DOC RELATES TO PROJECT MERRIMAC (MERRIMACK) - SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT - CALENDAR OF TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00018181
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2024
• Document Release Date: December 24, 2024
• Publication Date: March 12, 1971

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SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT
CALENDAR OF TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES
� Asterisked items arc either reported for the first time, or
contain additions or changes to previously reported activities.
Scheduled events reported here do not include spring actiy-
itics planned by major antiwar factions. The plans of the major
antiwar organizations will be reported separately, as they evolve, �
in Special Information Reports during the spring demonstration
season.
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13-19 March
The above dates have been scheduled by the Black Panther
Party as a week of solidarity with the Viet Cong. --its A
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14 March, Nationwide
The Worker Student Alliance faction of SDS which is controlled
by the Progressive Labor Party held a regional cortference at the
University of Chicago on 20-21 February and announced that on the
14th of March a "National ROTC. Day" will be held in various locations
around the country with the theme "ROTC Must Go." (t.,�,,,r.t� rft7 //11."0/9i4
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14 March, Albany, Boston, Trenton, Harrisburg and Philadelphia
Repoil'tedly the militant Jewish Defense League is planning
major noon rallies in the cities listed above on 14 March. The sched-
uled demonstrations are to dramatize the concern of activist Jews for
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The New York Comm� ittee to Free Angela Davis has ann6tinced
p� lans for a demonstration and rally on the above date at the Fedeial
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Courthouse on Foley Square. The demonstration which is scheduled
r-rt"�rt cuett n tim-1 on motions pending before the
California: court to set bail for Davis. This motion and others will
be presented by her attorneys on 16 March at the Mann County
Courthouse in California. Other noteworthy motions are for dismissal
of the indictment because of improper Grand Jury selection and because
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*18 March, Boston
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The Student Mobilization Committee, the People's Coalition for
Peace and Justice, and Youth Against War and Fascism plan to demon-
strate at Boston on 18 March during the visit of Vice President Agnew
to that city. The nature of the demonstration is unknown, but civil
disobedience and peaceful, nonviolent action have been discussed in.
planning sessions. ' 1.� 1;2. //t� //WI/ j 4** .7 /4/1 )
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*20 March, Helena, Montana
The chairman of the Montana March for Victory for an Honorable
Peace in Vietnam has advised that the Montana group will demonstrate
at the State Capital on the above date. This organization is a chapter
of the national organization of Rev. Carl McIntire. Reportedly the
Montana chapter will also take part in A scheduled march it Washington,
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D.C.. on 8 May. ( .21 Ik,c/..:r /J.� A .is.-;--7� t' � 70
20 March, Washington, D.C.
A march on Washington is planned for the atove date by the
Progressive Labor Party, a pro-Chinese Communist group, and by
the PLP-dominated Worker Student Alliance faction of SDS. These
groups will march to protest unemployment, and following an assembly
at the. Banneker Center the demonstrators will march to the Department
of Labor where.a second rally will be held. Reportedly marchers are
expected from Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Estimates of`the size of the assembly issued by SDS and PLP range
from 2,000-5,000 persons. The actual figure will probably be only
several hundred. No major disruption is anticipated. �
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*21 March, Washington, D.C.
The militlint JewisLIDe-fense League, the New York Union of
_Jewish Students and the Washington committee for Soviet Jewry are
sponsorfng a demonstration in Washington on 21 March. These
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organizations will assemble at the Capitol Building and march CO
thc�ftliLC Muse 10 protest the treatment of Soviet Jews. Following
the march the demonstrators have scheduled a rally in Lafayette
Park. The sponsors have estimated that 500 individuals will partici-
pat'e', and this is believed to be a realistic fizure.(ri
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*3 April, Fresno, California
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It has been repomted that the National Chicano Moratorium
organization will demonstrate at Fresno during the lirst week in April.
April 3 has been mentioned for possibly violent demonstrations by the
Brown Berets, a militant Mexican-American group. , , � � e )
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*3-4 April, Washington, D.C.
An organization named the Third World Task Force Against
the War in Southeast Asia is planning demonstrations at Washington,
D.C. during the above period. According to a spokesman for. the
organization, a teach-in will be scheduled on 2 to "educate
third world people about the connections between the war against
Asians in Vietnam and the war on third world peoples in the U.S."
Third world people are described as "all people of color in the U.S.
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Plans call for a massive demonstration at Meridian Hill Park
at .10:00 a.m. Saturday, 3 April. This demonstration will be followed
by a march iii-twn 14th Street to Lafayette Park and end with a noon
rally there. On 4 April a memorial service for Dr. Martin L. King
is planned at an as yet undetermined site in Anacostia.
Amqng the local people supporting this demonstration are
Jeanne Walton, leader of the D.C. Committee to Free Angela Davis;
Imagene William's, a religious activist from the Church of What's
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Teacher's Union. Task Force spokesman, Heiman Fagg, in a 'recent �
press conference advised that letters of support for the demonstration
nave been. received from Negro Congressmen Parren J. Mitchell of
Maryland and Ronald V. Dellums of California. "I ���-t. 5/141-.././)
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*7 April, Washington, D.C.
A Chinese student demonstration to protest the planned
Japanese annexation of the island Tiao Yu Tai is scheduled for Wash-
ington, D.C. on the above date. Reportedly demonstrations will be
staged at the Department of State; the Japanese Embassy and the
Chinese Embassy. Spokesmen claim that 2,000 individuals may
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15 April, Nationwide
Reportedly many tax resistance groups around the country
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will publicly refuse to pay taxes destined for military purposes and
instead contribute funds to local organizations fighting racism,
poverty and repression. (C2.kjANS;ct.r) )11ot �1//f. '(,61.;1-/3/./(*(**6//32.---.
8 April, New York
A demonstration commemorating International WoMen's Day
will be staged at New York by the Women's International League for
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10 April, Washington, D.C.
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The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom will
sponsor demonstrations on the above date similar to their 8 April
demonstration in New York. (:)Cki'ick� FAL b4',..2 , ) hz-r, 7/.2
10 April, Washington, D.C.
'Radical feminist groups, principally from New York, which
are informally affiliated with the major antiwar organizations are
planning a demonstration at the Pentagon on the above date. No
additional details are presently known. ( "If)
SOURCE: Government and news media
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