Editing Allen Ginsberg (section)

===Role in Vietnam War protests===
[[File:Poet and activist Allen Ginsberg with the protestors - Miami Beach, Florida 1 (cropped1).jpg|thumb|right|Protesting at the [[1972 Republican National Convention]]]]
Ginsberg was a signer of the [[anti-war movement|anti-war]] manifesto "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority", circulated among draft resistors in 1967 by members of the radical intellectual collective [[RESIST (non-profit)|RESIST]]. Other signers and RESIST members included [[Mitchell Goodman]], [[Henry Braun]], [[Denise Levertov]], [[Noam Chomsky]], [[William Sloane Coffin]], [[Dwight Macdonald]], [[Robert Lowell]], and [[Norman Mailer]].<ref>Barsky, Robert F. (1998), [http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chomsky/chomsky/4/5.html "Marching with the Armies of the Night"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116133359/http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chomsky/chomsky/4/5.html |date=January 16, 2013 }} in ''Noam Chomsky: a life of dissent''. 1st ed. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press</ref><ref>Mitford, Jessica (1969) ''The Trial of Dr. Spock, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., Michael Ferber, Mitchell Goodman, and Marcus Raskin'' [1st ed.]. New York: Knopf, p. 255.</ref> In 1968, Ginsberg signed the "[[Writers and Editors War Tax Protest]]" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the [[Vietnam War]],<ref>"Writers and Editors War Tax Protest", ''New York Post''. January 30, 1968.</ref> and later became a sponsor of the War Tax Resistance project, which practiced and advocated [[tax resistance]] as a form of anti-war protest.<ref>"A Call to War Tax Resistance", ''The Cycle'', May 14, 1970, p. 7.</ref>

He was present the night of the [[Tompkins Square Park riot (1988)]] and provided an eyewitness account to ''The New York Times''.<ref>Purdham, Todd (August 14, 1988), [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0711FC3A540C778DDDA10894D0484D81 "Melee in Tompkins Sq. Park: Violence and Its Provocation"]. ''The New York Times'', sect. 1, part 1, p. 1, col. 4: Metropolitan Desk.</ref>