild lists anti- 222-7766 Germany : Editor: Alex Jack; Business Manager: Don Bobo; Distribua- military discipline to a euphemized form of enslavement would entail surprisingly draft groups and lawyers 2) FRITA (Fniends of Resis­ S.D.S., German American Comm. tion Manager: Chris Venn: Assistant Editors: Dan Brody, little revision; the logical first step would be the adoption of some form of who have had experience in tors Inside the Army) Wilhelm-Hauffstrasse 5 Lucy Jack, Kieth Maillard, Ann Rigsby, Brad Robinson, Abby "universal" military service... assisting Americans, both c/o June Régnier Frankfurt Schwartz, Berrie Thome; Photography: Bob Hohler, Paul War is not, as is widely assumed, primarily an instrument of policy utilized draft resisters and service­ 20 Rue de Dragon Telephone: 77-64-22 Lane, John Pennington, Bruce Sargent; Assistant Circula-r by'nations to extend or defend their expressed political values or their economic men: Paris 6 tion: Larry Hirshhorne; Advertising: Mark Mostow. Denmark: interests. On the contrary, it is itself the principle basis of organization on Canadian Anti-Draft Groups SUBSCRIPTIONS: 26 issues for $5.00 which all modern societies are constructed. The common proximate cause of war is (Lawyer) D.S.U. Jean-Jacques de Felice Rosen Paris 8 Telephone: 35-44-98 requirements of the war system itself for periodic armed conflict. Toronto 12, Ontario Address Telephone: WA 6-2591 —Report From Iron Mountain. (Excerpts of allegedly Day: (416) 461-0241 "ON THE FIRST DAY OF RESISTANCE MY TRUE LOVE SENT TO ME Belgium: «P suppressed government studv concluding that the Night: (416) 537-4660 ZIP outbreak of peace would be catastrophic to THE HEAD OF THE ROTC." Allowing and often requiring drill Holland: Mark de Kock (Anti-War Groups) 44 Rue Froissart on campus is only one of many ways universities serve the Mail to: military-industrial complex. 2) Montreal Council to Aid War 1) S.J., Dutch American Comm. Brussels "The Resistance" Resisters Taco Fleuren Telephone: 33-77-21 27 Stanhope St. Boston, Mass. 02116 Page 6 The Resistance June 1, 1968 The Resistance June 1, 1968 Page 7 GENEVA CONFERENCE PLANS SUMMER ORGANIZING November 14 of the war and racism. In necessity of moral and po­ formation of a Movement li­ DICTATIONS OF Turn-In North Carolina, a future re- litical confrontation. brary of books, reprints, ar­ sister burned his report ticles, periodicals and oth­ At the first national con­ card. Conferences er historical and current ference of the Resistance_at High-school work aims events. Special research Lake Geneva, Wis. in early Bruce Nelson of the San ' at persuading teenagers not can be undertaken on all as­ May, delegates from 30 Francisco Resistance re­ OHAIFMAN LEW to register with the draft ports that the Resistance must pects of the Selective Ser­ groups selected Nov. 14 vice, local and national at age 18, but more impor­ expand from its present centers Hanging on Gen. Hershey's wall at Selective as the next national date tantly, as in college organ­ aspects of white racism, the of draft card turning-in. of strength in the seven met- Service Headquarters in Washington, D.C. is a izing, they should be made opolitan areas of Boston, New Democratic and Republican Most groups planned, how­ copy of Emperor Haile Selassie's mobilization aware of the channelling York, Philadelphia, New Haven, parties, university compli­ ever, to organize local days order to the Ethiopians when Mussolini began aspects of the draft and Chicago, Los Angeles, and the city in the military-indus­ of non-cooperation -during the invasion of that country in 1935. It says: other institutions in so­ S.F. Bay Area and obtain a trial complex, and imperial­ the summer to coincide, for ciety. The mockery of foothold in more areas. ism in the Third World. example, with commencements, "Everyone will now be mobilized, and all most high-school student To this end, Bay Area groups The bureau provides in­ the Spock trial, local peace boys old enough to carry a spear will councils provides an effec­ are sending teams of organizers formation to organizers as demonstrations, racial re­ be sent to Addis Ababa. Married men tive model around which to into Colorado and the Pacific they need it, serves as a bellion, and the campaigning will take their wives to carry food and relate. Northwest during the summer source of education for the of "peace" candidates. cook. Those without wives will take any High-schools can be ap­ to organize non-cooperation compilers, and uncovers new The major work of the woman without a husband. Women with proached through existing along regional lines. CADRE issues around which to or­ Geneva Conference" took smalL, babies need not go. The blind, after-school clubs, parent plans similar programs in ganize. The most important place at small organizing those who cannot walk, or for any reason or teacher contacts, or leaf- the mid-West along with the findings will be published workshops. Techniques and cannot carry a spear are exempted. Any­ leting. Sympathetic stu­ Ann Arbor group and resisters in this newspaper during proposals for various types one found at home after the receipt of dents should be encouraged at Cornell. the summer. this order _wi: b^hanee^/1 of summer programs are to arrange with their tea­ outlined below. Toward the end of the sum­ Women's chers for resisters to mer regional conferences will (Compiled and edited by Keith Maillard, Berrie Thome, and Alex Jack.) speak at their civics and Liberation be organized in these new ar­ history classes. Counsel­ Emphasis in the Resistance let a Induction Refusals eas for old and potential the happy ing centers can be set up on turning-in draft cards With large numbers of resisters to get together and near the school, or through naturally excludes women. musings éducation students facing the draft participate in workshops to self-im negotiation with the school Many aggressive "women liber­ masses this summer, Resistance stimulate local and regional hundred board sometimes within it. ation" types feel angered and der and drags him to the A society that hasn't I know very well that groups must devote consid­ organizing for the fall. RE MENTAL TEST erable attention to support­ High school students can hurt because they cannot par­ sand with pulmults. In this ppovement got the guts to make most local boards will defer also write articles for ticipate in this kind of str­ way, the hundreds of shocked someone who's in premedic ing them. Some groups, such Fund Raisinp Some experts say you flcweps people do what they ought school newspapers, dis­ uggle, and by their militant spectators who gather are or medical school before as the Los Angeles Resistance, The major problem of most cannot flunk that test, but We're the recruiter's to do doesn't deserve to rupt military assemblies, actions only intensify the confronted with an instant they will defer the liberal- have successfully reached in­ Resistance groups is raising I have more confidence in best friends. Enlistments survive. (Sat. Evening and organize to demand strong male-chauvinistic teach-in on the workings of arts man. I know they'll ductees with conversation, funds to sustain and expand the American people. (Sat. flcupish depend on the fever through­ Post, Jan. 20, 1951). that the school stop sending tendencies of some Resistance US imperialism. defer a scientist before coffee, and doughnuts at the their programs, as well as Evening Post, Jan. 20, 1951). out the country. The higher information to local draft organizers. Resistance surfers can Illegal activity which somebody who is teaching induction center early each provide a means of support for calls we announce, the boards and bar recruiters Women not only can do ef­ also set up a "life guard" interferes with recruiting music...Biology is give morning. But most groups full-time organizers who have RE IV-F's higher the enlistments. If I think we have gone way on the grounds. Parents ficient office work, cook stand on the beach to dis­ or causes refusal of duty in and take. Sometimes they have experienced community left school or work. we announce calls of 5,000, hog wild on the individual's and teachers' groups can also weekly dinners, and demonstr­ tribute anti-draft materials the military or naval forces think these biologists and police hostility and Resist, Support-in-Action, There are people who have enlistments go way down. rights in this country. be mobilized. ate, but also can serve as or open office under a big could not by any stretch of are going to be in a the physical location of and other adult groups have bad feet, but they've had If we say we'll take 80,000 (House Armed Services particularly effective draft umbrella labeled "draft the imagination be construed position to kill everybody the induction center itself provided limited funds to some great hearts and they've men, enlistments go way up. Hearings, June 1966) counselers and leafleters of counseling here" rapping as being in support of the In the world, and they'll often precludes effective Resistance groups, primarily dragged these feet to all (From interview with Jean GI's and reservists. with guys in hot water and national interest. (U.S. go a long way to defer one. contacts. to seed anti-draft centers sorts of places...I've Carper reported in her Women also can provide dispensing free lemonade. News & World Report, Dec. 25, I don't say total war Sometimes they don't know In the past, a picket in new areas. always felt that six out of book Bitter Greetings.) special impact as speakers, All scripts for guerrilla 1967) is inevitable, but total what biology is—if they line has served to call David Harris of the Palo ten were faking.,. A lot of since they cannot be accused theatre production should peace is a long way from think it's botany, they attention to the plight of Alto Resistance and his wife people have made a success We don't give a damn of dodging the draft, and be sent to The Resistance inevitable too. (Sat. won't go so far. ÇU.S. young men and induction re­ Joan Baez plan a national in life by being unstable about students who demon­ Let's talk about what since their support of resis­ Players, c/o this newspaper Evening Post, Jan. 20, fusals. Now in terms of concert tour this summer with when they want to be. (Sat. strate, but those who violate we have a deferment for. We News & World Repoft, Jan. tance destroys public myth for national distribution. 1951). press coverage and prior­ such singers as Judy Collins Evening Post, Jan. 20, 1951). the Selective Security law have a deferment to encourage 19, 1966). ity of time, large demon­ that participation in the somebody to do something that and Simon and Garfunkel to Military with sit-ins and draft-card Rather than war, I would strations at induction cen­ armed services proves one's the nation wants. In other raise funds on a national bas­ Organiz ing I don't think we're burnings are delinquents have peace even at a pistol I don't want to be ters appear to have reached manhood. words, there's no point in is. * Jeff Sharlet, Vietnam vet approaching a time when and they go to the top of emotional about it, deferring people to do nothing point—with the other guy the point of diminishing At the local level, groups we;re going to have to think the list as the law but I spent 15 years Guerilla and editor of the anti-war or to prepare themselves for looking into the pistol. returns. can raise funds by selling the of drafting fathers. (Look, specifies." (Feb. 1966) trying to get this Theater newspaper Vietnam GI, empha­ something that the nation (Sat. Evening Post, Jan. Some Resistance groups Resistance newspaper and other April 19, 1966) damned thing so that In Palo Alto, the Resis­ sizes the effectiveness of Congress says we have to doesn't need. So therefore 20, 1951). are considering civil dis­ anti-draft literature, hold people would believe tance is organizing a summer the "low-key approach" to do business. They [student there's a reason to defer a obedience, but are hesitant Stop the Draft balls, take What crimes? A joy ride in that in spite of a lot of caravan troupe that will organizing GI's. Soldiers demonstrators] defied the person to become a scientist, Why does one soldier end because of the cost of legal collections at guerrilla thea­ a stolen car? I'd induct 'em things—a great many crisscross the state of Cal­ are especially sensitive law. They d'id yell, they did but not to defer a person to up in Germany and another support for those arrested tre events, or impose a monthly all, it's a lot quicker than things—our educational ifornia on a flat-bed truck. to the realities of the war, holler, they did stink. In become a loafer. {WBZ radio in Vietnam? Even in combat, during 'illegal' protests. peace tax on adult supporters prosecution. (Wash. D.C, system is worth par­ Concentrating on resort ar­ as reported in the regular only 100 square feet of interview, March 27, 1968) there is no equality of who pay war taxes to the gover­ Feb. 1966) ticipating in. (U.S. Résister Bob Eaton, former eas, the caravan will include media, and the sensibility office there were 40 of them, sacrifice—one soldier is nment . News & World Report, skipper of the Haiphong- "The Fool," a Resistance of using restraint against not counting police, camera­ on the front line, and bound Phoenix, suggests The Brooklyn Resistance Whenever we need women, I men and three clerks, Jan. 10, 1966) • rock band, political skits, rioters in the ghettos. I think you are going to another is safe at divi­ that the simplest and most 'warns that over the long run think we ought to draft them. and films. The active military can be [concerning the October sion headquarters. (Look, resisters will have to sup­ have to compel people to get effective technique for or­ Through the medium of approached at bus depots (Ann Arbor speech, Dec. 1966) 1965 student sit-down in port themselves and encoura­ better. The incentives for April 19, 1966) ganizing around induction entertainment, organizers and airports, and reservists, the draft board at Ann ges all members to get part- staying as they are are too « refusals is for each résis­ hope to attract crowds, rap at local armories. arbor, Mich.] (Look, April ter to find a new individual time jobs. 19, 1966) great at the present time, DEFINITION OF MILITARY SERVICE with them about resistance, The Resistance can also because it means avoidance honorable to publicly announce his and try to establish dra'ft open up coffee houses in comPeteps A tax every man owes for intention to non-cooperate c ominunes of a duty that a person in theprivilege of living in Free Schools centers before pulling on to areas where servicemen fre­ Though this is the age of a democratic society owes, in solidarity with him. the greatest country on An amalgam of several pro­ The Résistance must learn a new area. Similar pro­ quent, providing a place computers, the Selective and I happen to believe life edifying earth. (Sat. Evening Post, 'Draft Counseling grams, the Free School serves to say yes, as well as no. jects are planned, in New for them to relax, eat or Service, under Gen. Hershey's that we will get people Lewis Blaine Hershey No movement can sustain it­ York and on Cape Cod. drink at low prices, read insistance, has never made Jan. 20, 1951). Resistance groups can use 1) as an internal education better when we compel them was born on a farm near self indefintely on protest. anti-war materials, and the transition to electronic the immediacy of the draft project aimed at active mem­ Meanwhile on the ground, tales to better themselves. (House Angola, Indiana on Sept. Further, the long-term sus­ discuss their problems supervision of its 33 million! What the hell do you think issue to begin speaking on bers of the Resistance, 2) as city-based guerrilla theatres When I was in the army Armed Services Hearings, 12, 1893. The son of a taining of radical careers with people who really take registrants. In Washington, the Congress created admin­ a whole range of problems in an action seminar for adults will descend on unsuspecting some years ago, we had a June 1966) sheriff, Lewis (known as demands new forms of living an interest in their needs. D.C, the Bureau still per­ istrative agencies for, if American society that fall leading up to concrete polit­ crowds and shock their pol­ horseshoer's wife that used "Red") attended a one- ical programs to be executed and employment. itical sensitivities by Above all, resisters forms its accounting on long not to enforce the law? under the rubrics of imper­ to think some of us owed her The deferment is the room school known as Hell's by the participants, 3) as In Palo Alto, Berkeley, staging mock trials, induc­ should always relate to yellow sheets of paper by (Look, April 19, 1966) ialism and white racism. In money, and she used to come carrot we have used to try Point. In 1911 at age 17 group meetings and courses Chicago, and Brooklyn, Re­ tions," and executions. A soldiers as friends. They hand. The following test­ particular, counselors will around on payday. She was to get individuals into he joined the Indiana for high school students to sistance groups have alrea­ group in Cincinnati, for ex­ are not the enemy, but the imony during recent hearings strive to bring out the sitting out in her car one occupations and professions I don't happen to believe National Guard because he help develop organizations by dy initiated communes to ample, sometimes dresses up men who draft them and send in the House between Her­ •relationships between the per- day and the First Sergeant that are said by those in "wanted to go to Indiana­ and for them on issues rela­ cut down on group expenses as Vietnamese peasants in them to Vietnam. Abstract shey and L. Mendel Rivers that we run the United States •sonal problems of Individu­ went out and said, "What charge of government to be polis" where the Guard ted to their lives, and 4) and to begin creating an black pajamas, and infiltra­ moral righteousness only of the Armed Services Com­ to keep our citizens necessar als and the political and are you doing, dear?" And the necessary ones. (House held summer training. as workshops for the whole alternative society. tes local ROTC formations. reinforces GI's stereotype mittee illustrates the age ily completely certain...The social problems of the so­ she said, "I ain't doin' Armed Services Hearings, In 1916 he was mobilized, man on photography, music, Insofar as they avoid of anti-draft activity. in which these men still United States just dare not ciety. Beaches in particular of­ nothin*." And he said, 'Why June 1966) leave its citizens believing but saw no action, in literature. isolating themselves from fer creative potential. One Information on legal live: At summer schools, pre­ don't you go somewhere else that they escape liability the Mexican border clash Courses will be taught the larger community,, com­ effective technique is to ways to obtain discharges Rivers: "Well, now, Gen­ ferably two full-time or­ and do nothin'." (U.S. News any time until they die. against Pancho Villa. by resisters, faculty sup­ munes serve to attract new stage the fake drowning of or conscientious object­ eral, this committee has We defer citizens only to ganizers should set up coun­ & World Report, Jan. 10, At one time or another porters, and friends. members into the Resistance ion can be circulated, as no reasons to have any pe­ make them "more valuable to (House Armed Services seling centers, organize in­ a young man with "under­ 1966) Hearings, June 1966) Hershey worked as a farm and retain old ones. well as methods of organ­ culiar affinity for or love the government, and we intend duction refusal meetings, Canada developed country" painted on hand, country school his chest by another actor izing against the war with­ for computers, we don't to use them as we need them, etc. In the suburbs, re­ Racism The fireman on his chair teacher, and deputy Thousands of young Amer­ dressed up as Uncle Sam. in the army or contacts have any reason to recommend rather than letting them go sisters can live with sup­ To be relevant to black ra­ in the engine house is not sheriff. He earned three icans have emigrated to Instead of rescuing the vic­ for those contemplating them. But do you think you to college merely because port families and set up dicals, white radicals should a glamorous figure. He Personal degrees from Tri-State Canada since the war began. tim, Uncle Sam holds him un­ desertion. could use any of these they care to themselves. counseling centers, start begin organizing against racism looks like a load on the College. In World War I Many of them left before things, these data gadgets, (House Armed Services I-A canvassing programs, or­ in their own communities, Re­ taxpayer's purse. The same he served in France, and there was a Resistance to in your organization?"... Hearings, June 1966) nctes fireman, though, up the ganize on street corners and support them. Others are sistance groups will strive to again saw no action. He Hershey: "You knowwe have| ladder in the blaze is other local hangouts, and tired of living apart from relate to local and national lost his right eye in a saying about the machine, understood. And when, by No one else wanted the involve local high school their family and friends. black anti-draft programs and I never promise a youngster 1926 when struck by a that it is just GIGO, garb­ his presence and timely job, so I stayed on. (Sat. and college students in Thé This summer, the San lay contingency plans for con­ that he can get out under any mallet while playing polo age in—garbage out, and arrival, he puts out with Evening Post, Jan. 20, Early Morning Show (leaf- Francisco and New England fronting the white power stru­ circumstances...Even if he got for his regimental team. you will get out of it just his hand extinguisher a 1951). leting of pre-inductees Resistance plan to send cture diring times of rebel­ out today this is no sign he After serving as as they get on the charter­ lion in the ghetto. To this what you put in." blaze that might be a will get out tomorrow. (House Secretary of the Joint teams of organizers to Van­ Retire? Huh! What do I do? ed buses). end, a rapid communications Rivers: "That is exact­ seven or eight alarm Armed Services Hearings, Army and Navy Selective couver, Toronto, and M an- Enjoy myself? What friends network for metropolitan areas ly right, preei8ely. A com­ affair, he is most useful, June 1966) Service Committee since High School treal to investigate the I've got left haVk retired will be initiated. puter is no better than the if not most glamorous. 1936, Hershey became direc­ feasibility and interest for years. What the hell do Organizing stuff you put in. It is like (Sat. Evening Post, Jan. tor of the Selective of organizing return South Resistance organizations At the present time, we they do? Play bingo five a deep freeze, if you want 20, 1951). Service System in 1941. Since high-school students across the border. For in several areas are setting need some incentive to keep a nights a week. Maybe I could will form the heart of the a good steak, put a good He retired from the army instance, only ten expa­ up workshops in local white skilled man working in the stand retirement, but I Movement in a few years, it steak in it. I would like in 1946 and remains in triates marching across comunnities. These workshops I'm in the position of national interest after he couldn't stand bingo five is imperative that they be to have one. You are as office at the discretion the Buffalo Peace Bridge will investigate the tendency the sick woman who complained gets to be 26. (House Armed nights a week. (Time, Dec 22 politicized as soon as pos­ right as you can be on of the President. He to join the Resistance of present day institutions to about her husband cooking. Services Hearings, June 1966) 1967) sible. Already anti-war that." was promoted to Lieuten­ could dramatically call foster racism and the dehuman- In Seattle, this summer, The husband told the wife and anti-draft groups exist attention to the nation's izatipn of us all. ant General in 1956. the Resistance plans to not to worry about the food ON THE LOTTERY With all the hell I get, in some locales. In Oakland largely unacknowledged In his 30 years as computerize all I-A's in because she was going to What would you do If you I have less power than most recently, nearly one thousand refugee problem and warn director of the draft, Radical Research the Northwest in order to die anyway. (Sat. Evening drew a one-legged man? anybbdy else. (Time, Dec. 22, high-schoolers struck and potential emigres of the Hershey has conscripted •marched downtown in protest facilitate organizing. Post, Jan. 20, 1951). (Time, July 1, 1966). 1967) drawbacks of exile and the Radical research includes I over 13 million men. Page 8 The Resistance June 1, 1968 WORK AGAINST

