Word: antiwar
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Yesterday's action resulted when a small group at an antiwar rally in downtown Boston knowingly diverted about 1000 persons at that rally to Cambridge. Without revealing their destination, this group led demonstrators to the CFIA--even though they had explicitly stated that any protests would center on corporate, and not university, targets...
Last night's rampage through the Harvard Center for International Affairs was a desperate action that served no purpose. Such random vandalism only diffuses and debilitates the antiwar movement. We condemn the attack on the CFIA without qualification...
...Cambodia precedent denied the use of American ground troops in the 1971 invasion of Laos. In many other moments, the antiwar movement has had similar success. We have given crucial support to those public leaders and Congressmen who spoke out on the war. We have brought thousands of Americans to public demonstrations of opposition. And we have managed to set the terms of debate on the war, because our position--total and immediate U.S. withdrawal--has been firm over the years. Despite the intricate turns in government policy and phraseology, we have stuck by an uncompromising demand that the policy...
...student strike. To implement this, a strike meeting at Harvard should be held as soon as possible. The strike is called not against the University, but against the War, and is proposed to offer students an opportunity to work against the War in these critical days by campaigning for antiwar candidates, leafletting in communities and factories, lobbying Washington, and joining in antiwar demonstrations such as those in New York and Los Angeles this weekend...
...since the Cambodian invasion has the Nixon government's aggression in Asia so urgently demanded protest from the American people. The antiwar feeling that coalesced into a national student strike two years ago delivered an ultimatum to the Nixon Administration: You cannot expand the war in Asia without risking massive disruptions at home. This ultimatum was instrumental in foreign the American invading force to withdraw and in precluding the use of American ground troops in Laos...