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The influence they have on the Australian people (continued)

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five SOS women were sentenced to 14 days in Fairlea 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.

-movement was against the government not the servicemen

one and fifty women turned up; held demonstration in city square and every thirteen weeks outside the barracks at Richmond

Photograph of the Fairlea Women's prison located in Fairfield,Victoria where the five SOS protesters were sent

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The influence they have on the Australian People

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Save Our Sons had a great influence to the peace movement and the outcry against conscription,inevitably leading to forces being withdrawed from Vietnam and even more so when a SOS protester would be arrested for simply speaking up.

Changed political views of many women who joined. They primarily came from liberal voting suburbs but found themselves joining the labour camp

Customs officer hold Vietnamese child at save our sons protest

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The Save Our Sons group was made to protest against conscription (compulsory military work) established in 1965,the year America intervened in Vietnam.They believed people shouldn't go to war involuntarily,especially one that didn't involve the country

For many who joined SOS the experience gave them the confidence and ability to publicly express their views for the first time. The women’s movement of the 1970s benefited from the politicisation of such people.

This photograph is a float going through Brisbane during the 1967 May Day parade

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Australians in Vietnam: Opposition to the War

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Australians in Vietnam: Opposition to the War

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By Paul,Michael and Jadon.

Photograph of Save our sons protest in the Sydney CBD fighting against conscription

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The influence they have on the Australian People (Part III

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Members of SOS also prepared and circulated petitions, approached members of parliament and worked in conjunction with other anti-war groups to protest against national service and the war

Some members of SOS were subject to abuse and insult. Called communists at a time when the term was replete with implications that the accused was somehow anti-Australian, some women were also sworn at and called ‘bad mothers’ and neglectful wives.

Unwelcome and subject to abuse, the SOS protesters persisted because they believed their cause was worth the opprobrium and verbal confrontation.

"Save our Sons" demonstration at Marrickville Army Barracks, New South Wales.