THE SEVEN EMERGENCY GROUPS (Big enough to offer help to other groups) 1. NEW ENGLAND: New England Resistance, 27 Stanhope St. Boston, Mass. 02116; 617-536-9793. Boston Draft Resistance Group, 102 Columbia St. Cambridge, Mass. 02139; 617-547-8260. 2. CONNECTICUT RESISTANCE, 68 Norton St., New Haven, Conn. 06511. 203-865-2741. 3. PHILADELPHIA: Resistance, 6380 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 19144. 215-843-4603. 4. NEW YORK RESISTANCE, 5 Beekman St. (room 1025), New York, New York 10038; 212-RE2- 4272. 5. CHICAGO: CADRE, 333 W. North Ave., Chicago, 111. 60610; 312-664-6895. 6. SAN FRANCISCO: The Resistance, c/o Hearth, 1321 Oak St., San Francisco, Calif. 94117; 415-626-1910, 7. LOS ANGELES RESISTANCE, 1355 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90024; 213-473-6410. OTHER GROUPS ARIZONA: Tempe Resistance, 4640 E. Almeria, Phoenix, Arizona 85008; 602-275-8173. Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm'want to- Tucson Draft Resistance, 739 East 5th St., Tucson, risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his Arizona 85719; 602-623-1760. in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in CALIFORNIA: Berkeley Campus Resistance, 2490 Channmg nor for that matter in Germany. nat is understood. But after L, it is the Way, Berkeley, Calif. 94704; 415-548-0960. the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to/ -drag the Dan Port, 319 D St., Davis, Calif. 956"16; 916-756-5457. i along, whether it is a democracy, or a racist dictatorship, or a parliament, or, a The Fresno Resistance, 6542 N. 1st.St., Fresno, Calif. list dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the biddi of the leade 93726; 209-439-2106. That is eas\ fou have to do is to tell tl they are being att Palo Alto Resistance, 424 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, and denouce the pacifists itriotism and exposing the country to ds Calif. 943O0; 415-327-3108. It works the same in evei Bob Langfelden, 6724 Abrego, Santa Barbara, Calif. —Hermann Goering, Hitler's Deputy 93107. • _,, Fuhrer testifying at Nuremberg San Mateo Resistance, Box 721, El Granada, caur. 94018. Randy Milliken, 125 Roxanne Court, Walnut Creek, Calif. 94578. COLORADO: Colorado Resistance, .170 1/2 S. Penn., Denver, Colo. 80209; 303-777-1951. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Washington Draft Resistance Union, 3 Thomas Circle N. W., Washington, D.C; 202-628-2528. GEORGIA: Denis Adelsberger; Atlanta Workshop in Non- SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM Violence, 1036 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga. 30309; 404-829-8867. NOTICE OF CLASSIFICATION ILLINOIS: Champaign-Urbana Draft Resistance Union, 605 E. White, Champaign, 111. 61820; 217-359-1359. ^ This is to certify that IOWA: Ed Adair or John Casey, c/o Dept. of Philosophy Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52240. Daniel S» Brody MARYLAND: Baltimore Resistance, 2525 Maryland Ave., " — -Ss» — Baltimore, Maryland 21218; 301-889-0065. (Tint name) W (Middle initial) (Last name) MICHIGAN: Ann Arbor Resistance, P.O. Box 221, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48107; 313-662- 0582. Selective Service No. Detroit Resistance, P.O. Box 9571, Detroit, Mich. 48202; MINNESOTA: Twin Cities Draft Information Center, 1905 3rd. Ave., South, Room 208, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404; 612-333-8471, MISSOURI: Kansas City Draft Resisters Union, 409 E. 54th St., Kansas City, Mo. 64110; 816-DE3-4408. St. Louis Draft Resistance, 5843 Cabanne (suite E), is classified in Class 1-A St. Louis, Mo. 63112; 314-V02-1925. NEW JERSEY: Jersey City Draft Counseling Center-, 120 Summit Ave., Room 8, Jersey City, N.J. 11743; 201- by Local Board unless otherwise 434-9368. Princeton Resistance, c/o Rich Millmer, 20 Dickinson checked below: St., #2A, Princeton, N.J. 08540; 609-924-9371. D by Appeal Board NEW MEXICO: New Mexico Resistance, 9621 4th St.,' N.W. Albuquerque (Alameda), New Mexico 87114; 505-247-2843. vote of t( NEW YORK: Buffalo Resistance, c/o Larry Falkner, 211 Ashland, Buffalo, N.Y. 14222. Cornell Resistance, c/o The Glad Day Press, 308 Stewart Ave., Ithica, N.Y. 14850; 607-273-0535. Long Island Resistance, Box 608, Huntington, N.Y. 11743; 516-271-2994. Stony Brook Resistance, c/o David Gersh, Langmuir College, A-21] SUNY, Stony Brook, N.Y. 11790. [amber, Executive Secretary, or clerk of Rochester: Karl Beker, c/o NRCC SDS, River Campus Sta­ tion, Rochester, N.Y. 14627; 716-234-0553. local board) NORTH CAROLINA: Robert Eaton, 452 Craige, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514; 919-933-3566. Resistance, 1111 Chapel Hill, Durham, N.C. 27701; ^•«intrant's al*nature) 919-489-5393. OHIO: Cleveland Resistance, 10606 Euclid Ave., #317, Cleveland, Ohio 44106; 216-721-1869. SSS Form 110 (Rev. 5-25-07) Clncinnatti Resistance, c/o Wood, 2117 Lurey Ave., (Previous printings are obsolete) Cincinnatti, Ohio 45206; 513-281-7044. (Approval not required) Ohio Resistance, c/o Antioch College Union, Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387. Oberlin Resistance, c/o Peter Blood, 231 Morgan St., Oberlin, Ohio 44074. Morris County Draft Resistance, c/o David Ingerson 73 1/2 Front Street, Berea, Ohio 44017; 216-234-8656. OREGON: Portland Draft Resistance Union, c/o Roger Lippman, 3203 SE Wôrdstock Blvd., Portland, Ore. 97202. Charlton Olsen, 502 N. 5th St., Corvallis, Oregon, 97.330; 503-753-3782. PENNSYLVANIA. The Resistance, c/o Peace and Freedom Center, 5899 Ellsworth Ave., Pittsburgh, Penn. 15232; 412-362-9000. 'XIWIlMilANDSrtKST PUERTO RICO. Tom Dorney, Collegio San Ignacia, Rio I'SYUIOMILICSilOl' Piedres, Puerto Rico 00928. izuspswurreix CWctf WISCONSIN. Madison Non-Cooperators, c/o AFSC, 317 N. •me woREp$ fiACfpT côÂf^Scr i Brooks, Madison, Wisconsin 53715; 608-257-5131. Milwaukee Draft Resistance Union, c/o Jess Kleinert, 1012 North Third St., Suite 210, Milwaukee, Wise. 53202; 414-273-6316. WASHINGTON. Resistance, 4126 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, Washington 98105; 206-ME2-2463. Seattle Draft Resistance Union, 104 21st Ave., Seattle, Wash. 98122; 206-EA9-2495. JL \jUQ(J~-kà«—» tvt y J^ */« *" SPOCK TRIAL P. 6-7 resistance :;:X:S¥;:;:ÏSH:A¥::H::ÏA::::::::ÏA:A: ^__— 15c JUNE 15, 1968 FBI SEIZE 2 RESISTERS PROVIDENCE,R.I. - FBI agents broke through a church door Monday afternoon June 3 to seize two •••""% men of religious conscience in this historic city of liberty founded by Roger Williams 300 years ago. The two victims, Anthony Ramos, 24, of East Providence, and Ronald Moyer, 20, of New York City, claimed and were granted sanctuary by the Church of the Mediator (Unitarian-Universalist) on June 1. Their efforts to obtain religious asylum came shortly after the Arlington St. Unitarian Church in Boston granted sanctuary to Bob Talmanson, a con­ victed non-cooperator, and Pvt. William Chase, AWOL from his unit in Vietnam. (Talmanson was carried out of the pulpit by Federal marshalls after three days refuge and Chase surrendered voluntarily after ten days after the Army publicly recognized his oppo­ sition to the war in Vietnam and agreed to give him a psychiatric re-examination.) Ramos, the first draft résister to return publicly from exile in Canada in order to join the Resistance, failed to report for his induction last August. His appli­ cation for conscientious objection previously had been denied. Upon learning of his indictment in January, Ramos left with his wife Ann for Toronto. Explaining his decision to return to America, Ramos declared: "Canada was and is a good place, untouched by the 300 years of hate that makes America go round. We lived well and comfortably... Ann and I decided that our moral and poli­ tical conscience is more îttipuîtanl thanAjur personal comfort and safety. We could not sit back comfortably while we saw our bro­ thers and sisters being beaten up and jailed in the name of law and order." After abducting Ramos from the Church, Federal autho­ rities set his trial for next October. Until then, Ramos is scheduled to be set free on $5000 bond posted by a member of the Church of the Mediator. Moyer, a Resistance organizer from the South, was arrested immediately after refusing induction in White Plains, N.Y. in February. He was released on $50 cash bond and $4500 personal recognizance bond with the stipulation that he not leave the Southern District of New York. In breaking bond and seeking asylum, Moyer explained, "The Federal Government was in fact limiting my freedom of speech and dissent by restricting the area in which I could travel to discuss my reasons for committing what I consider an act of conscience." After his capture from the sanctuary, Moyer was taken back to New York City. Nine Resistance sup­ porters who non-violently obstructed the FBI agents when they came to arrest the pair were arrested and subsequently released without charges. The night pre­ ceding the bust, nearly 50 members of the Church of the Mediator, Brown U. students, and local high school students slept in the sanctuary to protect the who refused induction with another man at the Bos­ sanctuary: two dissenters. ton Army Base on May 24. Rev. Albert Perry, minister of the Church, intro­ "We recognize and respect the religious The New England Resistance, which sponsored the duced the refugees to his congregation Sunday mor­ conviction that impels all forms of non­ ning during the service. In authorizing the Church doors sanctuaries in Boston and Providence, reports that violent destruction or return of draft cards, locked to Federal authorities, Rev. Perry noted, "They dozens of draft resisters and soldiers have contacted refusal of induction, or other acts of non­ are permitted to stay here for as long as the state honors them in quest of sanctuary. Pvt. Chase's stand in the violent resistance to the machinery of and respects the traditions of religion which have uni­ Arlington St. Church was reported to have had an war. We urge all our congregations to sup­ versally maintained that a person's first duty was electrifying effect among G.I.'s at nearby Fort port draft resistance by offering symbolic obedience to his conscience or to his God." Without Devons. At least seven soldiers immediately went k sanctuary at the time of arrest, by offering listening to Rev. Perry's objections, the law enforce­ AWOL as a result. church facilities for services of resistance... ment officials broke through a lock on a side door of Resistance groups throughout the country are also by establishing a 'ministry to resisters' by the church and, without presenting warrants, car­ mobilizing for sanctuary. Churches in San Francisco, men trained in draft and prison counseling, ried off the two men. Following the confrontation, Philadelphia, Detroit, and New York have publicly by assisting in the provision of legal aid to Rev. Perry reaffirmed the Church's availability for announced their availability as havens for war resisters. men who in conscience resist the draft..." future haven for future draft resisters. John Mark Blowen, who took sanctuary in the Ger- mantown Friends Meeting House May 31, voluntarily At least one Providence youth turned in his draft In Boston, the National Convention of the American surrendered when Federal agents came to arrest him. card as a result of the encounter. In Boston, during Baptist Church, addressed by several members of the During the week of activities in Boston, the Unitar­ the seige at the Arlington St. Church, 29 young men Resistance, adopted a resolution urging the ultimate turned in.their draft cards in solidarity with Talman­ ian Universalist Association held its general assembly abolition of the draft. son, Chase, and Resistance'organizer Harold Hector in Cleveland and passed a resolution supporting Page 2 THE RESISTANCE June 15,1968 SANCTUARY

ROBERT TALMANSON (standing second from left) and WILLIAM CHASE (sitting at left) publicly accept sanctuary at news conference in basement' of Arlington Street Church, Boston, on May 20,1968. TO TALLY AND CHASE For on deaf ears our plaintive cry Fell and was turned away; Oh tell me now young fellow They came prepared for blood, Where is it you go? And blood was shed that day. To the church upon the corner My allegiance for to show. One was gone and one remained, It was a destined end, Oh tell me now young fellow Gathered both to win our cause What is it all for? And count ourselves as men. We're demonstrating for the peace And against the war. And if you in your apathy Can't see what it's all for The two were gathered in God's house, They'll draft us all against our will Their hearts resolved to stand And march us off to war. To condemn all inhumanity To their fellow man. Some people say our country's dead, Decaying, deaf and blind - And around them stood in grim array But one man's heart has moved-us all, Supporters of their love Because he loved mankind. To bar the door, block their arrest, Raise the cry of peace above. Now he's free and walking out to Show we're not alone, The hours passed, we waited there He joined us all together 'Til at last they came; In a country that's now our home. We greeted them with song, By Don Snyder Then bowed our heads in shame.

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Though associated with the can and Vietnamese of both macy, ÄS a result, ..e must religious notion of "sacred sides. also reject the decisions of space," sanctuary today re­ courts that are no more le- fers to community protection In addition to placing jitimate than the laws they of one of its members in war resistance in the reli- interpret. And so, we enter moral confrontation v/ith the jious context of conscience, upon a new phase of resis­ illegitimate authority of sanctuary represents the be­ tance; we shall resist the the warfare state. ginning of a political de- enforcement of the laws we Victor Jokel, executive sanctification of the Ameri­ oppose." can judicial system by the director of the Arlington Through the ;jnedium of po­ Street Church, which harbor­ Resistance, in a Manifesto, litical asylum, the Resist­ ed fugitive slaves during several members of the New ance seeks to offer young the pre-civil War era, ex­ England Resistance asserted men, v.lio otherwise in isola­ plained the church' ; decis­ that submission to imprison­ tion turn to the sanctuary of ion to grant asylum to ment, like submission to exile in Canada, Lweden, or draft resisters: the army, is another form England, a chance to make "While the invocation of of "channelling" .hich the their non-cooperation poli­ sanctuary can have no legal government uses to control tically effective and risk force — nor should it have and silence dissent. prison for their beliefs. — in our society, this his " /e have launched an attack Until Pvt. .illiam Chase toric concept, as renewed on the injustices of our so­ took asylum in Boston, for today, has the force of a cial structure with 3 "simple * instance, there was no way moral imperative on the act of non-cooperation with for GI' J to plead their cases side of life and man at a the draft," the Manifesto before the public. >y grant­ time, when, chrough well- begins. "By committing ing sanctuary, churches and ueaning but tragic misgui­ this act of resistance, we synagogues in this country dance, the leadership of have repudiated a law that can now provide a meaningful our country, gutting its protects a system we intend forum for the thousands of ideals, indicts its patriots to change. It is the unjust soldiers who have unsuccess­ and acts as executioner for law of an unjust social or- fully applied for conscien­ thousands of this generat- ^er; e cannot and will not tious objector'j status, ./ho tion of young men -- .

