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those are really think we're going to try and do something. We're going to get together and try some effective changes. We're gonna meet tonight. We're gonna meet in Twain lounge at 7 30. We're gonna start trying to work to bring pressure on Congress. The McGovern Hatfield

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amendment has been brought up into the Senate again. They're going to try. I'm sorry you're out of water and you're trying to get out of here. I'm sorry you're out of water. Last year we sent some delegates to Washington. He said, go there and

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talk to these guys and tell them the war is wrong and ask them to God. We went to Washington last year. We're going to invite them to come out here to stanford this year. I suggest that everything we do be directed toward ending that killing and

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not hurting the university. Just mistaken hurting it. So I suggest that, you know, the f you and get those traditions. I suggest we go to that meeting tonight and begin to plan and revival of what we had last spring, all over this country so that we

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can mobilize that Congress and mobilize that 70 frequency of the American people and get every single American troops Out of Southeast Asia by December 31. What to know what we're asking is for people to make that little tiny gesture to show that we're willing to inconvenience

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ourselves a little bit and to begin to shut down the most obvious machinery of war such as and I think it is a good target, that computation. It's a funny thing happened on the way there, you know, everything okay? And also coming up against the question

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of all you gotta do? The actors have arrived? The main door is locked and there is a sign that says the computer center is temporarily closed. Yeah, yeah. Your announcement. You want to get something done. Should we say something good people outside

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should be deciding what they're going to do to protect the people who are risking things by being inside. After about three or four days, everybody started going on vacation and there were about three or 400 of us left on this campus working hard fight in the

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war. And that was what what's being called here is is a vacation. If you want to call it vacation, call vacation, don't call the strike. But I think those of us who really want to work against the world, we're going to have to bring pressure to

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bear on congress, the cooper church. And the only reason we don't have ground troops in living US ground troops. It's got a lot of it's got a lot of holes and it's got to be improved the government Hatfield, then it's going to set a timetable to

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get us out of Vietnam. And I think this is the direction to go. And now we're going to get a meeting in 20 tonight and we're gonna ask people to start going out to the community to quit talking to ourselves and start talking to people out

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there and say, would you contact your congressman, would you get moving or would you try and bring some pressure there? Would you get this legislation passed? So we can get out of this war, Congressman is gonna come, he's gonna talk to him, He's gonna tell us

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why it's important to bring pressure on Congress. Now, last year there are some other things we can do. This is not all were out here and talk to us and find out what we believe about this war. And asked those guys to educate them about what

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this war is wrong, why it's got to be ended and why it's silly and stupid to keep expanding it under the phrase that we're going to get the guys out. I mean, next time we'll be invading china, trying to get the troops out of Vietnam, we've

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got to end. This is the last thing we've got to do and that's why we sent a delegation last year. It's a one shot kind of deal. We ended it and the effect was tremendous. Last year there was a real change in a lot of opinions,

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but then the people left after a month. Now we're going to contact a lot of other student bodies in California. We're gonna try and create an ongoing student lobby as you wish. It's gotta be in there constantly bringing the message to Congress, uh, during the week

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campaign that we want to plan to reach out to the community out there and not stuck around on campus anymore and get out to the people out there and mobilize them? Like we did last year, get out to the medical community, like we did last year,

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get out to the lawyers, get out to the labor unions, 73% of them stand with us in favoring a passage to the McGovern Hatfield Amendment to get us out of this war. By the end of this year, Salsbury, a student from Thailand spoke here to two

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or three days ago and I don't think enough people heard what he had to say. He said that we've got to really focus ourselves on the goal that we want and that is to end the killing in southeast asia. There are people dying over there, right.

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People, I think that instead of having a thing where somebody was saying, do you know, any meaningful things like your congressman, because you're saying that's not meaningful and then maybe we should try to explain why we think that I see a lot of several people have

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gone up and said, don't attack the universities, We don't waste your time attacking our beautiful university Instead do something that will really be effective, write your congressman and give money to send some some of us on a plane to Washington and New York, a lot of

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places we mentioned that we're 3000 miles away. Now, why is there all this emphasis on directing us to places that are 3000 miles away instead of things that are right here. And why is it that radical and revolutionary saying it's very important to do things right

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here? The reason for that is that we know you can point the history of your material. We know that congress does not make the policies of the Congress does not have. Um, is it not congress that decides to have a war in Vietnam and indochina or

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in Bolivia and Guatemala? Uh, it's the people in whose interest this country is run by people who are ahead of the giant corporations and people who are, who are involved in finance capital in this country, People in whose interest this country and most of the world,

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I'm trying to 57 years old. I'm a salesman. I have two sons. I was asked to speak because I shouted out that the killing is done right here in this university right here now. You people who want to go out and get petitions go ahead. The

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state of massachusetts got petitions, they got a law, they got a state law, they went to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court ruling illegal. They won't listen to it. So if you want to go to that trip, go ahead. But the point is that the killing

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is being done right here on this campus. Mm hmm, Thank you. And uh, late 65 early 66 what we have here. The first act in the United States has opened identification with the Vietnamese people and their blood drive North Vietnam people threw garbage at us, call

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the called a dirty jew bastards and traders and so forth. And at every point is doing when the moon was being built and when people come out to talk about the tactics alienating the vast mass of people and we understand where that's coming from now, they

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come out here and tell us that we shouldn't be doing anything on the university, we should be going into the community. We're the last ones in the world proposed community. The fact of the matter is that most of our comrades are working full time, the communities,

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they come from the community and they're and they're they're brown and black and white, working class and poor people. My consciousness is the consciousness of the people most oppressed by us materialism, which includes as a main institutions that stanford University. And that's why whenever people from

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that community, whatever who are working class youth from that community, get a chance to come on the campus of stanford uh, and do a little material damage, They're very eager to do so because they recognize what stanford University really is, even if people here don't. Now,

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let's see what the question is, the question of what do, what do we do now? People get up here and talk about workers striking and important things for us to go out to the community and tell the workers to strike? Well, we're just we're just ripping

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off that term strike When we talk about striking it stands, But this isn't a strike. We're not risking anything. It's a voluntary boycott. A shutdown of some of the activities of the university as a demonstration of something. Now, now, what we had, what we call the

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strike last year and it lasted really about three days and it kind of dragged on, you know, way and some people did it. But just the fact that we were able to move our little finger that much that electrified the working people of this area. That's

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in fact, and the people who were down there on a picket line, down at the shipping receiving. No, they're practically every single truck driver who came there when he saw us on strike said, okay, he was prepared to risk his job and turn the truck around.

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And in four states and four states teams linked up concrete with a student strike and said that they would strike with the students who will describe. And factory workers were walking out and the day after that we called that strike, There was a record absenteeism of

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all the factories in the bay area. I did this. Mhm. Can you read me the computer center and it appears to be surrounded. It's temporarily closed and locked. The computer center is closed right now. The marchers have surrounded the computer center is closed right now.

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Can you read me for control? Coming to control, Yeah, mm hmm. Right. Thank you portable to to control. Can you read me? Alright? I'm gonna go try and get Yeah. No. Mhm. Right. Hey, come

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on in. Yeah. Coming out inside. It's quite a trip, man. Let's all go in and see it. Eat people out there on surveillance to come back and tell us if they see and I'm not just one or two, but a bunch

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of them think about that. If people want to go inside, there's hundreds of people in there. Thank you. We'll stay outside ah to protect the people who are inside Kevin. Okay. How many people here are against the war? Everybody should go inside

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everybody. Sweet. All right.