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Page 6 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) SKIM 11$ I or #5 to: |07 K. 10th Street, New York, New York (212 982-1161)