Convicted for spilling blood on draft board files in Baltimore last October, Father Philip Berrigan led eight other Catholic priests, nuns, and laity in burning 600 draft files at another Selective Service center in Catonsville, Md., on Friday, May 17. The résistants were apprehended shortly afterwards in a moment of prayer and jailed. Entering the draft board with the outspoken 44-year-old Josephite priest were artist Thoaas Lewis, 28, an artist also convicted for the October protest; Rev. Daniel Berrigan, 47, Cornell university chaplain and recent emissary to Hanoi who received three caotured' U.S. fliers; Brother David Darst, 26, a St. Louis ghetto high school teacher who turned in his draft card December 4 and refused induction April 4; George Mische, 30, former Army veteran who worked for the American government in Latin America before resigning in protest against U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic; Mary Moylan, 32, a Baltimore nurse n and lay aP StCliC M^vT?^ ^"5 ™"T u , ° Programs; John Hogan, 33, and Thomas and Marjorie Melville, 37 and 38, former Maryknoll missionaries recently recalled for supporting the Christian Guerrilla Movement in Guatemala. T The »Baltimore Nine», who face long prison sentences for their action, issued the Tom Lewis and Phü.p Berngan set fire t i 600 draft files in Maryland. » following statement: ' lssuea cne photo by Frank Speltz. Today, May 17, 1968, we our country is torn'àt home who take the Gospel of our #8 The hour for action has enter Local Board No. 33 at and is harrassed abroad by America's problems. The now ounded. At stake are the Faith seriously. We hail Catonsville, Md., to seize enemies of its own creation. Vietnam War could end to­ surv val of so many innocent the Selective Service record America has become an empire morrow and yet leave the the recent Papal Encyclical, chi] tren and for so many and burn them outside with and history's richest nation. quality of society and "The Development of Peoples." Representing only 6% of the America's role in the world fam lies overcome by misery, napalm manufactured by our­ Quotes such as the following selves from a recipe in the world's people, America con­ virtually unchanged. the access to conditions fit give us hope: Special Forces Handbook, trols half of the world's Thailand, Laos and the for mman beings; at stake #23 No one is justified in published by the U.S. gov­ productive wealth and sixty Dominican Republic have are :the peace of th- -jorld keeping for his exclusive use ernment . percent of its finance. The already been Vietnams. and he future of civiliza- U.S. holds North and South Guatemala, the Canal Zone, what he does not need, when tio- " We, American citizens, America in an economic vise. Bolivia and Peru could be others lack necessities. A the same time, we have worked with the Poor In ten years time American Vietnams overnight. Mean­ #31 A revolutionary uprising-"- con*font the Catholi< Church, in the ghetto and abroad. industry in Europe will be while, the colonies at home save where there is open oth

THE RESISTANCE June 15,1968 Page 5 GLAD HE BURNED CARD: O'BRIEN (The following is a transcript of a press conference with David Obrien on May 27 after the Supreme Court turned down his appeal challenging the illegality of burning draft cards.) \: The response is one of oppression now. Look at Fr. Berrigan getting a 6-year sentence and Bob Talmanson going off for three years. Rap Brown getting a S^ear sentence. And this just keeps going on and on. About the 6-year sentences, I think this is basically a totalitarian response on the part of the United States government to silence political dissent. Although I was intellectually prepared for this type of ruling on their part, it does come as an emotional shock. I think it is up to those of us who consider ourselves to be patriotic Americans, who feel that we have to have drastic radical changes in the structure of American society, to work all the harder for these changes at this time.

Q: How do you plan to work harder for these changes Mr. O'Brien? the draft. We lost this one. I think this will encourage A: Well, I think it is only understandable that it does vast numbers of people even more to fight all the harder come as an emotional shock, yes, although you know A: I guess I am going off to prison quite soon, I against the injustices-of involuntary servitude. I was prepared for this. hope that this will act as some sort of catalyst for other people to become more radically involved in Q: Do you think this decision by the Supreme Q: Will you seek sanctuary in the Arlington Street working toward a better society. Court may have been in any way tied in with the Church? Spock Trial because of the timeliness? Q: You mean you are now ready to face a six-year A: I haven't really had too much time to think this sentence in a federal institution? A: I think it is entirely possible that it was. It is over, I don't know. my feeling that court decisions are usually based A: Well, I don't particularly like the idea. I served upon political expediency rather than on justice, Q: What do you think about the two men who did 2% months in the federal prison before I was morality, or even legality, so it is entirely possible seek sanctuary, one was taken out and one still remains? released on appeal bond, so I know what a federal that the Spock Trial and the timing of my decision prison is like. were planned on their part, although I certainly A: Well, I have known Bob Talmanson for about three wouldn't know for sure whether it is true or not. years. He is a fairly close friend of mine. To see him Q: What are they like? I think you would have to ask the government. go to prison for three years is something that I find very personally hard to take. I certainly support both of A: I am not as scared of it as I was, I guess, Q: Mr. O'Brien, has there been any persuasion by them in what they are doing. We are all engaged in the initially. Before I went in the first time, I was friends or family to change your mind on your stand same activity. Of course, the church is not a legal afraid of things from seeing gangbuster movies and on the draft? sancfuarv. I think it's quite wonderful to get the so on. It isn't like that, although it's certainly not entire moral persuasion of the church behind us. a very pleasant place to be. It's rather oppressive. A: All of my friends are either in this with me or There is a certain amount of emotional and mental have basic persuasions that coincide. There have Q: I understand that the entire moral persuasion of assaults made on one's mind, although I think I am been people I know that feel it is too bad that I the church is not behind those seeking sanctuary, the mature enough to withstand these types of pressures. put my neck on the line and wish that other people feelings are somewhat divided, have you heard of this? I don't think this is something one should be terrified would do it. But it is my feeling that if anyone is of. I hope that thousands of other people will join me. going to put their neck on the line it should be me, A: Yesterday's service I understand was devoted to a so my feeling is and of most of my friends and my discussion primarily of this. I wasn't at the service, Q: Mr. O'Brien, would you tell us how you heard wife that I certainly did the right thing both morally although I talked with people who were. They felt about this decision? and politically. that the vast majority of the church people supported s> this, although I think it is only understandable that A: A Friend of mine heard it on the news and called there were people who felt differently. Q: Would you do it again if you had another chance? me up, and said did you hear that you just lost your case? And I said, no I hadn't, but today's a Monday Q: Mr. O'Brien, do you think the decision today will morning and so the Supreme Court usually announces either encourage or discourage the people of the A: That is a difficult question to really answer. I Resistance to either turn in or destroy their draft cards? their decisions on Monday mornings, so I was not think I would, although I am in a different position now, really that surprised. Then I called up my lawyer you know I did it, and I am glad I did it now so I A: I think the primary function we are engaged in is and talked with him about it for a little, and since guess I would have to answer yes, then I have been getting contacts from press people. a direct confrontation with the Selective Service System. The issue of the Constitutionality of the law against Q: Would you say that your lawyer was surprised? burning cards is actually rather a peripheral issue. I Q: But you were in a way? think that certain people will be discouraged. This is A: Not really, no. our first confrontation with the Supreme Court over if. •

CARD BX7RNXNG BATTER UP In a 7-1 decision, the would imperil" Congress' The Philadelphia Res­ U.S. Supreme Court upheld ability to raise an army. istance has formed a the Constitutionality of "Additionally in a time "Resistance Softball Team" a law making the wilful of national crisis reasona­ to play in one of the destruction of draft cards ble availability to regis­ Philadelphia Recreation a crime. trant of the two small cards Dept. Leagues that compete The court's ruling on assures a rapid and uncompli­ for the city championship May 27 revoked a decision cated means for determin­ in September playoffs. by the First Circuit Court ing his fitness for immedi­ The team has three of Appeals which found the ate induction," the Court hopes: "1) to field a 1965 Amendment to the Se­ asserted. team good enough to im­ lective Service Act an prove the image of draft abridgement of* freedom of ïhe Court further noted that "unrestrained destruc­ resisters and anti-war speech. workers as all-around The défendent, David tion of cards would disrupt the smooth functioning of red-blooded Americans; O'Brien of Boston burned the Selective Service Sys­ his registration certifi­ 2) to come in contact with, cate with three men on tem." In the lone dissent, Jus­ as a group, guys from the steps of the South other areas both as athletes Boston courthouse on March tice William Douglas ques­ tioned "whether conscription and as draft resisters and 31, 1966. He now faces up is permissible in the absence peace workers; ~nd 3) to to six years imprisonment. of a declaration of war." keep up the community In ruling out the des­ urging the Court to reopen spirit among those who have truction of draft cards the entire issue of a peace­ handed back draft cards and/ as "symbolic speech," che time draft, Douglas conclu­ or worked in the peace Court listed several pur­ ded that "the litigants and movement." poses that the cards serve the country are entitled to whose mutilation of which a ruling." Page 6 THE RESISTANCE June 15,1968 SPOCK TRIAL OPENS

With a hastily empanelled all-male jury, an 84-year-old judge, a battery of defense counsels and a key witness apparently afflicted with amnesia, the Spock trial ended its first week with most of the prosecution's case built against the defendants. Dr. Benjamin Spock, the Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Michael Ferber, Mitchell Goodman and Marcus Raskin are accused by the United States Government of conspiracy to violate the draft laws and will attempt to argue their constitutional rights to free speech as a defense. It is an elaborate, complicated, show case trial destined to become a landmark in world history. On trial are the accused, the Resistance movement in general and, in a way, the very right to dissent in the year 1,968. The only indications to the course that the trial will take, now that the war in Vietnam has somehow been ruled out as admissible evidence, are the temper and patience of the judge, which tend to fluctuate, and the reactions of the jury, which has so far registered nothing but confusion. The defense counsels have confined themselves to raising incessant objections to the evidence offered in the hope that these objections will have some weight at a future date. The trial is clearly being conducted as rapidly as possible so that it can be strung, wrapped and delivered to the Supreme Court in time for the summer. Successful prosecution of the defendants would logically lead to mass indictments of other leaders of the Resistance Movement. The case for the United States Government, hammered out relentlessly by Assistant U.S. Attorney John Wall, in a voice several decibels louder than would seem strictly necessary, is based principally on video tapes recording a press conference m New York on October 2, at which plans were announced for Resistance activities, and a ceremony in which draft cards were burned at the Arlington Street Church on October 10. Both these gatherings were attended by one or more of the defendants and the jury watched with blank faces as the accused mer. appeared on the screen in eloquent testimony of their beliefs. Repeated objections by defense counsel on the grounds that the evidence was too fragmentary were overruled by ihe court. The prosecution's principal live witness in the trial was Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Lawrence E. Miller who attended the Hilton Hotel, New York, press conference at which all of the accused except for Michael Ferber were present. Agent Miller, who admitted in court that he was unused to this type of assignment, made notes and gathered literature released at the conference. He transcribed some of his notes into typewritten pages and was allowed to consult these to refresh his memory which seemed, under constant prodding from the defense, the prosecution and Judge Francis J.W. Ford, to be somewhat limited. He remembered that the press conference had been attended by four of the accused, by writer Paul Goodman, and by a PROSECUTOR WALL Gnome Komskie (later identified for the benefit of the bewildered jurors as MIT Professor Noam Chomsky).

Chomsky, at the press conference, stated that the United States was committing atrocities similar to Auschwitz and Dachau and that a large following should commit civil disobedience in order to be politically effective. Paul Goodman said that President Johnson and Congress had betrayed the country and that the regime will turn to racism. A motion by defense counsel that this evidence should not be admissable was dismissed by the judge who ruled in limited instructions to the jurors that testimony from other than the defendants could be considered if the persons making those state­ ments could be proved to be a part of the alleged conspiracy. The wieldy instructions seemed to do little for the jurors except deepen their confusion. Agent Miller was unable to recall exactly what Dr. Spock had said at the press conference and an attempt by defense counsel to help him unravel his notes revealed that he had doodled on them in some places, had at one stage written the word "baloney" and at another had inserted three question marks which he described as his own form of speed writing. Cross-examined by Attorney Edward J. Barshak on behalf of Goodman, Miller admitted that he had left out any reference to the fact that Goodman had stated he was at the press con­ (^»v-e.-—— ference in response to his conscientious objection to the war in Vietnam. AGENT MILLER Following Miller's testimony the courtroom was darkened for a film showing of the press conference, and Dr. Spock appeared on screen to say: "If we should succeed in bombing Vietnam to rubble we will only find ourselves up against the Chinese. I believe that thousands of young Americans are being asked to die to save Lyndon Johnson's face." A ripple of almost inaudible applause ran through the court­ room audience. The second film showed resisters at the Arlington Street Church burn their draft cards by holding them to a tall candle at the pulpit and placing the ashes in a silver chalice. Michael Ferber delivered a sermon which said in part: "We all have an impulse to purification and martyrdom, and we should not be ashamed of it. "But let us be certain that we have thought through the conse­ quences of our action in the outside world, and that these conse­ quences are what we want to bring about. "Let us make sure we are ready to work hard and long with each other in the months to come, working to make it difficult and politically dangerou- a government to prosecute': working to help anyone and e to find ways of avoiding the draft to help disrupt the woriungs of the draft and the armed forces until the war is over." The Reverand Coffin atte; i the service and the Boston Globe erroneously headlined and repc ted him as assisting with the card burning. Coffin later told Böston Free Press: "1 have never advocated draft card bu- ' — 1 thii... t is an overtly hostile act. I would never, iur •tance, advocate the burning -of a United States flag. The ilafe „..> .a öe wash d, not burned. Now they have me burning draft car The Globe printed an apology. The trial's fir ended with testimony from Assistant

