"We have to let other people know what we're doing," says Grizzard, "and we also want to decentralize BDRG." In one week, BDRG spokesmen addressed the Dorchester Voice of Women, a teenage gang in Allston, students at Northeastern, and neighborhood groups in Providence, Waltham, and Bridgewater.

The most novel part of the BDRG's work, and a completely new concept in student anti-war movement, is community organizing around the draft. Grizzard and John Maher '60 have been organizing since October in two Cambridge working class areas, the neighborhood around the BDRG office and the area between Putnam Ave. and M.I.T. bordered by Mass. Ave. and the Charles.

Each day, Grizzard and Maher divide 10 to 15 volunteers into boy and girl pairs. They work for a few hours and come back and discuss their experiences. A pair will cover from four to a dozen homes per day. The organizers have covered nearly 400 homes so far, Grizzard said. The list of 1-A's is available at local draft boards, and the homes visited are confined to this list.

Inevitable and Natural

The difficulty in organizing working class youths is that they typically regard the draft as inevitable and natural. It is part of growing up and being a man and is an opportunity to leave home and learn a trade, they believe. "It is this propaganda which we must defeat," says Grizzard. "It is a deep feeling and not easy, but it's possible because nobody likes this war. It's gone on too long for them. Nobody believes the government anymore."

The most important thing, according to Grizzard, is getting into a conversation with the people. The organizers represent the Government as an outside force that pushes the people around and represents the draft as a neighborhood problem which must be met by a united effort.

"We communicate this idea, and the people believe us. This is not heresy. It makes sense. They can talk about it," says Grizzard. The idea is that people in the neighborhood should watch out for each other and make each other more secure about the draft.

Thirty persons worked with Maher and Grizzard in the fall. Twenty were students. "Students are a help getting something started but for sustained work you need day-to-day presence," says Grizzard. For these reasons, according to Grizzard, it is better for students to confine their anti-draft work to the campus.

Students can most effectively fight the draft by forming a draft union, Dyen says. Harvard SDS hopes to establish an effective draft union and canvass the entire senior class within the first four weeks of this semester. The union would organize students to resist the draft and provide support for their confrontations with authority, by staging demonstrations at induction centers and possibly boycotts of classes. The Harvard draft union would also be an anti-war organization, distributing films, planning demonstrations.

A Harvard student interested in draft information, after trying the yellow pages without success, finally resorted to telephone information:

OPERATOR: Oh, are we getting a lot of telephone calls for that number!

STUDENT: Yeah?

OPERATOR: Yeah, a whole lotta boys are interested.

STUDENT: Miss, you are a patriot!

OPERATOR: Who am I to believe?