With thousands of soldiers dying in Vietnam, a group of young friends in New York embarked on a secret mission to bring the U.S. war machine to its knees. They did it in their underwear, using knitting needles, fondue forks, and an inflatable kiddie pool.
Issue no. 173, “The Buffalo Raiders,” is now live:
In a world without computers, the physical documents containing the personal information of draft-eligible men might have been the only materials linking them to the Selective Service. “ I often thought, what about the women who worked in those offices?” Jim Good said. “Did they see those files as death certificates?” He and other peace activists came to view the contents of draft boards’ filing cabinets as no different from bombs or bullets: They were just tools that helped the government kill. Crucially, destroying files could be accomplished without any violence, unless you counted the destruction of property, which raiders did not. They believed that some property simply didn’t have a right to exist.
