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...Essentially, what we are seeking is a 'teach-out,' rather than a 'teach-in,'" Alperovitz said. "We have to stop talking among ourselves and start educating other people about the problem...
Several Harvard faculty members -- including Gar Alperovitz, Fellow of the Institute of Politics, and Samuel Bowles, assistant professor of Economics -- have formed a "coalition" of students, faculty members, and local residents to organize people in the Boston area against the war in Vietnam...
Once these people are found, Alperovitz said, the next step will be the formation of "discussion-action" groups in the community to study the war. He hopes the people will subsequently undertake such political actions as pressing their Congressmen to hold open hearings in the community on the war and getting referenda opposing the war on the ballot in local elections...
What the group is trying to do now, Alperovitz continued, is to work out a model of how the country's large middle class can be most effectively contacted and organized...
...anti-war marches this Saturday in New York and San Francisco, pamphlets written by Alperovitz calling for a "National Vietnam Summer" in 1967 will be distributed. The pamphlets ask college students to spend this summer organizing residents of their own neighborhoods against...