Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time has been a big problem from the beginning. The CNCV didn't decide to launch a petition drive until the end of July, barely four months before the election. Another local peace group, Cambridge Vote on Vietnam, had been circulating an antiwar petition since February. But the CNCV disagreed...
Progressive Labor Petition
Cambridge Vote on Vietnam was organized by three members of the Progressive Labor Party, a Marxist-Leninist group which sides with Peking in preferring revolution to co-existence. Its petition reflected the PL analysis: "We are opposed to the U.S. policy in Vietnam. The war in Vietnam is against the...
The CNCV asked assistant City Solicitor Edward D. McCarthy for help with the precise wording of their petition. McCarthy, who is now arguing the City's case against the resolution, rewrote the original CNCV version, putting it in the correct form. A technical, but perhaps crucial, point in the CNCV...
The CNCV set itself a Sept. 1 deadline to collect the 3624 signatures (8% of registered Cambridge voters) necessary to put a question on the ballot by popular initiative. The CNCV's canvassers -- mostly young, college graduates--stood on street corners and rang doorbells. In one month they collected over...