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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

all ready on the LEFT (vol. 1, no. 3), 1970-12

 Item
Scope and Contents "Merry Christmas" [cartoon of Nixon in Santa sled dropping bombs on Southeast Asia]; "Ameri-Cong" [Michael Sweeney]; "Sky-ing" [Rafaelle Minichiello]; "Beware" [marijuana use on Camp Pendleton]; "Hitler Wore a Mustache Too!" [new head of Navy, Zumwalt]; "Cliff Blanks Corps 1-0" [Cliff Mansker, organizer of the Black Unity Party at Camp Pendleton, had charges dropped against him for three charges]; "...on weatherman watch?" [Marines told to look out for bombings]; "the bombs aren't aimed at...
Dates: Publication: 1970-12

American Friends Service Committee Military Selective Service Act handbill

 Collection
Identifier: SC037
Overview

One handbill distributed by the San Diego Peace Center offering advice to those hoping to avoid the Vietnam War draft.

Dates: 1967-07-01

indicator, ca. 1968

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Scope and Contents Library holdings are one issue, undated, labeled "orientation issue." The issue was likely printed in 1968 or 1969, and was focused on leftist messaging. Articles are as follows: "Union Incites Threat" [regarding publishing of the San Diego Union article "This Is an Order!" which demanded an investigation of UCSD philosophy professor Herbert Marcuse, which led to a series of threats against Marcuse]; "The Fall this Summer"...
Dates: Publication: ca. 1968

San Diego Door to Liberation (vol. 1, no. 23), 1969-03-28

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Scope and Contents "Canada Still Open" [Canada not closed to American military deserters]; "S.D. Police Store Fronts: Not a Spy System, Says Officer" [interview with four BIPOC police aides at the Police Community Relations Office, 2963 Imperial Avenue; police aides police aides were young men who worked with kids at teen centers and boys' clubs, and would be assigned to work at the central police station and to ride alongs. Aides intended to become police officers]; "bag of beads: Hayakawa, the Little...
Dates: Publication: 1969-03-28

San Diego Door to Liberation (vol. 1, no. 28), 1969-06-05

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Scope and Contents "Escaped Marine Desperados Terrorize San Diego" [interview with Pvt. Timothy Eckman, Pvt. James Sanford, and Pvt. Larry Deardorff, escapees from the Maine Corps Recruit Depot Brig]; "Bag of beads" [Subersive Progress Report, Encounter, The Generation Chasm]; "Letters to Editor"; "Love Is A Four Letter Word: Shit"; "Large Class Size Spoils School Program" [Mangelson School]; "New Left, Old Left, What's Left?"; "Hippocrates" [effects of tear gas]; "Co-ops are coming" [grocery co-op in...
Dates: 1969-06-05

San Diego Door to Liberation (vol. 1, no. 29), 1969-06-19

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Scope and Contents "US Shot Up" [shots fired at building of US, Black self-determination organization]; "Door Trial July 31" [regarding trial of Door publisher Dale Herscheler for contributing to deliquency of a minor]; "Bag of Beads"; "Letters to Editor"; "The Draft Resisters"; "Vietnam"; "Hippocrates on Berkeley" [account of riot]; "Cops get the Business" [American Federation of Police]; "1968-- The Year of the Young Rebels" [book by Stephen Spender]; "Marathon Encounter"; "Shitty Justice" [justice system];...
Dates: 1969-06-19

San Diego Free Door to Liberation (vol. 2, no. 6), 1970-07-30

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Scope and Contents "National Yippee Day" [Yippees at Disneyland; includes photo]; "Bonsall Bomber" [police repression at a Bonsall, California outdoor concert]; "Notes from Soledad Prison"; "Operation Ccoperation [sic]" [War on drugs, specifically marijuana, and the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs]; "Women" [women's liberation, wage deficit, childcare]; "Hip Pocrates"; "Door Benefit Pot Luck Dinner"; "Capitalism"; "Welfare Advocate: Welfare and Racism in England"; "Isle of Wight on T.V."; "The Return...
Dates: Publication: 1970-07-30