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

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• Publication Date: June 18, 1970

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SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT
CALENDAR OF TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES.
Asterisked items are either reported for the first time, or
contain additions or changes to previously reported activities.
Summer, Nationwide
The Weatherman faction of SDS will probably be heard from
again this summer. As was widely predicted, the Weatherman "Days
of Terror" demonstrations last October in Chicago where 284 arrests
were made (the largest campus contingent was Kent State with 9) flopped
badly. The remnants of the Weatherman faction have now been driven
underground. The Weatherman leadership, which presently includes
Mark Rudd, Bernardine Dohrn and others, since October has been
reported meeting twice, once immediately following the October demon-
strations in a remote Illinois state park and again around Christmas
time at Flint, Michigan. Subsequent Weatherman events have been the
explosion of the New York bomb factory and a federal indictment against
12 charged With violation of the riot laws in connection with the Chicago
demonstration. �
Since last fall Weatherman philosophy has obviously changed
from one of mass membership to one of an elite core of revolutionary
terrorists (a ievolutionary vanguard). It cannot be logically suppose.d
that the New York bomb factory was the only one.
Widely circulated in recent weeks is a communication from the
underground allegedly authored by Bernardine Dohrn, entitled "Declar-.
ation of a State of War." Dohrn, who has always been an outspoken
Weatherman spokeswoman and is perhaps the most rabid female radical
in the country, 'speaks in this communication (a tape recording) in typical
revolutionarlf rhetoric. Whether the voice is Dohrn's or not is insig-
nificant because the meisage transmitted is in the Weatherman mood
and had prophc sled that witAin two weeks Weatherman would atta4-k a
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� symbol of American injustice. Within two weeks of the Dohrn message �
a New York City police building was bombed, creating extensive dam-
� age and injuring several people. On 11 June another bomb was exploded
in a building of the Omaha, Nebraska, police department. The New cal.:4".
York bombing is probably the work �of Weatherman and the Omaha ex- /00�1'11-
.plosion may also be. The Dohrn tape recording additionally identified
the third member killed in the New York bomb works blast. The
victim, says Dohrn, was Terry Robbins.; and, although police authorities
Are unable to verify this disclosure, the whereabouts of Robbins is
unknown. Robbins, like the two confirmed deaths (Diana Oughton and
Theodore Gold) had a past record of second string Weatherman leadership.
An interesting coincidence is that Robbins was active up until a year or
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so ago on the campus of Kent State in Ohio.
Only one of many for whom the police have been searching has
thus far been found. Linda Sue Evans was arrested some weeks ago in
New York. Although the CIA has not been specifically identified as a
prime Weatherman target, because of the organization's place in "the
establishment," a continuing bomb threat to Agency facilities cannot be
disregarded. An attack on the Agency would undoubtedly be considered
a major coup within the radical movement.
The Weatherman events of past week� s, theii lack of cooperation
with other radical units and their virtual disappearance into the hippie
and commune nether world indicates, an agreed-upon plan to foment
violent revolution through their previously enunciated "shock brigade"
tactics in a number of American urban areas. The hostile and seriously
alienated youth that comprise the present Weathermian faction have
threatened violence, and it is believed that their threats must be taken.
seriously.
A serious breech seems to have developed between the New
Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam and the once closely
affiliated member, the Socialist Workers' Party. This breech will
probably widen during the coming summer months. At a New Mobe
steering committee conference at Atlanta in May, the New Mobe cold-
shouldered a plan for this weekend's antiwar conference in Cleveland
that was apparently a SWP brain child.
The New Mohr in recent weeks has also shown itself to he in a
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has been successful in some places "ii some occasions in the past.
The most-notable success was last November 15, at Washington.
Although there is no question but what a well-planned rally can pro-
duce the bodies, New Mobe leaders-fear that the festive atmosphere
that increasingly creeps into the miss antiwar, anti-establishment
rallies is counterproductive in two ways: first, nose count alone does
not seem to impress the establishment and second, mass rallies are
fast becoming "old hat" and tilt participants are too interested in rock
music and pot to care much one way or the other what the radical
political merchants are selling. Although they have not defined exactly
what they mean, New Mobe spokesmen have now verbalized a need for
civil disobedience and direct action. This widely discussed tactical �
change to do away with the mass protest philosophy by the New Mobe
has tended to alienate its former comrade in dissent, the SWP, who
still believes in the value of the Mass demonstration and hastens to
point out that Hanoi likes them too.
