Felon for Peace , livre ebook

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English

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2005

Écrit par
Jerry Elmer

Publié par
Vanderbilt University Press

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2005

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Date de parution

09 septembre 2005

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780826591982

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

3 Mo

When Jerry Elmer turned eighteen at the height of the Vietnam War, he publicly refused to register for the draft, a felony then and now. Later he burglarized the offices of fourteen draft boards in three cities, destroying the files of men eligible to be drafted. After working almost twenty years in the peace movement, he attended law school, where he was the only convicted felon in Harvard's class of 1990.

This book is a blend of personal memoir, contemporary history, and astute political analysis. Elmer draws on a variety of sources, including never-before-released FBI files, and argues passionately for the practice of nonviolence. He describes the range of actions he took—from draft card burning to organizing draft board raids with Father Phil Berrigan; from vigils on the Capitol steps inside "tiger cages" used to torture Vietnamese political prisoners to jail time for protesting nuclear power plants; from a tour of the killing fields of Cambodia to meetings with Corazon Aquino in the Philippines.

A Vietnamese-language edition of Felon for Peace has also been published.

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Publié par

Vanderbilt University Press

Date de parution

09 septembre 2005

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780826591982

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

3 Mo

Felon forPeace TH EM EMOI ROFA VietnamEra Draft Resister

J E R R Y E L M E R

Felon for Peace he Memoir of a Vietnam-Era DraT Resister

Jerry Elmer

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Frontispiece:Shredded dra ﬁles from the June 1970 raid on the Providence dra boards. Collage by Peg Duthie. Design by Dariel Mayer.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Elmer, Jerry, 1951– Felon for peace : the memoir of a Vietnam-era dra resister / Jerry Elmer.—1st ed. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8265-1494-4 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 0-8265-1495-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Vietnamese Conﬂict, 1961–1975—Dra resisters— United States. 2. Elmer, Jerry, 1951– I. Title. DS559.8.D7E46 2005 959.704’31—dc22 2005005031

To earlier generations of war resisters, for having shown the way, and to future generations of war resisters, for continuing the struggle.

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