This Thing is Like That Thing: Card Destruction Protest Edition
400 military draft cards burned in coordinated protests in New York City and in Washington, D.C.
- February 12, 1947
National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam hosts first public burning of a draft card.
- October 15, 1965
“A small but fractious rebellion is brewing against AARP, the advocacy group for older Americans. The A.S.A. is appealing directly to disaffected AARP members, urging them to cut or tear up their AARP cards… Many of the defectors have destroyed their AARP cards..”
- A Mini-Mutiny at AARP Over Health Care, New York Times, Aug. 2009