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NEAR THE END of the Student Mobilization Committee's antiwar conference in Washington last month, Michael Finley, a black student at New York's Manhattan Community College, said. "You people have been sitting here bullshitting about Leninism. Trotskyism, and all that for three day. People are dying in Southeast Asia, and World War III is just around the corner, and all you people can do is talk...
...OSTENSIBLE purpose of the conference was to determine a spring strategy for the antiwar movement, but the issue had pretty much been decided by the time the conference started. Entering the gymnasium Friday evening, one was greeted by huge banners proclaiming the march on Washington April 24 as the central focus of the spring actions, and the hawkers were pushing buttons and posters with the big 24 on them. SMC had already decided that April 24 was going to be the day when the American people would rise up and force the government to withdraw from Southeast Asia. Like...
...most serious question of all was ignored at the antiwar conference, much as it has been by almost everyone in the antiwar movement. No one questioned whether large, effusive outpourings of antiwar sentiment every six months or year have any effect on governmental policy. No one suggested the possibility that antiwar activists might better spend their time digging in for a long-term, daily fight against the war in every city and town in this country. No one seriously raised the idea that maybe massive demonstrations are stale, an old idea that hasn't worked. The most serious question...
...THAT the conference produced was rhetoric, division, and a tired strategy for a tired movement. Happily, last weekend, the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice dropped plans for its own antiwar march in Washington May 2, and agreed to co-sponsor with SMC the April 24 action, so that at least there won't be two marches in the same city by two groups with the same purpose. Nevertheless, we have not moved past the talking stage. As at the February 22 teach-in here, speakers told the crowd how and why the war is a bad thing...
...freshman proposed financing an antiwar, antidraft drive through a 10 per cent surcharge on all dope dealing. "It would provide antiwar revenue and a moral justification for smoking," he said...