Hedemann, Ed
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-135
Abstract
The Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice was initated in 1974 to "call for disarmament, a simultaneous shift of economic priorities away from militarism and toward meeting domestic and global human needs, and removal of the causes of war." When the Walk ended on October 18, 1976 at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., walkers had covered 8,000 miles through 34 states.
Dates:
1975-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
War Resisters League Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Abstract
The War Resisters League is a pacifist organization whose members are against all war. Witnessing the establishment of the War Resisters' International in Europe in 1921, and sensing a need for a similar organization in the United States, Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan established the War Resisters League as an independent organization. The War Resisters League membership pledge, which has remained essentially unchanged since its inception, reads: "The War Resisters League affirms that war is a...
Dates:
1923-2013
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
WIN Magazine Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-077
Abstract
WIN Magazine was started in January 1966 by the New York Workshop in Nonviolence, a New York City pacifist direct action group which functioned as an affiliate of both the Committee for Nonviolent Action and the War Resisters League. In September 1966 full title of the magazine became WIN Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action. WIN solicited articles and poetry promoting many liberal and radical causes including disarmament, draft resistance, war tax refusal, and other pacifist concerns...
Dates:
1968-1984
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft registration -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Environmental protection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- WIN (Periodical) 1
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