They burned their draft cards.
Abbie Hoffman
The anti-war protesters of the Vietnam era had a personal stake in their protest...they might get drafted! Today's protester doesn't have that personal stake.
The public was drafted, the public resisted.
when people be on the look out for protesters.
Hayden was born in 1939; he still could've been drafted into military service.
Protesters protest about freedom of assembly because they feel strongly about this subject. The right to assemble and protest is a right that American feel strongly about and exercise when ever they choose to let others know how they feel about a subject.
Burning one's draft card.
The protesters are not in control of how their events are interpreted.
they arrested the protesters
A peaceful protest is simply a demonstration of a belief without violence. Picketing is one of the most common, as is a petition.
Frequent protest marches around government buildings and on college campuses. Many men eligible to be drafted burned their draft cards and went to Canada to avoid being drafted into the Army. Eventually, Richard Nixon was elected president with a campaign promise to end the war in Vietnam.
Yippies carried out demonstrations in the streets outside the 1968 Democratic Convention. Chicago Police attacked them. Anti-War Protesters were trying to influence the Democratic Convention to choose a Peace Candidate to end the war in Vietnam which had escalated rapidly under LBJ.