Demonstrate to End the Draft – Mar. 1970
The Student Mobilization Committee publishes a flyer as a co-sponsor of anti-draft actions taking place the week of March 15-19, 1970.
Upwards of 500 people rallied March 19th at the Sylvan Theater and at the national draft board of F Street NW. Several people burned draft cards and a coffin filled with draft cards was left at the door.
Other organizations sponsoring the protest included the Vietnam Moratorium Committee in one of their last acts before the group was dissolved, Episcopal Peace Fellowship, New Mobilization Committee, Young Socialist Alliance, D.C. Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, Washington Peace Center, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Women’s Strike for Peace.
The Student Mobilization Committee began as the student arm of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, but became a separate organization where the Socialist Workers Party, the dominate Trotskyist organization at the time, and it’s youth arm the Young Socialist Alliance had considerable influence.
For a PDF of this 8 ½ x 11, two-sided flyer, see washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/1970-03-smc-e...
For more information and related images, see www.flickr.com/gp/washington_area_spark/C77CQc
Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson
Demonstrate to End the Draft – Mar. 1970
The Student Mobilization Committee publishes a flyer as a co-sponsor of anti-draft actions taking place the week of March 15-19, 1970.
Upwards of 500 people rallied March 19th at the Sylvan Theater and at the national draft board of F Street NW. Several people burned draft cards and a coffin filled with draft cards was left at the door.
Other organizations sponsoring the protest included the Vietnam Moratorium Committee in one of their last acts before the group was dissolved, Episcopal Peace Fellowship, New Mobilization Committee, Young Socialist Alliance, D.C. Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, Washington Peace Center, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Women’s Strike for Peace.
The Student Mobilization Committee began as the student arm of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, but became a separate organization where the Socialist Workers Party, the dominate Trotskyist organization at the time, and it’s youth arm the Young Socialist Alliance had considerable influence.
For a PDF of this 8 ½ x 11, two-sided flyer, see washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/1970-03-smc-e...
For more information and related images, see www.flickr.com/gp/washington_area_spark/C77CQc
Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson