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And what a symbolic figure that is in terms of the six million Jews in World War II. If what he means is that restraint means dropping more bombs than any other man in history. The use of defoliation and anti personnel weapons. If that is restraint. The

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word honor is a word that should not pass such where unilateral control of constitutional privileges that belong to Congress has been taken away from the Congress and anybody you know there you'd better be on the phone to or sending wires to and to consider among people

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who know each other exactly what they're going to do. Mhm, mm hmm. My name is harry porter from the Sanford young Socialist. I think we have to understand. But the outfit. Bye Nixon, doing what he's doing in Vietnam is acting out of desperation if I failed

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to do so. I expect the american people to hold me accountable for that failure. I think I suggest that today this is our attempt to begin to hold him completely accountable for that failure. What are their way with their tears? Stay in the white snow with

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the blood of their wounded feet. After something like this has happened after cambodia. After Laos. Now, now there's a bunch of you here again. But that doesn't get it. Just one shot. There's nothing more we can learn. There's nothing more about human knowledge. There's nothing more

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about human nature. We can learn than what will show us as we work and anti war work now. And I'm asking that to be our priority. We estimate now that 30 or 40 votes in the House of Representatives will pass this bill. This is where the

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decisions are made. David pack it, in fact, has a hell of a lot more to do with decision making than any politician has. And the chairman of the board of General Dynamics and fits on the standard board of trustees. The number one war corporations in the

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United States of America has a lot more to do with the board of trustees. The corporations they represent right now produces more military hardware. There's the death By then by all the three nations in the world. Everything that contributes to that war machine must be stopped

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a march through the stanford campus down University Avenue for a massive protracted tour of the army terminal at Oakland or at the Navy base at Hunter's Point. We should do it now. It was show President Nixon do what he's doing in Vietnam. Do after those people

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Without the american people themselves becoming outraged that they would be being used as weapons of war against another people to change the people who were sending those, those fighters over Vietnam that proposal. I don't think we need to go into all the other proposals. No, because

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because because because it's close enough that we can afford people right in through here. This plaza. White Plaza now renamed Quang Tree Plaza is our plaza. It belongs to us. I might have written known giddy every year while. Thank you. Mm hmm. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Mhm. Being put on public view where it's unlikely that it will get damaged. Thank you. All right. Yeah. Earlier today, you know everybody part of the state, the noise, whoever it was. He referred to the fact that american marine from Japan we have now

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the south there. Thank you. What were you telling me? It's the same feeling of helplessness. And I'm sure every listener and every citizen of this country has, the government

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has belittled ridiculed forms of peaceful protests and driven students and others to violent protests. At this point, all that remains is destruction or non action. And what we're trying to do is have people point to constructive meaningful action. Not ineffectual things like marching in parades, but

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effectual things which will produce a financial burden on the government so they cannot continue the war and political action which will remove an administration which is obviously bent on continuing the war that no one wants. So what we're doing is organizing constructive, very specific forms of

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action. We want every student, every faculty member and every citizen to get involved at some level of commitment to stop the war. And the thing we're doing is setting up in two days. We've set up 50 different groups with several 1000 students, faculty were getting support

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from doctors, lawyers, uh, people in the community. We don't want this to be seen as a university thing. We want this to be seen as university opening up to make contact with the people who are suffering from the war. Individual people hold $51 billion dollars worth

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of savings bonds. We feel that this is a meaningful form of protest that the Nixon administration can't be little. We would like you to sell off your savings bonds, let the banks and let your government know that you're doing this as a form of protest that

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you will reinvest in America as soon as you can put trust in it. We feel that Nixon, Agnew johnson and Reagan have made us feel have taken away the trust that we had in America that we cannot have trust in the hypocritical government and we are

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patriotic citizens were loyal. Americans were not communists, but we cannot have a country which is hypocritical. And we want to restructure the country and we're gonna do that by restructuring university and we need everyone's help and everyone can do something constructive. I don't know. Mm hmm.

