Ais ie AAR Gan fot we on tae RieEaT Cotsen, Meek net | iw 55086 Doold: 32989545 Page 737 ‘ys memorandum, |, “RE: DEMONSTRATIONS PROTESTING UNITED STATES POLICY IN VIETNAM; WASHINGTON, D.C., JANUARY 15, 1968 CONFIDENTIAL After some sightseeing in the afternoon, HALONEN, ROBEL, and Mrs. BACKUP checked into the Plaza Hotel since they were going to stay a day or two .conger for some workshops. RADER stayed also. The rest of the group, HEALY, CORR, ZEFRA (STUDAMIRE), CASSIDY, and FRENCH went to Friendship Airport and boarded UAL Flight 41 for Seattle. While in Washington, HEALY kept trying to call a CARL BLOICE who the source thought used to be either in Seattle or San Francisco, but she never reached him. The workshops held on January 15th after the march were: (1) Legislative Action (2) Electoral Campaign (3) Press (4) New Women in New World (5) War at Home (6) Resistance (a) Action (b) Draft (c) Direct Action (7) Church (8) Schools Reproductions of other documents received by the first source at Washington, D.C. are set out at the end of this a a aoe) On January: 23, 1968, the fifth source advised a meeting of the Trade Union CP Club was held at Tacoma, Washington, on January 18, 1968, at which EMELIA CASSIDY, also known as MILLIE CASSIDY, a member of that club, reported on her trip to Washington, D.C. She stated she stayed at DONNA ALLEN's home there. She said MARJORIE RADER got an eye infection which kept her from going to the march. RADER remained at ALLEN's residence. She added ZEFRA STUDAMIRE shouldn't have gone because she was uncooperative and would not attend anything. She was rude, said her bed was too low and complained about the food. Some or all of these -7- CONFIDENTIAL
anit te nein aera saalinnbiniAtaleeinin Ahead mAlihadebe SandehAih — sledabenthiarabuentntbiarnnieenede cbenid bataammssce castles co un fskanthinem ali Vien ak ante ma a wares pelncithotm tthe, wedlar oy RE: DEMONSTRATIONS PROTESTING UNITED STATES POLICY IN VIETNAM; WASHINGTON, D.C., JANUARY 15, 1968 ~ C—O CONFIDENTIAL troubles might be attributed to the fact STUDAMIRE is expecting a baby in April. CASSIDY stated there were tco many rules to follow. The delegates weren't premitted to carry a nail file, wear peace buttons, or exhibit RANKIN buttons. They had to walk six abreast and were not allowed to march around the White House. She said a suit will be brought in court for this denial of their rights. She went on to state each person had or was given $10.00 to carry on his person so he could not be arrested for vagrancy. CASSIDY said a nurse, Mrs. HELEN Mz “COOK, had been very helpful to the group. COOK told CASSIDY she could be reached at 719 Beechwood Road, Media, Pennsylvania, if more information is desired concerning Veterans for Peace, which was not further described. GUY RADER, a CP member at this meeting, tried to stop CASSIDY when the latter complained ZEFRA STUDAMIRE was too ammature to have been sent to the conference, but CASSIDY wasn't easy to step. She was incensed over the fact money had been used for STUDAMIRE's trip and the latter refused to cooperate. RADER and STUDAMIRE remained in Washington, D.C. after the conference to handle some business with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating _ Committee (SNCC) according to CASSIDY. SNcc is an organization which has concerned itself with racial matters in the United tse States+ ) 2 anmremn _C. P. MEMBET On January 24, 1968, the second source reported a4 Jeannette Rarkin Women's Conference was held at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington, on January 20, 1368, which ae ‘was attended by about 150° WOImEN 5” including the, following members.- the CP: LINDA_CORR, HALLIE*DONALDSON’, RUTH“EMERSON, VIVIAN: GEORGE E, VIVIAN” GABOURY, TAIMI HALONEN, ALIC HAWKINS , HILDUR ., JOSEPHINENHUGHES , LONNIE HEALY, TRENE* “HULL THORUN ROBEL, MARGE SRABBITT, BABA JEAN. MANGACANG, and IRENE* URQUHART. Of the five persons taking tickets at the door, three’were CP members, HEALY, HULL, and ROBEL. . DONALDSON, another CP member, had a book display with selections from the Co-op Bookstore, 710 Stewart Street, Seattle. CONFIDENTIAL S088 Doold: 32589545 Page 736
"DEMONSTRATIONS “PROTESTING UNITED. STATES: rouge IN. ULETNAM $ "WASHINGTON, “D Duc Ci 2 ANUARY. 15 1988. - CONFI DENTIAL. of ‘The: Washington’ Cultural. Cooperative, * i ehich. Operates.tne, Co-op’. “Bookstore, . is: aea.an ‘the appendixes 20% “member. CORR, a Negro;, -. PWas selling to Paise | Wo if Bl: “The: Source ‘weirs a had - a disp! Lay. of Negrdy dorks ” ; funds send te" the: So G seh te ight. tiie battle. there. dome nae mot Opening remarks ‘at: the : ‘meet ing: wére., along: Sosialistic. dines, ‘according: to the! source. Tha ‘principal spéaker said - .capitalism is a-rich-man's democracy, while socialis $m. has,., Shee democracy for the. sworking. ‘Tan - . ob ” a oe ° a J ates 2 ” fee : “0 sof noe Tee Lott, , . ant est “the. group. then. separated inte workehops” ‘on such’ topics’. as: weifare,. ‘schoocis, i AR FOUTS neaple; working. women, and °-' | “draft resister Ce... When! fhese 's mailer: groups-reassembled, after, lunch;..some of. the -deiegat as .to the Jeannette Rankin": ” _ wBrigade. affair. at Washington, 'D.C:'.gave short talks. |The °~° “Speakers included: “HA: s0NEN; “HEALY, CORR, ROBEL ,: and CASSLDY. “From Tacoma: ,-ail -of whem hege’ ‘Deen. cha sracterized before. as. . - -*P members.’ Most. ‘of thes five spoke: as. “methers . who .did © NOt sn: “want. theim: sons to- gO away to. “Sight. a-rich man's’ war. They ‘13 Stated ware .: chad: not proved, anything in -the: past and ‘had been” “7 Pun by mens. “Now “the. women: should come). to." the. firont..and tell - whe men: ‘they. are nor “pale ir g. tire - Ons: or. cannon _iodder the , group. attending’ the ‘walidre workshop pre sent ed:. solution -in support Of. &@ Black. womentslopby ; ‘to ‘Olympia. (the: capital of i Washington State )s ... A heated ,debate’ arose Detween. some of: the”--. white womeh. presant and three Negroes, : The. datt ‘contended | -.:~ .+ che’ white women did“inor: know: whan tre black women “had. ‘been: the rough. Gne white’ Woman’ then sted (this :was ‘wrong and that . (2 Jothe Negro, women. were -try ing. PesLar the msélives. from. other _ .'women who had fought equally ‘ai. hard as. “he Neg BrIe8 ., CP oo was aegis Members. -HULing, HEALY, @nd.. MAMSAiSANG «Gaati iched-al is resent: tO: menace 08 Beating “lg .be ‘united, “remembering these “differences. had been built up over’ . hundreds - ‘OF years ‘and that. oné. meeting wou; Ld not sclve all -the E io @iffi culties -bee. could..be:.a start in solving ‘them. - They . ee a “lg. indicated, it. was.'a healthy: Sigh. when they, ‘could ‘argue openly | Cah and: not behind | each. others ’ "backs « ate: tm hate Mg . “Réproduations. of. two ‘Veaflets distributea- “at the 7: -inee ting ‘are set our. following. The Brigade: literature. a 35083 “Dodxd; saseySda" “Bags 938." i SS -
‘ * : rrig . . . a fa? bo Avi. Qo 1ars AND THE STRUGGLE F¢ r UE . a“ Teday, in Rattle Crees, Michigan, the city's seal, adopted in 1551, ‘ ~ 1 “acd: t and violence because it pictures a white man hitting an «narmed ' / pwran with a rif‘e bute, Some Indian youth view the television prograin - The National Congress of American fv ~vuster" as indicacive of racist America. Beatings and murder of Indians iadians opposes <nis distorcion of hiscory. 4a itine go unchallenged. Congress voted in 195 to open up Indian land reservations to state jurisdiction. In actuality, this rides established tribal courts and federal jurisdiction. It gives local bigoted authorities wore Opportunity to harrass and open the way to termination of our treaties and in several places resulted in actual loss of land. swetliiotene it is as deadly to be an Indian in America as it is to be a soldier in Viet Nam. In the three years before 1997, more Indian children below the age of 16 had died in this country than the 6,628 U. S. combat casualties of tle entire Viet Nam War (as of the end of 1966). Most of these were children below the age of six, wh  condnedena a tbldle erat omits aed soe Ak 4 The price we pay is the built-in racism our children are taught in i school, over television, in-cartoons; the Indian has become a joxe, to white j Americans. We pay because we don't know our own history. j The thread of struggle for self-determination runs through the history ; of Indian-Americans., When a few Indian youth speak of Red Power, the roots go i deep into their history in finding nourishment for this demand. Just as some Negro leaders today speak of W.E.B. DuBois as having raised the same issue cf identity long before the level of struggle, which is Black Power, arrived. This struggle has gone on for 400 years. The Indian people have been sendins, spokesmen to bring, their grievances and their positions before the power structure of this country for two hundred years. They have fought in the courts since at least 1330 when the case of the Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia tested the ability and the willingness of the United States to protect an Indian Tribe in its efforts at self-determination. sobte tembstirn ath phlei BO The Vietnamese war is a continuation of the whole racist war we have. ‘ wased avainst the Indian People. Understanding this is a part of understanding the Viet Nam war. We respond to what is happening to Vietnamese children, yet < the Indian people have suffered from the same policy of extermination and & destruction of their identity. Fe We must unite with ‘the strivinys of those who have had to deal with United States’ genocide for 200 years! fk We can help to push the United States to ratify the United Nations Resolution, "Treaty Against Genocide", that the United States should correct : the history and policy of genicide against the Indian people. Today this refers to the destruction of their identity as’a people and lintke with the struggles of people for their identity all over the world. To stop the policy i of genocide, of raciam, to develop compensatory steps to undo the effects of . the crimes against the Indian people, to remove the oppression of the Indian > ; "  * peoples me ce Nee pyrth Re Sot ss ; - 10 - ; All the forces in this country cannot: win democratic power without waiing this correction of what was done to the American Indian people. ad i (Prepared by the Jeannette Rankin Bricade Delegation from Washington State) HW 55088 Docld:32989545 Page 740 : 7 ; 7