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Mendocino Bookstore will hold Lessons from the Last Revolution with Joel Eis on Friday, Sept. 29 from 5:30-7 p.m. at Mendocino Book Co., 102 S. School St. In his book “Standin’ in a Hard Rain: The Making of a Revolutionary Life,” Joel Eis tells the story of how and why an ordinary suburban kid became […]

“The most obvious assumption of military conscription is that the lives of young people in this country belong not to those young people; the lives of those young people instead are possessions of the state, to be used by the state when and where the state chooses to use them.

David Harris, an antiwar activist and writer who became a symbol of Vietnam-era draft resistance by refusing conscription and serving 20 months behind bars after virtually demanding a jail sentence, died Feb. 6 at his home in Mill Valley, Calif. He was 76.

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Documentary ‘The Boys Who Said No!’ recalls anti-draft, anti-war movement March 17, 2021 1:15 PM CDT By Eric A. Gordon A highly effective and moving new documentary about the young American men who refused to be sucked into the maw of the Selective Service System during the ...