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inside will be stopped in Vietnam in New Haven in Georgia, Mississippi Alabama and all around the world. And the issue, the issue that you have to confront is whether you and I we'll liberate this country here from the inside or whether it will be liberated from

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abroad. People who want to listen to them. I also hope that people who are not yet organized into working on the strike and want to work on the strike, If there is in fact a strike called We'll stay until

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the end of the program because we have a lot of momentum behind it. You're not going to explain our present crisis in Cambodia by saying we elected the wrong vice president in 1968. It is a crisis with a long history behind it and a lot that

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cannot ever be Condoned or explained away. And above all, it has been the kind of people, the kind of measures that have been used in those things that have brought as a kind of inevitable legacy, the kind of escalation that we have seen in which we

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have up to now been unable to stop. And at this point, I think I should turn over to France Sherman who will talk about how this crisis faces us at the present moment. Mhm Make a long story short if the pentagon had been allowed to go

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through with its plan to land at Sihanoukville would have been a direct challenge at the chinese and the Russians. That's exactly what Barry Goldwater said a couple of days ago, let's hit haiphong and turned into a mud puddle That's not just Goldwater said that there's more

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than that. Let's finally get into this fight with the chinese. And maybe even with the Russians now this is an effect what Peter was driving at this long term strategy in the long term strategy I would say has been there for a long time. All right.

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My my hypothesis here is the conclusion that scared by this possibility, by the belligerents. I mean the readiness to plunge into a larger war which would involve nuclear weapons that Nixon pulled the fish hook out of the hat. It was a hastily contrived operation. We know

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now because Cosmin wasn't even there. It was a messy operation prepared in three days time. It was a compromise, despairing and think that the forces are absolutely so arrayed against us. There's nothing we can do. On the other hand, I look at the way the Vietnamese

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are resisting and particularly the fact that their sanctuary still exist in South Vietnam. I also look at the panic way in which Nixon has been reacting. I also look in the way the whole so called tactics of cars, well and Haynesworth which weren't thought out in

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the best possible way. And I get the notion that maybe we can win. Maybe he can be defeated. Okay, someday. If the question is put, some of us will say, well, we were at the Greek theater or we went on strike or we threw rocks and

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we did a lot of other things. My final message today is that I hope some of you will be a little bit more imaginative. I still think there's enough resilience. I still think there's enough strength in this government so that if we move and if we

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move with some dedication and some intelligence, we can have some kinds of the impacts that I'm describing here. Thank you. Mhm. Campus to mobilizing our resources, our knowledge and skills are manpower and facilities. We will organize not only against the war but against the structures in

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our society that facilitate that war. And we will organize to end our university's complicity with that war. Mm hmm. Or activities will be disruptive of normal university activities. It is not our intention to encourage destructive action. Seven. Oh yeah. Okay. Alright. Let's let's try to keep

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this thing going and the way it's been going. A couple more minutes to finish up and two more minutes and he agrees. And then we'll finish this. I'm not trying to disrupt the convocation, but when you believe in certain recognized that violence and what has been

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going on the campuses across this country rather than being counterproductive has been successful. Listen, three citations. Alright, you answer this last night on the news dan rather reported that it was the administration was considering entering into Laos and seemed in the words of dan rather. He

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suggested who's cbs correspondent that the thing that stopped the Nixon administration for making that extension was their fear, that the country would be torn apart. It wasn't concerned speeches that Nixon was worried about. Another argument. Hmm, mm hmm. A lot of them very seriously hurt yesterday.

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And incredibly brutal attack by the police of this of this city and of this university. I'm also incredibly outraged by the fact that yesterday, late in the afternoon about four squad cars of hog force from the Berkeley Police Department moved on the free clinic which is

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located on Hay Street. They went in there and they smashed up all the medical facilities. They broke the heads of two of the people's doctors who, by the way, believe in Nonviolence. They broke their heads. I don't know how long they'll believe in Nonviolence. They broke

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that I want to make is that we have to be wary of the boogeyman theory of government, which suggests that we only focus on Nixon and forget about other people who might buttress the policy that Nixon is extending. For instance, I asking the government and all

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the good guy politicians to talk not only about withdrawing from Southeast Asia, but withdrawing Standard oil from Venezuela, withdrawing United Fruit from Peru and getting the Zellerbach Corporation out of South Africa, When are the liberal politicians going to talk about these aspects of America's involvement across

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the world. Third point, can I speak for a few seconds. Mhm. Every But I asked him Mr wonder people Yeah, more. wait a minute. Yes. Alright. So far with you know, good spirit now that is gonna right, thank you. Um All right, matt is

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going to have to a great deal and you're putting a lot of risk on the line. You're like give it to you today and I think a lot of people, one argument four weeks ago at stanford University where students have engaged in militant struggle, I'll wind

