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Perhaps five hundred people who want to stop the war in Vietnam will leave Boston by bus tomorrow night at 9:30 for Washington D.C. Most are students; many are affiliated with PAX, SDS, M-2-M, American Friends, B.U. Students for Peace, Brandeis Peace Group or the Young Socialist Alliance. Buses and cars are also en route from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia...
Marches are sensitive to the charge that they march from emotion alone. The leaders work to inform participants and stimulate discussion. There are dozens of leaflets, one-sided but often well-executed. One of the best descriptions of the purpose of the march is in an SDS information sheet for its organizers. Unfortunately, it has not been widely distributed, for it is one of the ablest statements of the politics of voting with one's feet...
...SDS Analysis...
...public opinion. It is the third kind: The marchers will simply be there to protest the governmental structure that allows McGeorge Bundy and McNamara to decide issues of war and peace. They oppose Johnson's ability to prosecute the war in Vietnam without Congressional control. Only secondarily, according to SDS, is this a protest against the Vietnam war itself...
Hoffmann said yesterday that "it is invaluable, even for SDS types, to hear the Administration's position, because they think people in the Administration are either monsters or idiots...