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

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2024
• Document Release Date: December 24, 2024
• Publication Date: August 3, 1971

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SIT.UATION INFORMATION REPORT
3 August 1971
CALENDAR OF TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES-
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Asterisked items are either reported for the first time, or
contain additions or changes to previously reported activities.
Major antiwar organizations as well as a riumber of lesser known
and less significant groups are planning demonstrations around the nation
for the weekend of August 6-8. The general theme of these demonstra-
tions' is the commemoration of the atomic bombing of Japanese cities
some decades ago. It is difficult to see what this evdnt has to-do with
ending the war in Vietnam, aside from the apparent desii:e of radical
left wing antiwar activists to embarrass the nation and portray the
American military effort as traditionally genocidal and racist.
It is not anticipated that any of the demonstrations scheduled for
various parts of the nation will be violent or disruptive. It is further not
believed that they will be particularly well attended with the possible
exception of the Boston area and the New York area.
This weekend also is the first anniversary of the -Marin County
shootings for which Angela Davis and Rutchell Magee will be tried for
murder. Some of the weekend antiwar demonstrations will also e n com-
pass tht freeing of political prisoners and hence the plight of Angela and
Rutchell will be spoken of at rallies and marches.
The following is a sample of demonstrations that have been
schedOed in various cities around the country for the weekend from
6-8 August.
Cambridge, Lexington and New Bedford, Massachusetts
The Cambridge Chapter of the People's Coalition for Peace and
Justice will sponsor a rally at the City Common followed by a march to
Lexington. Plans for Lexington are a rally at the Lexington United
Methodist Church and the blocking of an entrance o Hans corn Field at
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New Bedford, Massachusetts, The Boston Chapter of the PCPJ has
also announced plans for .a demonstration at Hanscom Field and in
informed source estimates that.as many as 1,000 persons will take part
in an effort to block the entrance to the field... Reportedly, the Boston
Chapter of the PCPJ has�also considered defoliating the Vermont residence
of Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker.
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The Socialist Workers Party controlled National Peace Action
Coalition and The Chicago peace Council are sponsoring a rally on the
seventh at the Fermi Nuclear Statue at the University of Chicago. Re-
portedly, NPAC rep resentatives will gather a caravan of automobiles at
the Chicago Civic Center and will proceed to the statue for the planned
demonstration. Members of �the Chicago Peace Council will march from
the Illinois Institute of Technology to the statue.,*,-r. .5961�5- ).�.,:t
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*Detroit, Michigan
The Detroit Chapter of the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party will
sponsor a Hiroshima Action Day on the sixth. The demonstration will
include a "march of death," during which demonstrators will 'carry
placards.bearing the names of 2, 500 American soldiers from the state
of Michigan who have lost their lives in Vletnam. //,,. 7�) git*I4'7/
*Honolulu, Hawaii
A Hiroshima memorial march is being staged this week at
Honolulu and is scheduled to end on the sixth. At the conclusion of the
march, memorial services will be held under the sponsorship of the
Hawaii People's Coalition for Peace and Justice /(O � 7/:
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*Los Angeles, California
The Peace Action'Council at Los Angeles plans a weekend of
demon�trations in California. On August 6 a memorial service will be
held at the Buddhist 'Temple, 815 East First Street, Los Angeles,
followed by a candlelight march to the Federal Building and Civic Center.
On August 7 a demonstration will be held in front of the Los Angeles
Times lolloWed by a motorcade scheduled to proceed to the Sargent-
Fletcber Aircraft Company in El Monte (the significance of demonstra-
tions at this commdrcial enterprise is unknown). Following that, the
motorcade will tray& to the campus of the University of california at
Santa Barbara then to the Mann County Courthouse at San Rafael,
California and finally to Sacramento. At Sacramento participants will
welcome the arrival of protestors who are participating in the Chicano
War Moratorium March through California. The stop in San Rafael will
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*Newark, New Jersey
Demonstrations aye scheduled for Newark by the War Resisters
League at the Federal Building in commemoration of the atomic bombing
of Japan and in protest of the VietnSm war. (It has been reported that
the War Resisters League "bankrolled" a considerable portion of spring
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*Elizabeth, New Jersey
The Committee for a San �uclear Policy will, attempt to tie-up
traffic on the Garden State Parkway at Elizabeth on August 6 for the
purpose of protesting the Vietnam war......and commemorating the bombing
of Japan. �' V 6o .).)
