![]() After his release, he continued to organize against the war until Peace Agreements were signed in 1973. Harris was incarcerated between 19, mostly in the Federal Correctional Institution at La Tuna, Texas. Ordered to report for military service in 1968, he refused and was convicted of “failure to obey a lawful order of military induction” and sentenced to three years in Federal prison. He then helped found The Resistance and organized civil disobedience against the draft in the West and nationally for the next three years. In 1966, David Harris, then Stanford’s “radical” student body President, announced he would no longer cooperate with the Selective Service System overseeing military conscription, would refuse any orders Selective Service issued him, and urged everyone else to do the same. ![]()
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