DOC RELATES TO PROJECT MERRIMAC (MERRIMACK) - SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT - CALENDAR OF TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES

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• Publication Date: July 16, 1970

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SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT
CALENDAR OF TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES
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*17 July, Washington, D.C.
A group of Massachusetts women plan�to picket the Whrte
House during the dinner dance that Tricia Nixon is holding in honor
of visiting Britons, Prince.Charles and Princess Anne. The Con-
cerned American Mothers, described as an embryonic grass roots
group of women who have been uncommitted until now, do not believe
that the President should be dancing while American soldiers are
dying in Vietnam.
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Although no announcements have been made, other protests
during the royal visit can be anticipated in Washington during the
coming weekend. It is not believed that any of them will be particu-
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*17-19 July, New York City, New York
Brave New World, Inc. is producing a rock festival at Downing
Stadium on Randalls Island in New York's East River. In a recent
press conference the two co-producers announced that an undisclosed
portion of their profits would be contributed to a variety of dissident,
militant and leftist protest organizations. Included among the recip-
ients are the Young Lords, the White Panthers, and a conglomeration
known as the Revolutionary Youth Party Collective. This collective
unit's such groups as the Gay Liberation Front, the Committee to
Defend the New York Panther 21,. the Youth International Party, and
the Underground Press Syndicate. Prices for rock festivals of this type
s e�em to be steadily on the increase and have undoubtedly become a
prompter's dream for quicl profits if sufficient preplanning�is c*a.rried
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out. Tickets for three concerts on Randalls Island are going for $21.
The festival has not been widely publicized and the entertainment fare
is unknown. The festival will probably attract thousands.
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*18-19 July, Washington, D. C.
The "Chaplain of Sunset Strip" and a small entourage arrived
in Washington this week wheelin a 105 pound cross. The chaplain,
Arthur Blessitt, announced his evangelistic plans for Washington on the
corning weekend.. Next Saturdairnight he.and his team will drag their
cross through Georgetown and mingle with the hippies. Blessitt expects
earlier on Saturday to be in the downtown area trying to drum up interest
� for a big rally at the Washington Monument. Sunday will be a call for
.prayer, presumably at the Washington- Monument grounds, and the entire
metropolitan area is-invited to participate. It is not anticipated that the
hippie Southern Baptist evangelist will create any disruption in.the city.
The preacher, whose motives seem pure though bizzare, visits
Washington as one stop on Kis nationwide trek that started last Christ-
mas and eventually will return to Los Angeles. Blessitt states "we
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*18-19 July, Northern Michigan
The Environmental Action organization is sponsoring a strategy
session on "what next" at a United Auto Workers lodge for 200 com-
munity leaders as well as Leonard Woodcock, new UAW president,
and Frank E. Fitzsimmons, 'head of the Teamster Urion. Environ-
mental Action, which operates a small office in the hippie DuPont Circle
area of N. W. Washington, is presently pushing opposition to the super-
sonic transport and trying to promote tough air pollution legislation.
Although Environmental Action is playing ball with a number of tradi-
tional and respectable naturalist organizations such as the National
Audubon Society and the'Sierra Club, their political balance is still the
subject of some doubt. The Michigan meeting will be attended by
representatives of the National Welfare Rights Organization and Neigh-
borhood Legal Services. The ecology movement since its initial emphasis
about a year ago has been a natural repository for the so-called ecology
freaks (compulsive, idealistic naturalists), and the movement continues
to be rega rcThd as a prime target for radical leftists and antiwar
revolutionaries. The very makeup of the ecology movement makes it
a fertile recruiting ground 'for organizations with other and highly
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ulterior motives. The cooperation of the UAW and the Teamsters
remains something of a mystery. One of the points listed by
Environmental Action that they will strive for is banning of the
internal combustion engine after 1975. This point must certainly
irritate the sensibilities of the unions' leaders whose rank-and-file
is so completely dependent upon the engine. � s I'- A
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*Mid JuIV:-Mid August
A curious admixture of America!'" criminals, militants and
various dissidents are presently the guests of North Korea's Committee
for Reunification of Korea. The leaders of the delegation are Robert
Scheer, former editor of Ramparts magazine; exiled Black Panther
Eldridge Cleaver; Anne Froines, the wife of John Froines who was
acquitted in the trial of the Chicago 7. The remainder of the small
group (about 10 people) are relatively unknown representatives'of other
American anti-establishment movements. Included are representatives
of the Berkeley (California) Student Movement, the Women's Liberation
Movement, Newsreel, Movement for a Democratic Military, and San
Francisco's Chinatown Red Guard. The group's journey has been accom-
panied by the usual anti-American rhetoric dealing with the time-worn
topics of U.S. imperialism and American brainwashing and propagan-
dizing about Korea. The group until mid July had been visiting in
Moscow; Robert Scheer has stated publicly that the financing for the
trip was arranged individually and not by the North Koreans (highly
unlikely). Cleaver's wife, Kathleen, is presently in Pyongyang awaiting
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*25 Julir, Ocean City, Maryland
Fortrthousand young people are expected to attend a rock music
� festival at Berlin, Maryland (7 miles south of Ocean City) on the 25th.
