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Thread #48038   Message #719514
Posted By: GUEST
29-May-02 - 11:19 AM
Thread Name: Anti-Conscription Movement
Subject: RE: Anti-Conscription Movement
And getting back to the subject of thread, does anyone have any good information on songs of the Australian anti-conscription movement? The web has a lot of information on the movement itself which refers to songs, but I'm not finding much in the way of lyrics themselves.

Also, here are a few interesting sites I stumbled across when I went out looking for anti-conscription songs. Most don't have music content, but I thought might be of interest here in the thread.

One on WWI British COs in prison, here is an interesting set of postcards issued to gain support for COs:

http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/prototype/redclyde/image017.htm

Many suffragettes were involved in British, Irish and Australian anti-conscription movements. Here are a few links related to them:

On Adela Pankhurst's British and Australian efforts:

http://www.wel.org.au/inkwel/ink964/964suffra.htm

Here is a fascinating page titled "Swarthmore College Peace Collection: Resources on Peace History" which among other fascinating details, has a link to a PBS documentary on WWII US pacifists and COs.

Swarthmore page is here:

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/peacehis.htm#co

PBS' "The Good War" page is here:

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/thegoodwar/

And UC Berkeley has this interesting page from Emma Goldman's "Emma Goldman, Living My Life Volume Two CHAPTER XLV" which is all about her involvement with the No Conscription League:

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Writings/MyLife/chapter45.html