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Show Peacemobile, Workshops All Part of Viet Summer By J. BAUMAN Norm Potter, Western Field Director Di-rector for Viet Nam Summer, was featured at a luncheon in the Pana-room Pana-room Monday by interested students. stu-dents. Viet Nam Summer is a national na-tional organization that motivated thousands of college students to anti-war activity this summer. For example, the Salt Lake City chapter of Viet Nam Summer conducted con-ducted a door-to-door survey to determine SLC's attitude on the war in Viet Nam. The results will be released sometime next week. Potter coordinated and helped organize local anti-war groups; he was also one of the founders of the Viet Nam Summer Workshop in San Francisco. With a Neat Beard At the luncheon San Franciscan Potter neat-bearded, well-dressed munched a roast beef sandwich and chatted about his summer organizing. or-ganizing. He said there had been over 700 summer anti-war projects involving perhaps 28,000 college students across the country. Many of these projects ranging from "Peacemobiles" chugging around rural areas dispensing anti-war propaganda to community teach-ins teach-ins to "Peace Fairs" to neighborhood neighbor-hood surveys will continue into the fall, Potter said. No Jurisdiction In Viet Nam Potter said Viet Nam Summer also helped with the successful San Francisco campaign for an antiwar anti-war referendum. Twelve thousand signatures were necessary for the referendum; twenty-three thousand people signed the petition. The City Attorney attempted to invalidate the petition on the grounds that the city had no jurisdiction juris-diction in Viet Nam, said Potter, but California's Supreme Court reversed re-versed the decision that the City Council could for example declare a city-wide Peace in Viet Nam Day. The referendum will be put before the voters. Potter predicted pre-dicted a 55-60 per cent "yes" vote for the anti-war resolution. Demonstration Day Potter discussed the proposed Oct. 16 nationwide demonstrations against the war in Viet Nam. He predicted a thousand or more draftees will attempt to turn their draft cards in at hundreds of induction in-duction centers and local draft boards saying according to Potter Pot-ter r- hell with you we don't want any more correspond-ance correspond-ance with you we refuse to play your games anymore." "Speaking of race problems, you can put this in your paper there will be a joint tUCCR and NAACP meeting on open housing on Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. This meeting will take place at the Nettie Gregory Corn-will Corn-will be a joint UCCR and NAACP Temple, and a great movie will be shown. University students should come and learn about local problems." prob-lems." Muddled Through Meetings The luncheon group then adjourned ad-journed to room 312 in the Union. Thereorganizer Potter lectured: 1 11 tell you where anti-war grouDs go wrong. They hold a democratic general meeting where all the members sit around and crow out ideas. Eventually some isolated project picketing, marches, what have you is decided upon and muddled through. Then that project is forgotten about. What is needed is a more analytical approach; a general, all - inclusive program should then be decided upon and put into effect. The objective: to make each city work in an antiwar anti-war city. Educate All "Don't get hung up on tiny segments seg-ments of the city, such as the University Uni-versity ghetto. Try to get to every social level; educate everyone on the war and its origins. You should have graduated steps built into your program so that everyone from the wavering Johnson-supporter to the rabid revolutionary can find a place to participate. The lowest step could be something like a community teach-in; if the listener listen-er gets a little more interested, some step a little higher should be provided for him such as petition-signing. Leafleting Shopping Centers "Then, perhaps he could put in a couple of hours leafleting a shopping shop-ping center; he could then join study groups or help finance anti-draft anti-draft efforts. This kind of inclusive program takes a good deal of thought to chart out and a lot of work to bring off. "T h e anti - war organization should then identify the people who can be reached you can use surveys, etc. But you shouldn't should-n't rule anybody out of hand; I've met influencial Mormons in Logan who are convinced it is possible to do something through the Church. High schoolers can also be helpful. Establish Contact With Negro "It is important," Potter continued, con-tinued, "to establish working contact con-tact with the Negro and Mexican-American. Mexican-American. You help them with projects pro-jects and they'll help you. It is also important not to reject certain approaches ap-proaches because of our great par-noia: par-noia: our conviction that most people peo-ple are going to reject us. Some organizations need weekly speakers and do not particularly care if they are in agreement or disagreement with those speakers. Such groups as the Rotery, Lions, Elks, might be a good bet. Anyway, Any-way, it will never hurt to try every avenue to get to people." |
