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NewMoöilfzer Issue September 5, 1969 New Mobe represents majority movement Fall offensive to culminate in massive demonstrations On the July 4th weekend commemorating the revolutionary struggle for American Independence, more than one thousand delegates and observers representing some 300 national and regional organizations met in Cleveland to resolve their determination to stop the war in Vietnam so that the Vietnamese people can assert their right to revolutionary national independence . That resolve called for the beginning of a militant peace offensive in the fall by the whole anti-war movement in this country. To carry forward the work of the old National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam in a time when the forces against the war now constitute a clear political majority, a new anti-war coalition was formed to affect the inclusion of a wider social base among Gl's, high school students, labor, clergy and third world communities. The new anti-war coalition is aptly called the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Headed by six co-chairmen(Sid Lens, Doug Dowd, Sid Peck, Stewart Meacham, Cora Weiss, and Dave Dellinger)who are responsible for providing leadership for major actions in Washington, Chicago and San Francisco, the New Mobe develops major policy questions through a broadly constituted national Steering Committee composed of nearly one hundred persons representing geographic areas and varied political tendencies. The New Mobe is deeply committed to the principle of non-exclusion in its political struggle against the military- industrial war machine. In addition to the national Steering Committee, working committees responsible for the detailed planning of national actions have beerfcformed at the initiative of action chairmen and project directors. In sum, the New Mobe continues the crucial work of mobilizing the American people against the war of aggression and counterrevolution in Vietnam. But what is new about the New Mobe is that it is a coalition which now reflects a majority move- ment and to that extent it encompasses within its midst the widest spectrum of forces yet to unite in opposition and resistance to the war. The task before the New Mobe is very clear. It must do all that it can to mobilize the political will of the American people to demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. military forces and weaponry from Vietnam and to further insist that there be no future wars of intervention at home or abroad against oppressed aod exploited people who are asserting their rights of self-determination In the quest for human liberation. Moratorium to halt 'business as usual' The Vietnam Moratorium Committee, a broad based group initiated by former McCarthy and Kennedy forces, has called for a "moratorium on business as usual" on October 15. Students, faculty and concerned citizens are being asked to devote the whole day to taking the Issue of peace in Vietnam to the larger community. An effort will be made to educate communities on the need to withdraw our troops and to replace the Thieu-Ky regime by a broad- based coalition in order to achieve a - negotiated settlement. In a "Call" signed by nearly 200 student body presidents and editors the Moratorium Committee urged the academic community to organize others to join them in a larger and longer moratorium in November. This building process will continue until America withdraws or a negotiated settle- ' ment occurs. The Committee has stressed that a partial withdrawal at any time will not deter the moratorium. Boycotting classes on the 15th, high school and college students and faculty will work to build a broad base of anti-war sentiment. The Vietnam Moratorium Committee plans to reach out to businesses, homes, factories, high schools and other community gathering places and to ask people to join the moratorium in following months. Evening rallies, teach-ins, door-to-door public reading of the names of the war dead and women's refusal to shop (but leaf letting shopping centers) are among the planned activities. Some women's groups will urge mothers to keep their children home from school. Young children could attend a Vietnam Culture day: movies, art, food, etc., organized at a local church . School authorities should be notified about the reasons for the children's absence. UAW and Teamster leaders have responded favorably to the call. Though they do not expect their men to go on strike and forfeit a day's wages, arrangements are underway for labor to participate in symbolic protests: headlights left on, arm bands, memorial services for war dead in factories during lunch hour, etc. The Business Executives plan to picket Wall Street. Congressmen have been approached to hold a speak-out on the war on October 15th in Congress. People wishing more information should contact: Vietnam Moratorium Committee, Suite 806, 1029 Vermont Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005, 202-347-4757. » In response to the call for a nation- wide fall offensive, the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam is organizing mass demonstrations in San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Many times before we have demonstrated and resisted; many times we have confronted the warmakers to insist they "Bring the Troops Home NOW." But now the situation is d ifferent: We must