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Deputy Attorney General John R. McDonough, who stated that on October 20 Spock, Coffin, Goodman, Raskin, and other Resistance members confronted him at the Justice Department in Washington with a brief case containing 992 draft cards or facsimilies. He said Coffin told him the group had come to make it un- mistakeably clear that they were engaged in violation of the federal law and were exposing themselves to the possibility of a five-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine. McDonough said he refused to accept the brief case but had two FBI agents to pick it up after the delegation left. Judge Ford told the jury not to make up their minds on the case until he has instructed them on legal issues and ordered them locked up for the weekend in the Parker House Hotel. On Monday the prosecution directed most of its evidence against Dr. Spock. A film of the New York press conference showed him lambasting President Johnson as a deceitful and belligerent man who could not admit to his mistakes. Plans were made at the press conference to picket the induction center at Whitehall and, after the film, David Kossuth of the New York police tactical patrol force appeared on the stand to state that Dr. Spock was one of six demonstrators arrested on the steps of the center after he had climbed a sawhorse erected as a police barrier. It also emerged from Kossuth's evidence that 1,500 to 2,000 uniformed police had been called out to control about 400 demonstrators. The Spock trial trundles laboriously to its conclusion I testified to, is not to surrender his conscience to Next to appear on the stand was FBI agent George McKenna, 29 amidst a welter of objections to evidence presented, the state. Man is finally responsible to his God years with the service. He said that with two other agents he had endless bench conferences and minor histrionics on the and to his conscience before he is responsible to interrogated Spock in his home on December 8. parts of both defense and prosectuion. the state. That is my understanding of the He said that the doctor had invited him in very cordially and had religious and the American tradition." Judge cleared his desk for McKenna so that he could take notes. Dr. Benjamin Spook, the Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Michael Ferber, Mitchell Goodman and Ford: "Let me see if I can clarify it a little. Are Spock, in a monologue, told the agents of his gradual involvement you saying that you believe that if a man believes in politics, first a co-director of SANE and then with the National Marcus Raskin are charged with conspiring to violate a law to be bad he is free to violate it?" Conference for New Policies, an organization which, he said, better the draft laws. Coffin : "No sir, that is not what I am saying. appealed to him because of its deeper concern with civil rights and Testimony from Goodman has suggested that con­ Not that simple." anti-war activities. fusion rather than conspiracy led to three events Spock said that he campaigned for Johnson in the presidential (a press conference in New York, a service at the Elaborating on his theory of justifiable law­ elections and that Johnson later telephoned to thank him, spoke Arlington Street Church and a confrontation with the breakers, Coffin said: "They are quite justified humbly and gratefully and that it was, in fact, a little embarassing. Justice Department in Washington) on which the in putting their consciences and allegiances to Spock said he became disenchanted with Johnson when the United States Government has based most of its conscience above their allegiance to the law. President began to escalate the war after the Gulf of Tonkin case. It is something else again if they would not incident. With the war in Vietnam and such subtleties as submit their bodies to the punishment of the He told the agents that the war in Vietnam violated international law. I have in mind the examples of Socrates, law, was immoral and illegal. the Just War Theory ruled out as inadmissible St. Peter, St. Paul, Hus, Wycliffe " According to McKenna, Spock said: evidence, Prosecutor John Wall and leading defense "I will not obey laws that lead to crimes against humanity." lawyer Leonard B. Boudin have resorted to their Question: "Does there come a time.when the evil that McKenna said that Spock compared Vietnam to the atrocities own particular brands of showmanship to influence the actor perceives is so great that he does have a committed by Russia during the suppression of Hungary in 1956 the jury. right, in your estimation, to transgress the civil rights and pointed out that it was the opposition of French youth that Wall accomplishes his purpose with billigererit of others in his opposition to the law?" .took France out of the Algerian War. cross-examinations of defense witnesses and Coffin: "This is the justification for the American Spock, according to McKenna, praised young Americans who hostile innuendoes which are stricken from the Revolution, for instance, yes." were resisting the draft and said: record but probably not from the minds of the Michael Ferber, 23, a graduate student at Harvard "If these men are guilty, I am guilty too. If they go to jail, 12 men who are expected to pass rational University, followed Coffin to the.stand and stated I should go too." judgment on the five who are accused before them. flatly that the Selective Service Act was unconsti­ The day's proceedings ended with a touch of surrealism when Boudin rocks sleepily on his feet, pulls tutional and discriminated against Catholics, Jews, the government magically combined forensic science with pop iheatrically on his lapels, seeks to slide in testi­ and liberals. artistry, produced the blown-up remains of a burned draft card and handed them around the amazed jurors. mony which is patently unacceptable according to "No man should be ordered to fight in a war he The ashes had been collected from a package mailed from the the format of the trial, and in good humor does not believe in," said Ferber, who is represented Arlington Street Church and imprisoned between glass plates. badgers Judge Francis J. W. Ford, who is 84, with by Attorney William P. Homans, Jr. One particular portion of the montage, which prosecutor numerous bench arguments. Occasionally he Ferber delivered a speech (A Time to Say No, " Wall described as a blown-up ash, was brought to the particular demands a mistrial for good measure. BOSTON FREE PRESS, No. 1) at the Arlington attention of the jurors. The Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr., 45, Street Church on October 16, which the prosecution This ash had inscribed upon it PTEZ, space, space 7 space 49. was the first of the defendants to take the stand. claims is one of the overt acts carried out in The card, said Wall, had been traced back to one Philip David He told the court that he had once served three furtherance of the alleged conspiracy. Liptez. years in the Central Intelligence Agency and that Goodman, the third of the defendants to take the At this stage one of the jurors, reacting either to an over- he became convinced that the war in Vietnam stand, in alphabetical order, said in direct examina­ sumptious luncheon or the nature of the evidence, complained of was immoral and unjust after reading everything tion by his attorney, Edward Barshak, that he had a stomach disorder and the trial was hurriedly adjourned until the that had been published about it in English and become committed to opposition to the war in next day. French and after interviewing refugees, returning Vietnam through a great fear of World War III veterans and correspondents. and a knowledge of the great danger to all human Coffin, represented by Attorney James St. Clair, life posed by nuclear weapons. said that he is opposed to the burning of draft cards, He described his increasing involvement in anti­ which he regards as an unnecessarily hostile act, and war activities, including the writing of a paper, that he did not know thafcards would be turned in A Call For Gvil Disobedience Against the War, at the Arlington Street Church when he was invited which was mailed to artists, writers and professional to give a sermon there on October 16. people in the hope of enlisting their support. He said that he had proposed to Goodman that draft Goodman said he approached Coffin to talk resisters should turn in their cards to the Attorney about a possible draft card turn-in in Washington and General in Washington to precipitate a test case. that there were numerous organizational problems A confrontation with Deputy Attorney General before the eventual confrontation took place because John R. McDonough was made on October 20 with "We were rank amateurs." Spock, Coffin, Goodman and Raskin present and At one stage, Goodman said, he called Coffin to McDonough refused to accept the 992 draft cards see if he had sent an operative letter to the Attorney or facsimilies handed to him. General and Coffin said, "Oh my God, I forgot "That is hardly, is it, the action of an oppressive all about it." government seeking to suppress legitimate dissent? ' During Goodman's testimony the judge overruled asked Wall and the question was ordered stricken. an objection by Wall to some evidence of a hearsay Wall, in his cross-examination, asked Coffin nature and was rewarded by a burst of applause what he would think of dissenting Southerners from the audience which was promptly cleared out who obstructed civil rights legislation. of the court to curb its enthusiasm. It returned in Coffin: "I think that a man has to pose himself hushed whispers after the recess. a great many very difficult questions before he The jury, in recent days, seems to have awakened makes a decision as regards the law. For instance, from its somewhat catatonic stupor and watches he would have to ask himself-how great is the with deep interest the performances of Wall and evil 1 oppose? Have 1 exhausted all legal Boudin. remedies? How many other people will I affect One juror has even improved the sartorial greyness I by my acts, here, now, 20 years from how? And, of the others by emerging one day in a green and the fianlly, what he must finally do, and this is what next day in a red sports jacket. Drawings copyright David Omar White Rowland Koefod Page 8 THE RESISTANCE June 15,1968 RESERVISTSTO STOP POOR CAMPAIGN?

Q: Why don't you tell me something about yourself, who you are, where you come from, and things like that? A: My name's Robert Glassman. I presently live in Brighton. • I've been in the Reserves for over two years. I was on active duty trom October 1966 to mid-February 1967. And it was at that time that I decided...well, the first thoughts about trying to get out of the service. Q: What outfit are you with? A: That's the 187th Separate Infantry Brigade of Massachusetts. I belong to the 187th Support Batal- lion which is located in Quincy. Company C. Right now we're undergoing what's called "riot control training." We have scheduled 33 hours of this training coming up over the next week or week and a half. All this training is to be completed by June 16. In addition to the training that goes on at the base, several officers and men from the batallion, and I would assume, other areas in the brigade, are being sent to Fort Eustis (I believe it is) in Virginia for air lift technique training. We have been told... that the reason for this is that the permit on the Poor People's Encampment in Washington runs out on June 16. We have also been told to be prepared to be airlifted anywhere, anytime, during this summer in case of riots. Nothing has been said specifically about Negro riots, or whether its biKiesIMotocyclists] in New Hampshire, whatever it is... however the general feeling is that it has to do with race riots. I myself am going to request permission to not participate in this type of trainina. Whether my commanding officer will allow me to bow out or not is another story. I've called the American Civil Liberties Union on this... I feel that 1 don't want to have to raise a rifle or a butt of a weapon or any other such thing against an American citizen. Q: Could you describe the training for riot control? A: We had our first class, if you want to call it that, thi past Monday evening, and we just discussed generally legal measures, things that could happen to us if we did certain things, and what our rights supposedly as soldiers are, how far we can go and cannot go. We've been told (this is not a joke; that's how it's been ex­ pressed) this is for go, not show. So the training is going to be pretty serious 1 would guess in the sense that our outfit is basically a transportation unit yet a good number of us have been broken down into rifle squads, possibly sniper squads in the future. I am also supposedly the NCO in charge of CBR for my My unit is located in Quincy. I would assume that unit. For those of you who don't know what that active duty for four months, but in that time I More Or less the fellows in the Reserves are happy means, mat means cnemical-biological-radiological our training is to be used against people in this area, to be there, if you could call it being happy, I mean saw quite enough to become quite disenchanted mostly Roxbury residents, in case of any riot. with the military. For instance, when I first went they're pleased that they got in. And they have no de­ warefare. I took a course in this this past summer Over two years ago when I joined the reserves, un­ sire to cause any dissension, to make any trouble, to at Camp Drum. This course basically is given to selected t0 Fort Dix back in 0ctober '6o -before you're fortunately there was no such thing as a resistance, placed in your 1 1 train make any waves. Very little is questioned. It seems members of the units to train them in such things as the "S" * ing outfit you're Boston Draft Resistance Group, or any sort of a that this goes quite through even to the officer's cadre. uses of different types of gas, tear gas, blood gas, kept in an area while they assign you. Pretty nationwide (even though it is a little incoherent) or­ 1 mean, at this meeting Monday night when we first nerve gas. It also deals with biological weapons and close to our area was another encampment ganization to help people in fighting the draft. You started our riot control training, we were told by a which we were told to stay away from. We went in, you were called, classified, and were told it deals with the description of atom bombs, things of major who gave a class that orders had come down to noticed MP's around there quite a bit. Nobody at the Army base that if you caused any trouble you'd tms nature. We saw many interesting films, had many conduct this training. He's a relatively intelligent man, interesting lectures. Among the films were such... really wanted to say what it was about, and I be immediately inducted. Even though I still had finally did speak to one MP and I was told that the several physical problems, I was still classified 1-A. I a lawyer here in Boston. He doesn't question. His we saw one good one on the execution of a goat by commander doesn't question. It seems that orders means of nerve gas...The general feeling throughout compound housed returning Vietnam veterans, attempted to join various programs for OCS and I was fellows who'd just come back, and the problem come down (even, I guess, even in the regular army) this whole lecture..when the reserve officers gave the turned down due to eye-sight. There were only several that they were having with these people was the orders come from somewhere. I don't know where. classes...nobody took anything really too seriously. alternatives; be drafted, or join the reserves, or leave the fact that they were so uptight, and so used A small little group and it's just carried out down the I mean you had to pass the exams and etcetera, the country. I took what some people might think is to living as animals and acting as animals, killing line. Nobody seems to ask any questions. etcetera. However, when we did have once in a while the easiest way out, joined the Reserves. Maybe it was whatever was involved, that they had yet to adjust a case of moral cowardice, I don't know, the fact of The first meeting thaf we had, which was this past regular Army officers, the tone became a little more to somebody walking behind them and it not serious. It seems to me that these men, career men, the matter is I joined. It didn't take me very long to Monday night, we discussed at great length legal pro- being a VC or whatever it is. And what was become unhappy with the situation. . jlems that we might run into in case of a riot. We will I guess they are, seem to take a certain pride in the happening was there were beatings and fact that we have such deadly weapons. We have be given orders on whether to load the weapon or keep robberies and knifings going on, on the post. We were told, in basic training, at AIT, and all throu nerve gasses, blood gasses, choking gasses that can it unloaded and what tactics to use. However, it seems This is an American Post. Fort Dix, one of our my active military service that American troops are in kill you in a matter of seconds. to me, that what everything boils down to is the indiv­ largest training centers. And these were Ameri­ Vietnam fighting for democracy, and fighting for freed idual soldier. It was put in this way; if you're supposed Q: What do you mean by a blood gas? can soldiers. There were no fences up, but you We're fighting for our wives, daughters, grandmothers, to be guarding a liquor store and a crowd is charging, A: I'm not sure if I can describe it exactly. What it were supposed to stay a.vay. There was a danger whatever you want to call it. It seems strange though. then, if you have to, by all means fire. However, if you is though, if I'm not mistaken, is that the gas will involved. I don't know, but I would assume it's Even then I thought "Why is it that it's always some­ are just involved in pushing people back, well you have get into your... well, it's a choking gas. worse now because of the amount of veterans body else's wife, somebody else's mother, somebody to be a little more careful. It seems to be a lot of nuance The gas gets into your lungs. When you inhale it returning. else's child that's shot, burned, napalmed...it's never involved here as to what action you can and can't do. it gets down into your lungs and the foam, or Basic training itself is a very interesting thing. happened to us. Somehow we've always managed to And in the heat of something like a riot, things being whatever it is thats inhaled, takes up the air thats Once again maybe everybody should go through avoid it. Maybe that's what this country needs. Is to thrown and people yelling and screaming, who knows in your lungs* and what you do is you choke to it just to see what it's all about. Right away, as be bombed once, let people see the havoc, the destru­ what can happen. What seems to be the problem is death, usually on your own sputum or whatever soon as you enter and get on that bus and go to ction. that once again the enlisted man will get the shit end it is, just gasping for air. All these gases work your training company you are no longer an People in the regualr army often show dissatisfact­ of the stick. The possibility arises that you can be pro­ pretty similarly. They're colorless, odorless, you individual. The first thing you get is your haircut, your ion, dislike for being in there. When I was on active secuted both in a civilian and a military court for some can't smell them, you can:t feel them, you army haircut, your ninety cent haircut in sixty seconds. duty I spoke to a lot of young fellows, eighteen-nine- act that you might do: can't taste them, you can't see them. I'm This is the first attempt to break you of any individu­ teen years old, high school drop outs, people who'd sure people have read in the newspapers about this We were told something very interesting about the ality and the feeling of difference. After that things left college, fellows who were drafted or enlisted for thing they had in Utah a few months ago, the riots this past summer in Detroit and other areas. It just procède normally as you would expect. You're one reason or another. The draftees didn't really seem destrruction of all these sheep. First thre Army seems as though when the white police were involved, treated....not badly...you get your eight hours sleep, to know why they were there. They'd been drafted denied it andplayed all sorts of games. They the riots continued as they were going...because white your three meals a day, but you really are hurried, and that was it. The fellows who enlisted, from what finally did come out and admit that there was a police were very much associated with white society pushed, and it's all, what can I say. Kill, kill, kill. In they told me they were sold a bill of goods. And that mistake. I don't know if any of these weapons against which these riots were aimed, lt was said that bayonet training you're supposed to scream. Every­ was about it. 1 don't have too much experience with when national guard was brought in, there was a very are being used in Vietnam . 1 know tear gas is thing is aimed towards making you a fighting that. I'm mostly concerned with the Reserve. small amount of rapport between the people and the used. I've never seen it. From what I know it mächine. People in the Reserves generally fall into two cat­ guardsmen....not that much. However, it was stated does go on. Would that be all right to say? egories: either fellows who went to college or grad that when the 82nd Airborne was flown into Detroit, (Sure.) As far as riot control in the regular Army The basic thing I want to talk about now though school, got out, were threatened by the draft and the riots were cut down considerably. One of the from what I understand, classes are given in (I've been digressing a little bit) is this riot control joined, or fellows who joined right after high school reasons we were told this was so that the 82nd Air­ which some of the soldiers are equipped as soldiers training. It seems as though the government's res­ as a way of avoiding the draft. Many of them consider borne, or the Regular Army has had so many Negro and others are dressed up as, whatever you ponse to the Poor People's March is do nothing (this it to be a sort of social club. Very little discipline is soldiers in it that people could associate a little more closely. I really don 't buy that line. I think what hap- want to call it, hippies or longhairs, whatever you is what is apparent) until this permit runs out and enforced. Very little of military courtesy. Anything paned is that the rioters understood that the 82nd would like to say, given wigs and signs to cany. then the order is given "You have to leave" and if of this nature. Very little work seems to get done. Airborne was the regular Army and they weren't about They form up and there's supposedly a protest these people will not leave, either police will try to But it's very difficult to talk to most of them about to screw around, they would fire, shoot, you know, and the rest of the soldiers will go in and break move them out or else troops will be called in. We why they're there, or if they believe that the army might be called in. We've been told to be prepared is right or wrong or if Vietnam is right or wrong. It do whatever they were told. Whereas the police had it up using crowd dispersal formations.practicing to be a little more careful. using the weapons as means of breaking up to move anywhere, anytime this summer. I, myself, seems as though most of them have found a home. the crowds. There is tear gas practice. I've as I said before, I don't feel that 1 want to raise a In other words it's a haven. They avoided the draft In my unit presently there are only two Negro sold­ been gassed three times. (How was that?) weapon against another citizen of this country. and, well, they go away for six months, and that's iers. Both of them are cooks. One of them walked into Oh Basic Training... every basic trainee has to go It seems as though this type of training, this pre­ it. Very few of them seem to worry about whether the lecture that was being given, and previous to when paredness, is typical of the government's attempt they'll be called up again to go to Vietnam. It doesn't he had walked in there was an air of informality and through the gas house. It's a very interesting at opression, repression what ever you want to call seem to cross their minds. They're not really inter­ experience. 1 was also gassed at summer camp. joking. However, when he came into the room there was it. All one has to do is look around. People being ested. The fellows have careers, wives, jobs, and they Only with tear gas. I guess they really don't a certain uneasiness that settled over the group. dragged out of sanctuary (of course sanctuary isn't really don't want to know about anything else. They want to use anything a little more deadly. It seems that fellows in the Reserves don't quite un­ a legal thing) draft resisters, fellows in the service are in, and they'll do their six years, and that's that. But 1 think maybe everybody should be gassed derstand what can happen to them in case they are who are trying to get out, the Spock trial, the O'Brien And if you say anything to any of them....I've shown once.Be very interesting. People really don't called up for something like a riot in Washington. One people a copy of Professor Zinn's book, I've had cop­ realize whit tear gas can do to you. It can thing. We talk about fascism in government and it fellow remarked to me that he wouldn't mind going to really just immobolize you, fantastically, if your seems as though...what is this government we have ies of the Resistance with me on week-ends, and 1 Washington. It'd be a nice trip. They don't seem to un­ not prepared for it. I'd like to just rap a while now? You cannot dissent. You cannot protest. Only was called a Communist once by some fellow. And I derstand that if they are sent there they might have, to about experiences in the Army. I was only on wthin the boundaries of the law. Now if the law is reminded him that he also was in the Reserves and go into action, who knows what kind of action, against wrong, then what are you supposed to do? was therefore as much of a draft dodger as I was. citizens of this country.

