Felon for peace : the memoir of a Vietnam-era draft resister / Jerry Elmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elmer, Jerry, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Elmer, Jerry, 1951-.

Elmer, Jerry.

Physical Description:

xi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.

Summary:

At the height of the Vietnam War, Jerry Elmer committed his first felony by publicly refusing to register for the draft. Over the next 20 years, using nonviolent tactics, Jerry worked for peace, justice, and the environment, from organizing draft board raids with Father Phil Berrigan to touring the killing fields of Cambodia to protesting nuclear power plants before and after Three Mile Island. The only convicted felon in Harvard Law School's class of 1990, Jerry Elmer gives us his lifetime of lessons in nonviolent protest as an example for all who wish to make a positive difference today.

Contents:

School

Students for peace in Vietnam

Nonregistration

Draft-file destruction : six draft boards in Boston

More draft-file destruction : the Rhode Island political offensive for freedom

Still more draft-file destruction (and a plot to kidnap Henry Kissinger?)

The American Friends Service Committee

Travels in Southeast Asia

Mass civil disobedience

After the war : human rights in Vietnam

After the war : was the peace movement effective?

There is no way to peace; peace is the way

Neither fish nor fowl.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0826514944

0826514952

OCLC:

57730828