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| David Dellinger | Category: Archives | Topic: Activism | Books about Activism |  Print  E-Mail
This page has been viewed 9604 times | | Born into a wealthy Republican family, his father a respected Boston attorney, Dave Dellinger graduated from Yale and then did time for refusing to register for the draft in World War II. He has been arrested numerous times for pacifist demonstrations since then. Dellinger was a leading figure in the movement against the war in Vietnam, and at age 54 was the oldest member of the Chicago Eight, the group that was prosecuted for conspiring to get clubbed by police at the Democratic convention in August 1968.
Dellinger was the founder, publisher, and editor of "Liberation" Magazine from 1956-1975. His recent autobiography is titled "From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter" (Pantheon, 1993).
| Suggested Reading The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex
by Helen CaldicottHelen Caldicott has been an anti-nuclear activist for decades. In her new book, she details the Pentagon's latest strategies for war and combating terrorism, and how these strategies are shaped by the needs of the Military/Industrial Complex and politicians, rather than the American people. Especially frightening is how close we are to a nuclear holocaust at this time in history thanks to Bush's foreign policies, a revived nuclear weapons program and America's obsession with weapons of mass destruction. |
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