Edward Hasbrouck outside the Federal courthouse in Boston before being sentenced for refusal to register with the Selective Service System, January 14, 1983. Photo by Tom Landers, Boston Globe.

With Edward Hasbrouck

“As we and many other peace-loving Americans see it, this is a choice about militarism, not a choice about gender equality. Expanding draft registration to women would bring about a semblance of equality in war (although women in the military would likely still be subject to disproportionate sexual harassment and abuse). Ending draft registration would bring about real equality in peace and freedom.” [, March 2021]

 is the only person to have been  in Massachusetts for resistance to the military draft since the end of the U.S. war in Indochina. An activist with Mass. Open Resistance and the , he “served” 4 ½ months in a Federal prison camp in 1983-1984 for refusing to register with the Selective Service System. In 2019, he was the only draft resister invited to  before the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service. He is a member of the War Resisters League and the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild, and is active in movements for peace, human rights, and . His Web site, , is the most comprehensive resource about the draft, draft registration, and draft resistance in the U.S. since 1980.

In this timely webinar on an issue currently under debate in Congress, Ed will discuss:

• The largely-unknown  since the end of the U.S. war in Indochina, including how  to draft registration has  activation of a draft.
• Why Congress is now considering proposals either to  (as endorsed by Peace Action) or to , and the  of trying to expand draft registration to women as a path to gender justice.
• How draft registration and contingency planning for a draft enable planning for longer, larger, and less popular wars, and how ending draft registration could constrain war planning and empower  to greater resistance to war and war preparations.