Thursday, 500tembdr 9, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Thirteen Thursday, September 9, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Thirteen Tactics change, movement grows (continued from Page 12) People's Peace Treaty, and co- sponsoring the April 24 march with NPAC, PCPJ sponsored "people's lobbies"-a series of daily demonstrations during the last week of April and the first week of May However, the most effective lobby started before the "people a lobbies" officially began. For five days before the giant NPAC and PCPJ march, a group called Vietnam Veterans Against th!, War demonstrated in a series -f actions labeled "Operation Dew- ey Canyon III." These p r o t e s t s, incliding pseudo - military actions such as guerrilla warfare and seek-and- destroy missions aimed at sev- eral government buildings, cul- --even during the 400,000 person march on Washington Nov. 15, 1969 most of the demonstrators were young. This spring, however, marked the beginning of a movement to "take to the streets" among middle and working class people who had in the past remained silent. On April 24, students mingled with union members who touched shoulders with groups of federal employes. The ages and economic levels of the participants were more varied than ever before, al- though the largest single group could still be classified as "youth- ful radicals." Congressmen spoke at the April 24 rally, as dissident members and Students for a Democratic the majority of the April 24 marches returned to their homes, they left a minority of more radi- cal dissidents behind. The day after the march, the PCPJ lobbies started, and for the next week sit-ins were staged outside such governments build- ings as the Selective Service, the Justice Department and the De- partment of Health, Education and Welfare. At each of these sit-ins, groups ranging in number from several dozen to several hundred were arrested. The big arrests, however, were to come during the May Day Tribe's traffic stoppages, which started May 3. That day 7.r demonstrators were arrested, and about 5,000 more were to be pulled in by the end of May 5. The arrests were but one facet of what observers have called the "government's war against pro- testors." That was had started in earnest the morning of May 2, when some 35,000 people were routed from the PCPJ camp- grounds in Washington's West Potomac Park, and several hun- dred who refused to go were ar- rested. The closing of the park failed to effectively cripple the sched- uled traffic stoppages, as demon- strators regrouped at Washing- ton colleges. The morning of May 3, as pro- testers hurried to "target" points. established by region (Michigan was charged with closing Wash- ington Circle) they were met with massive government response. Washington police were joined by National Guardsmen and mili- tary troops from nearby army bases - 10,000 troops in all. Helicopters were .deployed on the Washington monument grounds. and khaki uniformed soldiers held bayonets as they stood watch in the Georgetown shop- ping district. Demonstrators were tear' gas- sed, herded into busses, and then delivered to either the city jail or a makeshift detention camp. The arrests were decried as in- valid, since in many cases po- lice failed to take time to write down even such information as T.V. RENTALS t $1 0.50/mo. NEJAC T.V. 662-5671 PRESCRIPTION EYEWARE and SHADES War critics on Capital Hill the demonstrator's name where he was arrested. and Arresting the 'People's Lobby' By the end of May 5, most of the protesters had been either arrested or had headed out of Washington, and a demonstra- tion scheduled for May 6 failed to materialize. Although the government had not been "shut down" - even at their most effective, demonstra- tors merely caused two hour traf- fic snarls - many felt that the reaction to the demonstrations had proved radical charges rf government "fascism." After the drama of the May ac- Be a Winner Buy Michigan Souvenirs at tions, activists took the summer to plan further strategy. In P. June convention, PCPJ members planned a national moratorium for Oct. 13, to be followed by acts of civil disobedience Oct. 14 and 15; and a series of demonstra- tions in Washington beginning Nov. 6. PCPJ also drafted a statement of unity designed to lessen the conflict between themselves and the less radical NPAC. Whether the tactics of the fu- ture will be electing anti-war congressmen, stopping the gov- ernmen-_ massively marching, or all three will perhaps be indi- cated during the next few months. 615 LU. AinAL 662 5903 minated In an April 23 rally where the former soldiers hurled battle ribbons and medals to the steps of the Capitol in a symbolic rejection of the war. The veterans were among the most impressive of the groups that were new to the anti-war movement in April and May, since many non participants granted more credibility to the anti-war views of those who had * actually fought in Vietnam. However, there were other new factors in the movement, too. In the past, most anti-war demon- strators had been categorized as "youthful" or "radical" or both of the Progressive Labor Party Society lef a counter-march to protest the estalishment outlo:k of the main demonstration. Another factor new to massive peace marches was the non-vio- lence of the April 24 demonstra- tion. A year and a half earliez, the more radical participants in the November march and rally confronted police and tear gas at both the Justice Department and Washington's DuPont Circle. 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