Socialist Action (US)

The monthly paper of Socialist Action, San Francisco, 1983–2010

'Our job is to be united around one word: peace.'

Socialist Action, Vol. 9, No. 2, February 1991 · scan pp. 9–11 · Shirley Pasholk · about 304 words

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WAR NO COP STICE Joseph Ryan/Socialist Action ASON Fl —Walter Johnson, secretary-treasurer of S.F. Central Labor Council, speaking at giant Jan. 26 rally in San Francisco DO HAR Joseph Ryan/Socialist Action

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10,000 antiwar protesters rally at the University of Minnesota on Jan. 13 )NOUWA P" daily and nightly demonstrations and vigils numbering from several hundred to several thousand, culminating in a demonstration of over 3000 on Saturday, Jan. 19.

On Jan. 24, the local Committee Against A Vietnam War War in the Middle East (CAVME) and the Committee to Organize a Cambridge/Somerville Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), sponsored a Women's Speakout Against the War at MIT. Eighty-five people, mostly women, listened to an all-women panel of speakers, including representatives from the sponsoring groups, the Vietnam Veterans for Peace (Smedley Butler Brigade), the ArabAmerican University Graduates, and others.

CLEVELAND—Ohio has been witnessing event after event against the war since early January. On Jan. 5, 250 people marched in the freezing rain to the Federal Building in a rally sponsored by the Akron Committee Against the War.

On Jan. 9, over 2000 students marked the opening of Ohio State University's winter quarter with the largest political demonstration that the Columbus campus has seen in years.

On Jan. 15, over 1000 people gathered for a rush-hour picket line outside the U.S. headquarters of British Petroleum in Cleveland. That evening, a similar number crowded into Mt. Sinai Baptist Church for a

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