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C00018020.Pdf IlL 1 _ _. -~~ ___;_, ,_J__._w..~' l.l.i.i.l.ollll t-tJi111-'-. ---..!!II...Lili:.L:, 1J.L11 ..LL11.L1!1 mlill!IIIIJ!J.Ii : J!IL1111LLII .L!!JIIIIJL!l!IIIIIJ.Lii..L.I!W.!IIII~II..........,....~Jl.lliiii:J..I._-!i....._J...I ..J.IiJ-1 -J.----L· ~----------- 9 June 1911 .. SITUATION INFORMATION HEPORT CALENDAR OF TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES Asteriskcd items are either reported for the first time, or contain additions or changes to previously reported activities. *Summer f97l, Nationwide Since the end of the antiwar May ofCensive in Washington, D. C., a number of meetings have. taken place whe r~ the various radical antiwar groups hav~ ha(i an opportunity to appraise their rt"ceot eCCorts and plan future ~vents in the antiwar movement. In mid:.May a World Peace Assembly called by the \Vorld Peac1! Council took place in. Budapest. The WPC is under the domina­ - tion of the Soviet Union. At the assembly, the delegates. highly praised the United States antiwar ef!ort during the sp~ng demonstration season. The \VPC secretary general, Romesh Chandra, a niembc r of the Central Exct:utive Committee of the Communist Party of India, praised the 25 United States delegates for their antiwar efforts. Chandra advised the meeting that the WPC was urging mass ivc demonstrations on 4 July at United States .~Jnl>assies around the world with the central slogan "Set the 171 Datc:•i This new slogan has been urged on the Americln antiwar movement by communists abr.oad (including the chief VietCong negotiator at Paris) because the communist feeling is that the most popular slogan in recent action, 111! the Govermnent Doesn't Stop the War, We Will Slop the Government," allows the news m~dia too llli.H:h !alitude in st.rc!SSing the demonstrators' eHurts to slop the :.1 )j·J / Governn1cnt while dt~cmphasizing the stop-the-war thentc. 1 /-~' . • • .. • · Prominent ~mericans "'!ho were in attendance at th'e Budapest ....... conference were tl)e. Rev. Ralph Abernathy, who accepted a peace . ; .. ... meda.l posthumously awarded to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Mrs .. Angie Dick~rson of the Emergency Committee to End Repression; Dr. Carleton Goodlett, San Francisco publisher who has bc<j,p described as a leftist; . I \ ., l ·r.J,.I .,. ..... ,··. I I Ill I ,I :.IIi 111111 It I : Ill II I mllllll illllll IIll IIIIi Ill II II II ::Ill. I I ::1 C00018020 . '·• ·- • and Gil Green of the Conm1unist Party of New .York State. The - Budapest meeting was also attended by Mrs. Syh•ia Kushner of the Chicago Peace Council who has been named as a Communist Party nwmber; Professor Sidney Peck o{ the People's Cualitiun fur Peace and Justice, forrncrly a £ommunist Party uffidal in Wisconsin; and Irving SarnufC of the Los Angeles Pl~ace Council who has abo been ·named· as a member of the Communist Party. Am~ricans present at' .,_. "' brri Budapest also represented the Young Wo r~crs Libc ration League, the· ~~~···· 'i Women's Strike !or Peace, ·and the Black Muslims. I::,· ,,.. ·: '/ -~~ ·,.) i\ .~ .r .i . ") c~ #otc• .,. 71 At a mid-May meeting of the Student Mobilization Steering Con1mittee a national convention of the antiwar n1oven1ent was announced to be held. in New York City {rom Z-4 July. The meeting will be under tht.~ sponsorship of the Socialist Workers Party-controlled National Peace Action Coalition •• In the recen't past it has been indicated that this con­ ference would be held in the Cleveland area. Later reports placed it at Washington, D. C. It now seems firm that Hunter College in New York City has been scleC'tl:cl, lending added support to indications that have been noted that future antiwar dl•monstrations uf the NPAC val'icty might be held in New Yorl< instead of Washington. / ..-:~· ·/(- j r-'1) ': .:·,.; ; ·. • /1 The NPAC· has· also announced recent formation of plans fur an intensive summc!r program .organizing "antiwar schools 11 at various Cities throughout the country. Th.c first such school was held ~n New York on ~ . ...._.r. ..,..., . .. 5 June and was attended by several hundreci r~icals. Cities mentioned as possible future sites of "antiwar Sl:honls 11 have been Lus Angl·lcs, San Francis co, Indianapolis and St. Louis. 