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Cesar Chavez — Part 2
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APPENDIX ~ CONFIMENTIAL
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SEATTLE LIBERATION. FRONT
On February 25, 1970, a first source reported that
the Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) held an organizational
* meeting in the Student Union Building, University of Washington
(UW), at Seattle, Washington, on January 23, 1970. This
meeting was called by UW Visiting Assistant Professor of
"Philosophy, MICHAEL PHILIP LERNER. At this meeting, a
fourteen point platform to provide basic guidelines and set
objectives for the newly organized SLF was introduced by
LERNER and accepted by those present.
The platform calls for creation of a revolutionary
culture everywhere, turning schools into training grounds for.
liberation, destruction of the University unless it serves the
people, struggle against American imperialism, full liberation
for women, protection and expansion of drug culture, defense
against law and order, and creation of machinery for a “People's
Government".
A second source advised on March 31, 1970, that the
SLF consists of approximately fourteen collectives, each made
up of fifteen to thirty members who may or may not reside in
communal fashion. The SLF leadership makes up the "Sundance
Collective" located at 2815 Northeast 105th, Seattle, Washington.
The leadership consists primarily of CHARLES CLARK “CHIP"
MARSHALL, III and JOSEPH HUGH KELLY, form2r Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS) Regional Travelers from Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York; JEFFREY ALAN DOWD and MICHAEL
VICTOR ABELES, former SDS members at Cornell University.
A third source advised on April 15, 1970, that the
SLF is primarily a non-student organization consisting of
“street people" and "drop outs" from society. The SLF conducts
meetings on the UW campus through the sponsorship of a recognized
student organization, the Radical Speakers Platform (RSP), to
which Professor LERNER.is faculty advisor.
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