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'COO0 * . 18297 .- I . President Nixon a peace plan: however, the demonstration will be fqcused o n legal mass action, which does not according to ACC spokesmen rule out the use of civil. disobedience. e22 June, Washington, D.C. p G / P & . 2 f i W ~ 2 e 7 2. 6 T h e fnstitde for the Study of Nonviolence, a n antiwar organiza- .- . tion founded by folk singer Joan B a e s in 1965, plana to sponsor a "Ring Around thc Congress" antiwar demonstration at the Capitol Building on the above date. P l a n s call for mass encirclement of the Capitol by mothers and their children to nhow "American outrage" at the Vietnam War. After encircling the Capitol, the protesters a r e acheduled to b r e a k 'up into groups, visit individual rnernSe$s.of Congress and a s k them to sign statements supporting an immediate cut-off of funds for the war. Capitol Rotunda or on the steps of the Capitol to conduct a public "roll call" todetermine which House and Senate m e m b e r s signed the state- menta. 0 Demonstrators arc then instructed to reassemble either in the * * -4 Joan Baez, c u r r e n t president of IFSN, ci.vil rights activist . Coretta Scott King, a c t r e s s e s Candice Beraen and Jane Fonda. and folk singer Judy Collins (all antiwar activists) p,lan to join in the In addition, La Donna Harris, wife of Sena-tor F r e d H a r r i s (D-Okla. ) is attempting to organize a Congressional wives contingent which m a y include the wives of Senators G e o r g e S. McGovern (D-S.D.), Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), Philip A. H a r t . (D-Mich.) and others. The estimated s i z e of the proposed demo - stration is unknown at this time. & I f ? - LL<ra-.f *24 June, Oakland, California P a r t y and current I'servant of the people", recently announced that the party was eschewing its policy of t'non-involvement" in politics. ' . above protest; , g & . a f ' ct//?TL- Huey P. Newton, the co-founder of the radicalBlack Pqnther Pursuing its new course of "establishincnttt politics, the B P P endorsed black Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (D-N. Y .) for president on 27 April 1972. ' - In addition, thk new, %on-militant" Newton-Scale faction of the B PP has scheduled another m a s s voter registration drive; with free groceries for all, at the Oakland Auditorium between noon and 6 p , m . 'on the above date. /:,A Ei/~ar- . ,4&? -72 y/5-/7&- .,.% i