The festival is scheduled to take place on a 150 acre tract that' has
become a popular summer playground for thousands of hippie youths.
Prominent entertainers advertised for the program are: Steppenwolf,
Big Brother and the Holding Company, Country Funk, and Little Richard.
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*27-29 July, Washington, D.C.
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Dissident VISTA volunteers and former volunteers have formed
their own organization to p4omotc what they regard as the original
purpose of the VISTA program. Spokesmen for the new Nationaf VISTA
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Alliance believe that the Nixon administration has begun a systematic
attempt to Change the role of VISTA, leading it away from its stance
of activism to a more bland service-oriented organization. Local
spokesmen,who form the vanguard of a reportedly growing but still
indeterminate number of VISTA dissidents, are critical, among other
things, of the increasing number of older people among the VISTA
volunteer cadre. The Alliance.is not officially sanctioned by the Office
of Economic Opportunity, but according to 0E0 sources the new group
is being watched closely. The Alliance *ill hold its first national con-
ference at Washington, D.C., 27-29 July, and is expecting about 1,000
volunteers to take part. LI. `)
"*26 July, Oakland, California
La Raza Unida is planning a moratorium parade and raH.y for
the above date. The rally will be held at Dimond Park in Oakland, but
the parade route has not been selected as yet. Betty Corey, a member
of Merritt College Chicano Student Union, is one of the promoters of this
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*29 July, New York City, New York
The documentary film on Martin Luther King, Jr..., ."King: A
Filmed Record.. From Montgomery to Memphis," which was shown
last March 24 in 300 theaters throughout the country will open in New
York on the 29th. It is anticipated that the film will open in other cities
at about the same time. Ely. Landau, who producedethe film arid donated
it to the Martin Luther King Foundation,. has advised that all profits from
its summer-fall showing will go to the Foundation after the distribution
and theater costs have been deducted. The one-day screening last
March raised $2.1 million for the Foundation. Y� v t, � �
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31 July-2 August, Middlefield, Connecticut
� A rock music festival has been scheduled at the Powder Ridge
Ski Area near Middlefield on the above dates. ' Twenty-five rock groups
have allegedly been signed to perform, including several big names
such as Janis Joplin. Tickets are on sale at New York for $20 each
(for the entire three days) and the festival publicity director expects
50:000 to he in attendance. The promoter of the Powder Ridge festival
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*August, Washington; D. C.
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A decision will be made in August by District Court Judge
' John J. Sirica on continuance of the much disputed Three Sisters� �
Bridge. The suit against construction was filed last October by the
D.C. Federation of Civic Associations. Construction of the bridge
has been a constant target for radical ecologists and has produced
several past confrontations between demonstrators and police.. If
Judge Sirica finds in favor of the continuEnce of Three Sisters Bridge,
demonstrations and police confrontations can be anticipated on the
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.*August, San Clemente State Park, California
Peace action and antiwar factions plan to reserve camp
spots at San Clemente State Park (adjacent to President Nixon's western
White House) and during the month of August, use this area as a base
of operations as well as providing the demonstrators a place to stay.
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*1 August, Saint John, New Brunswick
Upon return in April of the second Venceremos Brigade, Carol
Brightman, a member of the national executive committee of the Brigade,
announced that a third group would leave for Cuba 1 August, and tentative
plans call for their return 14 September... She said that because the
sugar harvest ends in July, this group of about 500, which would be
composed almost entirely of. students, would be employed in other forms
of agricultural work. Ck.t.��(4-',0 ic �
The third Brigade will leave from New Brunswick, Canada,
and will probably work in the citrus fields on the Isle of Youth. Follow;
ing a 4-week work period, the group will tour Cuba for two weeks. The
Cuban Government will pay all expenses from New Brunswick.
