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PEACEFEST
CELEBRATING 40TH ANNIVERSARY
OF MILWAUKEE 14 AND RESISTANCE TO
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY HOSTING
DEPARTMENTS OF MILITARY SCIENCE
1968–2008
September 28, 2008 at Henke Courtyard at Marquette University
On September 24th, 1968, fourteen people — including five priests and a minister — removed approximately 10,000 draft files from Milwaukee’s Selective Service office and burned them with home-made napalm.
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“by May 1968, the university issued a second set of rules, this time for ‘Faculty Participation in Disruptive Demonstrations.’ By then, a key target was the Reserved Officers Training Corps, a fixture at Marquette since before World War II.” (Milwaukee Jesuit University, Marquette 1881–1981 byThomas J. Jablonsky p. 329)
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Milwaukee 14 Today
40 Year History of Nonviolent Resistance To Military At Marquette
Marquette, Be Faithful to the Gospel and No Longer Host Departments of Military Science
For more information contact MUPeacemakers@nonviolentworm.org