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...unprecedented move yesterday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard testimony on the Indochina War from five representatives of the Mayday Collective, an organized arm of the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ...
...five-Jay Craven, Susan Gregory, Chip Marshall, John Scaglioti, and Kathy Sister-urged the Committee to propose the People's Peace Treaty for passage in the Senate and to support the upcoming demonstrations in Washington on Monday and Tuesday in which PCPJ will attempt to close the city by nonviolent obstruction of commuter bridges and roads...
Craven answered that PCPJ organizers had informed student groups in other countries of the proposed demonstrations. Pressed for elaboration, he added that Binh had also been told of the plans for the protest. Scott then leveled the charge that Craven and Gregory had discussed a possible kidnap with Binh-and had decided not to go through with it. At another point in the hearing, Scott said that his Senate office would no longer be open for lobbyists this week. He was not available for comment on the charges yesterday...
...focus of the protest has passed from passive demonstrations to militant and aggressive, though nonviolent, civil disobedience under the leadership of the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice. PCPJ is the best organized and most intelligent antiwar group ever to sponsor a Washington demonstration. Their tactics are direct confrontation. their strategy is long-term commitment, and their shock troops are the Vietnam Veterans Against...
This week the PCPJ plans to continue its direct confrontation tactics at the Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Monday they will begin mass civil disobedience designed to shut down the city. If they can get 5000 people they will do just that. Washington has neither a subway nor an elevated system. Commuters come into the city almost exclusively by car and bus. Three bridges across the Potomac handle all the traffic from Virginia. Three or four roads carry all the cars from the north. It is an almost absurdly easy city...