The SWP, through its youth group, the Young Socialist Alliance,
has indeed built a formidable mass -movement body in the form of the
SMC (Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam). The
SWP undoubtedly sees its organization work within the SMC subverted
by its former New Mobe associates. The SWP additionally takes umbrage
at the seemingly sincere but misguided motives of several New Mohc
organizations to work for peace candidates through the summer and into
the fall. The SWP does not believe that such methods are the road to
American revolution.
To further complicate the serious rifts and en-fighting among the
organizations of the radical left, the Maoist Progressive Labor Party
and the SWP's Student Mobe have recently battled in Boston. It will be
remembered-that last summer the PLP faction of SDS split away at
Chicago and formed the SDS Worker Student Alliance. On 24 May the �
National Steering Committee of the Student Mobe met at Boston and the
SDS/WSAers tried to crash the party. A battle ensued in which a num-
ber of over-zealous radicals were injured.
'What is clearly implied is that the power factions in the doctrin-
aire communist left in scrambling for movement supremecy will intensify
the battle against one another in coming months. In all of this the Com-
menist Party, U.S.A. is trying to stand on the sidelines and will pro-
bdbly eventually pick up th.s pieces. The CPUSA is undoubtedly the best
organized of the old left and has the 'coolest hand. �
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As a capper, the Black Panther Party is also on i.he outs
with the entire white left radical movement. See details under 19
June Panther activities scheduled for Washington.
Summer, Georgia
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference has announced
a summer political action proeram for the South in general and Georgia
in particular. The Summer Community Organization and Political
Education (SCOPE) program specifies tlrree major objectives: mass
voter 'registration, political education and community organization.
SCOPE volunteers reportedly will spend ten weeks working in all 149
Georgia counties and possibly in Alabama and Mississippi as well. This
week the volunteers began a one-week intensive training and orientation
program at Atlanta.. � The SCOPE address is c/o scLc, 344 Auburn
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*19 June, Pentagon
A Quaker action group, which .has been active in antiwar demon-
strations, plans to picket the Pentagon every Friday in June beginning
12 June. The demonstrators will distribute antiwar leaflets at the mall
entrance. Fill /e.'/ 3.6 .
� *19 June, Los Angeles, California
At a mid-May meeting of the University of California Regents,
Chancellor Young of UCLA announced his intentionsoto rehire Negro,
admitted communist, instructor Angela Davis. Miss Davis' initial
appointment to the UCLA philosophy staff last fall caused considerable
dislocation oi campus tranquility and seriously divided the regents from �
the university faculty and administration. Davis was a prot4ge of new �
left pasha Herbert Marcuse at San Diego State and was appointed to the
staff by tenured radical leftist philosophy department chairman Donald
Kalish. California law provides for a loyality oath and precludes those
from state jobs who are members of the Communist Party. Miss Davis
in the turmoil shouted racial foul;and to further irritate and alienate the
regents, Kalish assigned Davis several additional classes to teach.
At the May meeting the regents overwhelmingly voted to strip
Chancellor Young of his appointment prerogatives (vote of 15 to 6) and
will make the decision on Davis at the regents meeting on the 11th.
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Since the regents are largely in the Governor Reagan camp there
is. little doubt how they will vote. If they reject her reappointment,
serious trouble could erupt on the heretofore mostly docile UCLA
campus. Chancellor Young who in philosophy falls somewhere .
between Nathan Pusey of Harvard and Kingman Brewster of Yale
will probably tender his resignation. Since Young has been given
much personal credit for keeping the lid on at UCLA (and probably
with sound justification), the trouble of the northern schools could
well shift to southern California next fall.
*19 June, Washington, D. C.
