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A COMMUNICATION AND SERVICE NEWSLETTER FOR OHIO
OHIO PEACE ACTION COUNCIL,   128 West Davis St.,   Yellow Springs,  Ohio 45387       (513) 767-1965
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June 20,  1969
3 VIETNAMESE WOMEN, one from the DRV & 2 from the NLF, will be guests of the Canadian Voice of Women. There will be opportunities for people from the States
to meet with them in Quebec, Toronto & at a demonstration on Tuesday the 8th at
Niagara Falls. For more specific information, contact Kay Macpherson, Visit
Committee, VOW, 1554 Yonge St., Toronto 290, Ontario (4l6) 485-4268.
NATIONAL ANTI-WAR CONFERENCE "to broaden & unify the anti-war forces in this
country and to plan co-ordinated national anti-war actions for the fall." Many
groups have been invited to send delegates; observers from those groups and
others having a concern for ending the war & getting the US out of Vietnam are
welcome. OPAC's delegates are Pat Olds, the co-chairman from Yellow Springs,
& Robert Whaley of Athens; convey your ideas to them. Registration for the
conference begins at noon in the lobby of Strosacker Auditorium at Case Western Reserve University. $5 for delegates & $2 for observers. The sponsor is
Cleveland Area Peace Action Council (13101 Euclid Ave., (216) 761-557^ or249-
6834) & it is endorsed by anti-war activists around the country. Please notify CAPAC if you need housing or more information.
ANNIVERSARY of the Geneva Accords: the Stockholm Conference on Vietnam (an
international organization with representatives & observers from many US peace
groups) is calling for world-wide demonstrations on ntat day.
In Vietnam
from 1961 to
Mar
15,
1969
2,090 Ohioans were killed in combat
585 in "accidents & incidents"
11,446 wounded in combat of which yjo  die
andmore than 1,000 afflicted with bubonic plague, malaria, hepatitis
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OHIO PEACE ACTION COUNCIL
Co-chairmen:
Eugene Lichty, Dayton (513) 837-1212
Pat Olds, Yellow Springs (513)767-8181
Secretary: Lucia Buchanan, Columbus
Bookkeeper: Shirley Brustein, Columbus
Newsletter Editor: Ann Peery, Yellow Spr
DONATION FOR NEWSLETTER:  &2 per vea-
"At the June 6th Steering Committee Meeting in
Athens it was decided to employ Marj Leslie
for the next three months to serve as a Roving
Peace Co-ordinator in the state of Ohio. She
will be contacting individuals concerned about
peace in the more remote communities encouraging local action & communicating through this newsletter.
"We feel very fortunate in discovering Marj, and have been much impressed with her enthusiasm for peace. She left the University of Cincinnati as a senior & for the past several months has been working in draft counseling in Philadelphia. Marj got her start in
the peace movement in 1966 when the Student Peace Pilgrimage was organized from Massillon
to Cleveland with the backing of OPAC.
"Marj will need the cooperation af all OPAC people. We are encouraging her to accept
the hospitality of our peace people in the various communities of Ohio as she moves about
We also know that OPAC people will aid in putting her in touch with other peace-interested people in their respectove communities. Even though Marj is working on an expenseba-
sis, it will require generous, systematic financial contributions from supporters ofOPAC
around the state to continue such a program.
"This arrangement has been approved for three months after which it will be evaluated
and its future determined. OPAC has had the admiration of peace leaders in many states.
Let us move forward together as we enter this new phase in our peace program."
  D. Eugene Lichty, co-chairman
The next few months are very important. While it is true that there is less peace activity most places in the summer, now is the time to build & plan for next fall--to develop communications & contacts, to begin to organize & revive local groups, to learn their
needs & develop ways of servicing them.
If you believe that the services OPAC is beginning to offer, our traveling co-ordinator & this newsletter, will be helpful, show it by your support, with money & information. Our evaluation of this program, our ability to carry it out & thereby its future
depend on your support over the next few months.
Here is my contribution to OPAC's Summer Program featuring Marj Leslie as Roving Peace
Co-ordinator (& don't forget your $2 donation for the newsletter)
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