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Re: CONNECTICUT CALL TO ACTION + In the sane article, CHARLES TURNER, expcut ive director of NECAP, Stated that his gr< cP Berecd te sponsor the meeting because it feels that there isa relationship between the"cppressicn™ of people in Viet Nam and tie Negroes in the United States. The organization, NECAP, is a rilitant group cf Negroes and whites which has staged dexernstrations in Hartford during the past two years in which arreets have been made, Subseguentiy, NECAP officials haveclair:d police brutality tosk place during the arrests, but the clains have been determined to be unfounded, According to TRUSKOFF, as reported by the “Hartford Courant", the chief purpose of the alleday seéssior is to provide an ex- charge of informaticn among the grceupe ¢. what. is being done for peace programs, Werkehcp: will be planned to discuss Viet Nam and civil rights alss. He stated that the workshop on Viet Nam is’ intended to discuss the history and future of Viet Ram and iS not designed to express an opinion on the war, The “Hartford Courant" of July 5, 1965, carried an article which dealt with various civil rights groups that championed the Mississippi Delegate Challenge. 1t stated that DAVID TRUSKOFF, “whe was one of the people who made the long march Yrom Selma to Montgomery" was seeking petiticners to back the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's challenge to the Mississippi Congressional delegation at a civil rights rally held last May on the grounds of the State Capitol at Hartford. . - a) . ; : ; ¥ advised on August 23, 1965, he did not know at tkat time whether the sponsoring groups had been granted yr Ymission to use the grounds. : a -