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*Jersey City, New Jersey
The Hudson County, New Jersey, Peace Action Coalition, an .
affiliate of the NPAC, will hold a rally in Lincoln Park in Jersey City on
August 8 to commemorate the bombing and in opposition to the war.
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*New York, New York
The Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee and the New
York Peace Action Coalition are cosponso-ring a rally in that city this
weekend. On August 6 an assembly and rally will take place at Duffy
Square to be followed by a march to Central Park. Also scheduled for
August 6--The Scientists and Engineers for Social and Political Action
will sponsor a memorial sr!rvic.e at ta,: Riverside Research Institute,
80 West End Avenue. On 9 August the Peace Parade Comthittee will
sponsor a leafletting demonstration in front of the New York Stock Ex-
change Building and throughout the financial district. On the ninth also,
The War Tax Resistance will sponsor a march from City Hall Park to
the Internal Revenue Service Building on Church Street, where they will
inaugurate a project fin* non-payment of taxes to oppose the Vietnam war.
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*Rochester and Buffalo, New York
� The Upstate New York May Day Collective will sponsor demonstra-
tions this weekend at Rochester and Buffalo.
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*San Antonio, Texas
The American Friend Service Committee will demonstrate at the
Federal Building on Augus.t 6.
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The People's Coalition for Peace and Justice and the Washington
Area Peace Action Coalition will hold workshops as part of its program
� in commemorating the bombing of Japan. Thtre will also be a showing
�� of antiwar films at Saint Stephens and the Incarnation Church.
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Antiwar radicals have also planned activities in various other
parts of the country over the weekend. Some other cities that.,have'been
mentioned for possible activities are Houston, Seattle, Dallas, and Miami.
*7 August, Sacramento, California
The National Chicano War Moratorium Committee March is
scheduled to terminate at the California Capitol Building at Sacramento on
the above date. This march which began some we'eks ago at Calexico was
scheduled to protest a number of injustices, including police brutality
and oppression against Mexican-Americans, injustices from the Depart-
ment of Immigration and American Imperialistic Genocide in Vietnam. -
Reportedly, a number of militant Mexican-American Brown Berets will
be in the group at Sacramento and this violence-prone organization could
very well. incite a police reaction at the California capitol. Spokesmen
have stated that if authorities interfere with the marchers, there will be
bombing and burning at SacraMento and at Whittier. It is believed that
the Brown Beret Organization will certainly try to bring about violence.
They have tried in the past and have been highty successful.
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A regional conference of the May Day Collective wilt be held
from the tenth to the thirteenth of August. It is anticipated that the
regional conference will be formulating plans for regional.participation
to propose to the national conference of May Day Collectives to be held
at Atlanta later in the month. It should be noted that the Washington
Chapter of the May Day Collective (now named the Potomac Revolutionary
Gang) has moved to new quarters at 1620 New Hampshire Avenue N. W.
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Y.13-17 August, Atlanta
A national conference of the May Day Collective will meet in
Atlanta on t�he above clates. In recent weeks, various regional May Day
Collectives have been meeting to formulate local plans to s'ubmit to the
national organization. Although the principal target date is 'still uncer-
tain, activities that have taken place recently indicate that Was hingtqn
will probably not soon again be a virtual singular target. Future target
areas will probably be multiple and the major cities, chosen because of
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their industrial importance, with little regard for the presence _
of governmental installations. The May Day Collective apparently
reasons that pressuring the government has failed and now
bringing pressure to bear against industrial complexes to stop
the Vietnam war is worth. try. . I. 3 (0 I ,a) 7/
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