“Standing up and saying ‘no’ is the least I can do,” says Jenny, part of a three-member, cash-strapped Ithaca commune trying to get themselves — and anyone else they can enlist —to Chicago to protest the Vietnam War in “Days of Rage,” the Steven Levenson play on stage last weekend, and next, at the Greenhouse Theater Center on Lincoln Avenue.

After weeks of effort, they’ve signed up two people — five if they count themselves.

Current events have a way of resonating with history. America’s undeniable current slide into authoritarianism evokes the 1930s: all-powerful, venerated leader with his thumb jammed in every aspect of public life? Check. News media condemned while ridiculous lies are promoted and believed? Double check. Powerless groups blamed unfairly for social ills and persecuted

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