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The FREEDOM AND PEACE Party

• A FOUNDER of N.Y. Reform Democratic Movement The New York State Freedom & Peace Party is offering the people a political vehicle through • EXPOSED fall-out shelter corruption; which they can participate independently of the VOTE caused censure and defeat of established parties of racism and war. Republican Sp.eaker Joe Carlino • SERVED in N.Y. State Legislature, 1960 Freedom and Peace, in its first year. of exis­ to 1962. tence, has rejected narrow, sectarian attitudes • ARRESTED in Mississippi for which tend only to divide and separate people. FOR participating in 1960 Freedom Ride .. . Instead, it seeks to unite those forces, black and white, that are working for freedom, peace, im­ I only public official ever so arrested proved living conditions and political change in • IN 1962, his call for immediate our nation. withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam REAL/ cost him the Democratic nomination This year, the candidacies of Dick Gregory and for Congress Mark Lane (on the ballot in 5 states and by write­ in organized in 20 more) will reach broad num­ • AUTHOR of "Rush To Judgement," first .bers of people who realize the urgent need for an of two books about Kennedy independent alternative to Humphrey, Nixon and assassination Wallace-and their parties.

Moreover, through its political program, candi­ dates, speaking to issues and taking in support of those issues, the Freedom and Peace party intends to build an independent party of the people which can seriously challenge the established parties in the local, city-wide elections throughout N.Y. State, in 1969 and be­ Mark yond.

Lane Also on the Freedom & Peace Party Slate: VOTE FOR • HIS DEFENSE of Puerto Rican Nationalists charged with conspiracy to State-wide: Herman B. Ferguson, U. S. Senate; AREAL MAN Grace Mora Newman, Congress; Beulah Sanders, overthrow the government, helped State Senate; Carolyn Rivers, Flora Brown and break down discrimination in jury James Tucker, State Assembly. selection Dick GREGORY FOR PRESIDENT • WORKING with New Orleans D.A. James Garrison in e~posing Report ·Mark LANE FREEDOM & PEACE PARTY ..• FOR VICE-PRES. 853 Broadway, New York 10003. 533-8210 ; •.·

~205 ~ I DICK GREGORY The FREEDOM & PEAC-E PARTY and its candidates stand for:

e RECEIVED 23,000 WRITE-IN VOTES • IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL of all U.S. (those counted!) as independent troops from Vietnam Mayoral candidate in in 1967 • BLACK CONTROL of Black communities, e CO-CHAIRMAN WITH BERTRAND schools, police, health services RUSSELL of the International e ABOLITION OF THE DRAFT, amnesty for Committee of Inquiry of the draft resistors Assassination of President Kennedy a vote for any of these counts as e REPEAL OF REPRESSIVE LAWS: stop­ e MEMBER OF BOARD, NAACP Legal and-frisk, shoot-to-kill, McCarran act. Defense Fund A LOSS FOR YOU! • LOWER TAXES for workers, higher taxes e ARRESTED 44 TIMES in the North and on corporations and wealth South for civil rights activities e STRICT ENFORCEMENT of civil rights, IF YOU WANT TO WIN e ARRESTED IN CHICAGO -for leading open housing and equal employment VOTE FOR protest demonstration during laws Democratic Convention e FREE HEALTH CARE for all e ARRESTED IN WASHINGTON STATE e REPEAL OF ANTI-LABOR LAWS: Taft­ for defending Indian fishing rights Hartley, Taylor, Landrum-Griffith e MET WITH NORTH VIETNAMESE in e INDEPENDENCE for Puerto Rico Paris; is now explaining their views to e EXPROPRIATION of slum buildings inade­ the American people quately maintained Dick e .SOCIAL SATIRIST and philosopher Gregory LIST OF DICK GREGORY SPONSORS ------, Father Robert S. Browne Dagmar Wilson Rev. Thomas Lee Hayes Wisconsin NAACP leader, Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson Women Strike for Peace, Executive Director, Milwaukee University, American Washington Episcopal Peace Committee on A/rica F;J~':.,w¥'~fic e A WINNER AT MOVING AN INDE­ Ossie Davis Allen Ginsberg Noted Actor; playwright David Frost Pete Seeger Chairman, N . J. Noted Poet; activist, PENDENT POLITICAL FORCE! New York Folk Singer; activist, Lincoln Lynch Peace-Freedom Alternative; New York Chmn., Black United Front, Gregory's V.P. in New Jersey Paul Booth Harlem Former Head of SDS; Donna Allen e A WINNER AT UNITING WHITE, Herbert Aptheker Chairman Voters for Women Strike for. Peace, Stewart Meacham American Institute /llr WashinKton BLACK AND PUERTO-RICAN!! American Friends Service Marxist Studies, Brooklyn Change in Chicago Committee, Philadelphia Norma Becker Rev. Stephen H. Prof. Sidney Peck Reies Tijerin~ Co-Chairmun, Fifth Ave. Fritchman Co-Chairman, National e A WINNER AT FACING UP TO THE People's Constitutional Party Vietnam Peace Parade Minister Emeritus, Mobilization Committee. candidate for Governor, Committee, New York First Unitarian Church, Clevel.and REAL ISSUES!!! New Mexico; Floyd McKissick Los Angeles W. H. Ferry Dr. Former Director of Rev. Wm. Sloane Coffin Center for Study of National CORE, New York Chaplain, Yale University Democratic Institutions, ~;,·; Santa Barbara