* THE RESISTANCE June 15,1968 Page 9 Tribal Model Toward Leadership

/. "PowerSeekers"and "Responsibility Takers." cannot order or compel jnyone. to do anything.- They are elected to this political office. They have influence Power does tend to corrupt. The politicians of our only to the extent that they are recognized as honest, nation are "power seekers". Our political system, despite intelligent and articulate spokesmen for their local the myth of democracy, is a bifurcated one made up of territorial groups. They set the agendas for council leaders and the led. Our leaders are men of limited meetings and lead the meetings by calling upon various integrity and/or misguided moralism and self-righteous­ elders to speak. They will summarize, at relevant ness. Their proverbial willingness to compromise and moments, the trend of the discussion and articulate to "reason together" does tend, as our political scientists the final "sense of the meeting" or "consensus" when never tire of telling us, to help our political system it has been reached. They are expected to travel function. But we in the resistance movement are periodically around their district to gather news, hear committed to repudiating that system, to finding a more cases and settle disputes, and generally to see if must be operative. First, there is a thoroughly shared, humane and human way of ordering our collective exist­ community affairs are functioning satisfactorily. and deeply ingrained, set of values about the way de­ ence. Therefore, we ought to understand that we are cisions ought to be made, i.e. egaiitanan-pariicipaiory In the Resistance, we have seen "spokesmen" engaged in a political struggle which demands coordi­ as opposed to authoritarian-bureaucratic. Secondly, emerge. They tend to act in many ways similar to nation and leadership. To speak of social change is to the ability to reach such a general consensus is based the Masai spokesmen. They help to set agendas, run be ready to contemplate alternatives, alternatives which on the bonds of kinship and extended kinship (all age- meetings, etc. We have sent out our "teams"to the promise to both achieve our goals and to continually mates are "brothers") of economic inter-dependence and boondocks outside the office. reaffirm our values by working toward these goals in of the ties of locality and neighborhood. Out of these But all of this, for us, has been only implicit, only a manner appropriate tec who we are and what we hope shared ties and values comes the quality of being able half-articulated and half- or barely-recognized. We to become. Simply, our leadership must be one com­ to really "speak each others' language" and a commit­ must clearly recognize that we have a "leadership" prised of "responsibility takers", not "power seekers". ment to talk, talk, talk. Every Masai elder may speak and that we ought not to be hung up about thinking At the Resistance office, I have for the first time in council, most do. The meeting will continue until we shouldn't have one. We ought to formalize this seen a kind of participatory democracy which stands all feel they can agree—everyone recognizes that the de facto situation to the extent of making such in stark contrast to the kind of politics we in the U.S. appropriate decision has been made. If this requires spokesmen visible and known to all of our "tribe". have been programmed to accept as natural. The re­ two days they meet for two days, If they must meet No Masai ever wants to become a spokesman. These luctance to take a formal vote on issues, the "sense of again in a week's time they will. And so on. are real "non-candidates" who, if they hear that they the meeting" and the informal staff or steering committee At the Resistance we must recognize that a "sense are to be chosen for this office, often flee their home meetings are the concrete manifestations of our "New of the meeting" will be a phony and imperfect sub­ district. The office is one for a "responsibility taker"; Left mood". I dig it. We should retain it. But we stitute for consensus unless we commit ourselves to there are virtually no (successful) power seekers ought to realize that the nature of the struggle con­ talk, talk, talk. As for shared values and bonds, much amongst the Masai. So is it, I think, with the fronting us is beginning to make demands upon us that already exists. Our collective rite de passage does form Resistance. Further, no Masai spokesman would ever require a more articulated organization. There is a a bond for many of us. Many of us have surely felt dare to speak for, or to act in the name of, his local non-bureaucratic model which seems to offer some the impulse to call fellow resisters and resister-sisters group unless he had already received their sanction to hints to achieving this goal. It is provided by the "brother" or "sister". Though still mainly unspoken, I do so before the .reaching of consensus in the local political systems of traditional Black Africa. In par­ believe many of us share parallel orientations toward council. This, too, should be our goal. ticular, I will make reference to the Masai, the people politics and interpersonal relationships. Those of us, with whom I am most familiar (having spent 14 months like myself, who are seeking to, in some sense, share our 4. Some Specific Suggestions. doing doctoral research amongst this pastoral people lives in Resistance co-ops with others in the movement of Kenya and Tanzania). may be helping to lav the secure foundations for the 1. We ought to elect leaders. kinds of ties and gut-level understandings which will 2. "Sense of the Meeting" and "Consensus". help to make "consensus" decision-making a realizable 2. The disease of bureaucracy and the "power medium for organizing our collective struggle to build seeker" can be attacked, not merely by an initial Anyone who has studied pre-literate societies would something true and, therefo're, beautiful in the way of and organically developing commitment to true see a striking similarity between the refusal to take participatory democracy, but by the determination political community. But the Masai elders' councils do formal votes and reliance on the "sense of the meeting" of "leaders" and other "active" members of the not work without an element which I have not yet Resistance to strive for some fair degree of role which permeates the Resistance and the "consensus" touched upon—the element of "leadership." decision-making which characterized traditional African interchangeability. Specifically, everyone who works societies such as the Masai. The Masai elders' councils 3. "Spokesmen" not "Chiefs". around the office for some fair proportion of their time ought to try to learn how the office "works"—who will discuss an issue until "everybody" agrees. There is Despite the thorough-going egalitarianism of the no formal vote taken—there is (ordinarily) no need for is doing what, where things are kept, who to contact Masai, they do have "leaders". They are called "spokes­ about what subjects, etc. All people who come to head one. But the consensus is and must be real. For the men" and not "chiefs". I am not merely playing, with Masai to operate in this fashion a number of factors up certain programs should have at least one trusted words here. These men have no "authority", i.e. they assistant so conversant with the project that the ab­ sence of the "leader" or "project head" would not seriously disrupt the program. 3. Just as the Masai, we can think about estab­ emotional demands of the new prisoners. Such jobs lishing some kind of regularized (and recognized) George Jalbert and John Phillips of the Prisoners' means for making "crisis" decisions for those times Information and Support Service met with repre­ would include teaching assistantships at the prisons, work on research projects, etc. when the normal channels of consensus discussion sentatives of the Federal Bureau of Prisons recently and decision-making cannot be used. For example, in Washington. The purpose of our meeting was to It should be obvious to even the most casual ob­ server that the Bureau is uneasy in its role as guardian we might have some designated "executive commit­ pin down rumors that the Bureau has been consider­ tee," some proportion of whom could make a decision ing special plans for accomodating an anticipated of political prisoners. The Bureau is trying to discover ways of dealing with us that will cause them the least in an "emergency" situation. increase in the number of draft law violators in the anxiety and embarassment. But.what they are proposing near future. Conclusion has an air of "selectivity" and "channeling" about it that The tension that exists between the desire for We learned that there is indeed a good deal of reminds one of another unbearable social institution. The "openness', "participatory democracy", playfulness, speculation going on in the Bureau at this time, fact that the Bureau is thinking in these terms reflects and the seriousness of our commitment and magnitude though no definite plans have been approved yet. the real threat that they feel we would pose to the of our struggle are very real. To keep our New Left One idea being entertained by liberal elements within continued smooth operation of the prison system. We "thing" is, to me, as important as being "efficiently the Bureau would set up special camps "along the ought to be aware that behind every offer of privileged organized" or "effective". It is only our desire to see lines of P.O.W. camps," for political prisoners. Such or protected status there is usually a desire to blunt an that ends continue to flow from means that offer us camps would be self-governing for the most part, and effective challenge to the system: this is the way the 2-S the chance to really achieve a different, more human the idea that delights the liberals is that in such a and 1-0 worked in the past. We should also realize that life-style. These thoughts have been offered with the setting, the "cream of American youth" would escape too often the attraction in the "privileged status" is pretty aspiration for such a life-style in mind. As we work, the damaging encounters with other prisoners that they much of a fraud. In the case in point, the fraud lies in life, and struggle together I hope we can in some * ink is the worst aspect of the prison experience. A the notion that the worst thing about the prison experience loye Qne anQther In doing t ilow who was sitting in on our discussion seemed to is exposure to other convicts. The fact is that the things hink that the camps could even be the proper medium so we risk much. Not only the confrontation with that are really wrong with prison would all exist in the prison but the physical violence we may increasingly îeaningful social experimentation, possibly in proposed special camps: isolation, restriction, boredom, encounter. Not only a personal challenge and appre- i v >ping a basis for communities in the post-prison uniformity, deprivation, discipline. Some cages are more hensiveness and fear, but the pain of being separated i The main roadblock to such a plan is, it seems, comfortable than others, but they are cages nonetheless. from "brothers" and "sisters" and feeling the pain of erability of such a set-up to sabotage-from-within their pain. But this is a risk we must take. For this tactics that would be "embarassing" to the Bureau George Jalbert and John Phillips of P.I.S.S. have risk comes only from the willingness we have to really ;s pot parties, bringing women into the camp, and served eighteen months and fourteen months, share with one another, to go beyond the corrosive, Cfther vue ideas. respectively, for draft refusal. They have recently limiting individuality of an ego outside of community. To er sure against such ar?use of privilege, a number of been reclassified 1-A by their local boards. Accord- ideas are being thrown about. One is a "screening" ing to the Draft Law Group at Yale University, To do "your own thing" and to do the "Resistance process by which potential troublemakers (i.e. organizers) the 1967 draft law makes it virtually mandatory for thing" will naturally grow together for many of us. would be eliminated from the camps and distributed as local boards to call draft ciolators for induction again To put all this "jazz" down on paper about thinly as possible throughout the regular institutions now after their release from prison, and places pressure on organization, etc. is necessary. But what it is really in existence. Another would reserve the camps for lie Department of Justice to prosecute new violations. all about is how we must hang together, dig each Jehovah's Witnesses exclusively. A third would recquire Since the Korean War, no one has been incarcerated for other, laugh and crv together and fuck up and never a contractual agreement by which the prisoner would agre a repeated draft violation, though several have refused quite get organized but do "the thing" each alone to restrain his disruptive impulses while in prison in return induction a second time, and all together. These thoughts are offered with for the privilege of staying at the camps. por first-hand information about federal prison condi- the affection that grows from the new-found On a different level entirely is a second proposal for r,ons wrfte t0 tne Prisoners' Information and Support excitement, energy and wonder of being a member dealing with the expected influx of political prisoners Service, P.O. Box 387, B.U. Station, Boston, Massachu- of this unfathomably beautiful, bumbling-effective (now even referred to by that term): that of creating a settSi 02215. assortment of real people. large number of new jobs geared to the intellectual and -Howard Banow Page 10 THE RESISTANCE June 15,1968 state his intentions never again to coop­ NATIONAL erate with the military. He left before any­ NEW YORK" TRIALS HONOR ROLL one could take his name for follow-up purposes, however. NEW YORK (LNS)—A member of (LNS)— "The draft résister NEWS Another G.I. from the same base, who The Resistance was tried for is a 20th century American CATHOLICS FILE SUIT FOR didn't speak at the forum, did get in touch the first time on a draft hero," reads a sign on a CO. RECOGNITION with the Resistance afterwards, and vowrH charge in the U.S. Federal resistance picket line. not to go back to the base at all. V Court covering New York According to the Federal SAN FRANCISCO, May 15 (LNS-SCN)-A consultation with a sympathetic attune, , City on May 6. Judge Bureau of Prisons, there were group of Roman Catholic priests and stu­ he concluded that to be forced to run is to Frederick Van Pelt Bryan be controlled as much as to be forced to 781 draft law violators in dents have filed suit in a San Francisco (a trustee of Columbia submit, so he returned to the base with the federal prison population federal court asking that: 1) draft boards University) presided at the be stopped from refusing to exempt Cath­ plans to declare his dissociation with dig­ 'in the month of February. olics who claim to.be conscientious ob­ nity sometime in the near future. trial of Joseph Paul Stewart, On April 11 Donald B. 21, on the single charge of jectors to a particular war, and 2) an in­ BERKELEY- On May 17 the Campus Draft Pratt, 23, and Joseph T. junction be handed down preventing the refusing induction. \ulloy, 23, cere given the Opposition in Berkeley staged a "Vietnam Commence­ The prosecutor, Asst. prosecution of young men now declared ment" on the steps of Sproul Hall to honor 868 maximum penalty of five years delinquent by their draft boards on these young men, most of them Berkeley students, who had J. . *ttorney John Roland in prison and a $10 ,"000 fine grounds. pledged to refuse tojerve in the armed forces during Robinson, stated that he for refusing induction. The The suit rests on the fact that it is part the war in Vietnam. The event itself, conducted had to prove only three sentences w%re handed down of Catholic doctrine that certain wars or before 6,000 people, was impressive, as were the points to prove his case by federal judge James Gordon methods of warfare are sinful while leaving numbers involved. beyond a reasonable doubt: in Louisville, "y. Gordon the decision as to which wars fall into Following the Vietnam Commencement, the first, that the défendent has a son serving in Vietnam. these categories up to the individual's con­ Resistance staged a modest ceremony at the was registered; second, science. Priests involved argue that, since Both men plan an appeal, but Pacific School of Religion chapel on May 19. Richard that he was duly classified were imprisoned nonetheless the Catholic Church puts forth as doctrine Shaull, co-author of Containment and Change, spoke and ordered to report for because the judge set bail at that certain wars are sinful and since se­ before a small gathering, and Boalt Hall law student lective conscientious objection is not re­ induction; and third, that $10,000 each. Dan Siegel, and Ron Parker, a P.S.R. student, turned he refused to submit to cognized by the Selective Service System in their draft cards. Mulloy, 'ho has been org­ induction as ordered. The as legitimate, the priests must counsel re­ This modest event seems to be part of an emerging anizing poor whites in Appala- sistance to young men whose consciences pattern. The Resistance is not planning another defense attorney, Bruce Clark, chia with the Southern Confer­ bring them to object to the Vietnam war nationwide draft card turn-in until November 14, but r.rgued that the defendant had ence Education Fund (SCEF), and this act makes the priests federal felons across the country - May 19 in Berkeley, May 20 in not been duly classified, since :'.s a pacifist who filed for for carrying out their religious duties. New York City, May 22 in Chicago, May 28 in East he was a Conscientious Objector CO. status. Pratt is a At present, the only churches in which Lansing, Mich, and San Jose, and elsewhere - men and the beard which classified leader of anti-war activities doctrine is considered by the Selective Ser­ are coming forward in ones and twos, tens and him I-A tailed to consider in Kentucky. Both men are vice System to define a member as a con­ twenties, to continue the necessary and unconditional this evidence. scientious objector are the Quaker, Men- confrontation with the Selective Service System. married. nonite, and Brethren Churches. The clerk of Stewart's On April 26, SNCC field Five of the Catholics filingsui t are draft PALO ALTO - Members of the Palo Alto Resistance local board testified. He secretary Cleveland Sellers resisters. have organized a summer caravan which will make revealed that at the Dec. 11 was sentenced to five years BERKELEY (LNS-SCN) SCN has just dis­ an extended tour of California during the coming meeting of the board, when by federal judge Newel Eden- covered that long-time member of the summer. The caravan will include a rock band Stewart was classified I-A, Cield in Atlanta, Ga. Berkeley Resistance, David Axelrod refused ("The Fool"), films, flowers, tapes, guerilla theatre, the five members of the board Sellers plans an appeal but to report for induction on March 20. literature, laughs, and speakers from The Resistance '"duly processed" 187 cases Judge Edenfield refused to According to David, he was neither aware and other movement groups. It will leave the Bay during their two hours and set an appeal bond. of nor greatly concerned about this event. Area on about June 16 and proceed through the forty minutes of meeting time, Christopher Kearns, < In another induction refusal at the Oak­ Central Valley to San Diego, and from there up the ::.n average of 55 seconds per coast to the Bay Area, arriving home around 1-0 who refused alternate land Induction Center, David Mandel re­ person. The defense attorney ported for induction handcuffed to his July 30. The caravan is open to any résister or service last spring, has also pointed out that only chick, who vowed; "If he goes, I go." other person in the movement who feels that he has pleaded guilty in Newark, four of the five board mem­ Apparently this strategy worked, because something to say. Those interested or able to make ,.J. Federal Court, and is bers voted on Stewart's classi­ in less than an hour the two emerged from a financial contribution can get in touch with the now waiting to be sentenced. fication, contrary to regu-r the- Induction Center-still linked and Palo Alto Resistance, 424 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto Chris publicly burned his SMILING! This lovely occasion took place (phone: 327-3108). lations. draft card May 1, 196 7 at on April 24. They are both still smiling, BAY AREA INDUCTION REFUSALS' INDICTMENTS- according to last reports. Judge Bryan declined to a rally in Union Square, TRIALS make a ruling and ordered the but has never been charged for that act of resistance. NEW YORK, May 15 (LNS)-John Sum- Roger Powelson of Berkeley refused induction on lawyers to file briefs and rail, a 22-year-old civil rights worker and May 8 to the tune of a celebration of life outside the to reply to them. Stewart, Also in Newark Federal native Mississippian, is one of the latest induction center...Dale Klemm, an original member of who is free on bail, was Court, non-registration victims of punitive draft action. In the the Fresno Resistance, refused on May 9. He had greeted by friends in the charges against Jeff Mock early '60s, John was deeply involved with heard about his induction order while attending the courtroom. were dropped when the court CORE and became a leader in the Meridian national meeting at Lake Geneva...Donald (Eric) had him registered against desegregation and voter registration move­ Boyd, an April 3rd résister from Berkeley, refused on Head of N.H.Board his will. ment. Later he organized for the Mississippi May 15, and afterwards his Texas draft board cancelled Carl J. Hinke, a high Freedom Democratic Party and was one of Quits in Protest the induction order... On May 22 Steve Friedland of school student formerly the activais who spurred the MFDP chal­ Berkeley and Bob Langfelden. a key member of the to War lenges in Atlantic City in 1964 and in the The chairman of local board 17 in New of New Jersey and now of Santa Barbara Resistance, refused induction in the New York Resistance, halls of Congress in 1965. He next helped Oakland in the comparry of around 75 support Hampshire quit his job in protest to the Viet­ to found and organize the Child Develop­ arnounced his refusal to demonstrators. At least 3 other men refused on the nam war on Friday May 31. Roscoe N. Coburn, ment Group of Mississippi, the state's first 70, a two-term Republican State Representa­ register. He turned 18 antipoverty program. John is presently 22nd, and resisters leafleting the Oakland Induction tive from Milford, declared he "will have no on April 30, and went to working to organize the cooperative move­ Center report that three or four men refused on the 23rd. Two of them showed up at the S.F. office further part in sending another son to service the U.S. Marshal's office ment in Greenwood, drawing poverty-level in Newark on May 6 to pre­ wages. soon after refusing...Wayne Green's induction, in Asia." scheduled for May 22, has been postponed until sent his non-registration Since he became involved in the move­ late June. Seven Hundred statement along with the ment, John has been jailed (and beaten) Greg Gregory, a San Anselmo seminarian who 1-A Files Destroyed complicity statement of repeatedly. According to usual draft board refused induction on January 10, was indicted on over a hundred supporters, practice, a lengthy jail record renders the May 15. Dan Due of S.F., who refused to report A young couple walked into the Selective 35 of whom came with him. draftee "morally unfit for military service." for alternative service in March 1967, was indicted Service Office on the 11th floor of the Cus­ Under selective service laws he should have On June 6, 'oshua on May 22. So far as we know, these are the toms House on May 5 and poured two quarts received a 1-Y classification. "Instead," as Kricker will announce his first indictments of Bay Area Resistance members of black paint over the files in four drawers. Donald W. Jackson of the John Sumrall refusal of registration to since David Harris was indicted on January 31. • Over seven humdred 1-A files were destroyed Legal Defense Committee writes, "the the State Selective Service David Harris's trial began on Monday, May 27... according to Paul Feeney, deputy director of Mississippi draft system has singled John Director in Now York. Vince O'Connor's trial has been postponed until the Selective Service. The files were those of out as a model for punitive use of the draft His brother-in-law, Jon —a model obviously intended to show to June 17. men in the Charlestown and North and South Stephens, was released Black youth all over the state that in­ Bob Rusk's sentencing occurred on May 15. Judge End areas. Zirpoli sentenced him to two years of alternative from prison for draft volvement in the movement does not pay." In the same breath Feeney said the act service under the jurisdiction of the court. The refusal last year. John's case is now before the Fifth general feeling was that, in Bob's case at least, and "didn't require much courage," but that if ap­ Circuit Court of Appeals. Harold Cox and within obvious limits, Zirpoli was quite sympathetic. prehended the couple could face a prison term J.P. Coleman, two of the three judges on With the courts finally beginning to dispose of and a heavy fine. Rev. Philip F. Berrigan, a HONOLULU TURN-IN the court, are ardent white supremicists. the 110 cases before them now, it may be that Roman Catholic priest, received a six year we'll see many more indictments in the next few prison term for spilling blood on board rec­ The formation of "Anony­ NEW YORK, May 15 (LNS-NY)-Art Gold­ months. ords last fall. berg, 19, was called in for his draft mous Resistance," a group physical on May 15, and wouldn't give ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Draft Resistance has a opposed to the war in the Selective Service people that little bot­ new address: c/o R. Freer, 750 Westgate, St. Louis, MORMONS FILE SUIT Vietnam and to the Selec­ tle of piss they like to collect from all Missouri 63130. SALT LAKE CITY (LNS): A suit tive Service System,was their victims. Over a hundred people were present at the challenging the draft has announced at a rally held Finally Goldberg was forced to spend Induction Center in downtown St. Louis for Louis been filed against the United April 26 at the University Wehrmeyer when he refused induction on April 27 the night at Fort Hamilton, in Brooklyn, States and the State of Utah. of Hawaii. About 350 and for Ron Levy's induction refusal on May 24. with new inductees, medical personnel, It was entered by James persons attended the and soldiers, including a sergeant detailed Dr. Benjamin Spock appeared in St. Louis on faculty-student rally, April 28 and 29. Dr. Spock, Jim Rollins (the Austin Imus, a student at to capture any piss Goldberg might decide ,/hich culminated with one to let loose for a urine analysis test. other co-chairman of the NCNP), and Rich Freer the University of Utah, in (head of St. Louis Draft Resistance) addressed the name of all Selective student burning his draft An Army officer finally told Goldberg card and another burning that he would be held by the Army for an enthusiastic crowd at a St. Louis University Service registrants in three days, and if he had not provided a rally. Dr. Spock then visited a Be-In in Forest Utah. The suit claims illegal his army induction orders. specimen by the end of that time he would Park and later attended a banquet of St. Louis action by Local Board 38, be catherized. By the afternoon of May 16 Doctors For Peace. At a press conference at jUestions the Constitution­ SDS DRAFT SUIT Goldberg decided that he had been suc­ thé Peace Information Center, Dr. Spock got a ality of the Vietnam War, cessful in getting his point across, and after couple of threatening phone calls on a radio show, thereafter the police accompanied him in public. charges "preferential treat­ CHICAGO (LNS)— Students getting another free lunch out of the Army, ment" to "Members «of the for a Democratic Society '< gave them what they wanted and split. CHICAGO (LNS): Sixty per Church of Jesus Christ of baez at a concert held here May 18th. The (SDS) is proceeding with • new Mrs. Harris took time out in the mid­ cent of graduating seniors Lattar-Day Saints" (Mormon), its collective suit agaii dle of her first set to state a brief out­ and first year graduate denial of due process of the draft. This is a line of the position she and her husband students at the University law, and specifies that the delaying tactic to aid take concerning the draft, the war, the of Chicago will refuse to issues "are of common and draft resisters by involv­ presidency, etc., and to invite the audience participate in the war in general interest to all ing them in court action to attend an open forum to be held in a Vietnam, according to a poll ^Selective Service registrants and thus holding up local park the following afternoon. The taken by the Student in the State of Utah in Selective Service action. topics, she said, would be the Brotherhood Government. exactly the same way as this of Man, Non-Violence, "and related sub­ ' DS is seeking 10,000 jects. And we find we can relate just about The poll shows that 46.1 plaintiff is affected." draft-age men to become anything to that," she added. Later in the per cent of the seniors and . The suit notes that plaintiffs. For further same set, "Carry It On" was dedicated 44.8 per cent of the "missionaries of the Church information and a retainer "to the members of the Tucson Draft Re­ graduate students replying of Jesus Christ of Latter-nay form write to SDS, 1608 sistance, ... all seven of them." will refuse to be inducted Saints are deferred from the W. Madison, Chicago, 111. Joan, David, and Ira Sandperl, as well into the armed services. Of draft as duly ordained or 60612. as Bradley Littlefield and David Rehfield those who will serve, 7.8.9 •regular ministers of religion" of the TDR, spoke to ?n sttentwé cowd per cent of the seniors and and protests that such action of about 400 in the rimmel Par* ampi- 32.4 per cent of the graduate violates due process of law theater Sunday, the 19th. Baskets that students will refuse to go and the First Amendment. were passed for contributions turned up to Vietnam if ordered. two sets of registration and classification THE RESISTANCE June 15, 1968 Page 11 ATIMETOSAYNO Sermon by MICHAEL FERBER inches of ground. It will mean people dedicating their lives and possibly losing them for a cause we can only Service of Acceptance partly define and whose outcome we can only guess at. Arlington Street Church We must say Yes to the long struggle ahead or this ser­ 16 October, 1967 vice will be a mockery. We are brought to a third difference among us. Earlier We are gathered in this church today in order to do today Nick Egleson spoke out against the kind of resis­ something very simple: to say No. We have come from tance whose primary motivation is moralistic and personal many different places and backgrounds and we have many rather than political. He is saying that we must make different ideas about ourselves and the world, but we have ourselves relevant to the social and political condition of come here to show that we are united to do one thing: the world and must not just take a moral posture for our to say No. Each of our acts of returning our draft cards own soul's sake, even though that too is a risk. is our personal No; when we put them in a single con­ To some extent this argument depends on terminology tainer or set fire to them from a single candle we express rather than fact. Today we have heard our situation de­ the simple basis of our unity. scribed in religious terms, moral terms, political terms, But what I wish to speak about now is what goes be­ legal terms, and psychological terms. Very few of us are yond our saying No, for no matter how loudly we all say at home in all these different modes of speech, and each it, no matter what ceremony we perform around our say­ of us habitually uses only one of them to talk and think ing it, we will not become a community among ourselves in. But what is happening today should make it clear that nor effective agents for changing our country if a negative these different modes of speech, all overlap one another is all we share. Albert Camus said that the rebel, who and they often all say the same essential things. Albert says no, is also one who says Yes, and that when he Camus, who struggled in a more serious Resistance than draws a line beyond which" he will refuse to cooperate he ours, believed that politics is an extension of morality, is affirming the values on the other side of that line. For that the truly moral man is engaged in politics as a natu­ us who come here today, what is it that we affirm, what ral outcome of his beliefs. is it to which we can say Yes? To be honest we have to admit that we in the Resis­ To return to Nick's concern, the real difference is not between the moral man and the political man, but be­ tance still disagree about a great marry things, whether tween the man whose moral thinking leads him to poli­ we speak out about them or not. For example, here we tical action and the man whose moral thinking leads him all are in a church, and yet for some of us it is the first no farther than to his own "sinlessness." It is the differ­ time we've been inside one for years. Here we are re­ something to which we can say Yes. ence between the man who is willing to dirty himself There is another disagreement among us, or if not a ceiving the help of many clergymen, and yet some of us in the outside world and the man who wishes to stay disagreement then a difference in attitude toward what feel nothing but contempt for the organized religions that "clean" and "pure." they represent. Some of us, therefore, feel a certain hy­ we are doing today. It is a difference that cuts through pocrisy in being part of this service. the other differences, perhaps because it is a little inside Now this kind of "sinlessness" and "purity" is arrogant But it would not surprise me if many of the clergymen each of us, and it leads to a mistake that we are liable pride, and I think we must say No to it. The martyr who who are here today feel some of the same contempt for to make no matter how else we agree or differ. In reli­ offers himself meekly as a lamb to the altar is a fool un­ less he has fully taken into account the consequences of organized religion that our unreligious or anti-religious gious terms, it is to dwell too much on the possibility of his sacrifice not only to himself but to the rest of the brothers feel. They know better than we do the long and the Apocalypse; in political terms, it is to dwell too much world. We cannot honor him for his stigmata or his pur­ bloody history of evils committed in the name of religion, on the possibility of a Utopian Society. We must not con­ ple hearts unless he has helped the rest of us while he the long history of compromise and Erastian subservience fuse the ceremony and symbolism of today's service with got them. to political power, the long history of theological hair­ the reality that we are only a few hundred people with splitting and the burning of heretics, and they feel more very little power. And we must not confuse the change So then what are we to do? We must look at ourselves deeply than we do the hypocrisy of Sunday (or Saturday) inside each of us, important though that may be, with the once more. We all have an impulse to purification and morning. Perhaps the things that made some of us leave change that we have yet to bring about in this country martyrdom and we should not be ashamed of it. But let the church are the very things that made some of them and the world. Neither the Revelation nor the Revolution us be certain that we have thought through the conse­ become ministers, priests, and rabbis, the very things that is at hand, and to base our hopes and plans on them quences of our action in the outside world, and that these bring them here today. Many of them will anger their would be a tragic blunder. consequences are what we want to bring about. Let us superiors or their congregations by being here but they make sure we are ready to work hard and long with each Maybe all of us—Leftists or Liberals, Reformers or Rev­ are here anyway. other in the months to come, working to make it difficult olutionaries, Radical Religionists or Hippies—maybe all and politically dangerous for the government to prosecute There Is a great tradition within the church and syna­ of us are apocalyptarians, I don't know. Surely something us, working to help anyone and everyone to find ways of gogue which has always struggled against the conserva­ else besides a cold rational calculation of sociological avoiding the draft, to help disrupt the workings of the tive and worldly forces Jthat have always been in control. options has brought us here to this church. And surely draft and the armed forces until the war is over. Let us It is a radical tradition, a tradition of urgent impulse to we are in this church partly to celebrate the occasion of make sure we can form a community. Let us make sure go to the root of the religious dimension of human life. our noncooperation (and many of us will celebrate in a we can let others depend on us. This tradition in modern times has tried to recall us to somewhat different way at parties with friends tonight). the best ways of living our lives: the way of love and But let us not be deceived. The sun will rise tomorrow If we can Yes to these things, and to the religious compassion, the way of justice and respect, the way of as it does every day, and when we get out of bed the tradition that stands with us today, and to the fact that facing other people as human beings and not as abstract world will be in pretty much the same mess it is in today. today marks not the End but a Beginning, and to the long representatives of something alien and evil. It tries to re­ American bombers will continue to drop incendiary bombs hard dirty job ahead of us—if we can say Yes to all this, call us to the reality behind religious ceremony and sym­ on the Vietnamese people and American soldiers will con­ then let us come forward together to say No to the United States government. bolism, and it will change the ceremony and symbolism tinue to "pacify" their villages. The ghettos will continue when the reality changes. to be rotten places to live in. Black and Mexican farm Then let our Yes be the loudest No our government As a part of this service we will break bread together. workers will continue to get miserable wages. America's ever heard. We do this, however, not because some churches happen schools will continue to cripple the minds and hearts of to take Communion; we do this for one of the root reasons its pupils. And the American Selective Service System will continue to send young men out to the slaughter. In Cleveland, Ohio, at the annual national for Communion itself: that men around the world and for convention of the Unitarian Universalist Associ­ all time have found it good to eat together when they are Today is not the End. Today is the Beginning. sharing in something important ation, A Time to Say No received the UUA This is the Beginning because, very simply, we have to Skinner award for the best sermon on Social The radical tradition is still alive: it is present here in dig in for the long haul. It is not going to be easy to Action. This was on the same day that Prosecutor change this country. To change it is going to mean strug­ this church. Those of us who disregard organized reli­ John Wall entered the speech into evidence at gion, I think, are making a mistake if they also disregard gles and anguish day in and day out for years. It will this tradition and its presence today. This tradition is mean incredible efforts at great human cost to gain a few the Spock, Ferber &c. trial. High Court Hears Punitive Reclassification Case As the trial of the "Boston Five" opened Monday, the US Supreme Court granted a writ of certeriori in the case of a divinity student and résister from the Oct. 16 draft card turn-in at Arlington St. Church, The civil suit was filed by the American Civil Liber­ ties Union on behalf of James Oestereich, a student at. Andover-Newton Theological School, who was reclassified 1-A on Nov. 7, 1967, after returning his 4-D exemption. The case is expected to be heard during the next term of the Court in the fall. . Oestereich was ordered for induction Feb. 26 and re­ ceived a last-minute injunction postponing the induction until the case was decided. Monday's action followed the loss of appeal from the tenth circuit court of ap­ t peals in Denver where the suit was rejected on Feb. 22. Since then the case has been tied up in Washington Court's ruling. In this way, resisters would not face in a dispute between Soliciter General Erwin Griswold prosecution for six months or a year. The Justice and Selective Servie* Director Lewis Hershey. Gris- Dept. however, is expected to argue that the Court's wald contended that the Selective Service could not re­ ruling pertains only*to ministerial exemptions, not classify Oestereich because the 4-D is a statutory de­ student deferments, or other classifications. ferment granted by Congress. He recommended that the Oestereich, who presently works full-time for the résister be given a Federal hearing in his home state New England Resistance, was contacted by the Free of Wyoming. Hershey maintained that the Selective Ser­ Press in the sanctuary of the Arlington St. Church. vice could reclassify dissenters as punishment without At news of the ruling, he said: "The exact political a civil court hearing. meaning of such cases to our battle against the poli­ The Supreme Court's decision could have widespread cies of this country's government is unclear at this political consequences. For example, other resisters time. But there is no question that we are beginning . who have been ordered up for induction as a result of to lay some deep cracks in the archaic judicial struc­ turning-in their cards could initiate similar suits tures which are used to bolster the illegitimate auùh- and have their call-ups postponed pending the Supreme ority of America's power elite." Page 12 THE RESISTANCE June 15,1968 MOVER INTERVIEWED

