Page 16 RAIN July 1980 ever people take control of,t:heir own "vital interests" and deny the government's claim on their lives, that is a beginning of the selfreliant power of the people. MIN: What is the NRC? What does it hope to accomplish? Moore: The National Resistance Committee.is a network of individuals and o~ganization~ who are committed to stopping draft registration. Our purposes are: . 1. To resist current U.S. preparations for conscription and war by encouraging those of draft age to refuse registration. _ 2. To sponsor and promote nonviolent demonstrations and1civil disobedience at U.S. Post Offices during the draft registration weeks in the summer of i980, and 3. To build~ grassroots movement by collecting pledges of nonregistration, distributing literature, holding public actions, forming _ support groups and working with existing organizations to _resist registration. RAIN: What's the story with the Post Office actions? Moore: The Carter administration proposes tq begin face-to-face draft registration of all 19- and 20-year-old males at U.S. Post Offices during an initial two-week period [the specific dates have not been'announc,ed as we go to press]. On these registration weeks hinge the futu,re of the draft in this country. If the mass sign~ups are a success, the draft will become an entrenched part of American society, with omipous consequences for peace abroad and freedom at home. If, on the other pand, young people refuse to register, and if resistance is organized and widespread, the draft will fail. That's why the National Resistance Committee is committed to unifying all draft opponents arour:id a common and narrowly defined goal: stop registration. RAIN: How's the health of the resistance movement today? · Moore: The current resistance mqvement is a beautiful expression of people in voluntary autonomous associations claiming their independence from conscription and war procurements. This is a do-ityourself movement. The time and effort and funds we all put in come from our commitment to stopping registration. RAIN: How can concerned people help in the resistance movement? - Moore: Organize in your community. Time, energy and~ oney are, of course, always welcome. Also, rainbow armbands are being worn as a symbol of draft resistance. Get them from us or go to your iocal notions store, buy your own rainbow ribbon (Offrey #8141 width #9), cut it to 13" length, and attach with a small safety pin. O ( DRAFT The War at Home (movie), 1979, at movie theaters, produ.;:ed and distributed by: • Catalyst Films 1301 E. Washington Ave. Madison, WI 53701 608/251-6987 · ) "Rt:!member the war?" asked a Vietnam vet at a recent anti-draft rally in Portland. "All that bombing and shooting and riotingand in Vietnam it was even worse!" The War at Home is a documentary chronology of an era. From the first isolated voices of the early sixties to the mass movement a decade later, the film tells the story of the Vietnam anti-war movement by fo~using on its development in Madison, Wisconsin. Between clips of glibly reassuring presidents, congressmen, university officials and corporate recruiters are spliced frames of the struggle in Vietnam and at home-in Madison and Chicago, at Kent State and Jackson State. Many of the same questions about resistance, strategy, tactics, and so on are cropping up again..This film sharpens our memories so that we can better learn from our experience. It is especially valuable for those of draft age as a way of providing a ·fuller context for understanding what's happehing now. Ask your local theater to get it, publicize it; and show it! -MR (CONSUMER) Reckless Homicide? Ford's Pinto Trial~ by Lee Patri<;k ~trobel, 286 pp., $4.95 from: and books I. 702 South Michigan South Bend,.IN 46618 · In August 1978 three teenage girls in Elkhart County, Indiana, burned to death after their Ford Pinto burst into flames when struck from behind by a van. As county prosecutor Michael Cosentino studied the grisly details of the accident, he came to a matter-of-fact conclusion: Ford Motor Comp~ny had knowingly sold an unsafe product and should be charged with reckless homicide. "Mike, are you crazy?'.' exclaimed the prosecutor's as~istant.1
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