The Moratorium is a moratorium on "all business as usual," designed to appeal to more than just students. "What's significant is getting people out in the community," Richard Zorza 72, coordinator at Harvard, explained. "This is a broad anti-war movement. We'll be asking shops to close, and people to wear black armbands, or turn on the headlights in their cars. We're building a manpower source for community organizing."

"This is very much a single-issue campaign," Zorza added, "the immediate withdrawal of all American troops from Vietnam. We hope that every Harvard organization will supports it."

The Vietnam Moratorium advertises itself as "an effort to maximize public pressure to end the war by encouraging a broad cross-section of Americans to work against the war." It will expand by one day per month: is focused on ending the war with related issues (the draft, militarism, inflation) being brought in by participation on the local level; and encourages activities in which those unable to take the entire day off can participate. It calls its activities a "new polities" campaign-broad based participation, door-to-door canvassing, and small group contact.

Sam Brown explained during the summer that the group chose the word "moratorium" to preclude use of the word "strike," which bears unwanted connotations of violence and would be wrongly interpreted as an action against the institutions struck rather than against the war. "It is important to employ actions and rhetoric that will maintain the broadest possible opposition to the war," a group statement reads.

In the Boston area, Oct. 15 will include a 3:30 p.m. rally on Boston Common, featuring as speakers McGovern, Howard Zinn, and labor leader Cacsar Chavez. "But the rally is not a prime concern," Zorza said. "The real significance of Oct. 15 will come with the vast involvement with the communities of Boston which we are planning." The movement is completely decentralized, with different activities planned at each participating campus.

"We want the assumption that nobody will be going to classes Oct. 15 to slowly sink in," Zorza said.

November 6-13 (approximately)

A lot of SDS radicals are somewhat displaced these days, definitely not members of WSA, but put off by the Weathermen tacties. Many of these are nominally members of RYM, but wary of the name. The November Action Committee (NAC) in Boston may be viewed as a loose coalition of such groups.

NAC is planning a week of demonstrations against strategic research centers in Cambridge, aimed particularly at Harvard and M. I. T. The action will begin with a city-wide student demonstration, tentatively scheduled for M. I. T. on Nov. 6. Plans will not be definite until tomorrow.

"The hope is that this demonstration will be such a step forward in clarity of position and size as will create a mood for action," one spokesman said. The demonstration-to be directed against "imperalist research"-may be a building occupation or an obstructive picket line. High school organizing is also going on, and an effort will be made to have high school students take action the day following the demonstration. A mass march through Cambridge or Boston is planned for the end of the week.

The NAC was conceived by Michael Ansara '68, formerly of Harvard SDS, and some of his friends, as "an attempt to get everybody together in support

of the NLF." Support of the NLF is stressed by the NAC. "The Left has gotten splintered into quarreling factions. It is important that people begin to do something, and something that will help the NLF," the spokesman said. "Something to build a non-cooptible anti-war movement that demands immediate withdrawal because it is for the other side. Demanding withdrawal for other reasons-because the war is not good for America-is just bullshit. To us, half a withdrawal is not half as good; it is not progress."

The NAC now includes non-PLSDS all over Boston. (PL does not support the NLF, which it feels sold out the people by agreeing to negotiate.) It is supported by the Weathermen, but does not support them, and was not involved in the attack on the Center for International Affairs last week. It was the NAC that called and organized last Friday's University Hall demonstration against the Cambridge Project.

"The November Action will be much more visible than other anti-war activities being planned." the spokesman said. "Everything will be taking place right here in Cambridge-the decision of whether or not to join us will be forced upon every individual."

He added that the NAC would probably abide by the moratorium, but "organizationally will ignore it." "This is no way to end the war." he said. "You can get the whole Senate behind it and nothing will happen. You can even get Nixon reading a statemen condemning 'this and all wars' and it won't make any difference. This war is about real things going on; we need to positively support the NLF."

November 15

The Student Mobilization Committee (SMC) has been an anti-war force since 1967. It supports the Moratorium, but sees itself as somewhat to the left of Moratorium organizers. SMC is planning a mass march on Washington.

SMC is a national student movement centered around immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all troops; interested in organizing mass actions against the war and in tapping GI and high school anti-war sentiment. At Harvard, the organization is just beginning, with committees being formed in all the Houses. The plan is for a broad-based peaceful march on Washington, at this stage apparently similar in conception to the 1967 march on the Pentagon.

According to Andrew M. Day 72, SMC is working in cooperation with the Oct. 15 Moratorium as a building action for the march. The first day of the two-day November Moratorium, Nov, 15, coincides with the Washington action-conceived early in July at a Cleveland anti-war conference.

"The overwhelming majority of the American people are opposed to the war in Vietnam and are not fooled by the transparent mancuvers of the Nixon administration," a SMC leaflet reads. "Yet the war escalates; the GI toll continues to rise; the Vietnamese continue to suffer."

There are many ways to try to fight this war. Maybe this time around something will work.