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*I August, Nationwide
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The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, a
pacifist group with representation in some 50 countries, and the Women's
Division of She American 'Jewish Congress will initiate a national cam-
paign on the first of August toward ending the war in Vietnam. Although
re'portedlr in its 55 years get existance the WILPF has been influenced,
- and in some chapters dominated, by communists the.organizatio'h appears
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still under the control of slightly left wing dedicated pacifists rather
than comniunists. The organization has been active in legislative lob-
bying and social work and strongly .endorsed the Poor People's Cam- .
paign. The WILPF is on record with three principal international goals:
1) total and universal disarmament, 2) economic and social well-
being and protection of civil rights, and 3) the formation of a world
organization functioning democratically within the framework of law
for the settlement of international economic and social problems.
During the forth-coming campaign, women will be asked to
refrain from shopping on the first Saturday of each month as a
� dramatization of their serious concern for peace in Vietnam. Shoppers
will be asked to concentrate on a list of consumer items manufactured
by major producers of war materials.- iAmong the manufacturers men-
tioned in a recent two-day meeting were Westinghouse, Motorola, Dow,
and General Electric. A second action planned by the ladies is to work
for the election of peace candidates next November. A third action will
be to support and participate in an international peace conference to be
held in Canada in October which Indo-Chinese women will also attend.
Additional suggestions to emerge from the recent conference
were to support sons, husbands, and brothers who resist the draft
and the encouraging of women to participate actively in preventing the
Selective Service System from functioning. It was also suggested that
the ladies refuse to pay telephone taxes and other Federal taxes which
are used for military purposes and to support the just demands of all
minority groups in their struggle for legal justice and equal opportunities.
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9-19 August, St. Paul, ..Minnesota
The National Student Association will hold its 23rd annual con-
gress at Macalester College. 5irIc Xe�ir
*20 August, Los Angeles, California
SDS chapters from southern California colleges held a regional
conference at the University of California at L.A. on 20 June. Only 35
individuals participated in the. conference which decided to sponsor a
ciemonstratipn at L.A. on 20 August to protest the teaching of police
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*26-30 August, Nationwide
The Women's Liberation Movement is planning several events
during this period. From 28-30 August, a national conference on
feminism is being sponsored by Human Rights for Women, Inc. This
organization provides free legal assistance for women seeking redress
against sex discrimination.
Betty Friedan, head of the advisory board of the National
Organization for Women, has announced-a Women's Strike for Equality
Day on 26 August. This date is the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amend-
ment, which gave women the vote. A number of bizarre events have been
scheduled for this day of demonstration. To protest sex discrimination,
Mrs. Friedan has proposed a march by women carrying lighted candles �
into the halls of politics as well as a massive "sit-in" and "baby-in" where
infants are to be placed on the laps of city fathers to show the teed for
child care centers in New York.
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The present president of NOW, Aileen Hernandez, in a May press
conference stated that the demonstration will not be merely symbolic..
Women on the 26th of August will refrain from shopping, secretaries
will stop typing, and wives will debate their husbands in the home. Women
in Boston plan to distribute 4,000 pressurized cans of contraceptive foam
on Boston Commons.
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Mrs.. Friedan has listed three major objectives for the strike:
free abortion on demand in every state, 24-hour child care centers
under the control of parents, and true equality in education and employ-
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*28 August, Portland, Oregon
The 1970 national convention of the American Legion will be
held at Portland, 28 August - 3 September. A rock festival will he
held in the area during the same period. The Oregon Vietnam Mora- '
torium Committee and the Yippies are planning demonstrations during
the convention and are counting on individuals attending the rock festival
to participate. Press accounts have indicated that the President may
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2-9 August,. West Coast
A national Chicano moratorium is being planned by radical
leftist Mexican-American organizations principally in the San Fran-
cisco Bay area. Additionally, demonstrations are planned in a number
of western cities between now and 29 August. The themes of the planned
protest actions are the usual-43ring the boys home, let the Vietnamese
employ self-determination, etc. Involved in the various National Mora-
torium Committees are a number of organizations that often involve
themselves in anti-establishment activities. Some of the organizations
' involved are the Mexican-American Political Association, the United
Farm Workers Organizing Committee, the Young Socialist Alliance, the
Socialist Workers Campaign Committee and others. ..
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