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spazzmann

(748 posts)
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 11:47 AM Jan 2013

Today in Peace and Justice history on January 16, 1966

Folksinger Joan Baez was sentenced to 10 days in jail for participating in a protest which blocked the entrance to the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland, California. She was part of an action to impede the drafting of young men for the U.S. war in Vietnam. http://bit.ly/Wds0wq

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