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

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• Publication Date: July 30, 1970

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SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT
CALENDAR OF TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES
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Asterisked items are either repetted for the first time, or
contain additions or changes to previously reported activities.
*31 July, Washington, D.C.
"DMZ" GI coffee house, a haven from the degradation and
dehumanization of military life, will open at 918 9th Street, NjW. , ,
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*3.1 July-2 August, Middlefield, Connecticut
The Powder Ridge music festival scheduled for a ski area near
Middlefield has come under considerable Lire in recent days. Report-
edly, 20,000 tickets have already been sold and possibly 50, 000 persons
will attend the festival at Middlefield, a town of approximately 4,000
people. Ruling that the music festival would create a public nuisance
in the town, a Connecticut state superior court judge has issued an
injunction banning the affair. The promoters have appealed and the
legality of the festival is in serious doubt. Joseph Middleton, the pro-
moter, allegedly has already spent $135,000 for performers and has
budgeted an additional $50,000 for advertising. All of the big names
in the rock music business are scheduled to perform at Middlefield.
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Legal or illegal, it will probably be held and reportedly hippie-
type young people are already beginning to assemble in the area. Recent
experiences with music festivals of this type (in Georgia, at Chicago's
Grant Park, at the Merriweather Post Pavillion in Columbia, Md., and
at New York City's Randalls Island) indicate that if no more than
20,000 tickets are sold there will be more gate crashers than stub
holders. If the court order holds, there is little doubt that there will
be police confrontations, probably considerable property damage to
the town and innumerable ssrious personal injuries.
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Because of a recent history of serious civil disruptions, music
festivals scheduled for future weeks around the country are running
- � in,to serious legal snags. A court injunction has been issued barring
a summer festival in a small town in Iowa. A federal court in Newark
has banned 'a proposed six-day festival near the town of Walpack that -
had been scheduled to begin on 4 August. In Scott County, Mo. , efforts
are under way to stop a scheduled Labor. Day rock festival. Governor
Bartless of Oklahoma has petitioned the courts and received an injunc-
tion halting a festival scheduled for Turner Falls Park on 8-9 August.
. City officiates in Bremerton. Wash., haste also canceled a rock festival
there.. Dallas, Texas officials are considering stopping a rock concert
scheduled for that city's Municipal Auditorium because of vandalism
committed At recent summer performances. Washington Constitution �
� - Hall, the Post Pavillion at Columbia and Chicago Park Commissioners
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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 demonsIt-rators, A place to stay.
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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. Feder-
ation 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 continuance crf Three Sisters Bridge, demonstrations
and police confrontations can be-anticipated on the Potomac.
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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 !Or 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
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T he third Brigade will leave from New Brunswick, Canada,
and will pxpbably work in the citrus fields on the Isle of Youth. Follow-
ins a 4-week work period, the group will tour Cuba for two weeks. The
Cuban Government will pay all expenses from New Brunswick� ;../-7e, �
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1 August, Nationwide
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, a
pacifist group with representation in some 50 countries, and the Women's
Division of the American Jewish Congress will initiate a national cam-
paign on the first of August toward ending the war in Vietnam. Although
reportedly in its 55 years of e.xistance the WILPF has been influenced,
and in some chapters dominated, by communists, the organization appears
still under the control of slightly left wing dedicated pacifists rather
than communists. 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 prote.ction 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. Among the manufacturers men-
tioned in a recent two-day meeting were Westinghotwe, 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. '
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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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*6 August, New York
The newly formed group called Peace Incorporated is promoting
the New York Summer Festival for�Peace at Shea Stadium on 6 August.
The same group helped coordinate the 8-hour long Winter Carnival for-
Peace staged at Madison Square Garden last January. That event drew
21,000 people and raised $60,000 for the Vietnam Moratorium Com-
mittee. The organizers tentati.vely plan to hold a series of similar
festivals in different parts of the country. One is already being planned
for Philadelphia on August 9. Admission charges for the Shea Stadium
affair will probably range from $5 to $10. The promoters idealistically
state that such events are the emergence of a new political force that
would be an alternative to street action for young people; "Ws a positive
. affirmation of love and the ability to create change within the system,"
states Philip Friedmann, one of the organizers.