This piece was done\ At that point I just wanted to get out. A guy on June 2, a day before FBI agents entered from the Resistance came over to pay the $50 the sanctuary and carried away Ron Moyer cash, and the U.S. Commissioner asked him if and Tony Ramos. Taped, transcribed, he had a draft card, and he zoomed out of the off edited, and typed by Don Bobo, Keith office and went to get someone else. By that Maillard, Alex Jack, Barrie Thome, and time it was 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and I Ann Rigsby. was back downstairs in the bullpen and a guy came over with the money. But the Commissioner said, "I am closed today.*^You will have to wait until tomorrow." I went back to jail. Q: Could you tell us something about yourself, Wltile 1 was in jail, one of the U.S. Marshals comes by your background, who you are, where you come from, and says, "Did we kick your ass at the Pentagon or did things like that? we kick your ass. Boy we like to kick your ass at the Pentagon." And I said to him, "Do you like to beat up A: When I graduated from high school in 1962,1 women?" And he said to me, "If you were in Russia, think I would classify myself as a John Bircher, at least very close to that anyway. I went to school at they would kill you." And I said, "If I was in Russia, Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, and took part I know where you would be, in the state police." in the thing of the day which was fraternities, the Then I realized I was all alone in a cell, and I thought status quo of the University. 1 found out that there it was all over for me, but he didn't come in after me. was no such thing as a brotherhood there, so I left The U.S. Commissioner asked me if I was an and went to an experimental school in New Hamp­ advocate of Dr. Spook [sic]. He said, "You are shire and started to think about my own life and committing treason," and all that type of jazz. A political background. I had no rationale for being very prejudicial man. a John Bircher; it was a kind of emotional thing I went back over to the Federal Detention Center. selves from the Selective Service System. Just by I was really glad to go back there because of this in which the word "communism" brought hate into coincidence my draft card was received by my my heart and eyes. black guy who had gotten us all this food and local board on October the 16th [Date of the First everything. His name was Sherman. A Ipt of the guys Soon afterwards I went to Virginia Tech, in 1965 National Card Turn-in. -Ed.] And that night I who refused after me met Sherman when they went or 1964, and I met a very liberal minister by the was watching the news, and I saw young men in. Sherman was like our father when we went to name of Woody Leach, and he really confronted me dropping draft cards in boxes in front of the jail. He would explain the whole legal system to you. with my ideas. He said, in a sense, "You really have Justice Department, and it really blew my mind. He said if you were black you get screwed. If you no rationale for the way you think. You are not I said, "My God, we're really coming to a point don't have money you get screwed, and the only treating people in a very Christian sense." I started where people are facing up to what is happening." way the legal system is going to take care of you reading a lot of books, and all of a sudden the war I didn't know anybody else turning in draft cards, is if you are white and have money. I think he put • in Vietnam became very real. I started reading in but I knew something great was going to come of it right on the line. the papers about young men dying and people this. I knew a community was going to be built. being napalmed and whole villages destroyed. My On the third day I got out, but I was not able to go As soon as I heard that the Resistance had an any place. I talked to my lawyers and asked why political awareness really expanded at that point. office in New York, I went to New York and told Earlier this year I finally made a stand opposing they should limit me to the southern district of them that I wanted to organize in the South. They New York. Which is Westchester, the Bronx, and the war in Vietnam. That today is a very liberal raised a few hundred dollars for me, and I came thing to do, just come out and say you oppose Manhatten. I couldn't go to Brooklyn. I back down South and organized there until couldn't go to Rock Island. I couldn't see my the war, and that's about it, and that is about what February 26th. I travelled to schools in Kentucky, I had done. 1 had written a few letters to the brother in New Jersey. They appealed their one Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, and time, and the guy said "no." The next time my President and to my Congressmen denouncing Vierginia, talking about the war and about the the war, and I had taken part in a few peace lawyer made a deal with the U.S. Attorney that draft and what it does to young men's lives. We I could go anywhere in the country as long as my parades, but that was the extent of my involvement had some responses, we had some turn-ins, and a in the anti-war movement. And that is the extent lawyer would tell Robinson where I was going. few induction refusals. But in the South we were But the next morning Robinson told my lawyer, of most peoples' involvement in the anti-war trying to crack a very old system. movement. And I think that is why we still "1 am sorry, but the word from upstairs is I can't Then on February 26th I refused induction at have the war. make any more deals." We went back one more Whitehall Induction Center in New York. I But I went to the last session of the Vietnam time, and it was denied again. was very nervous that day because I had heard that Summer Program at Richmond, Virginia. The So 1 was just organizing for the Resistance and they had been jailing [induction refusers] right waiting around until last Tuesday, when we got a Reverend Fernandez was there, and he talked afterwards, and l had never been in jail in my life. about young men and the draft, and what it phone call from Boston that said there were two I went and refused induction, and I was arrested and guys taking sanctuary. A guy who has been means to your life to be controlled and mani­ taken to the Federal Courthouse at Foley Square. At pulated by an organization like the Selective sentenced for three years and a AWOL soldier. which time the Assistant U. S. Attorney General John Service System. He talked about the channeling 1 said, "I am going to take sanctuary in Arlington Robinson took me into his office and started talking document that all of us are very familiar with, Street Church." I really wanted to stand in with to me. I said, "Off the record I am not going to say in which the national government says those guys, plus I wanted to break the New York anything." I gave him my name and address, but that what is in the national interest, while the individual is system, that is putting anyone in jail after they was about it. We argued back and forth about the'war. left out of this decision completely. He told me about refuse induction, demanding high bails from He asked me if I was going to Canada, and I told young men who, because of conscience, didn't want them and limiting them to a certain area. him "no," there is no sense in me going to Canada. I to kill, but had no other way to get out of the army When I came to Boston, things were kind told him I didn't come all the way up here from than by going to jail, going to Canada, or by doing of uptight. So I waited around and cooled things for Blacksburg, Virginia, refuse induction, and get arrested something to themselves to enable them to get a awhile until I had an understanding between myself just so I could split to Canada. I really thought we and the New England Resistance, and both Bob and IV-F. He talked about one young man who took a sun­ had an understanding. I thought he really believed Bill were out of the church. Then all of a sudden we lamp and burned his eye out. At that point I jumped me. I thought we had a good dialogue. Until I went received Tony's letter, saying he wanted to come back. up in a kind of anguish and said that something is downstairs before the U.S. Commissioner and he asked So someone flew up, greeted him brought him back, really wrong when a young man has to take a sunlamp for $10,000.00 cash bau. to burn his eye out so he doesn't have to go kill. and I met him Friday, May 31,. and he and I came here My lawyer argued that the cases before had not It shows that our government has finally stooped to and announced yesterday that we were taking sanctuary received $10,000 cash, that the judge had lowered that that position where the individual doesn't matter. at the church. type of bail, and that I had come all of the way from They tell you to go kill or go to jail. Q: Has anyone from the government contacted Virginia and I wasn't about to leave the country. So I went back to school thinking very seriously, you or have you had any..ah...has the Man contacted the U.S. Commissioner, with a kind heart, made it you since you've been here? "What am I supposed to do now? Now that I know $5000 cash. At that time I had no money so I went the Selective Service System is wrong and inherently A: The Man has not contacted me since I have been to jail that night at West Street Federal Detention **here. I don't know what he is planning, and I don't evil, what is my response?" Finally one night 1 was Center with a black guy who had just refused induc­ with a group of friends, and I pulled out my Selec­ care what he is planning. I know what I plan, and tion. Both of us were very uptight, but we got to that is what's really important. tive Service Registration and my Selective Service know each other, got talking and kind of relaxed. Classification cards and wrote a little letter and There was another black guy in jail who was a mailed it. Just before I mailed it, my friends asked, bank robber, who got us blankets, cigarettes, and "What are you writing?" And I said, "I am writing food, and had all of his friends come around to to my draft board." They asked me if I were meet us and congratulate us on refusing the lousy sending back my draft card, and I said I was. Then war. They all came around and said that they BUY they said, "Why don't you wait until tomorrow were in World War II, but that this was a lot of morning?" And I said, "There will always be to­ bullshit, this war. They were all behind us. I morrow mornings. The time to act is now." really had a very good time. So I sent my cards back about October 13th or 14th, The next day I went before the U.S. Commissioner, not knowing there was anything called the Resistance, and he said, "We'll make it $50 cash and $4500 Le Chronic not knowing that in a couple of days hundreds and personal recognizance bond, the stipulation being 158 Highland Street hundreds of men throughout the country would be that you don't leave the Southern District of New dropping cards in boxes and disassociating them­ York. Roxbury - Mass. THE REnr^ANCE

