from L.A. Free Press (UPS) Last week President Johnson signed into law the 1967 draft law extension thereby allowing the government to impress young men into involuntary servitude ’til at least 1971. In every respect the revision intensifies the coercive …
The monitors were doing a hell of a job maintaining order; the cops, on the other hand, were looking more and more uptight, and more and more of them were showing up from somewhere.
Sunday night a bunch of us were over at a friend’s house. We didn’t have room to stay there so we thought we’d try to make it back to another guy’s apartment. We were almost home when five cop cars …
“The ghetto atmosphere was illuminated last week in a study prepared for the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement. In a survey of three cities—Chicago, Washington and Boston—the study found that four out of every five white policemen working in Negro …
George Vissard, peace activist in Austin, Texas, was killed last week in an Austin grocery store. Vissard was found at about 11:00 a.m. with a shot through the back and shot through the arm; his body had been placed in …
Dr. David Herreshoff, assistant professor of English at Wayne State University, is the author of a new book published by the WSU Press. Dr. Herreshoff’s book, American Disciples of Marx, From the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era (216 …
A new United States postage stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Henry David Thoreau has been designed by painter Leonard Baskin. The stamp was first placed on sale July 12 at the writer-anarchist’s home town of Concord, …
The first GIs to publicly refuse to go to Vietnam, known as the Fort Hood Three, asked the Supreme Court to hear their suit against the war, and against the government’s right to send them to Vietnam. Jimmy Johnson, 21, …
Organized political opposition to the Johnson Administration will be mapped in Chicago Labor Day weekend at a nationwide convention of grassroots activist organizations in the peace, civil rights and student movements. The convention, “New Politics—’68 and Beyond,” is expected to …
The draft resistance movement in Detroit, which until now has operated underground, has surfaced with the opening of the Draft Resistance Center at 12820 Hamilton at Glendale.