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Last week, we called for a nationwide student strike with a very specific goal: displaying massive opposition to continued U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. Since then, there have been several forceful demonstrations of protest against Nixon policy in Indochina; these must continue, as often as possible, with as much support as possible. But as we were careful to note before, any student strike or antiwar protests must center primarily on the war. The lessons of the 1970 student strike are clear: actions aimed at universities are misdirected and serve only to detract from the overall effectiveness of antiwar demonstrations...
...Cambridge City Council passed a resolution last night calling for a complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Southeast Asia and the release of information on the extent of American involvement in Indochina...
Members of the Ad Hoc Military Buildup Committee brought before the Council the motion which demands that the Federal government: 1) disclose the full extent of the U.S. commitment in Indochina, including the number of planes dispatched and tons of bombs dropped: 21 cease lulling the American people into complacency by mechanizing the war:30 withdraw all U.S. troops from Vietnam...
Resolved that we, members of Harvard University publicly declare out solidarity with the people of Indochina and Angola in their struggle for national self-determination...
...diverse resolutions, and their conflicting calls for action on campus and off, were united by the consistent theme that our strike was against American imperialism: in protest against the escalated tactics of the government's imperialist foreign policy in Indochina and against the decision of the Harvard Corporation to support corporate imperialism in Angola by retaining its Gulf Oil stock. Clearly the thrust of the resolutions was that if any protest is to have long-term effect, it must strike at the roots of involvement: a general commitment to stability, free markets, and open access to raw materials...