Author: Jerry Elmer
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826514950
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
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.
Felon for Peace
Author: Jerry Elmer
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826514950
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826514950
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
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.
Digest of the American and English Annotated Cases, Volumes 1-20
Blackstone's Commentaries Abridged
Author: William Blackstone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
American Criminal Reports
Author: John Gardner Hawley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Eirenarcha: Or of the office of the Iustices of Peace, in foure Bookes. Gathered 1579: first published 1581: and reuised, corrected, and enlarged, in the 31. yeare of ... Queene Elizabeth ... Whereunto is added the newly reformed Commission of the Peace, etc
Liber Albus
Author: City of London (England). Corporation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City of London
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City of London
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
American and English Annotated Cases
Eirenarcha, Or Of the Office of the Iustices of Peace, Etc
Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries
Author: William Blackstone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The Law Journal ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 954
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