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Campus "Unrest" demonstrations and consequences, 1970-1971

List of Demands - Front

1.) U.S. OUT OF INDOCHINA NOW.
The Nixon administration's decisions on Cambodia and bombing the North indicate that this is now "NIXON"S WAR" as much as anyone else's. With 41,000 deaths, of Americans and nearly a half million Vietnamese it is clear that the only honorable peace is an immediate one. The domestic economy is collapsed due to overheating cause by war; the nation is dividing at the seams due to polarization deliberately pursued by the administration to hide its policies in the garb of patriotism. The time for action must be now. Students have defeated Johnson and can help defeat Nixon if this is the way to peace.
The people of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand are not being defended by U.S. action -- only the elites who rule these nations are the native beneficiaries. Whether you believe that this "elitist" foreign policy that ignores the people's wishes and well-being is the outgrowth of imperialism or U.S. ideology about communism, you must unite to oppose the war and actively support a strike that signals an end to apathy and complicity.
2.) END POLITICAL REPRESSION.
Justifying their actions by arguing for law and order, the local officials and national government have attempted to hide policies from criticism. The wave of violence and arrests on this campus and many other campuses was not caused by alleged "outside agitators. The real cause is the lack of responsiveness of government to legitimate petitioning and dissent. The bulk of people arrested locally were not violent or disruptive but only concerned and committed.
To continue the policies of law and order without justice will undermine the University and the nation. Political repression must end now. Intimidation of students by lies about what is felonous and what is a "threat to human life" must stop. The university must end is complicity with this policies of suppression of dissent. Amnesty to those locally protesting must be granted if law is to include justice.

3.) END OF RACISM.
The chances of the black young person becoming a doctor as compared to the white young person are eight-to-one. Blacker workers earn $3,000 less on the average. By grade 12, black students are three and a half years behind their white counterparts in white controlled, well-financed schools. An overwhelmingly large percentage of blacks and other minority groups are dying in a white man's war in Asia. The war is justified by military personnel and others actively promoting racism by names like "gooks." No one admits to being racist on this university; yet racism continues. The shootings Thursday and the alledged charges of looting, with no signs of forced entry or any entry, underline the discriminatory treatment of blacks.  The incidences at the civic center the next day, in which students who were on the ground due to being clubbed and maced were charged with "resisting arrest," underline the extent to which racism permeates our structure. The end of racism demand is pruposed to force this issue into the open; it involves us all.

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1.) U.S. OUT OF INDOCHINA NOW. The Nixon administration's decisions on Cambodia and bombing the North indicate that this is now "NIXON"S WAR" as much as anyone else's. With 41,000 deaths, of Americans and nearly a half million Vietnamese it is clear that the only honorable peace is an immediate one. The domestic economy is collapsed due to overheating cause by war; the nation is dividing at the seams due to polarization deliberately pursued by the administration to hide its policies in the garb of patriotism. The time for action must be now. Students have defeated Johnson and can help defeat Nixon if this is the way to peace. The people of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand are not being defended by U.S. action -- only the elites who rule these nations are the native beneficiaries. Whether you believe that this "elitist" foreign policy that ignores the people's wishes and well-being is the outgrowth of imperialism or U.S. ideology about communism, you must unite to oppose the war and actively support a strike that signals an end to apathy and complicity. 2.) END POLITICAL REPRESSION. Justifying their actions by arguing for law and order, the local officials and national government have attempted to hide policies from criticism. The wave of violence and arrests on this campus and many other campuses was not caused by alleged "outside agitators. The real cause is the lack of responsiveness of government to legitimate petitioning and dissent. The bulk of people arrested locally were not violent or disruptive but only concerned and committed. To continue the policies of law and order without justice will undermine the University and the nation. Political repression must end now. Intimidation of students by lies about what is felonous and what is a "threat to human life" must stop. The university must end is complicity with this policies of suppression of dissent. Amnesty to those locally protesting must be granted if law is to include justice. 3.) END OF RACISM. The chances of the black young person becoming a doctor as compared to the white young person are eight-to-one. Blacker workers earn $3,000 less on the average. By grade 12, black students are three and a half years behind their white counterparts in white controlled, well-financed schools. An overwhelmingly large percentage of blacks and other minority groups are dying in a white man's war in Asia. The war is justified by military personnel and others actively promoting racism by names like "gooks." No one admits to being racist on this university; yet racism continues. The shootings Thursday and the alledged charges of looting, with no signs of forced entry or any entry, underline the discriminatory treatment of blacks. The incidences at the civic center the next day, in which students who were on the ground due to being clubbed and maced were charged with "resisting arrest," underline the extent to which racism permeates our structure. The end of racism demand is pruposed to force this issue into the open; it involves us all.