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New Prairie Primer, October 15, 1969, Page 14 Moratorium Activities "I have often said that there's really very little we can do with regard to running the university and college campuses of this country. We have enough problems running the nation, the national problems. Now I understand that there has been and continues to be opposition to the war in Vietnam on the campuses and also in the nation. As far as this kind of activity is concerned, we expect it. However, under no circumstances will I be affected whatsoever by it." ... President Richard M Nixon Press Conference, Sept 27 1969 IOWA CITY-- 10 a.m. Reading of War Dead at Pentacrest; 11 a.m. Teach-in and rally; 7 p.m. candle light march (Further info from Bert Marion, GSB or NUC, 204 Dey Bldg) AMES-- Tues, contd reading of war dead ; Wed 2 p.m. Community Convocation, participating business closed; 3 p.m. march to Story County Draft Board and Recruiting Center; eve, Memorial Services. DES MOINES --- Wed 5:15 P.M. from Drake University to City Hall; 7PM March from City Hall to State Capitol, planting of tree of life on lawn; eve, "The War Game" movie (Further info from Wayne Wagner or Mike Vavrus) CEDAR FALLS -- Tues 5:30 p.m. Magic Theatre concert, Music Bldg Band Shell; 8:00 p.m. Torch light march around campus from campanile; 9:30 p.m. Bonfire and Peace Rally; Wed 9:00 a.m. Teach- in Univ Hall; 1:00 p.m. March from top of Union; 2:00 p.m. Ceremony at Cannons, reading of Iowa War Dead, plating of tree of life; 3:15 p.m. speeches and rap session on Union Plaza; 7:30 p.m. dialogue City Hall Council Chambers MOUNT VERNON -- Tues eve KRNL broadcast of classes not being held; Wed KRNL broadcast of Vietnam War Dead; 10:00 a.m. Rally in King Chapel and drafting of resolution to be sent to state officials, the press and Richard M. Nixon. 2:00 p.m. Meeting at Ink Pond and the Mall; 4:00 p.m. Interdenominational Service at United Methodist Church; 6:30 Transportation to Cedar Rapids rally leaves from Commons. At press time, information about Moratorium activities for some schools has not been received. Check with these people: LUTHER -- Lee Kidd, 404 High St., Decorah WESTMAR-- Mike McHale, LeMars GRINNELL-- Barry Zigas ELLSWORTH J.C. -- Don Atkinson EICC-- Jim Luedtka, 152 Colorado, Muscatine CENTRAL -- Al Janssen NIACC-- John Stigul ICCC-- Bob Bremer CORNELL-- Ron Albers cut, sign and mail Individuals Against the Crime of Silence A Declaration To Our Fellow Citizens Of The United States, To The Peoples Of The World, And To Future Generations: 1. We are appalled and angered by the conduct of our country in Vietnam 2. In the name of liberty, we have unleashed the awesome arsenal of the greatest military power in the world upon a small agricultural nation, killing, burning and mutilating its people. In the name of peace, we are creating a desert. In the name of security, we are inviting world conflagration.. 3. We, the signers of this declaration, believe this war to be immoral. We believe it to be illegal. We must oppose it, 4. At Nuremberg, after World War II, we tried, convicted and executed en for thee crime of OBEYING their government, when that government demanded of them crimes against humanity. Millions more, who were not tried, were still guilty of THE CRIME OF SILENCE 5. We have a commitment to the laws and principles we carefully forged in the AMERICAN CONSTITUTION, at the NUREMBERG TRIALS, and in the UNITED NATIONS CHARTER. And our own deep democratic traditions and our dedication to the ideal of human decency among men demand that we speak out. We Therefore wish to declare our names to the office of the Secretary General of the United Nations, both as permanent witness to our opposition to the war in Vietnam and as a demonstration that the conscience of America is not dead. On September 23, 1967 a Memorandum of Law was incorporated in the Congressional Record of the 89th Congress of the United States of America, in which eighty leading American attorneys, after careful analysis of our position and actions in the Vietnam War, came to the conclusion that we are violating the following accords: The Charter of the United Nations. The Geneva Accords of 1954, the United States Constitution To Protest- To Object - To Dissent has long been an American tradition. The following are a few among the many who have signed this declaration to be on permanent record. ABE AJAY JAMES BALDWIN (FATHER) J.E. BAMBERGER M.D. OSCO DANIEL BERRIGAN S.J. REV. PHILLIP BERRIGAN S.S.J. RAY BRADBURY ROBERT McAFFEE BROWN REV. WILLIAM H. DU BAY JAMES FARMER W.H. FERRY DR. JEROME D. FRANK REV. STEPHEN H. FRITCHMAN BEN GAZZARA DR. FRED GOLDSTEIN NAOMI L. GOLDSTEIN DR. RALPH R. GREENSON PROF. ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL BRIG. GENERAL H.B. HESTER. RET DR. STANLEY HOFFMAN TERESSA B. HOFFMAN CHARLES H. HUBBEL SANDER L. JOHNSON ESQ PROF. DONALD KALISH EDWARD M. KEATING PHIL KERBY RING LARDNER JR RABBI RICHARD N. LEVY LOUIS LICHT ESQ DR. ROBERT E. LITMAN VICTOR LUDWIG HERBERT D. MAGIDSON SHIRLEY MAGIDSON NORMAN MAILER THOMAS MERTON SIDNEY MEYER EASON MONROE PROF. HANS J. MORGENTHAU HENRY E. NILES DR. MARK F. ORFIRER AVA HELEN PAULING DR LINUS PAULING BISHOP JAMES A. PIKE RICHARD M. POWELL CARL REINER JANICE RULE ROBERT RYAN DAVID SCHOENBRUN LORRY SHERMAN PROF. ROBERT SIMMONS DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK FRED H. STEINMETZ. ESQ DR. NORMAN TABACHNICK D. IAN THIERMANN BRYNA IVENS UNTERMEYER LOUIS UNTERMEYER DICK VAN DYKE ROBERT VAUGHN DR. MAURICE N. WALSH DR. HARVEY WHEELER A.L. WIRIN ESQ. I wish to sign my name to the above Declaration to the United Nations and want to go on record with this Declaration of the Individuals Against the Crime of Silence signature (For clarity, also print your name after your signature) address, date city, state, zip Sign complete and mail to P.O. Box 69960, Los Angeles, Calif, 90069. The office of the Individuals Against the Crime of Silence will then forward the information to the United Nations. Should you also wish to support additional publishings and communications, send $1 or more in cash or by check made payable to Individuals Against the Crime of Silence. This donation entitles you to the lapel emblem and the wallet-sized registration card. Money is needed to speed our progress The strength of our numbers will regularly and effectively be made known. Your signature does have power cut, sign and mail PRESS BUTTON TO END WAR MASON CITY-- Wed 4:00 p.m. Rally in Central Park; 5:00 p,m. March to East Park for speakers and sing in 8:00 p.m. Teach in at First Methodist Church, including Ret Brig Gen Hestner Vietnam Book List (Compiled by the UNI Chapter - Veterans for Peace Memorandum of Law, Congressional Record - Senate, September 23, 1965, pg 24902-10 BACKGROUND INFORMATION RELATING TO SOUTHEAST ASIA AND VIETNAM, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Govt Printing Office, Wash. D.C. 20402 $1 HOW THE U.S. GOT INVOLVED IN VIETNAM, Robert Sheer, Report to the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Box 4068, Santa Barbara, Cal 75c VIETNAM NORTH, Wilfred Burchett, Intl . Pub. Co,: N.Y., 1966 $1.85 THE POLITICS OF ESCALATION IN VIETNAM, Schurman, Scott and Zelnick, Fawcett: N.Y., 1966 60c AREA HANDBOOK FOR VIETNAM, DA Pam No. 550-40 Supt. Documents U.S. Govt Printing Office, Wash., D.C., 20402 $2.50 VIETNAM ! VIETNAM! Felix Greene, Pulton Pub, Co., Palo Alto, Cal., 1966 $2.95 AGAINST THE CRIME OF SILENCE, Proceedings of Russell International War Crimes Tribunal, O'Hare Books, Flanders, New Jersey, 1968 $5.75 THE VIETNAM WAR AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, Edited by Richard A. Falk, Princeton Univ, Press, Princeton, N.J., 1968 $3.95 VIET NAM- THE UNHEARD VOICES, Don Luce and John Sommer, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York 14850 $6.50 "The New American Militarism", General David M. Shoup, The Atlantic, The Atlantic Monthly Co., Boston, Mass, 02116, April , 1969 UNITED CAMPUS CHRISTIAN MINISTRY UNI CAMPUS MINISTRY and the VIETNAM MORATORIUM The following worship services are to be held in conjunction with the VIETNAM MORATORIUM, Wednesday October 15. LUTHERAN STUDENT CENTER College & 27th Street 7:00 p.m. -- Vespers ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Melrose Drive and Seerley Blvd 7:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. -- Requiem Mass in Memory of All of the Vietnam War Dead (Rides from Judson House at 6:45 & 9:45 a.m.) ST STEPHEN'S CHAPEL 2304 College 4:30 p.m. -- Peace Mass WESLEY FOUNDATION 2422 College 4:30 p.m. -- Worship Experience for Peace
