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Support The Spring Mobilization To End The War In Vietnam.

As members of the Detroit community we declare our opposition to the illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional war being waged against the people of Vietnam. We declare it particularly to the U.S. leaders who bear ultimate responsibility for the outrages being committed in our names. We indict them thusly:

While men cry for justice; they mock them with the law of guns.

While men hunger; they lay waste to their fields.

While men seek brotherhood; they answer with a war against a colored people.

While men search for freedom; they impose puppets and tyrants upon them.

While men try to build; they burn with napalm.

While men voted for peace; they escalate the war.

At home they betray the dispossessed, conscript the youth of the nation for war, and call it democracy.

We call upon all Detroiters to unite and mobilize in a movement to end the senseless slaughter of American GIs and Vietnamese. We call for the enlistment of the men, money, and resources now being used to maintain the military machine in a fight against the real enemies of man—hunger, hopelessness, ignorance, hate, fear, discrimination, and inequality.

As the war cruelly destroys in Vietnam, so it denies hope to millions in the United States. The need for decent homes, quality education, jobs and fair employment are brushed aside. Our cities smother in smoke and grime, strangle in traffic. Our slums continue to rot. Streams and rivers are polluted, and the very air we breathe is fouled. Our vast wealth could in a short time eliminate these ills. It goes instead to murder and destroy.

And, as the war continues, the ultimate danger of nuclear holocaust hangs over all.

Therefore, we call upon all who share our views that the United States must end its war against Vietnam, to participate as fully as possible in the Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. Detroit activities will include a Vietnam Week, April 5–12, which will include a full range of anti-war activities. Elsewhere on this page a schedule of events appears.

The week’s activities will culminate in a massive mobilization in New York City and San Francisco on April 15. If at all possible we ask that you join with the hundreds of thousands of people from hundreds of communities across the nation that will travel to these cities to call for an end to mass murder in Vietnam. Reserve your transportation now, by calling 832–5700.

Harvey Ovshinsky, Editor, THE FIFTH ESTATE

Nick Medvecky, Chairman, Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam

John Sinclair, Artists’ Workshop

Joe Sanders, Chairman, Wayne Committee to End War in Vietnam

John Anderson, Chairman, Detroit Citizens for Peace

Allen Van Newkirk, Editor, GUERRILLA

Peter Werbe, Managing Editor, THE FIFTH ESTATE

Ed Chalom, Chairman, Veterans Against the War

Frank Joyce, Executive Director, People Against Racism

Mike Kerman, Friday Night Coordinating Committee

Joe Mulky, Chairman, Detroit LEMAR

Gordon Fox, Chairman, Young Students for World Peace

SCHEDULE FOR VIETNAM WEEK

Wednesday, April 5 DEBATE ON THE VIETNAM WAR: Irving Kirsch, Wayne Committee to End the War in Vietnam; Patrick Tifer, Wayne Young Republican Club. 2 p.m., Mart Rm., McKenzie Hall, Cass at Putnam, Wayne University

Thursday, April 6, WAYNE CAMPUS REFERENDUM ON THE WAR: Question: “Are you in favor of an immediate cease fire and withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam? Balloting to take place at Wayne campus locations between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 8, WALK ACROSS THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE: Walk from Detroit to Windsor to give collected funds to Canadian Friends Service Committee for war victims in North and South Vietnam. Walk will begin at 1:00 p.m. at Playground on Porter between 17^th & 18^th Sts. For info call 833–0387.

Saturday, April 8 SPEECH Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Aide to Dr. Martin Luther King: “The Antiwar Movement & The Spring Mobilization”, Cobo Hall, 8:00 p.m. Admission $1 adults, 50 cents students and unemployed

Sunday, April 9 HOOT FOR PEACE: Entertainers include: Barbara Dane, Pit Pinnell, Phil Esser, Bob McDonald Trio, and others to be announced. 8 p.m., Upper DeRoy Aud., Wayne campus. Donation $1.50. All Welcome.

Tuesday, April 11, FILM FESTIVAL: Detroit Premiere of SONS AND DAUGHTERS Feature length documentary of Oct. 1965 Days of Protest. See giant March, Hell’s Angels, hundreds of cops. Music by the Grateful Dead. Also: Felix Greene: Slides of N. Vietnam, “Eye Witness in N. Vietnam” by James Cameron, National Liberation Front Films, 12:30 p.m. in the Mart Room, McKenzie Hall, 7:30 p.m., Kresge Science Library Aud., Wayne campus. Donation $1. All are welcome.

Wednesday, April 12, WAR CRIMES HEARINGS: A panel of attorneys and experts will review evidence presented by researchers and witnesses pertaining to the allegation that the U.S. is committing crimes against humanity in Vietnam. Lower DeRoy Aud., Wayne campus, 7:30 p.m., no admission. All Welcome.

Friday, April 14, LEAVE FOR NEW YORK CITY FOR LARGEST ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION EVER HELD.

Related

See Fifth Estate’s Vietnam Resource Page.