Word: antiwar
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...Southeast Asia "widens down," the American antiwar movement's spring offensive is beginning to "widen...
Just before Easter, the Massachusetts chapter of Americans for Democratic Action announced that they were allying with the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ), joining such established groups as Mass Pax, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Non-violent Direct Action Group in the area-wide antiwar coalition...
Boston's major antiwar event will take place on May 6, when the coalition-led by Mass Pax and the AFSC-will close down the JFK Federal Building in Boston through massive non-violent civil disobedience. In this context, non-violent civil disobedience will mean that protestors will not resist if arrested by police, If the police attack demonstrators, however, individuals will be free to defend themselves...
...York Democrats Bella Abzug and Benjamin Rosenthal, and Democratic Senators Philip Hart of Michigan, Vance Hartke of Indiana, Harold Hughes of Iowa, Edmund Muskie of Maine, and George McGovern of South Dakota. Retired Army General Hugh Hester and New York Mayor John Lindsay have also endorsed the April 24 antiwar demonstration, NPAC organizers hope to draw as many as half a million people to the Washington and San Francisco rallies...
...leaders put in the dock along with Calley. "The guilt of My Lai runs up the chain of command into the White House," he said. "The Army is trying to sacrifice one or two low-level officers as token scapegoats." The most extraordinary demonstration against the verdict from the antiwar side was staged in Manhattan's Wall Street by the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. Smack in front of the New York Stock Exchange, a dozen veterans in fatigue jackets passed out leaflets next to a big white van showing a film of American atrocities in Viet Nam. John...