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...People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ) is organizing five days of lobbying in government departments and in Congressional offices...
...PCPJ's main attention is directed towards May 3 and 4, for which they have planned civil disobedience against the Pentagon and the Justice Department. It is difficult to ask people to come to Washington twice, so the five days of lobbying are viewed as filler between the legal and peaceful march on the 24th and the acts of civil disobedience scheduled ten days later. The lobbying will be low key, and it will provide people with a good sense of how the Capitol is laid out. It will also give them an opportunity to talk with...
...exact nature of the planned civil disobedience is not yet clear, and probably won't be until PCPJ organizers see how the previous demonstrations go. Important to watch will be the April 19-23 actions in Washington organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Organizers of the April 3 action against the Pentagon, and the April 4 action against the Justice Department, will be trying to close down the institutions for as many hours as possible. They will probably be non-violent, but a lot depends on the actions taken by the police and military, which in turn will...
...PCPJ and NPAC have called for a national moratorium on May 5 to commemorate the killings at Jackson State and Kent State. In Boston, there will be a rally on the Common, where members of the PCPJ (mostly from the American Friends Service Committee and MassPax) will construct either one or a series of geodesic domes to serve as information centers for local anti-war activities. Organizers hope to be able to keep the domes open through the summer, but if that proves impossible, they will attempt to open a storefront near the Common to serve as their information center...
...PCPJ, led by MassPax and the American Friends Service Committee, will attempt to keep the JFK Federal Building from opening by blocking its entrances. The protest will involve non-violent civil disobedience, and arrest is not unlikely. Organizers assume the police will arrest only those directly blocking access to the building, so that people supporting the action, but not wishing to get arrested, should be able to participate without fear of arrest. Demonstrators will allow themselves to be arrested without resisting, unless the police attack the protestors. In such an event, individuals would be free to defend themselves...