'fhost> who participate will be encouraged to form local peace action coalitions in the areas from which they hail. According to spokesmen of .the NPAC the purpose of the sc.hools is to train anti.war activists in the techniques and skills nec­ essary to reach veterans,· trade unions, serviccnten, wornen, studcn.ts, Pucrto·-Ricans and other groups. ,rz.? /11·-_;,,;·.f?J.. t/ •. ~/J t)-?,, 'r The PCPJ which is under the inCluence of the CPUSA held its rt!C'ent meeting on z't May a't Washington. Thl' PCPJ has dec.:iclc~d to ll'nci support 'tu lobbying c~H·H·ts taking place in Washingluu this week foa· the purpose ·Of protesting the extension of the draft laws as well as the Vh.·lnam W~r. The usual grandiose statements werf! made at the PCPJ ~ . • meeting with regard Lu Lhe number of persons expected to f>articipatc, . The· claim was thatuct~cen 10,000 and so: 000 would attend, but a mur.e r_ealistic figure is several hundred. li= /!A_- ;, .../) (j) (._.::;- .() f.i:.t~'t • 2 ... I I tll',lll lllml!llilllllltttlllll:lltttlttl, , , :III;J... J , 1 j,l _ .. ~- ·.• ••• • • ••••• II. ...... ..., ·· ......... .. ., ~ , ..,•• • •• ,a 6:"~·· -: 7-'·-~ . ·~·. ··. , ........... .•4 · ., •..... ~-..... _,. ·' .•· ......._,.._ .-;;: I' ~- . .. • - A combined meeting Cor the PCPJ and the May Day Collee:tive was held in Washington, D. C. on' 19 May. John Rankin Davis {Ja,~k Davis) addressed the gathering and advised that he had just returned from Europe where he ha_d visited Budapest (probably attending the World Peace Assembly) and met with North Vietnamese and Viet Co11g delegates at Paris. , According' to Jack Davis. the North Vietnamese delegates in Paris n1ade the following suggestions {reportedly_in th~ form of "instructions") for prosecuting the antiwar drive in' the United State's: ~1) the C'reation of a new slogan for the peace movement, "Set the Date by Decembe-r 171" (similar to the slogan noted above), Z) CC?n~ centrate the n1ajor antiwar efforts in an attempt to lobby members of Congress, 3) support the propos_als of Sen. George McGovern and Rep.· Bella Abzug and 4) change the name of the May Da·y Collective· and form a political party sintilar to SDS and establish chapters across the country. lt is•anticipated that such a party will eventually devc::lop voting strength in United States elections. r f.iL I A'-~':~ {c· /J.. :.'f.!'..~~,,.,.~., 7/ Jack Davis advised that a national action consisth'lg of si>eeches . and demonstrations is being planned for #ashington 01~ ·I July and again during_ Odul>cr_ of this year. .' .I I lA' :. ·.;, ,. , '.:'.: .';;f:,.:.l Betwc~n 25 -Z7· June a national confe renee of the PCPJ will br held at Milwaukee (the sam~ dates and plac"e a~ last year). Reportedly, - all groups opposing the war and repression will be invited to participate. This will encompass the May Day Collectives ,• the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Welfare Rights Organization, and other groups. Reportedly,. the PCPJ is hopin~ for group representation and not a mass conference. One of the topics that will be discussed at Milwaukee is the possibility of staging another mass ·demonstration in Washington next August •. 'Ihc conference will be held in Milwaukee at the church of Father J.ames. Groppi,who has figured prominently in p~evioU.j protests and wili probably be present ·for ~~~ Mil.~,a~~~.:, ..c~q 2 1_.,, · fcrence. · . ·ltd /A ;-.,Y'eo, L·c:'-~ .1_.:"'~"· At " W<1shington press con{cren<·c held early in June, David Dell inl(cr advisl~cl that the Cot·thcoming Milwaukee meeting will f(,rmulatc plans fnr anuthcr "oCC<:nsive. 11 Dcllin~cr ·{who apparently hacl nut yet gotten lhe word Crom-€uropc) st.alcd "since the Government will nul slop . - . • the war, the pcople.will stop the war by stopping the Guvernmcnt.. ·11 :.,,1 Accor.ding to Del_linger, _the next demonstrations will again emph~s ~.ze · · ·.· "force without violence." ;··,;, 'A 7,,..-;-:-~/l;:.· tc/( "; ).., .. -11 ' ·' .:J.. I . 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The Needmore n\eeting decided that demonstrations would be held at Washington durfng the third and fourth weeks of June as Wl'-ll as .at various military bases to demand an end to the draft law. From -1-6 July demonstr.ations will be held at New York and at nthc..·r major dties to protest th~ war and to demand that a definite date be set for with­ drawal of United States troops from Vietnam. It was also tentatively planned that in Al.!'JluSt a national confe renee of May Day Gollectives would be staged in either Kansas or Colorado to organize a national political party (one of the suggestions from Eurnpe).
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