The BPP is planning a "Jubilee Day" rally and national press
conference at Washington on the above date. According to a BPP
source, the Party will announce a "4th executive mandate" by Huey
Newton. This mandate allegedly will call for the convening of a con-
stitutional convention (an Eldridge Cleaver brain child) to estatlish a
provisional revolutionary government for the United States. The time
and place for the constitutional convention will be made public on
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According to another source, an additional purpose of the BP
action is to protest the denial of rights to black people.. Ralph D.
Abernathy may address the gathering. �
19 June at the Lincoln Memorial has been selected because this
is the date On which the enforcement of Abraham Lincoln's emancipa-
tion proclamation supposedly went into effect in 186�3. The Panthers
have called for an end to "Nixon's era of fa.cism."
The planned Panther activity in Washington constitutes a depar-
ture from pat activities. Signs are that Panther membership is
growing and that Panther leaders have adopted the time-honored mass
movement approach so. successfully employed by revolutionary forces
of the past. The Panthers have in recent weeks been busy in public
relations and in organizing a number of front organizations in major
American cities. The euphemistic cover names are the "National
Committee to Combat Facism" (active in Washington as well as other
cities) and "Black Community Information Centers." Under the 'shelter
of these innocent sounding fronts Panther leaders are aggressively
continuing organizing activities throughout the country despite claims
that no ne* BP chapters are being -established. It would appears that
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this disclaimer is a deliberate deception. The new front groups are
under complete BPP control and discipline and must follow all Party
instruction from the Black Panther national headquarters. Currently,
aside from Washington, D.C., the plational Committee to Combat-
Facism units are operating in the following cities: Pittsburgh, Detroit,
Cleveland, Lima, Milwaukee, Tulsa, Omaha, Augusta, Portland (Ore.),
Bridgeport, Hartford, Winston-Salem, Newark, East St. Louis, Cam-
bridge, Atlantic City and Jerseeit City. Black Community Information
Centers are now functioning in Baltimore, New York City, Mount Ver-
non (N.Y.), and Gary (Indiana). In process of being organized in either
one or.the other front names are sub-rosa BP groups in Cincinnati,
Dayton, Toledo, Albany, Greenville (Mississippi), Providence, Des
.Moines, Flint, and Kankakee (Illinois).
-Last July the-Panthers held a national conference at Oakland,
California, aimed at bringing together all elements, black and 'white,
of the new left. It was at this conference that the name "National Com-
mittee to Combat racism" was originated. In attendance at the Oakland
meeting were members of the Communist Party, SDS, and other extremist
elements. One of the immediate goals of the NCCF is community control
of police forces.
Although the July conference flopped, most likely Communist
Party delegates to the conference offered. advice to. the Biaac Panthers
in the proven value of fronts.
The Panthers are also involved in the current rash of feuds
among extremists. Among the Panther epithets for'l.vhite radicals whom
they dislike are Zionists, ideological phonies, pseudo-revolutionaries,
egotistical racists--and numerous other ferocious names. Principal
rhetorical spokesman for the Party is Elbert Emcy (Big Man) Howard
who is deputy minister of information and managing editor of the Party
newspaper, the Black Panther. Among the bitter invective Big Man
heaps on the new left whites is that the new left posesses the "socialist
traits of the Nazis."
In coming months the BPP will probably experience additional
growth through. the utilization of front organizations and will probably
attempt to dIsspell their current super-violent image in the interest of
building a greater mass foundation following.
Panther literature Astributed by the NCCF Washington fice
at 23Z7 18th Streets N. W.. , announcing the Lincoln Memorial rally
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also is promoting community discussions. The NCCF offers to send
spokesmeri to home discussions groups by appointment to deal with
such topics as the U.S. facist government, why a constitutional con-
vention must be held and positive alternatives to the present system
of exploitation, slavery, brutality, and injustice.
