RENNIE DAVIS TELLS RALLY PLANS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000300360135-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 135
• Publication Date: March 10, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

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Rennie Davis ~c is in Provi- and said the demonstration will microphone from the gym floor.
Hence last night to urge 300 stu- b~e "the first massive show of To invited the students. tp leave
dents to join in a. May. Day anti tonvioletit disobedience by the he bleachers and sit: in a semi-
wiir rally in Washington that he 'eace nloverncnt.:' He promised ;irclearound him and most did.
piomised would not be jut flat prominent clergymen will
another slow of the peaca nlo.'4.~ to sitting in at the Justice
rent's numbers. )apartment, thousands of Stu-
The objective, he said, will he amts Will block expressways
to shut the government dov n ending to the Pentagon . and
and to force Congress to remain antral Intelligence Anc_ncy at
In continuous session until it usl."hoCii; and; `a a highlight,
does something to end the he Congress will he surrounded
Indochina war. y thousands, who will demand
. veteran ac- ;ontinuous session until action
The 30-year-old
tivist, who is appealing his con- s taken.
viction for conspiring to riot at Mr. Davis said 2,000 Federal
the 1908' Democratic National ;overnment rockers have signed
Convention, had a quiet but at- he peace treaty, and there is a
~tentive audience at Alumni 1:Iall )lag to have a general strike
on the?Providenbe College caul- )f federal workers in Washin -
.p'tis. He was given a standing on beginning May 3.
ovation at the close. He said the next two months!
IMlr. Davis was in town to vill be the most important In
promote the "F'eottle's peace he Vietnam war, and may in-
treaty," a document proposing Jlude use of nuclear weapons by
peace condition that w%a agreed United States forces.
to in December in meetings Mr. Davis said he based the
between American. and South nuclear possibility on a speech
and. North Victnhillese students. to an American peace delegation
Presentation of the. trcaiy to now in Paris by Xuan, Thuy,
Congress will be a focus ol; Hanoi's chief negotiator at the
demonstrations in the capital in peace talks. Mr. Tltuy has been
late April and early May, he 'econaervative" in his irrfdic-
said.'The committee promoting tions of war escalation before.,
the treaty, as announced in a he said.
7New Xorl: rimes advertisement As to where Mr. Thuy got his
last Sunday, ranges from the far ,information, he said the CIA ad-
left to the middle of the road,mits readily that the Saigon ad-
and includes the :Most P,ev.
Bernard J. Kelly, auxiliary
bishop of Providence.
Mr. Davis said a nationwidei
campaign to get signatures on;
the treaty will be held. :=larches
to Washington from such places-
(as Kent State University will'
He was accompanied to Provi-
dence by John Froines, another
defendant in the Chicago Seven
t ial. Mr, Froines, who was
found innocent at the trial, 'did
not speak.
Mr..Davis passed up the plat-
form and lectern provided by
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