National Newsletter

Issue 3 December 13 £_HC?fi£J

We have found that the bulk mailings of the National Newsletter take too long to reach their destinations to be of any value, as well as being a very costly and time-consuming expense. From now on we shall mail only a few copies to each center and ask that the center repro­ duce its own copies for distribution, as Los Angeles has already been doing. Also, the expense of producing a national newsletter is a rather great burden to give to the New England Resistance alone, and we ask that each center contribute what it feels it is able to afford. We feel this is an equitable alternative to letting the New England Resistance bear the entire brunt of production or to charging rates of subscription.

NEW YORK: A total of 89 cards have been turned in so fa*, with 86 of them being returned at the Dec. 4 service at the St. Paul the Evangelist Church in Brooklyn. The service was witnessed by 750 supporters, and REV. NEUHOUSE, who presided over the service, announced that the church would offer sanctuary to draft resisters. Speeches were given by RABBI ABRAHAM HESCHEL of the Jewish Theological Semin­ ary, and DWIGHT MACDONALD. The action received favorable press cover­ age, no doubt due to the church service, the New York Resistance feels. At the same time, 190 complicity cards, many from woman, were submitted, In other action in the New York Area: Smithtown—three cards turned in with f complicity statements and a supporting demonstratio:-» of 100; STONY BROOK—three cards returned with 36 complicity statements and four men under draft age pledged their refusal to register; Vassar—7 cards returned by men from neighboring colleges; Hampstead—- three cards returned; Morris County, N.J.— six cards returned In Stop the Draft Week in New York, 264 were arrested on the 5th, 40 on the 6th, 300 on the "th, and 137 on the 8th, mostly before the Induction Center. Among those arrested were DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK, SUSAN SONTAG, ALLEN GINSÜURG, CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN and DWIGHT MACDONALD...,. New York Resistance's plans for the near future include bringing its three-hundred members into a cohesive organization and offering workshops on the value and effect of noncooperation, tactics comple­ mentary to it and further action stemming from it. One of the subjects will be the effect of stop the Draft Week activities at the induction center, their value to the Resistance, and whether the New York Resist­ ance should participate in similar disruptive tactics in the future.,, The adult support group RESIST and the New York Committee of the Professions are planning a "Night of Truth" at the Village Theater in New York on Dec. 17 to raise money for a "Resistance Legal Defense Fund". Speeches will be given and films shown. DENVER: Five men burned their discharge papers with a supporting demonstration of 200.

CHICAGO: 36 draft cards were returned, one burned, and two men pledged to refuse to register during an action at the Céderai Building in Chicago on Dec. 4. They were 'Supported by a demonstration of from 400 to 500. Speaking afc the occasion was LOUIS KAMPF, professor of humanities at MIT, who had arrived a few davs earlier to help org.^ adult supporters in the area. A separate church service was held for seminarians in support of the Resistance, at which DAvi^ KUBRICK pre­ sided. About 5 or 7 seminarians were among those who submitted their cards at che Federal Building. .,..,..CADRE has decided to start dirr \cir>; its attention to college campuses in the area, which up to this tt.; have been curiously unresponsive to the Resistance. Only at Earth- western, where 11 faculty members signed statements of support at a recent large-selle teach-in, is their a fairly "read basis for activity. CADRE will hold regular Sunday meetings at which to discuss tactics and organisational probiaaa and to hear progress from its several full-tine organizers...... A Chicago area adult support group allied with CADRE seems to bo well underway with about 20C members, including !" LYND. PRO?. DAK ST^RN will attend CADRE'S weekly meetings as a RESIST representative ana at least twenty lawyers have sg-aed to offer service« to CADRE members (making CADRE extremely -veil organised in this import­ ant area). A series of house partie: will be held on the South Shore and ïïyô? Park to raise money for the Resistance. Other activities .Include enlisting the support of clergymen in the area and gaining support en the campuses, tor which RICHARD FLACKS has agreed to assume responsibility. Other action in the Chicago area; Champagne-Urhana — 7 ca::ds or discharge papers, one of tram from an Air Force officer; Iowa City, three cards returned,

WA0rUNGTON, D.C.i dour draft cards were submitted and two men submitted letters indicating that they had disposed of their draft cards. The service was originally to be held at an Episcopal Church, but the Washington" Resistance was denied use ot it at the last moment. The service w&s instead held at the Chapel of Georgetown University, thanks to the help or FATHER McSQRLEY, a faculty member of the university. It is interesting to note that Georgetown University is a Catholic insti­ tution. There was a sizeable and vociferous counter-demonstration outside the chapel, hut following the ceremony the members and support­ ers of the Resistance went among 'the crowd and talked, with them. The tenor of the crowd was changed immediately, and it was learned that the reason for the counter-demenstratier was primarily that little notification had been given that the chapel was to he used, rather than pro-war sentiment. During' the remainder of the week the Washington Resistance picke ted the homes of Rusk, McNamara, and Humphrey.

CIKCINATTXï 9 new résistants turned in their cards, dipped in human blood, on the 4th. On the 7th, 73 »ne re arrested at the induction cento: -3^

SAN FRANCISCO: 89 cards were turned in and 480 statements of complicity received at a religious service presided by PHIL FARNUM. An altar was set up on the steps of the Federal Building and during the ensuing service, attended by 30 to 40 ministers, speeches Were given by R0B2RT MCAFEE BROWN and DAVEY HARRIS, who tore up his induction notice at that time. Other action in the area: Sacramento—five cards were submitted to the State Selective Service Office at the Post Office Building.,

LOS ANGELES: 22 new résistants turned in their draft cards at a church service presided by REV. HARLAN WEITZEL, an Episcopal minister active with the Resistance. The service included the reading of original poems by Resistance members and the singing of folk songs during the meal of reconciliation. Addresses were given by Rev. Weitzel and by DARRYL SKRA3AK, who served 17 months at Lompoc Prison for refusing induction. Two chalices, one filled with blood and the other unfilled, were used to contain the cards. The chalices were the carried at the head of a 3% mile march to the Federal Building, whe-.e they were left. A short time later they were taken upstairs to the Federal Attorney by a Federal officer wearing, of all things, a peace button.,....On Dec. 3 Arizona State University held a convention of peace groups at which BILL GARROWAY of the LA Resistance and KAREN DELLENBACH, an adult sup­ porter in the Los Angeles area, "spoke for the Resistance. Following the speeches there was an anti-war march, and on the next day a gener . teach-in...—The LA Resistance has already begun to move on the next nationwide Resistance action, April 2. They have already arranged for buttons to be made. The ideas discussed but hot employed for Dec. 4— demonstrating before the homes of draft board members and spilling specially purchased blood there and at the induction center—are being considered. An additional action of donating blood "in place of the blood spilled in the street" is also being discussed, although there is some question as to who should be given the blood. So far, suggestions have included an impartial international organization (not the Red Cross; both North and South Vietnam, or American servicemen in hospitals who would not be returning to military service in Vietnam...... A number or well-known rock groups in the area support the Resistance and have offered their services for free. The L". Resistance plans to take advantage of this opportunity: and stage a large fund raising concert at a local psychedelic dance hall, which has also donated free of charge. for the use of the Resistance. They expect that they will be able to fill the dance hall to its capacity of 1000.

PITTSBURG: 9 new résistants returned their draft cards and over 100 submitted statements of complicity during a service at the United Ministry Center on the 4th. Ti'Q. cards and statements were accepted by MSGR. CHARLES O. RICE, who forwarded them to the Justice Department, Addresses were given by REV. JAMES GARDNER of the United Ministry Cento.:; DR. AUDREY HOLLAND, professor of speech and theater arts at Pitt; DAVID HOUSTON, professor of économes at Pitt; WILLIAM RODD, fatner of Thomas Rodd; and a number of Pittsburg résistants, old and new. Included in the service was a reading of Thomas Rodd's statements at the time of his _4_

sentencing, a recitation of poems of Levertov and Millay, and the singing of anti-war songs, The service was delayed by a fire in the basement, to which there is a good deal of evidence toward arson. Several chairs in the basement of the church had been set aflame, and when an attempt was made to call the fire department it was discovered that the phones were dead. The congrégation of 300 supporters stood outside until the fire was extinguished and then proceeded with the ceremony. On the next day, three new draft cards were submitted, raising to 12 the number of new résistants.

PROVIDENCE, R.I.: The Dec. 4 action in Providence began with a picket line of 18 before the induction center and grew into a rally of 100. I'c was the first induction center lemonstration in Rhode Island's history. Speeches were given by REV. RICHARD PECK, chaplain of Rhode Island College; REV. STAN BRATTON of the First Baptist Church; MICHAEL ROSEN, professor at Brown; RUTH PRAGER. housewife? and résistants BRUCE MURRAY, PETER WHITEHEAD, STAN GRIFFITH, ,SCOTÏ ÇYER, and WALTER GROSS*. REV. :' CRT PERRY of the Church of the Z'adiator (Unicarian-Universalist) announced that his church would provide sanctuary for Resistance members. 1 draft cards, two delinquency forms and a CO. form (received / Scott Dyer from his draft hoard in response to his joining the Resistance) and 170 complicity statements were submitted to the Chairman t the State Solestive Service. He refused to accept them and proclaim­ ed that he would burn them if left there, at which point the Rhode island Resistance informed him that they would turn him in for burning u draft card. There was good radio, television, and press coverage.

IFFALO; 26 cards were returned and 35 support statements submitted at a rally of 300 on De::. 4.' On the next day, 9 arrests were made during • dmnonstratlon before the induction center

BOSTON: A call to the federal attorney for East Texas on Dec. 13 : ovaaled the fallowings two weeks ago a memo was sent by the Attorney General to all federal attorneys ordering them to hold in a special file the names of résistants in their area: No further instructions have been sent. The total number of rames to be filed was 958, which undoubtedly represents the Oct. 16 résistants. No word as yet on any action against the Nov. 16 or Dec. 4 résistants 80 members of the New England Resistance traveled to New Haven on the 4th to parti­ cipate in the rally there. No other action occurred in Boston during the week

>CO,CRCSTER, N.II. : A demonstration before the Manchester Induction Center brought 300, mainly from small colleges in the surrounding area, it was announced that the expected busload of inductees would not be arriving, but a few of the demonstrators suspected this of being a deceptive ploy and remained. Of these, 26 were arrested shortly after the bus of inductees arrived. They were released on bai . within the day and await trial in mid-January, at which time, aided by aCLU lawyers, they will plead noh-guilty to the charges leveled against them. Among -5- those arrested,was NEIL ROBERTSON,. full time worker for.the New,England Resistance. A repeat demonstration planned for later in the week was called off, NCW HAVEN: 35 new résistants turned in cheir cards at a church service in Yale Chapel on the 4th, with 15 previous résistants resubmitting their cards. At the sa.aa time, a support statement signed by 318 faculty menhers of Boston University was submitted. The action was supported by a rally of 1200...... On Dec. 8, 27 men and 3 girls were arrested for bio:king the induction center. 300 had participated in the demonstration. , , •••

PORTLAND; According to reports from Pa to Alto, twenty to thirty cards were turned in here, We await further information. .. , . KANSAS.CITY, MO.: An action was held on Dec. 9, but the results have not yet been reported. Cour new résistants were expected to turn in their cards fellowing a series of workshops and a demonstration.