*19-21 June, Cleveland, Ohio
A National Emergency Conference against Cambodia-Laos-
Vietnam War will be held at Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland,
Ohio, �19-21 June. This conference is being sponsored by the Student
Mobe and the Cleveland Area Peace Action Council. Its purpose is to
plan future antiwar activity. Participants in the conference plan to
demonstrate at Cleveland on 20 June when tilt Vice President visits
that city to speak at a fund-raising dinner. r ;',i WA fzso.':7 -
This conference is dislocating many radical noses. The New
Mobe is shying away from the Ohio meet as is the large and powerful
Chicago Peace Action Council which is dominated by the CPUSA sym-
pathy group. The game of domination politics is being played out and,.
probably the Student Mobe (controlled by the Trotskyite SWP/YSA) will �
be left holding an empty antiwar leadership bag at Cleveland. i\,:.1.,f�
Reportedly, the New Mobe which is feuding with the SWP (see
p. 2) has co-opted the SCLC which Will support and take part of next
weekend's New Mobe conference at Milwaukee but will Ahun or, token
attend the emergency conference at Cleveland. Iii 10 -IT I Nal Li
The SDS Worker Student Alliance is planning to send two bus
loads of radicals to the Cleveland conference and a WSA spokesman
states that they are going to Cleveland to fight the Student Mobe both
politically and physically. /04a'5 it ,..e
*26 June, Carbondale, Illinois
The Committee of Returned Volunteers and the Committee of
Concerned Asian Scholars are sponsoring a conference June 26-27, at
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. The objective of the con-
ference is tp provide a public forum for "critical, scholarly analysis
of the Vietnamese Center and United States foreign policy in general."
The Center for VietnamesckStudies and Programs is located on the
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*26 June-5 July, Detroit, Michigan
The National Association of Black Students plans to hold a con-
vention at Wayne State U., Detroit,. Michigan. It is attempting to
obtain a university building for the'convention; however, university
authorities have not yet agreed to furnish a building. The association�
has been advised that university buildings cannot be used on 4 July. The
association has also called ford'a rally at Belle Isle and authorities are
concerned inasmuch as large crowds traditionally celebrate 4 July there.
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27-28 June, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A New Mobe sponsored national antiwar conference is being
planned for 27 and 28 June at which time it is expected a final deci-
sion will be made whether or not to return to earlier tactics of large-
scale, "non-violent, civil disobedience." The belief of many rpembers
of the Mobeis liberal-radical coalition that the May 9 antiwar demon-
stration in Washington was a "disaster" accomplishing little with
its traditional march-rally'scenario has them leaning towards more
militant action for the future. Final plans as to the nature and place
of the activities should come out of this conference. Regardless of
the concensus decision of the group, a number of the more radical
leaders and groups will opt for more militancy and will go it alone or
form new coalitions.
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Among a number of summer programs tentatively approved
at a New Mobe steering committee meeting in Atlanta in May, was
the organization of some sort of mass, non-violent ilemonstratien
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*27 June, Wa�Itham, Massachusetts
The Brandeis Student Strike Information Center for whom the
Student Mobe also has a "mad-on" will meet at Waltham. The Student
Mobe poutingly labels the Strike Information Center as a "self appointed
�. grouping with no significant base in the student movement." This
meeting has been called, believe Student Mobe spokesmen, deliberately
to lessen the impact of the Cleveland emergency conference.
*27-28 June., .Chicago, Illinois
Recent issues of the, Communist Party Daily World have given
considerable publicity for a National Rank-and-File Conference'of the
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American tabor movement. The Daily World has announced that a
delegation.from Seattle will also take part in the June conference.
One of the topics to be discussed in Chicago is the war in Vietnam
and the manner in which pressure can be brought on the Nixon admin-
istration to end the conflict now, bfing the troops home and bring a
halt to the "bloody dissent and repression at home." The conference
additionally is designed to defend trade union and membership rights
against the "Nixon big business, anti-labor, racist onslaught."
Daily World publicity criticizes such responsible labor leaders as
George Meany, and although it is not spelled out it is obvioys that the
planned conference-is a CPUSA operation. �.� � t.). � )(4 d,-/ i
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According to-a source, contact with whom has been insufficient
to determine reliability, the BPP plans to bomb a building in Cleveland,
Ohio, on the day in late June that Vice .President Spiro Agnew plans a
visit. The targeted building will be in an area removed from the Vice;
President's itinerary and will be symbolic in nature. [1,/ /Ai i(q /di; A:lull:.
