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THE SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT
January, 1967
CAN Make Decisions
That Affect YOUR
Paid Political Advertisement
• It s time for 7 million students and teachers to start taking relevant steps
to make decisions that affect their lives.
• It s time to build a Student-Teacher Political Action Committee.
• It’s time to take meaningful steps — like:
1. Supporting U. Thant and the UN as
the key hope of world peace; stopping Na
palm-genocide; stopping bombing in Viet
nam; supporting UN supervised broad elec
tions—one man, one vote in South and North
Vietnam, the Soviet Union, Mississippi, Cuba
and Spain;
2. Supporting Martin Luther King and
A. Phillip Randolph’s 10 billion dollar per
year, 100 billion dollar program against pov
erty, discrimination, and urban chaos;
3. SUPPORTING CIVIL LIBERTIES
AND CIVIL RIGHTS FOR ALL AMERI
CANS, 100% OF THE TIME, ALWAYS;
4. Calling for a new, broad, public, legal
reinvestigation of the assassination of our
late, beloved President John F. Kennedy;
5. Supporting Professor Seymour Mel-
man of Columbia’s economic conversion pro
gram from war to peace industries;
6. CALLING FOR NATIONAL RE
SOURCES PLANNING BOARDS TO DE
VELOP PLANS FOR A FULL, RICH,
PRODUCTIVE SOCIETY WITH JOBS
FOR ALL AMERICANS - IN THE
SPIRIT OF REX TUGWELL AND ESTES
KEFAUVER;
7. Calling for an end to the Senate Inter
nal Affairs subcommittee-which denies
Americans full rights of due process;
8. Calling for $1 per year from each stu
dent and $5 per year from each teacher in
any high school or college in the U.S. en
titling them each to one vote in the national
Student-Teacher Political Action Commit
tee; electing in April of 1967 one student rep
resentative and one teacher representative
from each high school and college in the
United States, an election to be conducted by
individual members at individual schools;
9. CALLING FOR PRESIDENTIAL
AND VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDI
DATES TO RUN IN THE DEMOCRATIC
PRIMARIES IN 1968 AGAINST LYNDON
B. JOHNSON AND HUBERT HUM
PHREY;,
10. Organizing for Democratic party pri
mary campaigns within the Democratic party
as a means of achieving power in American
society, legitimately. (The Wallace and
Hughes third party ventures were political
and psychological disasters.)
We are not leaders or officers or chapter
heads of the existing New Left, Peace or Civil
Rights organizations. For the most part, the
SDS, SNCC, YAF contempt for most Ameri
can Institutions and middle class values and
their ignorance of the unparalleled political
freedom existing in the U. S. has “turned
most of us off.’’
SPITTING AND YELLING AT AM
BASSADOR HARRIMAN; LYING DOWN
IN FRONT OF McNAMARA’S CAR; IR
RESPONSIBLE PICKETING AND DEM
ONSTRATING AT THE DROP OF A
HAT TO PROVE ONE’S CONVICTIONS-
IS JUST NOT OUR WAY TO ACHIEVE
PEACE AND DOMESTIC TRANQUIL
ITY: IT HAS NOT AND WILL NOT OR
GANIZE THE LARGE GROUP OF
STUDENTS AND TEACHERS WHO CAN
AND MUST PLAY A PART IN THE LIFE
AND DEATH DECISIONS THAT AF
FECT OUR LIVES. WE BELIEVE IN
DEMOCRATIC DIALOGUE AND LOB
BYING AND VOTING AND RUNNING
FOR OFFICE.
We, of course, respect the YAF, SDS,
SNCC, PL, Conservative Party and their right
to speak and organize and dissent on every
and all aspects of life so long as they never
shout “fire” in a crowded theatre.
We hope they will equally respect our in
dependent, DEMOCRATIC RIGHT TO
FIGHT FOR PEACE, jobs, and equal rights
for all-in our own way. We hope they will
respect our autonomy as we respect theirs.
Student Teacher Political Action Committee
(Co-Chairmen Temporary Steering Committee)
VICTORIA ALLA (Northeastern University, Boston)
HENRY ETZKOWITZ (Hunter College, New York City)
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