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up. Now a student in America is killed shot down for any reason That the people in this auditorium 15,000 strong would march down the street and burn every motherfucking bank that stands. You don't have to wait until they bring in the verdict on bobby seale to

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know what the verdict is gonna be. So you better. So why? It's because one day, one day When the judge came into the courtroom by the seven who said it? It was the Chicago one, Bobby Seale asked the judge why he held stock in a company

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that no longer made bowling balls and pins. But now was participating in the manufacturer of war materials bobby seale deck was over. That's over 500 draft cards. Mm hmm, mm hmm. Okay. Okay. There's an urgent need for Shelley one. Yeah. Mm hmm. Mhm. Okay.

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So go to the beach. Okay. It's important then for people to stay here now listen to the rest of the speakers, but especially stay if you can to the end of the meeting so that we can go through the announcements and talk about what happened. All

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right. Yeah. Okay. Okay. 3rd world people have called for a walkout solidarity to express their views. They're going to meet outside and decide how to continue to struggle. In the meantime, uh, some people have asked for a little

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bit of elaboration on Reagan's statement. We don't know anything about it except that he has ordered the campus closed until sunday. We don't know whether that means that he's ordering everybody off campus. We don't know whether it means he's ordering a state of emergency. That's all

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that we know is simply, um, what I've said so far, he said that he's done it in the interest of the public or something like that. Oh ship right, okay. To bail people out and to continue the struggle. I'm also the people collecting draft cards and

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us, they now have 1000. Whoa. Thank you. Yeah. When I find Regan has decided to opt to support by his action, the strike that I'm on the side of I get a little nervous. It's hard for us to say what the significance of that decision is.

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But it looks to me as if he's going to come up with rules that will mean either that we can't get onto the campus. All that we get onto it under very strict conditions, which will mean that we will not be able to continue to implement

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the reconstitution. Ization of the university that we've been planning to do this may be the biggest threat to us now we feel that this is their way of getting off the moral hook as regards to students so far as to call for the staff to be

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released instead very frequently, more often than not. You find that department meetings are restricted and not like a different stuff. Doesn't matter. No. Yeah. What kind of Yes. Mhm. He just did. I don't know what's happening. He's going to get the paper. It's simple. Denmark number.

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Come on. Okay. Mm hmm. What are you doing immediately if you are? Yeah. Yeah. Yes, I understand. Mm hmm. Yeah. Oh my God, what's going to happen? You know what I was talking about? Yeah. Yeah. What's the problem line

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which was not even completely an american airline but an airline which was financed in large part by Chinese Nationalist capital. And that Wall Street should have been allowed to come into this. I could, I could spend half an hour on this. The strange alliance between Wall

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Street and and chinese capital. But I simply want to state as a fact that there is chinese Nationalist capital behind air America for 20 years. The rumor has been that that capital is in fact the capital of madame Chiang kai shek and her brother tv song.

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It is certain that there is Chinese nationalist Dallas Morning News of April 13, 1970 an interview with an Air America pilot and I am quoting directly from the interview. American pilots working with the Central Intelligence agency, C. I. A. Are making low level nighttime flights over

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communist china to further dissension and eventual revolution. They dropped chinese nationalist guerrillas and supplies put in there to stir things up. We're in the name of the pilot who spent much of the 19 sixties flying for the C I a sponsored airline Air America in Laos

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said that the clandestine flights are made into china as part of a long range strategic plan. I repeat those words. A long range strategic plan. The big plan is for a revolution in china. He said, Now nobody can explain what happens in Washington by one in

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the mess. Mm hmm, mm hmm. I made a mistake on Nixon. The plan for a landing and I'll tell you what, what happens here. It's a dove hawk thing. You see, it's like somebody says to you, I want to drop a bomb and somebody else says

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no. And so I say as the man and you know, it says, all right, I'll just send a strong at uh sometimes I get very. Mm hmm. Yeah, that in the course of history, imperialism and okay. And the nation is that it's now become a

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disaster area. Our officials would sue for $20 million dollars would hire a Liotta as their attorney and would win me. They american judge is talking with a german friend who assures him how awful it is for decent Germans to learn about the data exposed at Nuremberg.

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And he says, well, he has to he has to say that it's just extraordinary how he can't find any Germans who knew about the nazi activities. Sometimes I wonder whether that comment has significance at the present time. Uh I have something to say. Some

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of them have already closed down for the Mhm forecast. During that time we pledge our energy, our time and our commitment to stopping this war. We will open the mhm. To protect the jobs and wages of the university staff and to enable the faculty

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to discharge the minimum responsibilities required to protect the present and future academic status of students. Six while our anti. Mm hmm. Mhm.