*1 July, San Francisco, California
The conviction of Black Panther minister of defense, Huey .
Newton, has been reversed by the California courts. An'appeal by
the state is presently in progress but will probably be denied, and
Newton is expected to be freed from the California Men's Colony in
San Luis Obispo on about the 1st of July. Newton was convicted in
September 1968 for manslaughter in the shooting toodeath of an. Oakland
policeman. He has been serving a 2-15 year sentence. There are still
a number of legal technicalities to be satisfied before Newton is free.
If released in early July, the posting of bail will be necessary. Since
Newton is such a charismatic Panther figure there is little doubt that
sufficient funds for bail can be collected. Newton's release can be
expected to 'trigger jubilation in the Panther strongholds principally in
the San Francisco Bay area, but no immediate violence as a result of
the Newton release is anticipated.
July, Washington, D.C.
Pregident Nixon has set 1 July as the date for the 1970 draft
lottery (for men turning 19 during 1970). Lottery proceeding will
probably again be followeeby claims of foul play, establishment, roulette,
etc. Additionally,. renewed new left draft abolition rhetoric can be
expected to make some minor headlines in parts of the Ration.
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1 July, Washington, D.C.
July, Baltimore, Maryland
. 6-9 July, Edgewood Arsenal and Ft. Detrick
The War Resisters League�and a Philadelphia Quaker action
group are jointly sponsoring a campaign against the production of chem-
ical and biological weapons. Of principal concern to the protestors is
the production and storage of nerve gas. The groups will demonstrate
in front of the White House at 10 a.m. followed by a I p.m. march to the
Capitol. At 3 p.m. the demonstrators will begin a march from the Cap-
itol to. Baltimore, Maryland, �which is sZheduled to arrive there on July
4. A mass demonstration is then scheduled for Baltimore on 5 July,
and from 6-9 July the demonstrators will make separate walks to Edge-
wood Arsenal (T July) and to Ft. Detrick (9 July). Reportedly civil
disobedience is being planned for Ft. Detrick. The demonstrators will
attempt to enter the Fort to demand that it be converted to a world health
center. //1/ ,/,'� ',5(
* 4 July, Washington, D. C,
Plans for the Bob Hope-Billy Graham originated Honor America
Day being produced by Walt Disney Productions are progressing. The
guest list and participating organizations appear to be growing. Along
with those previously reported as participants (Johnny t ash, Glen
Campbell, Billy Casper, Henry Aaron, Willie Mays, Frank Borman
and others) a number of ranking government officials, both hawks and
doves, have endorsed the celebration. Among those prominent members
of Congress in the dove category who have sent endprsements'are Sens.
Church, Cooper, Hatfield, McGovern and Muskie. The hawks who have
endorsed Honor America Day so far are Senator Stennis and Reps. Ford
and Teague.
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WTOP TV.. Charles S. Os Malley, an official of the organizing staff,
has advised that city officials are whole-heartedly supporting the cele-
bration. Mayor Washington is an honorary vice chairman and City
Council Chairman Gilbert Hahn is a member of the executive committee.
In the wake of the initial announcement, the Washington Post
was snidely-critical of the Honor America Day plan. The Post editorial
irr,iplied that this year's 4th of July observances will take on the trap-
pings of a pro-war rally iesupport of the Presidenk's Vietnam irlicy.
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The Post editors believed that just the identity of the principal figures
who have associated themselves with the idea have made the planned
day of celebration suspect. The Post suggested that to equalize the day
a number of well-known doves should step forward and offer to pa.rtici-
pate. The Post should, therefore,*be pleased to note those congres-
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sional doves mentioned above who have come forward.
Although the reasons are unexplained, a-recent press article
reflects growing uncertainty about the relationship of the Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of Washington to the -July 4 event.
