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Campus "Unrest" Demonstrations, 1970
Student Strike Statements
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Student STrike Committee 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 a non-violent strike on the University of Iowa campus in order to demonstrate opposition to the undeclared war in Southeast Asia. Specifically, we urge you to defer from returning to University of Iowa 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 an immediate limit on the expenditure of military funds for the war - to take effect sixty days after passage. The renewal of a nation-wide, non-violent peace movement, lead by the National Student Association and the Reorganized New Mobilization Committee; the aim of this renewal 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STates that the War in Southeast Asia must end now, that the unilateral intervention into Cambodia be immediately rescinded.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 78¢ of every dollar you are taxed goes to war armaments and the fact that of that amount 45¢ 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 unuust 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 -- refuse 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 divvided by an issue which few support and even less are willing to fight for. STRIKE WITH US
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Student STrike Committee 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 a non-violent strike on the University of Iowa campus in order to demonstrate opposition to the undeclared war in Southeast Asia. Specifically, we urge you to defer from returning to University of Iowa 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 an immediate limit on the expenditure of military funds for the war - to take effect sixty days after passage. The renewal of a nation-wide, non-violent peace movement, lead by the National Student Association and the Reorganized New Mobilization Committee; the aim of this renewal 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 78¢ of every dollar you are taxed goes to war armaments and the fact that of that amount 45¢ 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 unuust 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 -- refuse 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 divvided by an issue which few support and even less are willing to fight for. STRIKE WITH US
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