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Sometimes protest activities resulted in the arrest of SOS members. In April 1971 five SOS women were sentenced to 14 days in Fair-lea Women’s Prison for handing out anti-conscription leaflets to men registering for national service. The charge was trespass. The case attracted considerable media attention and the women were released after 11 days.

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Save Our Sons was established in 1965 in Sydney but soon other groups formed under the SOS banner across the country. Some men and young women became members, but for the most part SOS was comprised of women, mostly middle-class and middle-aged, whose sons were old enough to be subject to national service. The nature of SOS protests varied – some involved silent vigils in public places of commemoration such as Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance; at other times members handed out leaflets at Army barracks or railway stations from which national servicemen were travelling to begin their military service.

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The group successfully created monthly newsletters and staged various protests throughout the Vietnam War period, which included organised petitions and rallies, letter writing, peaceful demonstrations, silent vigils and the distribution of educational leaflets at Army Barracks or railway stations that promoted the rights of conscientious objectors and draft resistors.

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Protesters in Sydney NSW ( May 1965)

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Women Hosting A Weekly Vigil For Peace In Vietnam (1969)

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Charity Carriage Petitioning (1968)

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Mothers Meeting in community hall (1966)

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First established in Sydney, and later in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Newcastle and Adelaide the movement protested against conscription of Australians to fight in the Vietnam war. The movement made conscription of men under 18 who were not eligible to vote at that time a focus of their campaign. In 1970, five Save Our Sons women were jailed in Melbourne for handing out anti-conscription pamphlets whilst on government property.