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The day's plans call for an 11 a. m. religious patriotic service
at the Lincoln Memorial followed by an afternoon of entertainment on
the Washington Monument ground& Details will be announced in the
near future by Walt Disney Productions. The day's entertainment will
be capped by the usual 45 minute fireworks display on the Washington
Monument grounds. Predictions are that Honor America Day may turn
out as many as sop, 000 participants. This would undoubtedly comprise
the largest demonstration in the history of the city and perhaps of the
world. The planners have several factors going for them over and above
the basic call of patriotism. Many tens of thousands turn out annuallSr
in any event for the city's spectacular fireworks 'display. There will
also be many thousands who will come for the outsianding slate of enter-
tainers. :'.�.
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Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and the Yippics have not altered their
plans for a .smoke-in and an insurrection city for the Monument grounds
for the same day. Like the 'Black Panthers, Hoffman has calred for a
constitutional -convention. He says, "First we're gonna proclaim our-
selves a new nation, then we're gonna declare war on Amerika. It's
gonna be a summer of siege for Washington. We're out to occupy the
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It has been reported that the Yippies had planned a confrontation
with the police. A reliable source, however, has recently advised that
the Yippics are now shying away from violent demonstrations believing
them no longer to be useful. Yippie party members allegedly prefer to
be in the background and appear "straight" so that they can execute pro-
jects of a larger scale. One project that has been recently discussed in
Yippie cirdes for instance is the kidnapping of a foreign ambassador and
tire holding of him for ransom of a political prisoner such as Bobby Seale.
Yippie leaders feel that such an action would set a pattern for other
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radical groups and create fear among elected officials. No definite
plans have been made for political kidnappings. Unfortunately, such
talk among the irrational revolutionaries cannot be easily laughed off.
Although the Yippies are known for, big mouth and little action, the
very dire possible Consequences of their thinking regarding kidnappings
could be extremely serious. �
David Giltinan, a New &lobe spokesman,. has stated that the New �
Mobe expects the 4th of July to be a "real blood bath" due to the con-
flicting demonstrations scheduled on that date. Giltinan's statement
was probably an effort on the part of the New Mobe to discourage atten-
dance at the Hope-Graham affair. Although there may be some skirmishes
� on the Monument grounds, a major confrontation between pro and anti-
war forces seem not to be in the cards this time. The Yippies should be
outnumbered 1000:1�and against such odds, crazy as they seem, the Yip- -
pies should not provoke the "straights."' 'FlU /4/ ( .7c
9-18 July, New York
A World Youth Assembly under the sponsorship of UN Secretary'
General U Thant is expected to attract 750 participants from all over
the world. The assembly budget ($733,500) is reportedly in trouble.
13 July
A third contingent of the VencereMos Brigade will travel to
Cuba for six weeks of citrus fruit picking (on the Isle of Youth) and for
political indoctrination. Two Brigade offices, one'bn New York and one
in Cambridge, have published a call for volunteers among high school
and college youth. The Brigade is expected to consist of approximately
500 persons and will probably depart from New Brunswick, Canada,
by Cuban freighter as have the two earlier contingents this year.
29 August, West Coast
. A national Chicano moratorium is being planned by radical
leftist Mexican-American "organizations principally in the San Francisco
Bay area. Additionally, demonstrations are planned in a number of
western c:itjes between now and 29 August. The themes of.the planned
protest actions arc the usual--bring the boys home, let the Vietnamese
eMploy sci1tcletermination4 etc. Involved in the various National Mora-
� toritxm Committees are A number of organizations that often indolvc
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themselves in anti-establishment activities. Some of the organi-
zations 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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*15 September, Chicago, Illinois
Judge Julius Hoffman has continued the conspiracy to riot
trial of Bobby Seale to 15 September. Seale is presently being tried
(with a number of his confederates) for the kidnap murder of a former
fellow. Black Panther in Connecticut. Recent court decisions, inciden-
tally, have affirmed the constitutionality of the Connecticut proceedings
thus far. It had been alleged by the defense that the indictments were
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*20-21 June, Newport, Kentucky �
The National States Rights party, a white extremist anti-Negro
group, has scheduled its annual convention at Newport. An organization
� official has assured Newport police that the convention will be peaceful.
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*20 June, Augusta, Georgia
A march is scheduled on Saturday in support of he Augusta
police for their efforts during the Augusta riots of 11 May. The march
sponsor, a labor union, is hoping for 5-10,000 participants.
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