The Resistance was an anti-war organization founded by David Harris, the former student body president of Stanford University. The organization began coordinating in February 1967 in Berkeley and Palo Alto with the goal to create a national movement. Their first signature event was October 16, 1967, in which their members sent back draft cards and publicly announced that they would no longer cooperate with the Selective Service. Read more at The Wisconsin Historical Society>>

The insignia of the organization was the Greek letter omega, Ω, the symbol for ohms—the unit of electrical resistance. Some members of The Resistance publicly burned their draft cards or refused to register for the draft. Other members deposited their cards into boxes on selected dates and then mailed them to the government. They were then drafted, refused to be inducted, and fought their cases in the federal courts. These draft resisters hoped that their public civil disobedience would help to bring the war and the draft to an end. Many young men went to federal prison as part of this movement. Learn more at Wikipedia>>

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