rescue the notion from the warmakers, now, or there will be no hope of preventing more and more Vietnams — there will be no hope of ending the degradation of humanity in which the U.S. is engaged through its foreign and domestic policies. WASHINGTON The New Mobe is organizing mass demonstrations in Washington, D.C. on November 14-15. The two part program of activities includes a solemn 36-hour memorial death march beginning at midnight, November 13, and a massive march and rally on Saturday, November 15. These are the national culminations of a series of local, regional, and national actions called for the fall . The San Francisco March and Rally will also take place on November 15. A broad spectrum of groups opposing the war in Vietnam hove joined in the New Mobilization Committee to organize the Washington Demonstrations. "March Against Death: A Vietnam Memorial" The first part of the November Action will be a death march through Washington starting at midnight on November 13 and continuing for 36 hours, through November 14 and into the morning of November 15. The death march will be a single and solemn procession of 43,000 to 45,000 persons (a number from each state equivalent to the number of Americans from that state who have died in Vietnam) moving past the White House. Each marcher will carry the name of one American who has died and that name will be called out by him as he passes a given point in front of the White House. In addition, the names of Vietnamese towns, villajes, and hamlets which have been bulldozed, bombed, or burned out of National Fall Offensive Calendar Oct. 8-11 SDS actions in Chicago around the theme "Bring the War Home." Oct. 15 Vietnam Moratorium — an effort led by students who were active In the Kennedy- McCarthy campaigns to "Stop business as usual" for one day to engage community education against the Vietnam war. The Moratorium will be extended two days in November if the war is not ended. pet. 25 New Mobilization Committee sponsored actions in Chicago in support of eight anti war leaders indicted for "Conspiracy" and calling for an end to the war in Vietnam A guerilla theater march down State Street, a tribunal dealing with political repression and a rock concert are planned. Nov. 8-15 A week of local activity around the war and U.S. imperialism, to build ongoing local organizations and to help mobilize for November 15 in Washington and San Francisco. The goal is to plan activity appealing to a wide variety of constituencies and political styles. Initiated by Joe Hill Caucus of SDS. Nov. 13-14 Possible dates for November Vietnam Moratorium. Nov. 14 Student Strike — called by Student Mobilization Committee. Nov. 14-15 MEMORIAL DEATH MARCH in Washington, D.C. A single file solemn procession of Americans equivalent to the number killed in Vietnam walking from Arlington National Cemetery past the White House to the Capitol. Nov. 15 Mass march and Rally in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. INov. 16 Continuing actions. existence by U.S. and associated forces in Vietnam will be carried and read out. The death march will begin at Arlington National Cemetary and end at the Capitol where the name placards of those who have died will be placed in caskets and later carried to the White House gate with the Mobe's demands. November 15: Mass March and Rally to BRING THE TROOPS HOMJJ NOW At 9A.M. on Saturday morning, November 15, people from all over the country will assemble in the Mall area between 3rd and 6th Streets in preparation for a mass march to the White House. Before the march embarks, there will be a brief memorial service in this area at the conclusion of the March Against Death. At II A.M. the march will begin. A special contingent of Gl's and participants from the death march will lead the mass march on Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House where a delegation will' present the political demands outlined in the Call to the Fall Offensive and the Caskets containing the names of the Vietnamese twons which have been bombed. From the White Houste the masses will move to the Ellipse area where a rally will begin at 2 P.M. . Speakers and entertainment, an assertion of life, will culminate the day's activities. On Saturday evening beginning at 8 P.M. there will be meetings organized by a variety of groups to discuss possible activities in Washington during the following days. ( Cont'd on p. 4 ) Meetings set in sixty cities On September 15-17 teams of two or three persons from the Steering Committee of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam will travel to about 60 cities to discuss plans for the Fall Offensive. They will work particularly to organize for the demonstrations called for Washington, D.C, on November 14-15. In each city the widest possible spectrum of organizations and individuals who might participate in the Fall Offensive are being invited. At the organizational meetings members of the travelling teams will present for discussion the plans as they have developed and the possibility for local activity. Hopefully, as a result of these meetings, local coalitions will be formed to support and organize for the Fall Offensive. Packets of information on the Washington demonstrations and the entire fall program and including the first issue of the New Mobilizer will be available for j distribution at these meetings. ( Cont'd on p. 4 )
