from Claude Anderson The Student Mobilisation Committee has begun its work in publicising the call for the march on Washington set for October 21st, ‘The theme and rallying slogan of this march is "Support our boys in Vietnam.... Bring them home alive....NOW!" and the purpose of this particular slogan is to expose General Westmoreland's remarks about the Spring mobilisation when he blamed the protest for causing U.S. deaths in Vietnam, and also to show the administration that the Vietnam movement is on the same side as the soldiers in Vietnam who hate the war and want to go back home, The Student Mobilisation Committee is doing a great deal of the publicity for the march on Washington, and has already issued two fine posters advertising the action, In a brochure being distributed by the Student Mobilisation Committee, entitled Confrontation Washington DC October 21st 1967, the cards are laid down on the table as follows:
"The major victims of this war are the young people of Vietnam and the United States. Both face continued, growing loss of lives, destruction of families, material hardships, and destruction of their cultural achievements and ways of life, Here in the United States the draft tears young men away from their families, homes, jobs and schooling to fight, kill and die to protect the U.S.-backed Vietnamese dictators. Our schools have been turned into factories for the military. In response to the attack by the U.S. the Vietnamese youth must sacrifice their lives to protect their families and homes. The war in Vietnam is an illegal, immoral, unjust war, The U.S. government fights the Vietnamese people in our name - in the name of the American people - and with our lives. We have never been asked our opinion on the war, When young Americans organized and demonstrated against the war we were first dismissed as "dupes" and "traitors". When black youth declared their opposition to giving their lives in a fight against a colored people on behalf of a racist government they were called "ignorant rioters". When, on April 15, half a million Americans took to the streets of New York and San Francisco to protest the war the government could no longer write us off with such epithets, But the government has not yet responded, On October 21 we are going to go directly to Johnson and the government, The National Mobilization Committee has called on the people of this country to mobilize in Washington, D.C. to support our boys, to demand that the government bring them home! Thus this will be not only a huge protest against the war, but a direct confrontation by those who believe we must go beyond protest to resistance, The Student Mobilization Committee in addition is calling on all draft age young men who are fed up with the war and the draft to march under a banner saying "We Won't Go". We will be joined on October 21 by millions of people from across the globe who will demand that the U.S. get out of Vietnam, The Student Mobilization Committee is working to bring the youth of the United States to Washington on October 21, Young Americans have been among the most outspoken critics of the war. We have the opportunities, now we must use them to bring thousands of Americans to Washington on October 21 to demand that the government END THE DRAFT and BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!"