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University of Iowa anti-war protests, 1970

1970-05-13 Flyer asking Workers of the University to ""Strike With Us""

WORKERS OF THE UNIVERSITY: WE URGENTLY REQUEST THAT YOU UNITE AND ALLY WITH US IN A NATION-WIDE EFFORT TO END THE WAR IN INDOCHINA.

The students of the University of Iowa and the students and 
university workers throughout the nation, request that you join
with us in the non-violent strike on the University of Iowa campus in the order to demonstrate opposition to the undeclared war in 
Southeast Asia. Specifically, we urge you to defer from returning
to University of Iowas offices, beginning on Monday, May 9 in
a showing of non-violent, peaceful support of:

Senate File 609 - co-sponsored by Senator Harold Hughes 
of Iowa which would place immediate limit on the expenditure of 
military funds for the War - to take effort sixty days after passage.

The renewal of a nation - wide, non - violent peace movement,
lead bu the National Student Association and the Reorganized New Mobilization Committee; the aim of this renewed anti-war protest is to convince the President of the United States that the War in Southeast Asia must end now, that the unilateral intervention into Cambodia be immediately rescinded.

   The end of R.O.T.C. on the University of Iowa campus and the end of all war -related research in the university which in any way effects political impact on the students, workers, faculty, and administration of the University of Iowa.   

   We wish you, as representatives of the massive, working class in the United States, to understand that such a strike is in your own best interests. The fact that 78c of every dollar you are taxed goes to war armaments and the fact that of that amount 45c goes directly to support the war in Indochina, should convince you of the important impact your joining with us will have on the settlement of the unjust war in Asia which now threatens to destroy our institutions and democracy at home, because a group of national officials - none of which received a majority vote of the U.S. people -- refused to recognize the path we have followed is wrong and must be corrected now. 

   Your participation, in a very real sense, must be seen as the most patriotic act that a citizen can perform for his country when that country is torn and divided by an issue which few support and even less are willing to fight in.

STRIKE WITH US

MAY 13 1970

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WORKERS OF THE UNIVERSITY: WE URGENTLY REQUEST THAT YOU UNITE AND ALLY WITH US IN A NATION-WIDE EFFORT TO END THE WAR IN INDOCHINA. The students of the University of Iowa and the students and university workers throughout the nation, request that you join with us in the non-violent strike on the University of Iowa campus in the order to demonstrate opposition to the undeclared war in Southeast Asia. Specifically, we urge you to defer from returning to University of Iowas offices, beginning on Monday, May 9 in a showing of non-violent, peaceful support of: Senate File 609 - co-sponsored by Senator Harold Hughes of Iowa which would place immediate limit on the expenditure of military funds for the War - to take effort sixty days after passage. The renewal of a nation - wide, non - violent peace movement, lead bu the National Student Association and the Reorganized New Mobilization Committee; the aim of this renewed anti-war protest is to convince the President of the United States that the War in Southeast Asia must end now, that the unilateral intervention into Cambodia be immediately rescinded. The end of R.O.T.C. on the University of Iowa campus and the end of all war -related research in the university which in any way effects political impact on the students, workers, faculty, and administration of the University of Iowa. We wish you, as representatives of the massive, working class in the United States, to understand that such a strike is in your own best interests. The fact that 78c of every dollar you are taxed goes to war armaments and the fact that of that amount 45c goes directly to support the war in Indochina, should convince you of the important impact your joining with us will have on the settlement of the unjust war in Asia which now threatens to destroy our institutions and democracy at home, because a group of national officials - none of which received a majority vote of the U.S. people -- refused to recognize the path we have followed is wrong and must be corrected now. Your participation, in a very real sense, must be seen as the most patriotic act that a citizen can perform for his country when that country is torn and divided by an issue which few support and even less are willing to fight in. STRIKE WITH US MAY 13 1970