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Abbie Hoffman — Part 4
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Peace Mobilization
April 4 - 6, 1969
; began to sing "When one man's got a million and another ain't
ze got a dime, that's when law and‘order is just another name
for crime....." His second song was "Mommy why was a darkie
born?” and his last song was "I'm gonna lay down my burden,
down by the riverside." As the song ended, the crowd in
the audience began to shout, "Hell No We Won't Go, again and
again.
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At approximately 4:50 p.m., Ossie Davis stated that
the sentiments expressed by the Reverend Kirkpatrick were "our
sentiments” and announced that on April 15, 1969, there would
be a rally here (in Central Park) to protest to the "real war,
the dangerous war in our country, the legislature in New York .
with respect to the reduction in welfare funds by the New York
State government." Davis then introduced the next speaker as
"the one and only Dave Dellinger.”
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Dave Dellinger spoke beginning at approximately
4:53 p.m. and spoke against the war in Vietnam. He said that
the "Hell No" slogan was started by the GI's; that there had
been a frame-up of Black people; that during the McCarthy
period the peace movement was confused and demoralized, but that
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can't wage war against the American people.
Dellinger further stated that he was with Bobby Seale
in San Francisco when a call came from New York advising Seale
of the arrest of Panthers for planning to blow-up department
stores. Dellinger stated that Seale commented that the charge
was "stupid" as "there are people in the stores."
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, Dellinger stated that since the war was lost,a lot
of people were coming into the peace movement; that the GI’s,
the Panthers, and the National Liberation Front were welcome
and needed to obtain solidarity.
‘Dellinger said that the United States Government
had to escalate the air war since everytime they moved on the ~
ground they were caught in a trap; that they were doing this,
not to win the war, but to punish the people of Vietnam and to
try and convince the American people that they would get a
better deal at Paris. He said that there were only two things fo:
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