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� Proceeds from the affair (after the promoters have pocketed their
profit) will go to support the candidacy of peace advocates in the coming
November election. A speCial committee which will decide to what
candidates funds will be given is being formed. Among those in the com-
mittee are the following: Princeton professor Jim Johnson, who was
chairman of the Princeton Strike Committee; Marian Adelman, a lawyer
who was active in the Mississippi civil rights movement, between 1964-68;
Rev.. Richard Fernandez, executive director of Clergy and *Laymen
Concerned about Vietnam; Stewart Mott, the eccentric philanthropist;
David Hawk, former coordinator of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee;
and Michael Brewer, an officer in the liberal Republican Ripon Society.
Reportedly, all performers have donated their talent and among those
who allegedly will participate are Janis Joplin, Country Joe, Dionne
Warwick, Judy Collins, Ste ppenwolf, the cast of "Hair" and others.
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Col. Hassan Jeru Ahmed-Bey, who heads the Black Man's Volun-
teer Army for Liberation, is planning a rally at the Washington Monument
grounds to emphasize the fight against the illegal drug traffic. The rally
was originally scheduled for 4 July, but was postponed due to the site
and date preemption by Bob Hope's Honor America Day. Col. Hassan's
organization reportedly has a national membership of 14,000 persons.
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The Black Man's Volunteer Army is particularly concerned with
the treatment and cure of Aug addiction in the black community 4 The
organization has m.et a degree of success in treating black drug addicts
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and has now been given some public funds to continue the effort. On
the plus side, Negro addicts -trust the Colonel and feel secure that all
� traftatment administered by the Volunteer Army will be kept confidential.
To be sure, many drug addicts have sought treatment from one of the
several local outlets who would not have sought treatment from Wash- �
ington public health facilities. On the minus side, however, consider-
� able shortcomings have been 'cited by public health authorities in the
Colonel's operation. One criticism is a lack of professional medical
supervision in the administration of the addictive but less disastrous �
� drug methadone. Additionally, the centers run by Col. Hassan have to
date not provided sufficient laboratory testing facilities to assure that
addicts under treatment have not reverted to the use of heroin. For
these minus reasons, Col. Hassan's operation is considered only par-
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9l9 August, St. Paul, Minnesota
The National Student Association will hold its 23rd annual con-
gress at Macalester College. WA � 7C
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
demonstration at L.A. on 20 August, to protest the teaching of police ,
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*26 August, Nationwide,
Betty Yriedan, chairman of the advisory board of the National
Organization for Women, continues to promote the militant feminist
plan for a nationwide women's strike on August 26. Betty Friedan, who
calls herself the "chairperson" of August 26 activities, lists three
strike demands: free abortions, basic equality and child care centers.
The "chairperson" states that political parties, corporations, hospitals,
churches, unions, mass media and all the other establishment groups
have not yet felt the urgency and power of women who constitute 53 per
cent of the national electorate. In her role as a modern Lysistrata, the
"chairpersori" is urging women to march, demonstrate, sit-in, rap,
stop typing, stop vacuuming, stop buying and, if appropriate, stop
making love. She labels the strike as really a confrontation. The August
date was selected.because it 'coincides with the 50th anniversary of the
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Marches and demonstrations are planned this year in New York,
Chicago. Milwaukee, �Buffalo, Syracuse and other cities. In Syracuse
freedom trash cans will be set up for women to dump some object of
their oppression. Karen de Crow, .Eastern regional director of the
National Organization for Women, advises women to use freedom trash
cans to dispose of an apron, a copy of Dr. Spock, hair curlers and,
states de Crow, "I fully expect that someone will deposit her husband."
The National Coalition of Nuns, which claims a membership of
1,800, have allegedly agreed to participate in the Chicago protest. New
York leaders are also discussing placing infants on the steps of city
hall to dramatize the need for child care centers. The day's motto for
housewives will be "Don't Iron While the Strike Is Hot." The strike has
been endorsed by the League of Women Voters, the Women's Bureau of
the U.S. Labor Department and almost every women's liberation group
in the political spectrum. Sponsors include New York Rep. Shirley
Chisholm, writer Gloria Steiner and Jeannette Rankin, the first woman
member of the U.S. House of Representatives. So far the ladies have
aroused little collective interest from large groups of women such as
nurses, telephone workers and factory employees. The more radical
women's groups are not disclosing their plans but they forecast a highly
energetic protest. Some surprises are probably�in store from the
extreme radical feminists.
In Washington, D.C. , a protest demonstration is scheduled for
Lafayette Park on the 26th. The sponsorship of the vVashington protest
is by Federally Employed Women, Inc., an organization coordinated by
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28 August, Portland, Oregon
The 070 national convention of the American Legion will be held,
at Portland, 28 August-3 September. A rock festival will be held in the
area during the same period. ..The Oregon Vietnam Moratorium Com-
mittee and the Yippies are planning demonstrations during the conven-
tion and are counting on individuals attending the rock festival to partici-
pate. Press accounts have indicated that the President may attend the
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Human Rights for Yeomen, Inc. , is sponsoring national writer-
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*September, New York
� The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, founded 16 months
ago by 50 black scholars, artists and authors, has announced that
three black Americans will be enrolled in the academy's newly
established Hall of Fame in September. One of those elected to the
Hall of Fame is the late W.E.B. DuBois. DuBois, a founder of the
NAACP, joined the. Commu.nist.Party in 1961 at the age of 93. Before
his death a year or so later, he had renounced his American citizenship
and had become a citizen of Ghana. The-former Communist Party
youth group which was succeeded 8 months ago by the present Young
Workers Liberation League was named for Dr. DuBois.
. Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, presidenfof the board of the Black Aca-
demy, has expressed Considerable chagrin at the denial of a visa for
DuBois' widow, Shirley Graham DuBois, who wanted to attend-the cere-
monies. The 71 year old Mrs. DuBois, a citizen of Ghana living in Cairo,
attempted to obtain a visa to travel to America earlier this year. Report-
edly, the Department of Justice overruled State Department approval for
the visa. Immigration and Naturalization Service reportedly has advised
that Mrs. DuBois was found to belong to some 30 subversive organizations
which made her inadmissible under the law. and she. did .not advance suf-
ficient reason to waive that inadmissibility. )1 (1-T. 74.
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29 August, West Coast
A national Chicano moratorium is being planned by radical leftist
Mexican-American organizations principally in the ;an Francesco 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--bring the boys home, let the Vietnamese employ
self-determination, etc. Involved in the various National Moratorium �
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. //1.' ;.
*29-30 August, New York City
Joan Bird, one of the New York 21 Black Panthers recently freed
on bail who will soon stanetrial for conspiracy to bomb public paces in
New York, has announced a "People's Tribunal" to be held in the center
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of Harlem. She will expose the facts in the frarneup charges against
those being tried.
Recently in Harlem David Hilliard, Black Panther chief of staff,
has announced that the Panther minister of defense, Huey P. Newton .
who will probably soon be released on bail from a California prison, will
establish a Harlem headquarters. Since the initial organization of the
BPP in the San Francisco Bay it rea, Harlem has reportedly been at best
lukewarm to the Party.. Repeated organizational efforts have been made
in the New York area with scant success: Newton, who has become a
martyr and a legend, is probably planning to establish himself in New
York in an effort to organize a strong and well-subscribed chapter there.
Newton was serving time in the..California Men's Colony for the
killing of an Oakland policeman in a 1967 shootout. He will soon be
released because the courts have ruled that irregularities existed in
the trial judge's charge to the jury that convicted him. Newton will
probably be retried in California but a. new trial date has not been set
and is probably many months if not years in the future. Nlit z
*3-7 September, Atlanta, Georgia
The Congress of African People will meet te) develop institutions
to bring about the liberation of black people. Thousande of persons arc
expected to attend from North America, Latin America, Africa and the
Caribbean. The congress is an expansion of black power conferences
held annually since 1966. List year at Bermuda several thousand black
persons attended. Haywood.Henry, chairman of the. congress, is a
member of Harvard University's department of Afro-American studies
and is also chairman of the Black Affairs Council. One of the partici-
pants will be.LeRoi Jones, radical poet and playwright. Mr. Henry, in
a prepared statement for a recent press conference, has established the
following congress goals: 1) to provide an ideological framework for the
black power movement; 2) to develop plans to build black institutions at
local, � national and international levels; 3) to create structures to imple-
ment mandates; 4) to exchange information; and 5) to provide an oppor-
tunity for African peoples' fellowships. �i. -1, Ill
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The Black Panther Party has announced a planning session to
be held on these dates at Henvard University., Initial plans will lie made
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for the Panther Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention to
be held next 4 November at an as yet undisclosed location.
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