CONSCIENCE: THE TESTIMONY OF ELIZABETH GOOD
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Friday, March 13th 8 PM $5
MUCCC Theatre
142 Atlantic Ave, Rochester, NY 14607
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/744845932296285/745252662255612/
THIS EVENT IS AT MUCCC not the FLYING SQUIRREL.
Friends,
As many or all of you know Bob Good--a Flying Squirrel Collective Member--was a member of a group known as the Camden28 back in 1971. It was a draft board raid against the Selective Service system. They were caught and went on trial in 1973. It was a long and involved trial that ended with an acquittal for all defendants on all charges.
One of the turning points and high points of the trial was the powerful testimony of his mom, Betty Good. She had lost one son in the war and now had another son facing prison for his involvement in an anti-war activity. Her testimony about his brother’s death had many in tears.
After all of these years there is going to be a reenactment of her testimony, so Bob thought he would share this with all of you.
It is this coming Friday night, March 13th at the Multi Use Cultural Community Center (MUCCC) on Atlantic Ave. Caroline Yeager, who curates at the Drydan, will be in the role of Betty.
Here is a link to the event and MUCC:
http://muccc.org/events/
Feel free to pass this on to others who might be interested.
From MUCCC's website:
The Camden 28, a “Catholic Left” activist group protesting the Vietnam War and its effects on urban America, raided a Camden, N.J., draft board office in August, 1971. Their arrests and subsequent trials — seventeen of the defendants stood together in one major trial, the other 11 had their cases severed for various reasons — placed the issues of responsibility, morality and truth about the Vietnam War before the public and demanded accountability from both the government and middle class America. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan called it “one of the great trials of the 20th century.” And its star witness turned out not to be a government expert, but a deeply religious mother of ten, who had lost one son to the war, and now watched as another son faced imprisonment for trying to stop that war. Elizabeth Good’s testimony stunned the court and her heartfelt words resonate today as a voice of conscience in the face of conformity, apathy and fear.
