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...Common at 1 p.m. and move to Boston Common, to join the antiwar rally scheduled to start at 2:30 p.m. On Monday, a group will leave the Harvard Square subway station at 5:45 a.m. to join in nonviolent civil disobedience to shut down the JFK Federal building. PCPJ, which is sponsoring both demonstrations, is also asking for legal picket support...
...Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice PCPJ--along with several other Boston peace groups--is organizing the action. The groups plan rallies between noon and 1 p.m. today, and antiwar meetings in all communities this evening...
...People's Coalition for Peace and Justice and NPAC have called for a mass rally at 2:30 p.m. on the Boston Common. Among the scheduled speakers are Howard Zinn, Ngo Vinh Long and Bonnie Raitt. And on May 8, the PCPJ is sponsoring a day of nonviolent civil disobedience at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Downtown Boston. The day begins at 6:30 a.m. on the Commons; participants will then move to the JFK Building which houses, among other agencies, the local offices of the State Department, the FBI, the IRS, the Wage Freeze Board...
...military recruiting offices next to the Boston Common, 2000 protesters at a People's Coalition for Peace and Justice rally Tuesday were told. "It's time to march to Cambridge," perhaps 1990 of them had no idea where they were going or why. Even as marchers entered Cambridge, a PCPJ bullhorner told them only that they were headed for a "war-related center"--the identity of which would remain secret to evade the police--where they would "huddle to consider other targets." Three hundred PCPJ organizers meeting last Sunday to plan Tuesday's action had specifically voted down an occupation...
...PCPJ leader Mike Albert later said they intended to occupy the building, not to trash it; but this was apparently another piece of vital information not transmitted to the crowd, for the 150 people who entered the Center--which conducts no military research--did $25,000 worth of structural damage and destroyed mounds of research material in the three minutes before rumors of police chased them away...