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Dates: during 1967-1967
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This idea had been tested four years earlier at Harvard by members of a radical political organization called "Tocsin." Some Tocsin members were very concerned about Congressional inactivity on the Berlin Crisis and contacted Alperovitz, then a legislative assistant for Rep. Robert W. Kastenmeier (D.-Wisc.), for advice...

Author: By William M. Kutik, | Title: Vietnam Summer Evolves From Phone Call To Nation-Wide Organizing Project | 5/4/1967 | See Source »

...Alperovitz told the students that the only way to translate their ideas into political action was to educate the voters in the district about the problem. Without constituents educated to their position, he reasoned, the Congressmen could never be expected to respond politically...

Author: By William M. Kutik, | Title: Vietnam Summer Evolves From Phone Call To Nation-Wide Organizing Project | 5/4/1967 | See Source »

What he started has become a nation-wide project to organize Americans into a peace bloc opposed to the war. Alperovitz has been deeply troubled about the war for a long time. In October 1965, he resigned his post as legislative assistant to Senator Gaylord Nelson (D.-Wisc.) to work for the State Department. Hoping he could bring about small changes in U.S. war policy, he took the post of special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for the United Nations...

Author: By William M. Kutik, | Title: Vietnam Summer Evolves From Phone Call To Nation-Wide Organizing Project | 5/4/1967 | See Source »

What they were doing, Alperovitz now calls "teaching out," a concept that was to be the father of Vietnam Summer. But Tocsin's teach outs met with little success. Something was missing, and only six years later did Alperovitz find out what...

Author: By William M. Kutik, | Title: Vietnam Summer Evolves From Phone Call To Nation-Wide Organizing Project | 5/4/1967 | See Source »

...March 12, Alperovitz received a phone call from an old friend, Dr. Irwin H. Rosenberg, instructor in Medicine. Rosenberg was concerned about the Vietnam war and called to ask Alperovitz what could be done about it. With pessimism that has since disappeared, he replied, "Write your Congressman...

Author: By William M. Kutik, | Title: Vietnam Summer Evolves From Phone Call To Nation-Wide Organizing Project | 5/4/1967 | See Source »

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