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Regional NooozeBy VVAW
VETS VIEW OF SPRINGFIELD The Post-Dispatch stated in regard to the incident, "Prior to the President's arrival here, three persons were arrested in a fracas between police and a group of anti-war demonstrators. One man suffered a bloodied head." A group of Vietnam Veterans Against the War from St. Louis, all carrying valid passes to enter the roped-off area in front of the Capitol building, were denied entrance by police. About four bystanders and three veterans were clubbed by police in their attempt to stop the veterans from entering the area. One veteran from the Rockford chapter of the national VVAW, attempting to raise the VVAW banner was attacked by plainsclothesmen who tore down the banner and took him away, ostensibly for resisting arrest. To our knowledge, formal charges were never issued, and the man was released two hours later. Police told the veterans no banners were wanted, but after all protest signs were removed, a large number of signs bearing slogans such as "Nixon: We Love You" remained. Veterans and their supporters were harassed and at one point physically assaulted by a hysterical woman, but police and plainclothesmen merely watched, apparently waiting for a violent response from the veterans (which never came). At this point Gov. Ogilvie began his speech greeting the President with the words, "All of Illinois joins me in welcoming you," emphasizing the word "all" loudly. To paraphrase a famous quotation you can fool some of the people some of the time, and the ones you can't fool, you can arrest on trumped-up charges, take away their freedom of speech, and refuse to allow them to participate in public assembly.
LABOR DAY - MILWAUKEE 1971
The police were freaking out, because there was nothing for them to do!! They couldn't bust anyone for yelling!"#$% 1234 We don't want your fucking war!!#$$ They knew is was legal to use four letter words during a demonstration. The vets took care of marshalling, so the pigs couldn't get their noses into that either! They were just awed by the whole thing. After the parade came off without a hitch, so did the party. We had two 30-gallon garbage cans full of vegetarian stew, 400 pounds of peaches, and about 75 pounds of homemade potato salad. Three of Milwaukee's best bands played, gallons of wine was consumed, and lids, & lids, & lids, & lids, & . . . The VVAW in Milwaukee is now preparing for their next parade. We have decided to make it an annual thing, but we'd like to move the date to the original Labor Day, which is May 1. We'll have to wait and see what the Alderman says about it. Anyway, it was a gas, and we hope that more VVAW people can be here the next time we have a parade.
LEGISLATIVE LIASON OFFICE
Anyone who has been stationed in a military town knows why the Nixon-Mitchell types are afraid of servicemen voting in local elections. We will have complete information and guidelines out in a week or two in the meantime contact local voter registration groups, lawyers, etc., and find out what state and local election laws are. For further information call us here. The administration's Emergency Employment Act funds are now on the way to the cities and states. There are some 9 billion dollars to create public service jobs. One third of that money is to be used for veterans' jobs. It is imperative that that money goes to the people and for the people. The mayor or the manpower director of cities over 75,000 has the money. We are doing all that we can in Washington to see that the Vets have the chance to use the money to solve the problems that the Establishment can't. Brothers this is important: Senator Symington has called for a full congressional investigation into the conditions of the military. We need documentation of: racism, drugs, fraggings; moral and discipline problems, violations of governemtn (sic) policy, ineffectiveness of government programs, specific illegal or immoral incidents in Indochina and America, etc. and programs and policies that should be implementmented (sic) by the government. Please be as specific as possible and as accurate as possible (include: names, dates, time, places, witnesses, sworn testimony, documents). Send this information to: Rusty Lindley, c/o Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Legislative Liaison Office 47 Ivy St. SE, Wash.D.C. 20003. ------------------- VVAW Washington attended the opening of the JFK Center for the Performing Arts greeting Henry Kissinger, Robert MacNamara, and several hundred of bourgeois best with the following message: There is no peace in Indochina. There is no celebration for 45 million. There are no marble edifices. There is no splendor or illusions of grandeur. There is only war, death, sorrow destruction. And that is all the future holds.
HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN? -------------------
Men 17 through 34
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