Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.
Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam — Part 1
Page 127
127 / 129
4
r ~ . “3
oo
~ c t i
CLERGY AND LAYMEN CONCERNED
Clergy & Laymen Concerned was organized as
Sstings! amermenmetya cammittesin aeamhar
a nationa: Smerygency COMMITEE I December,
1965. CALC is supported by 43,000 persons,
In giving reguiar visible evidence of its opposi-
tion to the war in Southeast Asia, CALC
1S ENGAGED in a major national campaign via
radio, TV, print media and focal organizing
around 200 plants to induce the HONEYWELL
CORPORATION to stop making anti-personnel
weapons which are used in Southeast Asia.
HAS INTEGRATED Unsel/ (a campaign mitiated
by major advertising agencies to “Help Unsell
the War’) into fs program. Through Unseli,
radio, TV and print advertising is being dis-
tributed to medra throughout the country.
SENDS deiegations to the Paris peace talks, ~
and representatives to Hanoi to confer with the
North Vietnamese.
—— ae
“PUBLISHES “American Report,” a unique
weekly that covers the war in Southeast Asia,
the movement at home, Third World politics,
and the political implications of our individual
moral and refiqiaus commitments.
SPONSORS “American Report Radio," a corm-
prehensive daily radio analysis of developments
affecting our society, presented by experts in
the form of 4-minute radio spots heard on nearly
1,000 stations across the country.
PUBLISHES and distributes posters and bill-
boards opposing the war.
PUBLISHES and distributes books and pam-
phiets on the war, with 125 titles now available.
included are two which CALC authored, "In the
Name of America’, a book on war crimes, and
“Military Chaplains: From Religious Military to
a Military Religion.”
:
a ~ mt ee Roser REP
ORGANIZES conferences, national and local,
wiih broad representation of the religious com-
munity who are working for peace. ,
BUILDS demonstrations and activities around
Christmas, Chanukah, Thanksgiving and other
x religious holidays, involving people in a witness
of their concern about the war and its victims.
To a ee a
f
Ly .
, HAS PLAYED an important role in the “Set the
, Date” campaign, an inter-denominational move
., to end the war. It has worked with the People’s _
Coalition for Peace and Justice and other peace
groups on major demonstrations in Washington
and elsewhere. ——_ weet
a HELPS to ‘support men of conscience who have —
ij left the country and/or U.S. military service,
\. and who presently live in Sweden.
MAINTAINS a national staff of 18, and funds an
additional 25 localiy-based field staff.
es we
——~
"CALC's tuture needs and directions inciude:
_} employing seminary interns to work on pro-
grams relating to the war and religious institu-
tional investments, work on a4 national amnesty
_campaign, expanding tocal groups and field
“staff, doubling the radio stations carrying
“American Report Radio”, building a network
of itd World correspondents for American
Report ne newspaper.
— ee
The present and future program of CALC are
evidence of the organization's ability to take
leadership in the struggle against the war and
to redirect our national energies. Past financial
support to CALC has shown the public’s con-
fidence in that leadership. Continued financial
support is needed even more in the period
ahead. Please use the coupon on the back to
send your gift.
Community corrections
No user corrections yet.
Comments
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.
Continue Exploring
Agency Collection
Explore This Archive Cluster
Broad Topic Hub
Topic Hub
investigation which
party does
Related subtopics
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic