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...said that SMC was not getting along well with the New Mobe, a group he called "a bunch of generals without an army." He claimed they were moving into civil disobedience, which in his opinion, was not what the majority of people in the movement wanted. New Mobe had called a conference for the week following the Cleveland conference. Jerry Gordon emphasized that he was concerned with an anti-war movement. He made little mention of other issues such as racism or imperialism...
...Senate have been meeting regularly to try to reverse the President's policy. I was frankly shocked. I could scarcely believe my cars. Why, Nixon had disarmed the students. They'd packed up here just last week and gone home." He was referring to the closing of the New Mobe office. This was the first of many times that day the professors would be treated as representatives of a discontented academic community, though this was exactly what they didn't want...
...Broadcasting System. The protesters were of varied persuasions-from Marxist-Maoist to Quaker-and they included many affluent young adults and teenagers. Much central guidance was supplied by the Washington-based New Mobilization Committee, which coordinates the activities of many groups opposed to the war in Viet Nam. New Mobe's avowed aims are to 1) end war production, 2) convert factories to peacetime work without layoffs and 3) gain worker control of U.S. industry...
...want to see violence, but you know it won't prove anything. You want to believe in the simpering "Give Peace a Chance" doctrine of the New Mobe marshals, but you know that their peace has seen its last chance. You want to think that something political will work, but you know that nothing will...
...front of the podium. Daniel W. Billings Jr., a 28-year-old minister from the Universal Life Church, had had himself strapped to a crucifix and lifted into the air for the benefit of newsmen. He refused water which the New Mobe marshals begged him to take. "We came here to crucify Nixon." one of Billings's supporters explained...