ANTI-WAR ORGANIZING

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The CRIMSON mistakenly reported that I endorsed the Vietnam Summer at last Thursday's Young Democrat meeting on anti-war organizing. I did not in fact speak about the project. I discussed the necessity of the anti-war movement's not becoming "respectable," that is to say, harmless to the government. In order to build a movement dangerous to the government, I argued for reaching the black and white working people --those most hurt by the war-and helping them organize against the ways the war oppresses them. I maintained the urgency of exposing the imperialist nature of the Vietnam war, the total injustice of the U.S. war against that country. As an example of this strategy of exposing imperialism and linking up with those whom imperialism hurts, I cited the May 7 conference on organizing and the demonstration May 8 at the Washington draft hearings. This demonstration will focus on the notion that no draft is justifiable for Vietnam or similar wars, that the U.S. must withdraw unilaterally and entirely. Jared M. Israel '67