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...most significant event thus far was the announcement on March 2 that the two leading antiwar coalitions had agreed to co-sponsor the already scheduled April 24 mass demonstration in Washington. That announcement ended months of divisive fighting between the two groups...
April 24: NPAC and PCPJ will co-sponsor peaceful mass protests in Washington and San Francisco. Both organizations are calling for the immediate withdrawal of all American forces from Southeast Asia, and an immediate end to the draft. In addition, PCPJ demands a guaranteed annual income of $5500 for a family of four, and the freeing of all political prisoners. The demonstration will be both legal and peaceful, with no planned civil disobedience...
...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...
...make at least one important point-on all the most fundamental issues facing the country today. I can see no real substantive difference between the positions held by Senator McGovern and those held by Senator Muskie. On the issue of the Southeast Asia War, Senator Muskie was a co-sponsor of the 1970 McGovern-Hatfield amendment and is currently a co-sponsor of the 1971 version. Last week at the University of Pennsylvania, he called for a full pull-out of all U. S. forces by December 31, 1971; questioned the morality of the Vietnamization program, which merely transfers...
Kennedy agreed to co-sponsor the bill, but did not attend the final floor vote at which it was defeated. Pusey said he felt "personally aggrieved, which may have been a silly reaction, but I felt he'd let us down and just not produced. It took me a long time to recover from that feeling...