People's Democracy
(Weekly
Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No. 35
August 28, 2005
(Weekly
Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|
Vol.
XXIX
No. 35 August 28, 2005 |
THE
American people’s action against President Johnson’s war in Vietnam has been
gathering momentum. Here below we give a chronicle --- by no means complete ---
of such actions that took place in June and till the middle of July. They have
been collected from the New York Times Index dated August 15.
June
1---
Anti US policy demonstrators picket Columbia University commencement.
June
3--- Poet
R Lowell rejects invitation to White House Art festival as protest.
D
R Inglis warns the US against trying to police the world alone.
June
4
--- Twenty writers back Lowell.
June
6
--- Four representatives of the “Anti-US Policy Student Peace Union”
distribute pamphlets outside the US Pavillion in the World Fair.
June
9
--- Nearly 17,000 people attend anti-policy rally at Madison Square Garden,
sponsored by the “Sane Nuclear Policy Committee.” About 2,000 march to the
UN.
June
11
--- J P Warburg in open letter criticises Johnson and charges him with violating
US Charter.
June
14
--- New York Times’ survey finds sharp opposition in academic circles,
Washington and abroad.
June
17---Professor
Christian decides to turn in his army discharge as protest.
June
24
--- “Women Strike for Peace” members picket White House demanding end of
war, mothers of US casualties in Vietnam participate.
June
25--- US
Lt. Steink faces cout-martial for refusing to join jungle unit because of
opposition to US policy.
June
26
--- Steink convicted. Women’s’ demonstration
June
27
--- People stage sympathy demonstration in Milwaukee.
July
2 ---
Hundred writers and artistes picket the US mission to the UN, urge Ambassador
Stevenson to resign because of his complicity.
July
6 ---
Assembly Committee probing Professor Genovese’s voicing of hope for Vietcong
victory (Rutger University, April 23) found him not violating national rule.
July
11
--- “Women Strike for Peace” delegation leaves for Jakarta to confer with
Vietnamese women on ways of ending war.
--- People’s Democracy, August 29, 1965
