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Show Students Launch Attack On U.S. Social Problems By PHILIP SUTIN ANN ARBOR, Mich. (CPS) A multi-pronged attack on the United States' urban social problems civil rights, unemployment and poverty will be launched this summer by 200 students in the Economic 'Research and Action Project (ERAP) of the students stu-dents for a Democratic Society (SDS). THE 200 STUDENTS will work with local community groups in Chicago, Cleveland, Baltimore, Newark, Boston, Philadelphia, Hazard, Ky., and Chester, Pa., determining the scope of their poverty problems, taking political action to alleviate them and establishing some self-help programs. The students hope to promote an attack on poverty on a variety vari-ety of fronts unemployment, housing, health care, credit-using credit-using the successful organizing tactics of Southern civil rights campaigns, ERAP Director Ren-nie Ren-nie Davis, a graduate student at the University of Michigan, ex-plained. ex-plained. "THE CIVIL rights movement is now the most powerful force for social change in America. Yet it lacks the active support of its potentiaJ allies. The Negro freedom movement may face increasing in-creasing isolation and frustration frustra-tion if it cannot soon forge links to local movements of unemployed unemploy-ed farm hands, displaced miners and others who share a common economic tragedy," an ERAP prospectus says. Davis commented that ERAP "will use no single method, but will undertake a wide range of activities. It will attempt to bring the community together in an organized way to express concern for public programs to meet immediate needs." HE DENIED that romantic visions vi-sions of quick social action wiH motivate ERAP workers. They will be working in an unglon-ous unglon-ous community. All the attrac-pitiveness attrac-pitiveness of the civil rights movement-Negroness, culture, the mystique of working in Mi.-sisslppl-oes not exist in the low-Income white community |