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anti-establishment leftist organizations exccpt the S W P and its affiliates had a piece of thc Milwaukcc'action. Included at thc . conference aside from the New Mobc and the SCLC were repre- sentatives from the National Welfare Rights Organization, the . National Student Association, Womkn's Liberation, the Union for National .Draft OppoBition, the Chicano Moratorium, Women's Strike for Peace, and a number of other local and national radical groaps. were originally scheduled to participate) and tho SDS who generally believe that the war is a planned' part of +erican foreign policy.. Missing from Milwaukee were the Black Panthers (who Outof this Milwaukee strategy action conference a three part plan has tentatively evolved. radical collectives on a local and n a t i o h l le3el which will attempt to draw together ail disenchanted people into activist groups. lectives will then attack a variety of iS8UeS such as war and tarism. The second part of the New Mobe strateay calls for a series of "long marches" on Washington. It is tentatively planned that thcsc marches will proceed for weeks and-will originate at such symbolic places as Kent, Ohio, and.*Jacksan, Mississippi. Once in Washington, the parti- cipants in thcsc marches would engage in militant civil disobedience, such as blocking streets and sealing off Govcrnm'erat buildings to create a crisis aimed at forcing the Government to end the war.. . This plan was opposed by some of the women's groups and other radicals who . argued that if martial law was imposcd in Washington the. black popu- T h e first part calls for thc formation of . Thcsc col- lation would suffer most. t.\'+dI / I ; . '* I 'lk ,:<.,o la*/: e./. j :ffv 6 9- *?L . Professor Douglas Dbwd of Cornell, an i n d v e t l radical, called for several alternatives to the Washington marches. demonstrations of a more disruptive nature and the dcliberate blocking of all modes pf transportation as well as other actions aimed at creating as much uphcaval and disruption a8 possible. The disruptive phases of 4 thc long marches that are yet to be agreed upon constitute the third phase of strategy action. Phase three may wcll last as long as a wcek and is principally aimed at civil disobedicnce intended to disrupt the war machine. Dowd prefers li y 7 f l , l C a . d . 1 L? ,,. * 1: { ,; 2 i'tzt (. . .J ;; " I / . A nrirntcr of thc usual hands were ptcscnt a t Milwaukcc, in- cluding radical lcadcr hrtlwr Waskow o f thc Institutc Cor Policy Studics i n Washingth, David Dcllingor (long-timc radical activist), and Rcnnic Davis who, according to ptcas accounts, sclcnwd to be tlic principal spokesman for the Milwauk'ce conferehce. 0 * 0 0 . pf- 7;r,tia+t p!]/-p 4.19' . t b -- - - . .--. r