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Mhm. Mhm. Okay. Gonna ask if you were skipping the guys you already know. Yeah, we aren't, we aren't sending them to the people who are putting out the belt. What over this university where workers have got and what they can do to help us get out

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of Southeast asia. This is a meeting for all engineering students. Why not to say carl Nixon. If you're at the business school, starting at about 10, 15 minutes. What? Hey, but what they want. that's how long they've been on strike, what their demands are discussing. Yeah,

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right. Yes. This cover many, many sorts of different actions organized by different groups of all persuasions and convictions. We've had in particular a lot of departmental actions last weekend. Many departments met separately and decided what they wanted to do in view of the invasion

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of cambodia and various ones took various actions. We have a number of representatives here of different departments to describe to you what they have done. And we hope that the effect of this conference is that you will realize the enormous extent and depth of the action

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and not get a shallow perspective of a few militants taking a few kinds of actions or any one sided picture of what's going on. So what I was looking thank the students of the mathematics department deeply opposed the United States invasion of cambodia and the continuation

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of the war in Vietnam Because of this. Among the things. Only a couple of specific things. But let me first preface that by saying that we have since Tuesday, when there were 300 people from Professor Zimbardo is class since formed 50 different types of specific action

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groups involving nearly 2000 students actively participating in our last count. Now, just a couple of examples, one of these groups, for example, students and staff of the department agreed to suspend classes in order to take some positive action on specific projects relative to american involvement in

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the southeast asian wars among these. Since we are a department that's concerned with using various means of communication and training students in various means of communication. Uh some of the students have been involved in putting out a topical issue of cross currents which is a community

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uh weekly uh somewhat irregular until now that has a circulation of some 7000 in the peninsula area. The faculty has been involved as have been the faculties of many other instances, many other departments in the university in contacting their colleagues and institutions throughout the country. 7%

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of a random sample of Santa Clara and San Mateo County residents perceived Stanford University students as quote very reliable sources of information about the United States movement into Cambodia. By contrast, 21% of those called stated that CBS News would be a very reliable source. 34% gave

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the White House is a very reliable rating. Would seem to us from just looking at these data the way they are now that this tells us a great deal about the sorts of problems we have to deal with in the community and the fact that the

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sort of xenophobic notion of our influence, which we tend to develop very much I suppose from talking with each other is something that needs very serious reexamination. Uh my own interpretation of this is that we've spent entirely too much time talking to ourselves and not enough

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time talking to people in the community. One finds, for example, that united about questions of strikes or teaching or not teaching, but we're united to a man in opposition to the administration's policy and indochina. We're doing such things as contacting congressman where we are in touch

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with the terminal graduate student in political science and a specialist on east asian politics. I represent the Indochina workshop. This is a group, a coordinated coordinated effort of approximately 200 - 250 faculty graduate students, undergraduates and staff who are members of the Center for East Asian

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Studies. The Center for East Asian Studies is itself an interdisciplinary organization. The full resources of the Center for East asian Studies have been mobilized for two weeks now. In an effort to educate initially at least the people in the bay Area. Eventually we hope as many

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as we can reach on the consequences of the administration's action in Vietnam. We have been, We have four major efforts that we are mounting. The first is the Indochina workshop which has been, which is going on now has been going on daily this week at cover

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lee auditorium on campus discipline of course is not as immediately related to the issues at hand as those of some of the other departments who have just spoken. However, I think our first concern was to keep the university open and to keep the department open and

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keep communication going between faculty and students. We met all through last weekend with students trying to find common ground on which we could agree and trying to keep the interaction on the level of rational discussion rather than mhm, becoming a show of force. Um and in

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order to science, the computer science department passed a resolution condemning the cambodia actions, has suspended all class activities, has decided to go along with the philosophy in in substance with the philosophy departments. Resolution to be lenient as far as incompletes. Mhm. Most I would say 90%

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of the department uh has roughly the same feeling most professors are holding their classes in order to discuss the issues. There are no classes being held with business as usual. The and since last sunday, a majority of the faculty and students in the law school have

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been on strike and not only been curtailing our classrooms that are classroom work, but also have been focusing primarily on outreach efforts into the legal community and making whatever resources the law school might have as a unique institution available to those who need them. The besides

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a strong adverse feeling to the war in cambodia, which it feels should be the focus of all dissent in any case. A deep distress for all course of tactics, A unique opportunity to express the feelings of the academic community to big business is anticipated for next

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week, when the department will host the industrial affiliates, a group of large but private concerns which maintain normally only an interest in the research activities of the department last night production. First of all, we are encouraging positive political action by people, whatever their individual views. Secondly,

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through personal discussion with students and residents of the surrounding communities, we are encouraging support of elected officials, the use and preservation of existing institutions and channels of communication, a repudiation of radical tactics aimed at the destruction of our institutions, in particular our universities, and the use

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of a rational dialogue to combat the emotional rhetoric of the pseudo intellectual radicals.