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Full text | NewMoöilfzer Issue September 5, 1969 New Mobe represents majority movement Fall offensive to culminate in massive demonstrations On the July 4th weekend commemorating the revolutionary struggle for American Independence, more than one thousand delegates and observers representing some 300 national and regional organizations met in Cleveland to resolve their determination to stop the war in Vietnam so that the Vietnamese people can assert their right to revolutionary national independence . That resolve called for the beginning of a militant peace offensive in the fall by the whole anti-war movement in this country. To carry forward the work of the old National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam in a time when the forces against the war now constitute a clear political majority, a new anti-war coalition was formed to affect the inclusion of a wider social base among Gl's, high school students, labor, clergy and third world communities. The new anti-war coalition is aptly called the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Headed by six co-chairmen(Sid Lens, Doug Dowd, Sid Peck, Stewart Meacham, Cora Weiss, and Dave Dellinger)who are responsible for providing leadership for major actions in Washington, Chicago and San Francisco, the New Mobe develops major policy questions through a broadly constituted national Steering Committee composed of nearly one hundred persons representing geographic areas and varied political tendencies. The New Mobe is deeply committed to the principle of non-exclusion in its political struggle against the military- industrial war machine. In addition to the national Steering Committee, working committees responsible for the detailed planning of national actions have beerfcformed at the initiative of action chairmen and project directors. In sum, the New Mobe continues the crucial work of mobilizing the American people against the war of aggression and counterrevolution in Vietnam. But what is new about the New Mobe is that it is a coalition which now reflects a majority move- ment and to that extent it encompasses within its midst the widest spectrum of forces yet to unite in opposition and resistance to the war. The task before the New Mobe is very clear. It must do all that it can to mobilize the political will of the American people to demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. military forces and weaponry from Vietnam and to further insist that there be no future wars of intervention at home or abroad against oppressed aod exploited people who are asserting their rights of self-determination In the quest for human liberation. Moratorium to halt 'business as usual' The Vietnam Moratorium Committee, a broad based group initiated by former McCarthy and Kennedy forces, has called for a "moratorium on business as usual" on October 15. Students, faculty and concerned citizens are being asked to devote the whole day to taking the Issue of peace in Vietnam to the larger community. An effort will be made to educate communities on the need to withdraw our troops and to replace the Thieu-Ky regime by a broad- based coalition in order to achieve a - negotiated settlement. In a "Call" signed by nearly 200 student body presidents and editors the Moratorium Committee urged the academic community to organize others to join them in a larger and longer moratorium in November. This building process will continue until America withdraws or a negotiated settle- ' ment occurs. The Committee has stressed that a partial withdrawal at any time will not deter the moratorium. Boycotting classes on the 15th, high school and college students and faculty will work to build a broad base of anti-war sentiment. The Vietnam Moratorium Committee plans to reach out to businesses, homes, factories, high schools and other community gathering places and to ask people to join the moratorium in following months. Evening rallies, teach-ins, door-to-door public reading of the names of the war dead and women's refusal to shop (but leaf letting shopping centers) are among the planned activities. Some women's groups will urge mothers to keep their children home from school. Young children could attend a Vietnam Culture day: movies, art, food, etc., organized at a local church . School authorities should be notified about the reasons for the children's absence. UAW and Teamster leaders have responded favorably to the call. Though they do not expect their men to go on strike and forfeit a day's wages, arrangements are underway for labor to participate in symbolic protests: headlights left on, arm bands, memorial services for war dead in factories during lunch hour, etc. The Business Executives plan to picket Wall Street. Congressmen have been approached to hold a speak-out on the war on October 15th in Congress. People wishing more information should contact: Vietnam Moratorium Committee, Suite 806, 1029 Vermont Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005, 202-347-4757. » In response to the call for a nation- wide fall offensive, the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam is organizing mass demonstrations in San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Many times before we have demonstrated and resisted; many times we have confronted the warmakers to insist they "Bring the Troops Home NOW." But now the situation is d ifferent: We must rescue the notion from