££• LOUIS: The St. Louis Draft Resistance obtained Berea Presbyterian. Church for Dec. 4. at which time they expected .10 to 25 new lesistants with a good.number of veterans discharge papers to be turned in at a service with. 3.000 supporters. The results have not. yet. been reported. ....In addition to plans for the 4th, the SLDR has been active in ieafletting the induction center, reeling personal explanations for non-cooperation ro congressmen and newspapers, and making the Resistance known through local, media. RICHARD FREER of the SLDR and REV. DAVID DARST.have spoken on raste news broadcasts five time, and are scheduled for several radio and television broadcasts in the near fucure. They have beer working closely with a group of forty adult supporters who, .Jong with REV. WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN, signed a statement of complicity which was published.in major St; Louis newspapers,

ITFACÀ, N.Y^: 13 new résistants returned their cards on Dec. 4 after a, march to the Ithaca draf-1- board...... Of the 16 previous members of the Ithaca Resistance, 7 have been reclassified, including FATHER DAVID CONNOR, Assoc Reman Catholic Chaplain for Cornell United Rel­ igious Works REV; PAup G13BCN3, United Ministry chaplain and NATHANIEL PIERCE, both.of the Cornell United Religiousttorks; an d JAMES MATLOC, professor of English av Cornell. The ministers were reclassified from 4-D ro 1-è delinquent. Defenses are being planned by the ACLU.....,THe . haca Resistance is devoting most of its attention to Cornell, with speakers in men's dormrcories and in campus lectures, FATHER PHIL BERRIGAN (who poured bleed on she draft board files in Baltimore) spoke en the Resistance or Nov, 23: and the following day a poetry reading was given for the Resistance by DANIEL BERRIGAN and ROBERT CREELEY. The Ithaca Resistance has also started working with the high schools, and held the first high school teach-in on the war ever to be held in Ithaca. -6- AUSTIN: From a fragmentary note from Berkeley we have learned that several men turned in their cards at a news conference on the campus of the University of Texas some time last month. We shall try to find out more about this and include it in the next newsletter.

WILMINGTON, OHIO: 65 to 75 people held vigil on Dec. 5 for JIM tdSSNER, who was refusing induction, and FRANCES SPICER, a Seneca Indian doing CO alternative service who decided to sever connection with the draft. The area is notoriously unsympathetic to war dissent, and a group of ministers had to dissuade counter-demonstrators from violence before the vigil was held. The mayor, county commissioners, police, and dean of tJilmington College refused to give permission to the demonstrators to leaflet or speak. Following the vigil there was an outdoor rally at the Wilmington campus at which Jim burned his induction notice and Frances read his statements of severence. Since then, press coverage has been remarkable. AP carried the story in all major newspapers and local radio and newspaper interviews were held with Jim and his wife and parents. The publicity was so good, in fact, that two days later the FBI had a warrant for Jim's arrest before an indict­ ment had been issued. Jim turned himself in to the Federal Marshall's office in San Francisco on the 8th, with a quickly organized support demonstration of 30. He was released on his own recognizance and has since held radio and television interviews in San Francisco.

CLEVELAND: The Direct Action Committee reports that on a Nov. 28 demonstration at the Induction Center, 125 demonstrators were clubbed by policemen who had removed their badges and were acting without official orders. The demonstration, planned by the Direct Action Committee and the Cleveland Draft Resistance Union, was organized to support three members of the Toledo Resistance who were being given their physicals. While the demonstration was snarling traffic and occupying the police outside, several la/ students had entered the induction center on the 15th floor of the building and leafleted and talked to the inductees. They report that the response to the demon- stfation by the inductees was favorable—that they had hoped that the demonstrators would be able to halt the induction proceedings and had been demonstrably shocked at the conduct of the police as they watched it from above. There was no news coverage of the event, but as word passed around, the Direct Action Committee experience a sizable increase of support. They especially mention the disillusionment of many liberals who had supported mayor Carl Stokes.

LONDON: The Step It Committee reports that three new résistants have returned their cards. In other occurrences on the fourth, a street theater"call up* center for the U.S.Army was set up to induct people off the streets and hand them draft card leaflets, which apparently caused quite a lot of commotion for a short time. Outside 10 Downing Street, members of the Stop It Committee delivered Prime Minister Harold Wilson a giant draft card bearing his name and -7- presented him a tactful letter informing him that his support of the U.S. Vietnam policy makes him deserving of honorary membership in the U.S. Forces, and further stating, "We urge you to return your card, to dissociate your Government from the American war, to join us in resist­ ance." No word yet as to his response On Dec. 5 a statement pledging political support and practical assistance to American draft resisters was published in the London Times. Dit was signed by LADY ALLEN OF HURTWOOD, SIR JULIAN HUXLEY, SIR MAURICE BOWRA, THE VISCOUNTESS HEAD, JOHN LE CARRE, PETER USTINOV, DAN SMITH, NANCY KITFORD, STUART HOOD, RAYMOND WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER LAYTON, and STEPHEN SPENDER. The petition of support is still circulating and has apparently started a sizable controversy, all to the good of the movement. The support group expects that they will be able to aid the American draft resisters in Britain in fund raising, employment, accommodation, and legal matters.

ADULT SUPPORT: (from the monthly newsletter of RESIST). JAJE» MARVIN SHEA, assistant professor of philosophy at George Mason College in Virginia, age 29 and a father of three, was reclassified and ordered to report for induction. He has brought suit against the Selective Service, contending that the delinquency process uses Selective Service to punish men for alleged violations of the law for which they have been neither prosecuted nor convicted. HENRY BRAUN, professor at Temple University, age 37 and a father of two children, was declared delinquent for non-possession. Prof. Braun has been active in organizing draft resistance and had refused to answer questions in an appearance before the New York Grand Jury on Nov. 15. KENNETH RALE, assistant professor of Linguistics at MITm age 33 and father of two, was declared 1-A delinquent by his board in Arizona for turning in his draft card. RESIST also speaks of SNCC workers active in draft resistance who are systematically being picked off ail over the country.

In summary, given the incomplete reportage at this time, there are at least 37 5 new résistants, either having submitted their draft cards or their discharge papers. At least six men not of draft age have pMged to refuse registration, and the total reported arrests for Stop the Draft Week numbers over 850. At least 1400 statements of support were collected during the week. The enthusiasm with which GEORGE BAYLOR of the New England Resistance and LOUIS KAMPF were received in Pittsburg and Chicago respectively during Dec. 4th actions indicates the boost of morale that a sense of national cohesiveness can bring to a relatively isolated resistance center. It should be discussed whether major Resistance centers shculd make it a point to see that a national representative be sent to all resistance activities, no matter how distant. This will be an especially important matter come April 2. New England Resistance Dept. NNL 102 Columbia it. Cambridge, «ass. 02139 U. Î. A.

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REPORT ON NATIONAL RESISTANCE CONFERENCE The second national Resistance conference was held near orical context (1965-1969), and tried to locate our un­ Bloomington, Illinois on March 25 through 28. Attending ique perception and contribution to the larger movement. were about 150 people from about 40 Resistance groups, He urged us to deepen and broaden our activities and to getting together for a series of speeches, discussions continue our emphasis on "revolution from below" by means (in large groups and small), raps, tete-a-têtes, encounters, of wide-spread individual and collective acts of resistance dialogues, singing, long walks, andfriendlygam.es. and liberation by all sectors of society. He disagreed with Most of it was serious and most of it was fun; what was the turn in SDS (April '68) toward becoming an auxiliary remarkable was the sense of togetherness that quickly in the black struggle, calling it an example of the "politics emerged - not only a sense of collective national purpose of guilt" . His speech will be reprinted and available soon. (vague though that may be ) but also a sense that thought (theory, analysis) and feeling were again together. Anyone who has seen recent national meetings of other In a speech by Greg Calvert, former National Secretary of SDS (fall 1967-April '68), he described his involvement movement groups, or our own local meetings, would have been ^ natiQnal gDS poUtics and Ms reagons fQr leayjng the moved, as we were, by the way meetings were run, projects National Organization last spring. He was deeply troubled discussed, ideas debated, and people related to each other. over the loss of "fellow-feeling" and trust among movement We dug it. people generally, and over the trend toward vanguard- party, black or proletariat-centered politics . He greeted Enough generalities . The NER position paper was well Resistance as heirs to what he believed to be the healthy received. Good questions were asked, especially about spirit of the New Left, urging us to take on a broad range the changes in our general strategy since our last big of Movement issues . His speech, too, will be available card turn-in on April 3, 1968 . soon.

We need not have felt defensive about these changes, for Dave Harris gave a short "response" to Greg's speech. while we may have developed farthest from our original Personal in tone, it included an account of some mistakes tactics and style, nearly all the other groups have taken he feels he has made, and expressed his sense of brother­ steps in the same direction. Most groups are also de- hood with Resistance people everywhere. emphasizing turn-ins, though none have abandoned them altogether . Many people were interested in the specifics Bob Ross of SDS and the New Universities Conference gave of high school and military work, though most of that a critique of the Resistance. He touched upon our ethno- discussion was taken up later in specific workshops. centrism, moral elitism, lack of discipline, single-issue These workshops included: orientation, and theoretical naivete. We seemed to have 1. High school organizing done nothing right, but he still liked us! The difficulties of organizing around non-registration. High school issues such as dress-codes, underground Evie Goldstein from the University of Chicago spoke about press, student power. Women's Liberation. Women are oppressed in many ways, Manipulatory organizing. some subtle, some blatant. True liberation will only 2. Military organizing come, she asserted, when society as a whole is transformed Military counseling but even now the problems of equality of opportunity, male Problems of manipulation and security. chauvanism, and family-raising must be met, and women's General questions of active-duty G.I. organizing. caucuses and groups are an essential first step. 3. Revolutionary non-violence Actions like the Milwaukee 14 and DC 9 - are they As a result of this speech, women met in small groups effective? throughout the conference, then in groups with men (who Whom do they reach? had also been meeting together) for frank discussions What else can one do non-violently against the govern­ about role-playing, male condescension, and the problems ment and corporation? c-f women in a draft-resistance movement. A lot of guys' Five important speeches were given to the whole conf- .,tj*

MILITARY INSTITUTE FORMING HIGH SCHOOL WORKSHOP - RESISTANCE CONFERENCE All those groups who have been doing military work in the Boston area are coming together for a military The high school workshop at the Resistance training institute early in May. This marks the first conference was concerned primarily with the time that all groups have worked cooperatively on a pro­ issue of non-registration and anti-draft work ject concerning military work. in the high schools. After much discussion it was generally agreed that non-registrants The institute is geared toward those who have had some are isolated in thought and action from prior experience working with G.I. 's and those who come their classmates, and in effect, slow down, if are required to do extensive reading ahead of time, thus not stop, anti-draft work at the schools, due to enabling the institute to participate in concrete discussions. a quite legitimate fear which follows such awesome Its purposes are: 1. to increase and up-date the technical committment. And in fact, the best issues to and legal knowledge of those who participate, 2. to relate organize around are issues directly related to this knowledge in a concrete manner to political activity, the high schools themselves: i.e. dress codes, 3. to provide a forum for sharing information and comparing bathroom passes, etc. Also, the draft for most the political analyses and projects of the various groups, kids is a. not real, andb. inevitable. The one and 4. to give basis to on-going cooperation between groups, universal problem is out-reach, which no group thus avoiding duplication of efforts, and strengthening has been able to master yet. The problem of military work in this area. parents is important but much more so on the West Coast than here, possible because we As the most experienced group working with military emphasize the educational aspect, while the personnel in this area, we look to this institute with high West Coast emphasises a more action-oriented expectations . Eight groups will participate, with a total program centered around non-registration, of about 60 people involved. Many have only begun military peace marches, etc. All the groups recognized the work. Hopefully this institute will begin meaningful dia­ problems of high school organizing, but all agreed logue between them and those with more experience, that that the importance of high school organizing the work of all will become more substantially defined, and to the movement necessitates our pursuing interest and activities will increase. these problems, and hopefully, overcoming them.

REPORT ON APRIL 5th DEMONSTRATION JOHN ROLLINS" COURT-MARTIAL (cont.)

On April 5th the Fifth Avenue Parade Committee headed As you remember from our last newsletter, John Rollins an anti-war rally -- 50,000 strong -- in New York City. had his case continued to late March. John had been The rally, though imperiled by rain and hostility from charged with 37 days AWOL, after having turned him­ many sectors of the movement, succeeded in attracting self in to the Army at the conclusion of the sanctuary a small number of soldiers (100), and a committed crowd. at Brandeis University in December. The Court-Martial Speakers included David Dellinger (Liberation magazine), was reconvened on Wednesday, March 20. About 12 Howard Zinn (B.U.), Abie Hoffman (Yippie International), Brandeis students were again present for the proceedings. Jerry Rubin (Yippies), D.C. (Black Panther Party), Private Cartwright (Fort Dix), Madame Bihn (via tape Two new members of the court-martial board were recording from the National Liberation Front of South sworn in and once again the defense counsel was asked Vietnam, Paris team), and Ozzie Davis (an actor and if he wished to challenge any members of the board. moderator). The demonstration reflected all the After questioning all ten members as to whether they, strengths and weaknesses of the coalition formed would base their judgement strictly on the evidence presented and not on hearsay or argument from either In this case it was probably to John's advantage. If trial or defense counsel, challenges were waived. a military court can manage to completely disregard evidence in matters of fact, one shudders to think of Trial counsel (prosecution) then offered into evidence what they could do in matters of law (for example, the an exact copy of the morning report ("attendance right of a GI to voice his views about the war and the sheet") for November 12, 1968 at Fort Clayton, Panama, military in a sanctuary). John's last duty station prior to taking sanctuary. The report said that on that day John was AWOL. He next stipulated that on December 19, 1968 John had returned to the Army at Fort Devens; this was given judicial Jim Hayes of Cambridge, Mass., a former member of approval, meaning that since both trial and defense CNVA, has been indicted by the U.S. Attorney General counsel agreed to it, and since it could be documented for harboring a deserter. The section of the Federal from the Fort Devens morning report, it carried the Criminal Code (U.S.C.A. Title 18, Sect. 1381) carries same weight as actual evidence. a maximum fine of not more that $2, 000.00 or imprison­ ment for not more than three years or both. The case for the defense was based on the fact that the morning report from Fort Clayton stated that John was AWOL "from leave 12 Nov 68 ..." John had originally obtained leave for October 1-30, and while Both Ray Kroll and Martin Gross have had their applications he-was home, requested an extension of that leave. His for C -O discharges turned uown. According to the Army, company commander, in an informal note, told him Kroll was "insincere" in his beliefs, and Gross was too that "the extension was granted", but did not specify willing to be a medic (1-A-O). tor how long, nor was this information transmitted on official Dept. of the Army forms -- both of these being prerequisites for official, valid extension of According to Dept. of Defense statistics, about 35% of leave. all applications are approved. Since 1965 the military has granted about 400 I-O discharges; the remainder In short, due to the Army's falling over its own paper­ were either disapproved or given 1-A-O's (non-combatant). work, the morning report was invalid in one of two The government's statistics are very misleading since ways: Either 1. the informal grant of leave was completely countless numbers of CO applications never get to the invalid, making John AWOL from 1 Nov (not 12 Nov) or Dept. of Defense. They are lost somewhere in the mys­ 2. the informal grant of leave was valid, but since it tical chain of command. There are cases where applica­ failed to specify the termination of that leave John was tions have been held up somewhere in the chain of comm­ never AWOL; he had merely decided to terminate his and for so long that the applicant has been discharged leave on 19 December. And since the morning report before his application has been reviewed. Most of was the only piece of evidence offered by either side, the time men have submitted applications only to be argued the defense, John should have been acquitted because told a few months later that it had been "turned down", the government had not proven its case. Crystal clear, when in fact the application was never reviewed by the right? After about 20 minutes deliberation in closed Defense Dept.; instead it was rejected by some NCO session John was found guilty of 37 days AWOL. Most or base officer who decided to take matters into his own of us in the courtroom could hardly believe our ears, hands. but John's civilian defense attorney, James S. Donnelly, rather calmly explained that there was nothing much that could be done, and that he was not too surprised MILITARY WORKSHOP AT BLOOMINTON that such a decision could be made by the board on the CONFERENCE basis of prejudice rather than evidence. Of the 7 or 8 groups represented, about 6 had a In mitigation prior to sentencing, John's immediate military project of some sort, of which the two superior testified to John's dependability and the high most extensive were Boston and Philadelphia. We quality of work since he had been working for him. The spoke of many things: 1. AWOL counseling; we board once again deliberated in closed session, and, all recognized the extent to which we as civilians surprisingly, came down with a comparatively light can work with AWOL's . Our main purpose sentence: 60 days' restriction to post, $5!)/month for­ should be in familiarizing these guys with a civilian feiture of pay for three months, and a reduction in rank movement that supports the GI, and to help him two pay grades. The maximum sentence John could put his problems in a much larger societal have received was six months in the stockade with for­ context. 2. Legal Aid: Many groups around feiture of pay and reduction in rank. Probably the best the counrty do not have all the legal facilities that explanation for the lenient sentence was the fact that are available in Boston and are concentrating John is presnetly one of the best clerk/typists his unit much of their efforts in gathering this kind of has, and it would have been too much trouble to find legal information. 3. Coffee Shops: We talked a replacement for him. of the pros and cons of coffee shops in different areas of the country. People were concerned that these not only be a social gathering, but an It is interesting that the whole question of sanctuary off-base, non-military atmosphere where guys never once came up in the argument for either side. can meet and talk with each other in a political sense, something most GI's are not accustomed to is an arm of American imperialism, 2. soldiers doing. 4. Contacts and Communication: Since are an oppressed group, and 3. soldiers become servicemen are constantly on the move, we aU. an entry for working with Lower middle class felt that with some system of communications and working class people. Groups that saw the between us we can still keep in close contact need for military work told how they managed to with a guy, even if he is in another part of the get involved. For most it was the appearance of country. 5. Veterans: Some groups have more and more AWOLs that initially started their veterans -who do all their AWOL counseling. programs. Although Boston is the only group actually con­ sidering a Veterans program, we all agreed on Everyone agreed that "service projects" (e. g. , the necessity for such a program, and some informational counseling) are not where it's at people there were anxious to bring this aspect ultimately, though they are perhaps a useful of military work back to their groups. 6. Gov­ beginning. At the same time, manipulation by ernment and 'military repression (e.g., Presidio organizers of men whose bodies are on the line 27, indictments for harboring AWOL's): We would is definitely not the way to proceed. all keep each other well informed on any such actions taken around the country. We made arrangements to keep in touch with each other about programs, signs of a national trend toward legal repression and contacts. General strategy considerations were: 1. Military

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