An Open Letter to our Colleagues:

We urge you to take part in a fast at noon on Friday, Dec, 12, as a mark of your continued opposition to the ugly war in Vietnam. We urge you to contribute at least the cost of your meal to the work of the American Friends Service Committee in the Amputee Ward and Prosthetic Unit at the hospital in Quang Ngai and to their Day Care Center for refugee children in that city, as well as for the medical supplies and surgical equipment they sent to the NLF and North Vietnam. Over 1500 Radcliffe and Harvard students have already committed themselves to a thirty-hour fast beginning on Friday and have arranged for the cost of their meals to be given to the AFSC.

There are not many avenues open for us to express our political opposition and moral indignation to the war in Vietnam. To the mammoth protests of October and November, this month we hope to indicate our choice for life over death for rehabilitation over destruction by foregoing our own food and contributing the proceeds to life-giving and rebuilding activities.

We hope you will join with us at one p.m. on Friday, Dec. 12. in Memorial Church when we shall meet as students, faculty and staff to open the fast and begin the December protest against the war. Please let us know of your plans to participate.