the warmakers, now, or there will be no hope of preventing more and more Vietnams — there will be no hope of ending the degradation of humanity in which the U.S. is engaged through its foreign and domestic policies. WASHINGTON The New Mobe is organizing mass demonstrations in Washington, D.C. on November 14-15. The two part program of activities includes a solemn 36-hour memorial death march beginning at midnight, November 13, and a massive march and rally on Saturday, November 15. These are the national culminations of a series of local, regional, and national actions called for the fall . The San Francisco March and Rally will also take place on November 15. A broad spectrum of groups opposing the war in Vietnam hove joined in the New Mobilization Committee to organize the Washington Demonstrations. "March Against Death: A Vietnam Memorial" The first part of the November Action will be a death march through Washington starting at midnight on November 13 and continuing for 36 hours, through November 14 and into the morning of November 15. The death march will be a single and solemn procession of 43,000 to 45,000 persons (a number from each state equivalent to the number of Americans from that state who have died in Vietnam) moving past the White House. Each marcher will carry the name of one American who has died and that name will be called out by him as he passes a given point in front of the White House. In addition, the names of Vietnamese towns, villajes, and hamlets which have been bulldozed, bombed, or burned out of National Fall Offensive Calendar Oct. 8-11 SDS actions in Chicago around the theme "Bring the War Home." Oct. 15 Vietnam Moratorium — an effort led by students who were active In the Kennedy- McCarthy campaigns to "Stop business as usual" for one day to engage community education against the Vietnam war. The Moratorium will be extended two days in November if the war is not ended. pet. 25 New Mobilization Committee sponsored actions in Chicago in support of eight anti war leaders indicted for "Conspiracy" and calling for an end to the war in Vietnam A guerilla theater march down State Street, a tribunal dealing with political repression and a rock concert are planned. Nov. 8-15 A week of local activity around the war and U.S. imperialism, to build ongoing local organizations and to help mobilize for November 15 in Washington and San Francisco. The goal is to plan activity appealing to a wide variety of constituencies and political styles. Initiated by Joe Hill Caucus of SDS. Nov. 13-14 Possible dates for November Vietnam Moratorium. Nov. 14 Student Strike — called by Student Mobilization Committee. Nov. 14-15 MEMORIAL DEATH MARCH in Washington, D.C. A single file solemn procession of Americans equivalent to the number killed in Vietnam walking from Arlington National Cemetery past the White House to the Capitol. Nov. 15 Mass march and Rally in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. INov. 16 Continuing actions. existence by U.S. and associated forces in Vietnam will be carried and read out. The death march will begin at Arlington National Cemetary and end at the Capitol where the name placards of those who have died will be placed in caskets and later carried to the White House gate with the Mobe's demands. November 15: Mass March and Rally to BRING THE TROOPS HOMJJ NOW At 9A.M. on Saturday morning, November 15, people from all over the country will assemble in the Mall area between 3rd and 6th Streets in preparation for a mass march to the White House. Before the march embarks, there will be a brief memorial service in this area at the conclusion of the March Against Death. At II A.M. the march will begin. A special contingent of Gl's and participants from the death march will lead the mass march on Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House where a delegation will' present the political demands outlined in the Call to the Fall Offensive and the Caskets containing the names of the Vietnamese twons which have been bombed. From the White Houste the masses will move to the Ellipse area where a rally will begin at 2 P.M. . Speakers and entertainment, an assertion of life, will culminate the day's activities. On Saturday evening beginning at 8 P.M. there will be meetings organized by a variety of groups to discuss possible activities in Washington during the following days. ( Cont'd on p. 4 ) Meetings set in sixty cities On September 15-17 teams of two or three persons from the Steering Committee of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam will travel to about 60 cities to discuss plans for the Fall Offensive. They will work particularly to organize for the demonstrations called for Washington, D.C, on November 14-15. In each city the widest possible spectrum of organizations and individuals who might participate in the Fall Offensive are being invited. At the organizational meetings members of the travelling teams will present for discussion the plans as they have developed and the possibility for local activity. Hopefully, as a result of these meetings, local coalitions will be formed to support and organize for the Fall Offensive. Packets of information on the Washington demonstrations and the entire fall program and including the first issue of the New Mobilizer will be available for j distribution at these meetings. ( Cont'd on p. 4 ) |
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