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New Prairie Primer, October 15, 1969, Page 14 Moratorium Activities "I have often said that there's really very little we can do with regard to running the university and college campuses of this country. We have enough problems running the nation, the national problems. Now I understand that there has been and continues to be opposition to the war in Vietnam on the campuses and also in the nation. As far as this kind of activity is concerned, we expect it. However, under no circumstances will I be affected whatsoever by it." ... President Richard M Nixon Press Conference, Sept 27 1969 IOWA CITY-- 10 a.m. Reading of War Dead at Pentacrest; 11 a.m. Teach-in and rally; 7 p.m. candle light march (Further info from Bert Marion, GSB or NUC, 204 Dey Bldg) AMES-- Tues, contd reading of war dead ; Wed 2 p.m. Community Convocation, participating business closed; 3 p.m. march to Story County Draft Board and Recruiting Center; eve, Memorial Services. DES MOINES --- Wed 5:15 P.M. from Drake University to City Hall; 7PM March from City Hall to State Capitol, planting of tree of life on lawn; eve, "The War Game" movie (Further info from Wayne Wagner or Mike Vavrus) CEDAR FALLS -- Tues 5:30 p.m. Magic Theatre concert, Music Bldg Band Shell; 8:00 p.m. Torch light march around campus from campanile; 9:30 p.m. Bonfire and Peace Rally; Wed 9:00 a.m. Teach- in Univ Hall; 1:00 p.m. March from top of Union; 2:00 p.m. Ceremony at Cannons, reading of Iowa War Dead, plating of tree of life; 3:15 p.m. speeches and rap session on Union Plaza; 7:30 p.m. dialogue City Hall Council Chambers MOUNT VERNON -- Tues eve KRNL broadcast of classes not being held; Wed KRNL broadcast of Vietnam War Dead; 10:00 a.m. Rally in King Chapel and drafting of resolution to be sent to state officials, the press and Richard M. Nixon. 2:00 p.m. Meeting at Ink Pond and the Mall; 4:00 p.m. Interdenominational Service at United Methodist Church; 6:30 Transportation to Cedar Rapids rally leaves from Commons. At press time, information about Moratorium activities for some schools has not been received. Check with these people: LUTHER -- Lee Kidd, 404 High St., Decorah WESTMAR-- Mike McHale, LeMars GRINNELL-- Barry Zigas ELLSWORTH J.C. -- Don Atkinson EICC-- Jim Luedtka, 152 Colorado, Muscatine CENTRAL -- Al Janssen NIACC-- John Stigul ICCC-- Bob Bremer CORNELL-- Ron Albers cut, sign and mail Individuals Against the Crime of Silence A Declaration To Our Fellow Citizens Of The United States, To The Peoples Of The World, And To Future Generations: 1. We are appalled and angered by the conduct of our country in Vietnam 2. In the name of liberty, we have unleashed the awesome arsenal of the greatest military power in the world upon a small agricultural nation, killing, burning and mutilating its people. In the name of peace, we are creating a desert. In the name of security, we are inviting world conflagration.. 3. We, the signers of this declaration, believe this war to be immoral. We believe it to be illegal. We must oppose it, 4. At Nuremberg, after World War II, we tried, convicted and executed en for thee crime of OBEYING their government, when that government demanded of them crimes against humanity. Millions more, who were not tried, were still guilty of THE CRIME OF SILENCE 5. We have a commitment to the laws and principles we carefully forged in the AMERICAN CONSTITUTION, at the NUREMBERG TRIALS, and in the UNITED NATIONS CHARTER. And our own deep democratic traditions and our dedication to the ideal of human decency among men demand that we speak out. We Therefore wish to declare our names to the office of the Secretary General of the United Nations, both as permanent witness to our opposition to the war in Vietnam and as a demonstration that the conscience of America is not dead. On September 23, 1967 a Memorandum of Law was incorporated in the Congressional Record of the 89th Congress of the United States of America, in which eighty leading American attorneys, after careful analysis of our position and actions in the Vietnam War, came to the conclusion that we are violating the following accords: The Charter of the United Nations. The Geneva Accords of 1954, the United States Constitution To Protest- To Object - To Dissent has long been an American tradition. The following are a few among the many who have signed this declaration to be on permanent record. ABE AJAY JAMES BALDWIN (FATHER) J.E. BAMBERGER M.D. OSCO DANIEL BERRIGAN S.J. REV. PHILLIP BERRIGAN S.S.J. RAY BRADBURY ROBERT McAFFEE BROWN REV. WILLIAM H. DU BAY JAMES FARMER W.H. FERRY DR. JEROME D. FRANK REV. STEPHEN H. FRITCHMAN BEN GAZZARA DR. FRED GOLDSTEIN NAOMI L. GOLDSTEIN DR. RALPH R. GREENSON PROF. ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL BRIG. GENERAL H.B. HESTER. RET DR. STANLEY HOFFMAN TERESSA B. HOFFMAN CHARLES H. HUBBEL SANDER L. JOHNSON ESQ PROF. DONALD KALISH EDWARD M. KEATING PHIL KERBY RING LARDNER JR RABBI RICHARD N. LEVY LOUIS LICHT ESQ DR. ROBERT E. LITMAN VICTOR LUDWIG HERBERT D. MAGIDSON SHIRLEY MAGIDSON NORMAN MAILER THOMAS MERTON SIDNEY MEYER EASON MONROE PROF. HANS J. MORGENTHAU HENRY E. NILES DR. MARK F. ORFIRER AVA HELEN PAULING DR LINUS PAULING BISHOP JAMES A. PIKE RICHARD M. POWELL CARL REINER JANICE RULE ROBERT RYAN DAVID SCHOENBRUN LORRY SHERMAN PROF. ROBERT SIMMONS DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK FRED H. STEINMETZ. ESQ DR. NORMAN TABACHNICK D. IAN THIERMANN BRYNA IVENS UNTERMEYER LOUIS UNTERMEYER DICK VAN DYKE ROBERT VAUGHN DR. MAURICE N. WALSH DR. HARVEY WHEELER A.L. WIRIN ESQ. I wish to sign my name to the above Declaration to the United Nations and want to go on record with this Declaration of the Individuals Against the Crime of Silence signature (For clarity, also print your name after your signature) address, date city, state, zip Sign complete and mail to P.O. Box 69960, Los Angeles, Calif, 90069. The office of the Individuals Against the Crime of Silence will then forward the information to the United Nations. Should you also wish to support additional publishings and communications, send $1 or more in cash or by check made payable to Individuals Against the Crime of Silence. This donation entitles you to the lapel emblem and the wallet-sized registration card. Money is needed to speed our progress The strength of our numbers will regularly and effectively be made known. Your signature does have power cut, sign and mail PRESS BUTTON TO END WAR MASON CITY-- Wed 4:00 p.m. Rally in Central Park; 5:00 p,m. March to East Park for speakers and sing in 8:00 p.m. Teach in at First Methodist Church, including Ret Brig Gen Hestner Vietnam Book List (Compiled by the UNI Chapter - Veterans for Peace Memorandum of Law, Congressional Record - Senate, September 23, 1965, pg 24902-10 BACKGROUND INFORMATION RELATING TO SOUTHEAST ASIA AND VIETNAM, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Govt Printing Office, Wash. D.C. 20402 $1 HOW THE U.S. GOT INVOLVED IN VIETNAM, Robert Sheer, Report to the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Box 4068, Santa Barbara, Cal 75c VIETNAM NORTH, Wilfred Burchett, Intl . Pub. Co,: N.Y., 1966 $1.85 THE POLITICS OF ESCALATION IN VIETNAM, Schurman, Scott and Zelnick, Fawcett: N.Y., 1966 60c AREA HANDBOOK FOR VIETNAM, DA Pam No. 550-40 Supt. Documents U.S. Govt Printing Office, Wash., D.C., 20402 $2.50 VIETNAM ! VIETNAM! Felix Greene, Pulton Pub, Co., Palo Alto, Cal., 1966 $2.95 AGAINST THE CRIME OF SILENCE, Proceedings of Russell International War Crimes Tribunal, O'Hare Books, Flanders, New Jersey, 1968 $5.75 THE VIETNAM WAR AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, Edited by Richard A. Falk, Princeton Univ, Press, Princeton, N.J., 1968 $3.95 VIET NAM- THE UNHEARD VOICES, Don Luce and John Sommer, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York 14850 $6.50 "The New American Militarism", General David M. Shoup, The Atlantic, The Atlantic Monthly Co., Boston, Mass, 02116, April , 1969 UNITED CAMPUS CHRISTIAN MINISTRY UNI CAMPUS MINISTRY and the VIETNAM MORATORIUM The following worship services are to be held in conjunction with the VIETNAM MORATORIUM, Wednesday October 15. LUTHERAN STUDENT CENTER College & 27th Street 7:00 p.m. -- Vespers ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Melrose Drive and Seerley Blvd 7:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. -- Requiem Mass in Memory of All of the Vietnam War Dead (Rides from Judson House at 6:45 & 9:45 a.m.) ST STEPHEN'S CHAPEL 2304 College 4:30 p.m. -- Peace Mass WESLEY FOUNDATION 2422 College 4:30 p.m. -- Worship Experience for Peace
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