OPINION: In Iran, bombs are democracy’s death sentence

“Because the state has enlisted itself to regulate morality and behavior, any deviation from the imposed social order is an inherent form of dissent,” writes Leili Kamali PO ’29. “As the war goes on, the biggest setback of all goes unrecognized – by bombing Iran, Trump is destroying and devaluing a decades-long movement of defiance that Iranians have been building all by themselves.”

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‘Breathing together’: Documentary on Vietnam War draft resistance screened at Pitzer

On April 4, Pitzer College’s Office of Alumni and Family Engagement and the Intercollegiate Media Studies department presented a screening of “The Boys Who Said NO!,” a documentary on the draft resistance movement during the Vietnam War. A panel discussion with documentary contributors Sara Wood Smith PZ ’66 and draft

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