Bruce Dancis
Fifth Estate Collective
Bruce Dancis
Draft Card Burning to Stop Vietnam War
Q&A
Burning draft cards in NYC 1967
Bruce Dancis’ book Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison (Cornell Press, 2014) chronicles his efforts during the Vietnam War to defy the draft and cripple the U.S. war effort.
Fifth Estate: You tore up your draft card and then led a mass burning of them in 1967.
Bruce Dancis: Very few people wanted to fight in the Vietnam War, even those who supported it. There were 27 million draft age men and 25 million didn’t go into the army.
Jan 11, 2017 Read the whole text...